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kfile reporter trying to hold people/institutions/entities accountable; it is 'steck' with an 'e'; say hi: em dot steck @ cnn dot com

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Tracking the people impacted by the Epstein files | CNN Politics The US government’s release of its Epstein files has set off tremors among the world’s elite.

A former prince arrested. Ambassadors sacked. Lawyers, CEOs & academics stepping down.

CNN built an interactive tracker of people impacted by the Epstein files – with updates as news unfolds.

Filter by impact type, nationality, industry field or year
www.cnn.com/politics/eps...

27.02.2026 13:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kathy Ruemmler and Epstein: Inside the Goldman Sachs lawyer’s ties to the convicted sex offender | CNN Politics On Jeffrey Epstein’s 62nd birthday in 2015, Kathy Ruemmler, a former Obama White House counsel, emailed to wish him well, writing, “I hope you enjoy the day with your one true love. :-)”

NEW KFile: The latest Epstein files reveal how Kathy Ruemmler, now at Goldman Sachs, advised Jeffrey Epstein on lawsuits brought by his accusers, coordinated responses to journalists, & their friendship -- incl. a planned trip to Epstein's island (unclear if it occurred)

www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/p...

12.02.2026 14:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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 — 👍 139    🔁 62    💬 14    📌 1
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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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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    🔁 29    💬 29    📌 6
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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: A court filing shows that Kathy Ruemmler was among the attorneys Jeffrey Epstein relied on as he faced legal exposure.

The doc suggests she worked on efforts to preserve his 2008 plea deal, edit correspondence w/a US senator, draft PR statements & more

www.cnn.com/2026/01/20/p...

20.01.2026 17:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

11.12.2025 12:43 — 👍 723    🔁 260    💬 40    📌 15
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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 — 👍 38    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 2
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‘I got older and became a communist’: Deleted posts show Maine Senate hopeful’s raw views on politics, war, and police | CNN Politics Graham Platner, a Marine veteran turned oyster farmer, now disavows posts he made years ago, saying they came from a time when he felt disillusioned and angry and expressed those emotions online.

NEW: We found Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner's deleted Reddit account in which he called himself a "vegetable growing, psychedelics taking socialist" & a "communist."

Platner told us “That was very much me f**king around the internet..." and that he regrets them

www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/p...

16.10.2025 16:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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‘I got older and became a communist’: Deleted posts show Maine Senate hopeful’s raw views on politics, war, and police | CNN Politics Graham Platner, a Marine veteran turned oyster farmer, now disavows posts he made years ago, saying they came from a time when he felt disillusioned and angry and expressed those emotions online.

Graham Platner, who Democrats have touted as an example of their ability to appeal to rural White Americans, said rural White Americans “actually are” racist & stupid in since-deleted social media posts unearthed by @kfile.bsky.social & @emsteck.bsky.social

16.10.2025 14:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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KFile: Trump nominee for key State Department position attempted to erase years of inflammatory social media posts | CNN Politics Jeremy Carl, a top Trump State Department nominee, deleted thousands of social media posts, many demonstrating a history of inflammatory commentary— including incendiary posts about race, claims that ...

NEW: Jeremy Carl, a top Trump State Dept nominee, deleted thousands of social media posts, many demonstrating a history of inflammatory commentary — including even a call for a political opponent to face the death penalty.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/p...

25.09.2025 15:24 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s pick to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics ran anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading and bigoted attacks | CNN Politics President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics operated a since-deleted Twitter account that featured sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks about gay...

NEW: We dug through EJ Antoni's old Twitter account. We found sexually degrading posts about prominent Democratic lawmakers, including Kamala Harris, and anti-gay content
www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...

05.09.2025 13:01 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Exclusive: Newly discovered photos and video shed fresh light on Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein | CNN Politics Newly uncovered archived video footage and photos reveal fresh details about Donald Trump’s past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

🚨NEW: We uncovered multiple photos of Jeffrey Epstein at Donald Trump‘s wedding. Photos of the pair together earlier that year at an event. And video of Epstein Stein and Trump at the 1999 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/p...

22.07.2025 22:57 — 👍 5146    🔁 1739    💬 188    📌 222
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Exclusive: Newly discovered photos and video shed fresh light on Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein | CNN Politics Newly uncovered archived video footage and photos reveal fresh details about Donald Trump’s past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

CNN KFile Exclusive: Newly uncovered archived video footage and photos reveal fresh details about Donald Trump’s past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Photos from 1993 confirm for the first time that Epstein attended Trump’s wedding to Marla Maples www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/p...

22.07.2025 23:00 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Trump administration said ‘many Jewish groups’ support a controversial nominee — some have never heard of him | CNN Politics In defending its nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, the government’s top watchdog, the Trump administration insisted to CNN last week that Paul Ingrassia, a 30 year-old lawyer with a histo...

NEW: The Trump admin told us last week that Paul Ingrassia, a 30 year-old lawyer with a history of racist rhetoric & ties to a Holocaust denier, had the backing of “many Jewish groups."

But most said they don’t support him — and some didn't know who he is

www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...

09.07.2025 15:11 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s pick to lead whistleblower office shared 9/11 truther video | CNN Politics He’s 30, loyal to Trump and pushed election lies. It’s a role designed to be politically independent.

Trump wants this 30-year-old to lead federal watchdog. He shared conspiracy theories, defended Alex Jones and pushed election lies.

02.07.2025 10:52 — 👍 102    🔁 52    💬 17    📌 5
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Trump’s pick to lead whistleblower office shared 9/11 truther video | CNN Politics He’s 30, loyal to Trump and pushed election lies. It’s a role designed to be politically independent.

NEW: The nominee to run the Office of Special Counsel shared a 911 truther video last year on *911*, has ties to a holocaust denier, and said in a video we uncovered that straight white men are the smartest group and should be prioritized. He’s 30.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/p...

02.07.2025 12:00 — 👍 1368    🔁 699    💬 62    📌 55
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Trump’s pick to lead whistleblower office shared 9/11 truther video | CNN Politics He’s 30, loyal to Trump and pushed election lies. It’s a role designed to be politically independent.

NEW: The man President Donald Trump wants to put in charge of protecting whistleblowers is a 30-year-old lawyer with barely a year of government experience. He shared a 9/11 conspiracy video, claimed “straight White men” are the smartest group & has ties to Nick Fuentes
www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/p...

02.07.2025 12:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pirro endorsed threat to criminally investigate January 6 prosecutors in office she now runs | CNN Politics Jeanine Pirro, the acting US attorney for the District of Columbia, has a far lengthier public history of controversial comments than her predecessor, Ed Martin, whose nomination failed last month in ...

Jeanine Pirro, the acting US attorney for the District of Columbia, has a lengthy public history of controversial comments, even endorsing possible criminal investigations of prosecutors in the very office she now runs.

16.06.2025 19:46 — 👍 99    🔁 39    💬 29    📌 2
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KFile: Too toxic for Trump’s first term, some officials are back in the fold | CNN Politics At least four people from Donald Trump’s first term who were deemed too extreme or politically toxic to win Senate confirmation – or even keep their jobs – are now back in the fold and in some cases w...

NEW: Guess who's back? At least four administration officials deemed too toxic for Trump's first term are in his second. In 2025, they’re no longer fringe – they’re in charge.

www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/p...

20.05.2025 13:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘A great friend’: Audio undercuts Trump US attorney nominee’s disavowal of alleged Nazi sympathizer | CNN Politics Ed Martin, the Trump-appointed interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia and nominee to serve in the role permanently, says he now regrets praising a Capitol rioter who is an alleged Nazi sympa...

New: Ed Martin says he now regrets praising a Capitol rioter & alleged Nazi sympathizer

Martin had Tim Hale-Cusanelli, an alleged Nazi sympathizer, on his podcast at least 5 times in 2024 & repeatedly praised him

www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/p...

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28.04.2025 23:13 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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‘A great friend’: Audio undercuts Trump US attorney nominee’s disavowal of alleged Nazi sympathizer | CNN Politics Ed Martin, the Trump-appointed interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia and nominee to serve in the role permanently, says he now regrets praising a Capitol rioter who is an alleged Nazi sympa...

NEW Ed Martin story just dropped www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/p...

28.04.2025 21:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump officials demanded criminal charges for Hillary, Biden for classified leaks. They’re silent on SignalGate. | CNN Politics Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and other Trump administration officials who demanded punishment for Clinton’s and Biden’s classified scandals are quiet on SignalGate

NEW on CNN: As the White House says SignalGate "case has been closed" we ran through comments of all the top DOJ/FBI officials Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, Ed Martin.

All called for length prison sentences for mishandling classified information.

www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/p...

02.04.2025 15:13 — 👍 1774    🔁 538    💬 60    📌 38
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Officials who denounced Clinton’s handling of classified information now under scrutiny for security breach | CNN Politics Several top Trump administration officials who participated in group chat about US military strikes on Yemen have previously criticized others for how they handled classified information and materials...

NEW: We compiled multiple instances in which Trump officials, believed by Goldberg to have joined the group chat, previously criticized others for how they handled classified information and materials, including Hillary Clinton's emails & more www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/p...

25.03.2025 13:16 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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KFile: Gavin Newsom spent years fighting for progressive positions he now bashes on his new podcast | CNN Politics Since launching his new podcast two weeks ago, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken aim at a number of progressive cultural causes: He’s rejected the term “Latinx,” said he doesn’t back t...

NEW from @kfile.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/p...

24.03.2025 14:16 — 👍 38    🔁 9    💬 6    📌 3
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Deleted tweets show top State Department official spread false rumor about Rubio’s sexuality, called him ‘low IQ’ | CNN Politics A top acting State Department official deleted at least half a dozen tweets that ridiculed his new boss, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, including ones calling him “low IQ” and repeating a false rumor...

NEW: Darren Beattie, the acting under secretary of state for public diplomacy, deleted at least half a dozen tweets that ridiculed his now boss, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, including ones calling him “low IQ” and repeating a false rumor about Rubio’s sexuality.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/p...

10.03.2025 13:45 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump appoints speechwriter fired for attending conference with White nationalists to top State Department role | CNN Politics Darren Beattie, a former Donald Trump speechwriter who was fired in 2018 after CNN revealed he spoke at a conference attended by White nationalists, has been elevated to a top job at the State Departm...

NEW via @CNN.com's @kfile.bsky.social, @jmhansler.bsky.social & @emsteck.bsky.social:

"#Trump appoints speechwriter [#DarrenBeattie] fired for attending conference with White nationalists to top State Department role"
www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/p...

03.02.2025 23:52 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1