The Epstein Scandal Is Now a Chronic Disease of the Trump Presidency
Read the e-mails—this isn’t going away anytime soon.
Leavitt, this week: "President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep."
Trump, asked in 2019 if he had “any suspicions” that Epstein was molesting underage women: "No, I had no idea. I had no idea."
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Evilness ages people.
But also that means the “Pulty” mentioned in one of the emails in the Epstein dump is likely his dad or grandfather.
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JD is currently involved in 2 cover ups for Donald Trump. Why did Donald need an MRI and why won’t Donald release the Epstein files?
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If he thought what he inherited in January was a disaster then he should have seen the mess the last guy left for Biden to clean up!
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Q. Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18?
Jeffery Epstein: Though I'd like to answer that question, I'm going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights.
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She has a toddler who 10 years from now will go on Google and find video of his mother being an unprofessional, childish troll who lied incessantly for the former wingman of Jeffrey Epstein. He will not feel proud to have her as his mother.
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Jasmine Crockett: "If people decide that they want to continue to support person who may be a pedophile themselves or a person who obviously is covering on pedophiles, that's on them. But they should at least know the devil they decided to pick."
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That’s a long code phrase for “White House decor and golf.”
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Infuriating assumption that the victim won’t be believed.
“Among the reasons prosecutors did not move forward was their concern about whether she would be seen as a credible witness after being exposed to cross-examination by defense lawyers, according to people familiar with the investigation.”
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But we have seen a slew of women accuse Trump of sexual assault and rape. We have!
Also, “The President is not a pedophile, he was just having sex with his pedophile friend's trafficked victims after he was done with them." Isn’t the defense she thinks it is.
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I’m skeptical that DoJ doesn’t also have these materials. We’d be able to confirm if they’d release the files.
But beyond that these emails show that Maxwell lied to Blanche during their “interview” and so the question now is does he still think Maxwell deserves her transfer to a cushy facility?
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"Is President Trump lying?"
Maria Farmer:
"Yes he's lying..... so Epstein escorts Trump into this other room and Trump utters under his breath, he mutters, 'Oh, I thought she was 16'"
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MUST READ: White House "emergency" Epstein meetings held in secret facility
Why is the President's team using the most secure room on Earth to talk about a pedophile?
NEWS: White House held Epstein crisis meetings in the building’s most secure facility — the Situation Room.
Trump says there’s “nothing to hide.”
But I’ll tell you from experience… the only reason you hold SitRoom meetings IS when there’s something to hide.
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Raskin: "The DOJ hasn't released any of these emails that mention Trump's name & identify his role in all these activities. Those came from the Epstein estate. So this is a demonstration the govt is deliberately withholding the info everybody is actually looking for & could be damaging to Trump"
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Yes. Let’s.
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It went down in 2023. It went down in 2024. It went up in 2025.
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And also the reporting that many Republicans are prepared to vote yes on the discharge petition to get ahead of something.
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In just a decade they went from purity rings to teen sex slave positivity. Trump is a transformational president.
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If these are the marching orders the admin's given their media influencers, the facts must be real bad.
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Also Starr is offering to help out an “unhappy friend” of Epstein’s who apparently has been accused of some kind of sexual misconduct, perhaps at university. Remember Starr helped cover up sexual misconduct on football team when he was president of Pepperdine
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Redaction immediately following "Trump is gross" is intriguing. Remember that the principal justification for redactions is protecting the victims. Here it would be important to pursue the question of why this was redacted and whether the victim will consent to revealing what lies beneath.
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And “Pulty” I’d likely Bill Pulte.
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“Pulty” in the 2nd email is possibly Bill Pulte, the FHFA director who referred Letitia James to DoJ.
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NEW: The Venezuelan nationals the US government sent to El Salvador in March and April were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence.
In a new report, HRW and @cristosal.bsky.social provide a comprehensive account of the treatment of these people in El Salvador.
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And Epstein had cameras set up in potentially compromising locations, speaking of ways one might generate receipts.
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A 30-year mortgage currently has an interest rate of 6.3%. A reasonable guess it that a 50-year mortgage rate would be about 7.0%.
⇒ The monthly payment on a $500k mortgage:
- 30 years: $3,050 per month
- 50 years: Only $100 less at $2,950 (but 240 months longer).
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