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CNN investigative reporter. Kfile founder. Co- founder of the Team Beans Infant Brain Tumor Fund. The New York Times once called me a “wunderkind.”

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KFile: Trump officials denounce guns at protests — after defending armed protesters in 2020 | CNN Politics Senior Trump administration officials who have recently argued that civilians should not bring firearms to protests defended and, in some cases, celebrated the same behavior in support of armed civili...

KFile: Trump officials denounce guns at protests — after defending armed protesters in 2020
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/p...

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true since 2015

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A recently unsealed federal court filing suggests that Kathy Ruemmler, a former White House counsel to President Barack Obama and now the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs, acted as a key legal adviser to Jeffrey Epstein during some of his most perilous moments. https://cnn.it/4jV22zc

20.01.2026 21:03 — 👍 63    🔁 28    💬 28    📌 6
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Here is Goldman Sachs' statement on the story:

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New court doc asserts former Obama WH counsel advised Jeffrey Epstein during critical reputational and legal battles | CNN Politics Kathy Ruemmler, now the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs, acted as a key legal adviser to Jeffrey Epstein, new court filings suggest.

Court records say Ruemmler was among attorneys who worked with Epstein in 2015 to push back on a planned ABC News interview with accuser Virginia Giuffre, including helping draft a legal letter to the network. The interview never aired which Guiffre wrote devastated her.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/20/p...

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New court doc asserts former Obama WH counsel advised Jeffrey Epstein during critical reputational and legal battles | CNN Politics Kathy Ruemmler, now the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs, acted as a key legal adviser to Jeffrey Epstein, new court filings suggest.

NEW: An unsealed federal court filing suggests a former WH counsel to Obama and top lawyer at Goldman Sachs, acted as a key adviser to Jeffrey Epstein during some of his most perilous moments, raising questions about her account their relationship was limited & informal.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/20/p...

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still processing someone born in 1981 is nearing 50
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Photos show Epstein and Maxwell in Morocco as Clinton's guest for king's wedding, sources say The Justice Department released a heavily redacted trove of files yesterday related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Follow for live updates.

Photos show Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in Morocco as Clinton's personal guests for king's wedding, sources say

www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

20.12.2025 21:59 — 👍 46    🔁 12    💬 7    📌 2
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Reminder that the GOP nominee to run all of North Carolina public schools in 2024 repeatedly called for executing publicly Obama and many other Democrats and the NCGOP not only didn’t condemn her, but defended her.

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When billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein needed legal advice, help responding to negative press, or just moral support, he often turned to an unexpected confidante – Kathy Ruemmler.
https://cnn.it/4p7nthv

11.12.2025 15:00 — 👍 65    🔁 11    💬 17    📌 4
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Former Obama White House attorney dismissed report on abuse allegations and advised Epstein media strategy | CNN Politics When billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein needed legal advice, help responding to negative press, or just moral support, he often turned to an unexpected confidante – Kathy Ruemmler, an elite atto...

NEW: Kathy Ruemmler, the top lawyer for Goldman Sachs, has escaped scrutiny for her ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

But in 2018 she disparaged reporting on his abuse as "rehashed crap" & in 2019, she drafted a PR statement for Epstein denying he got a "sweetheart deal."

11.12.2025 15:11 — 👍 36    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 2

Not an unpopular opinion just an incorrect one if you read the article— she says she wasn’t his attorney and wasn’t compensated by him.

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..that dismissed he got a "sweet heart deal," and even argued he was pursued too usually aggressively. In one email to Epstein in 2018 she called a story on his history of abuse "a novella of rehashed crap."

Epstein called Ruemmler "my great defender."

Goldman Sachs is standing by her.

11.12.2025 12:48 — 👍 50    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
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Former Obama White House attorney dismissed report on abuse allegations and advised Epstein media strategy | CNN Politics When billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein needed legal advice, help responding to negative press, or just moral support, he often turned to an unexpected confidante – Kathy Ruemmler, an elite atto...

NEW NEW NEW: We have a investigation of Kathy Ruemmler, former WH Counsel to Obama now top legal officer at Goldman Sachs and her lengthy ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Too much to share, but she dismissed reports on his history of abuse and helped craft a PR statement....

www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...

11.12.2025 12:48 — 👍 137    🔁 61    💬 15    📌 1
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Former Obama White House attorney dismissed report on abuse allegations and advised Epstein media strategy | CNN Politics When billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein needed legal advice, help responding to negative press, or just moral support, he often turned to an unexpected confidante – Kathy Ruemmler, an elite atto...

Jeffrey Epstein called her “my great defender.”

Emails and texts show Goldman Sachs’ top attorney Kathy Ruemmler disparaged reporting on Epstein’s abuse as “rehashed crap,” in 2018 and helped craft a 2019 publication relations comment denying he got a sweetheart deal.

www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...

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NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments.

Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same.

LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

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Hegseth in 2016 repeatedly warned of Trump issuing unlawful military orders | CNN Politics In 2016, as then-presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed that US troops would carry out even his most extreme battlefield orders as commander in chief — some of which former military leaders said wo...

Hegseth warned Trump could issue illegal commands and might not have the military's back when he does so.

“What happens when people follow those orders, or don’t follow them? It’s not clear that Donald Trump will have their back."

www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

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NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments.

Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same.

LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

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NEW VIDEO: We uncovered footage showing Pete Hegseth in 2016 saying the military won’t follow unlawful orders — the same point he has recently criticized Democrats, including Sen. Mark Kelly, for making - and which Trump has said is punishable by death.

03.12.2025 12:56 — 👍 1226    🔁 434    💬 38    📌 39
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2016 video shows Hegseth saying the military cannot carry out unlawful orders | CNN Hegseth described the refusal of illegal commands as part of the military’s ethos — a message he now condemns Democrats for spreading.

NEW: Pete Hegseth told an audience in a 2016 video that the military “won’t follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief,” and described the refusal of illegal commands as a part of the military’s ethos — a message he now condemns Democrats for spreading.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/u...

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Trump pick for deputy UN job questioned loyalty of American Muslims | CNN Politics President Donald Trump’s pick to be the US deputy representative to the United Nations, former Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce, for years promoted inflammatory, anti-Muslim and conspiratorial claims,...

In 2002, Bruce wrote, "the Muslim establishment in this country should be tripping over themselves to prove they’re with us and are loyal and sympathetic" AND "the fat-cat Muslim Elite in this country are indeed loyal – just not to the United States."
www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/p...

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Bruce wrote of 9/11 in 2010, "There’s only one group of people who were mass murdered on 9/11 and that was Americans, not Muslims,” seemingly suggesting Muslims were not Americans.

18.11.2025 16:04 — 👍 43    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump pick for deputy UN job questioned loyalty of American Muslims | CNN Politics President Donald Trump’s pick to be the US deputy representative to the United Nations, former Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce, for years promoted inflammatory, anti-Muslim and conspiratorial claims,...

Bruce wrote of Obama, “Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot," suggested he wanted America harmed, suggested he was Muslim, and said he was beyond the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" to cause "as much destruction to the American psyche as possible."
www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/p...

18.11.2025 16:02 — 👍 29    🔁 11    💬 4    📌 0
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Trump pick for deputy UN job questioned loyalty of American Muslims | CNN Politics President Donald Trump’s pick to be the US deputy representative to the United Nations, former Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce, for years promoted inflammatory, anti-Muslim and conspiratorial claims,...

New on CNN: Tammy Bruce, Trump's pick to be deputy UN ambassador and a former Fox News contributor, has a lengthy history of anti-Muslim comments including repeatedly questioning if they were loyal Americans. She also repeatedly spread claims Obama was a Kenyan Muslim.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/p...

18.11.2025 16:00 — 👍 143    🔁 73    💬 10    📌 2
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‘Evil,’ ‘nuts,’ ‘dangerous’: New Epstein emails detail his soured view of former close friend Donald Trump | CNN Politics For years, President Donald Trump has sought to downplay his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender who for years moved in the same social circles as Trump in Palm Beach and...

"I am the one able to take him down": Newly revealed Jeffrey Epstein messages detail his soured view of former close friend Donald Trump.

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One major donor, who contributes more than half a million dollars annually to the Heritage, told CNN they lost faith in Roberts’ leadership. “I’m waiting to see how things play out, but if Kevin remains as president we will not be giving to Heritage."

06.11.2025 16:09 — 👍 148    🔁 29    💬 4    📌 1
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How Nick Fuentes ignited a civil war within the Republican Party- and DC’s most prominent conservative think tank | CNN Politics Nick Fuentes, the well-known White nationalist and Holocaust denier, has ignited a civil war within the Republican Party — and inside one of Washington’s most prominent conservative think tanks.

NEW on CNN: Inside the “absolute shitshow” at the Heritage Foundation. Where staff are in open revolt, a major donor bailing, and resurfaced deleted tweets from Kevin Roberts show him praising Pence and seemingly bashing Trump on Jan. 6th.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

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I also reviewed Reddit threads where Platner defended the use of some Nazi-like tattoos that had come to be embraced by some members of the military.

His campaign declined to comment.

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The acquaintance of Platner from more than a decade ago said Platner spoke about his tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol. A second person told CNN that they learned of the tattoo at the time from that acquaintance, who said they were told Platner described it as a Nazi-style design.

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Graham Platner’s claims that he didn’t know tattoo was Nazi-linked undercut by new evidence | CNN Politics A KFile investigation has uncovered mounting evidence that Platner — a Marine veteran— was aware of and defended the use of Nazi symbolism that had come to be embraced by some members of the military.

NEW: I reviewed a text chain provided by an acquaintance of Graham Platner where the person discussed with others Platner’s Nazi-like tattoo months before the story became public, undercutting claims Platner only recently learned of it.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

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