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Representative Thomas Massie’s long-pending Epstein petition gained the final vote it needed. CNN reported the result in a story headlined, “Johnson says House will vote next week on push to compel DOJ to release all of its Epstein files.”
Brave Thomas Massie will finally get his vote! On the record. And I’ll bet it passes overwhelmingly. In fact, key Trump allies and MAGA stalwarts have already signed Massie’s petition, including Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), and Lauren Boebert (R-Co.).
But let’s reel in our enthusiastic expectations. First of all, James Comer and the House Oversight Committee have already subpoenaed the DOJ’s Epstein file. So that is already ongoing. In fact, yesterday, Oversight released 20,000 new pages of documents obtained from the late sex offender’s estate. I think they’re closing in on having released 100,000 pages in total.
Second, the history of Congress “compelling” the DOJ to disclose stuff is, well, inconclusive. In 2011, Congress tried to compel the DOJ to turn over “Fast and Furious” files. The DOJ resisted, citing privilege and separation of powers. In 2019, Congress tried to compel the DOJ to turn over “Russiagate” documents related to the Mueller investigation. Same thing happened.
So … while Congress can vote for the DOJ to release stuff, it can’t really make the DOJ do anything. If they do, there will be a lot of political pressure, but don’t expect bankers’ boxes to start rolling up to the curb or anything.
Still. There’s a whiff of something different in the air this time. CNN’s article expressed surprise at Johnson’s agreement to hold the vote next week. He could have waited till next year, or at least for seven full days, depending on whose rule interpretation you prefer. But Speaker Johnson said let’s just get on with it: “It’s a totally pointless exercise. We might as well just do it. I mean, they have 218 signatures, that’s fine, we’ll do it.” ...
The Democrats’ smear attempt spectacularly backfired. When Epstein said, “the dog that hasn’t barked is trump … im 75% there,” he was speculating about being almost fully convinced Trump was cooperating against him with the Palm Beach County Sheriff. As it turned out, Epstein was right. It was Trump.
Virginia was the link. Epstein concluded that Trump was capitalizing on his previous relationship with Virginia— from when they knew each other at Mar-a-Lago. Epstein was suspicious because Trump had visited Virginia, but she failed to “mention” it. Epstein appears to have thought Trump was wearing a wire. (And maybe he was.)
Early in the day, running with the Democrats’ redacted version, corporate media tried to launch a political scud missile at Trump, but it prematurely exploded into infertile embarrassment when the House Oversight Committee promptly published the unredacted email, which provided the missing context.
Much more interesting were other newly disclosed emails showing anti-Trump reporters, like Michael Wolff (USA Today, Vanity Fair), coordinating Trump attacks with Epstein. Years after Epstein’s first conviction.
Or, just before Epstein’s second arrest in 2017, we see New York Times reporter Landon Thomas prompting the pedophile with a heads-up that a new investigation was underway...
In other words, here we have liberal reporters secretly conspiring with a notorious pedophile and sex-trafficker like close comrades. It’s almost like they never met a well-connected pedophile they didn’t instantly fall in love with.
Now let’s stitch yesterday’s Epstein news together and see what sort of mittens it makes.
When the House inevitably votes next week to compel the DOJ to release the full Epstein files, and assuming the DOJ fully or even partly complies (why not?) … then what?
Democrats are convinced the files are packed with dirt on President Trump. If so, Trump’s resistance to their release will have been the biggest political miscalculation of all time, since it made the interest in the Epstein materials swell to a fever pitch. If the documents were coming out anyway, he could have released the files on day one, back when Democrats couldn’t care less about Epstein.
Or there isn’t any dirt on Trump … but the files will still be ugly, for a lot of folks other than Trump, including some Republicans. But this way, with Democrats and Republicans voting together to compel the release of the files, Trump can’t be blamed, and Republicans can’t be blamed.
If some billionaire donor or Republican politician gets exposed for island-hopping, it won’t have been Trump’s fault.
We shall see. I’ll update you after next week’s vote.

Or there isn’t any dirt on Trump … but the files will still be ugly, for a lot of folks other than Trump, including some Republicans. But this way, with Democrats and Republicans voting together to compel the release of the files, Trump can’t be blamed, and Republicans can’t be blamed.
The latest release of Jeffrey Epstein’s email archive has detonated another political nuke in the form of a 2016 message in which the child predator appeared to allege that Hillary Clinton was engaged in an illicit affair with her husband’s former White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster.
House Democrats released the trove this week, and among the communications is a May 25, 2016 email exchange between Epstein and disgraced author Michael Wolff. Wolff asked Epstein for a “thumb nail” summary on “Nussbaum/foster.”
Epstein replied with a cryptic line that directly raised eyebrows: “nussbaum white house counsel. . hillary doing naughties with vince.”
The message appears to reference Bernard Nussbaum, President Bill Clinton’s White House Counsel, and Vince Foster, who was found dead in 1993 under circumstances that have fueled controversy for more than 30 years.
Foster, a longtime Clinton confidant from Arkansas, died from a gunshot wound to the head on July 20, 1993, at Fort Marcy Park in Virginia.
Multiple official investigations ultimately ruled Foster’s death a “suicide.” ...
The inconsistencies were documented in investigative reports, media archives, and congressional records.
Among them:
• Minimal blood at the scene
Foster was shot in the mouth with a .38-caliber revolver, with the bullet exiting the back of his skull.
Experts have long pointed out that such an injury should have produced massive blood loss, skull fragments, and brain matter.
Instead, reports described only a small trickle from the mouth and nose and no significant pooling under his head, despite the body lying on an incline.
• Contradictions about the gun
Paramedics reported the body was in a different position than police photos.
The gun was found clutched unnaturally in Foster’s right hand with his thumb jammed inside the trigger guard, a position difficult to reconcile with recoil from a suicide shot.
No fingerprints were found on the weapon, not even Foster’s.
• The missing bullet
Investigators never recovered the bullet, adding to long-standing suspicion that the shooting may have occurred elsewhere.
• Undisclosed physical evidence
Reports noted blond hair and carpet fibers on Foster’s clothing and semen stains in his underwear, details that fueled additional speculation.
• Questionable investigative conduct
The Orlando Sentinel reported in 1994 that the Park Police “botched much of” the initial investigation, losing skull fragments, failing to locate the bullet, and underexposing an entire roll of crime-scene film.
When investigators later attempted to develop the film, it was unusable.
• Conflicting forensic findings
Fiske’s own pathologists later reported:
“The finding of the head facing forward and the right-sided blood stains are mutually exclusive.”
The pathologists’ findings suggest the body may have been moved.
• Damage from the White House response
One of the most controversial elements came the day after the death, when Nussbaum blocked FBI agents from searching Foster’s office.
According to reports, Nussbaum even ordered an agent to sit in a chair and “not rise from it again” while White House personnel went through Foster’s files.
Epstein Email Fuels Fire on the Eve of Renewed Public Scrutiny
The Epstein–Wolff exchange is certain to intensify long-running questions about the Clintons, as the message explicitly ties Hillary Clinton to Foster in a sexual context.
It’s an explosive allegation given the historical suspicion surrounding his death and the decades of controversy over the Clintons’ political operations.
The line “hillary doing naughties with vince” remains unexplained, and Wolff has not commented.
Jeffrey Epstein claimed he gave Russians insight into Trump
Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.
Nearly a month before President Donald Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top diplomat: If you want to understand Trump, talk to me.
“I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” Epstein wrote in a June 24, 2018, email to Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway who was leading the Council of Europe at the time of the exchange. Lavrov was an apparent reference to Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s longtime foreign minister.
In the email exchange, one of hundreds released Wednesday by congressional investigators, Epstein indicated he had previously talked about Trump with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s forceful ambassador to the United Nations, before Churkin died in 2017.
“Churkin was great,” Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, wrote. “He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.”
The exchange was among dozens that showcase Epstein’s extraordinary network of international associates, whom he often corresponded with about Trump’s first-term policy decisions.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the emails, but press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a briefing Wednesday the broader set of emails “prove absolutely nothing other than President Trump did nothing wrong.” ...
In the emails, Jagland said he was meeting Lavrov’s assistant the following day and would suggest a connection with Epstein. It’s unclear if anything ever came of the proposed contact. ...
“Do the Russians have stuff on Trump? Today was appalling even by his standards,” wrote Larry Summers, the former Clinton administration Treasury secretary and Obama administration economic adviser, in an email to Epstein on July 16, 2018, the day of the Helsinki summit with Putin.
“My email is full with similar comments. wow,” Epstein replied the next day. “Im sure his view is that it went super well. he thinks he has charmed his adversary.. Admittedly he has no idea of the symbolism. He has no idea of most things.” He also called Trump’s handling of the summit with Putin “predictable.”
Summers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Days later, Epstein was flexing his overseas relationships in an email exchange with former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, telling him in a July 23, 2018, message that Bannon needed to be physically present in Europe to wield influence on the continent. ...
Epstein often relied on his foreign contacts to learn about their views of Trump as he obsessively tracked the new president’s actions. And at other times, he simply showcased his deep connections around the world in emails with other associates.
“Can you belive MBS sent me a TENT carpets and all,” Epstein wrote to billionaire businessman Tom Pritzker in December 2016, referring to Mohammed bin Salman, who is now the Saudi crown prince.
“A tent? Hmmm…” Pritzker wrote back. “I think that is code for ‘I love you’. Or, maybe code for ‘go pound sand’. Better check your [Kingdom of Saudi Arabia] urban dictionary.”
Pritzker did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A year before he reached out to Jagland for help with the Russians, Jagland asked Epstein to visit him in Strasbourg, France, so Epstein could help him “understand more about Trump and what’s going on in the American society.”





Flight manifests
goofus says
Flight manifests
To St. Thomas. No runway on Little St. James. I'm implicated if we go by that.

It was manifests from Epstein’s own 727 we’re going off of (not every tourist to the area).
So who says high profile people don't fly in on a United or American flights first class and then go to the island? How would you know if I went or didn't? Same for the people on Epstein's manifests. There are better spots than his island on St. Thomas and St. John. Maybe he just gave them a lift.
Trump Orders DOJ to Investigate Epstein’s Ties to Top Democrats
President Donald Trump has just announced that he has directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch a full investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to high-profile Democrats.
The DOJ will also investigate Epstein’s ties to major financial institutions.
In a Friday statement, Trump warned that Democrats are weaponizing the “Epstein Hoax” to distract from their political failures.
There is a huge contradiction here between Trump claiming it's a hoax somehow, and doing this investigation.
Twenty-four hours after House Speaker Mike Johnson announced an pending vote to “compel” the DOJ to release the Epstein files, President Trump shocked the world by demanding an investigation of people named in the Epstein disclosures, including (but not limited to) Bill Clinton, former Harvard President Larry Summers, billionaire Democrat donor Reid Hoffman, and mega-bank J.P. Morgan-Chase. ...
The Times never saw this coming. The article practically gasped with shock, angrily reminded readers about the DOJ’s unsigned July memo closing the investigation, and frantically speculated that Trump only opened these new investigations so DOJ would have an excuse not to turn over its Epstein files because of pending investigations.
Nobody knows Trump’s plan, it is brimming with strategic ambuiguity, which has become Trump 2.0’s hallmark. But it was still politically brilliant, in a dizzying array of ways. Let us count them.
First, criminal investigations are at least part of what Trump’s MAGA critics have long said they wanted. It will be up to the US Attorney to decide whether he’s got enough evidence to defeat tall-building criminal defense attorneys and support any high-profile arrests. But it seems the investigations will soon be underway (if they weren’t already in progress).
Second, this puts high-profile Democrats, including former President Clinton, in play. In a hostile op-ed yesterday, the Washington Post editorial board called Trump’s move “escalation,” and predicted it would eventually backfire. “Trump is keeping the story alive,” the editors sneered. Someone is. But maybe the high-profile Democrats in the crosshairs would prefer the story to quietly die.
Third, Trump’s turnaround raises the stakes on all further disclosures. Each new tranche raises the stakes for whoever appears in them. The more stuff that comes out, the more “many other people and institutions” will require scrutiny. ...
Beyond the initial three emails that Democrats unsuccessfully tried to mischaracterize, Wednesday’s dump of 20,000 new documents is beginning to bear fruit.
So far, the new documents have revealed media collaborating with Epstein against Trump (in yesterday’s post), a growing narrative in Epstein’s own sloppy words that he perceived Trump to be his Great Nemesis, and evidence that Epstein thus tried to destroy Trump by conspiring with media and House Democrats.
The emerging picture is of an Epstein who was terrified of Trump. Leading up to the billionaire’s arrest, he increasingly wanted to injure Trump, and created a false narrative that he, Epstein, was the ultimate Trump weapon. Gullible reporters, Democrats, and Trump enemies believed Epstein, which also gave him a huge public relations boost.
I’m not the only one saying it. Yesterday, after reviewing the latest Epstein documents, the Washington Post ran an astonishing story under this headline:
After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could 'Take Him Down'
Jeffrey Epstein cast himself as a Trump insider and wanted to
leverage potentially damaging information about the president
and his business dealings, according to emails with associates.
... The emails and text messages from the latest dump show that Epstein smelled a rat. He suspected that Trump was behind all his criminal problems. He began to counterattack, and communicated with any Trump enemy who’d listen, up and down the progressive food chain. This revived the convicted pedophile’s flagging fortunes, since progressives happily overlooked his sordid criminal history, since Epstein could help them take out the Bad Orange Man.
So far, and don’t miss this, we’ve seen not a single email or text between Trump and Epstein. Zero. From the documents, it looks like they never spoke. Everything the media has published to date is just Epstein obsessively chatting about Trump.
Four months before his second, final, and fatal arrest, Epstein was apparently watching the live broadcast of a February, 2019 impeachment hearing with great interest, frantically texting ideas and suggestions with House Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-USVI), who was sitting front and center:
Not coincidentally, a 2023 Business Insider story broke the news that Epstein had generously donated to Stacey’s 2018 campaign...
Last night, Plaskett admitted the texting had happened, but brushed it off as constituent communications. “During the hearing, Congresswoman Plaskett received texts from staff, constituents, and the public at large offering advice, support, and in some cases partisan vitriol, including from Epstein,” the statement said.
Whatever you think about this ghastly Democrat pay-for-play stuff, it proves beyond argument that Epstein was doing everything he could to hurt Trump, but had no real ammunition.
Indeed, in the many emails and text messages between Epstein and reporters, Epstein and other high-flyers, and Epstein and Democrats, he constantly hints that he holds incriminating evidence against the President but never actually says what that evidence is. So far as we can tell from tens of thousands of communications, he had nothing. Bupkis.
But Epstein used that nothing to get a whole lot of attention.
When you aim for the King, don’t miss. In Hamlet, King Claudius proclaimed, “Revenge shall have no bounds.”
Epstein is now a former pedophile. Yesterday —at last!— President Trump unexpectedly plunged the apparatus of government right into Democrats, using the same Epstein sword they’ve been sharpening since January. And what can they say? Having become a part of the dramatic political opera that they composed, Democrats cannot reasonably argue that anyone is off the table for investigations.
In short, it’s too late to say never mind.” WaPo’s editors whined, “Trump wants to redirect the Epstein furies away from himself and toward his political opponents.” Indeed.
The good money says Democrats will soon be playing defense on Epstein.
The four main charges at Nuremberg were:
Conspiracy to wage aggressive war
Crimes against peace (starting wars)
War crimes
Crimes against humanity
The murder of the Jews was prosecuted under crimes against humanity. But these charges also covered:
mass murder of Poles, Russians, Yugoslavs, Romani, and others
slave labor
mass deportations
medical experiments
general terror policies in occupied territories
So the Holocaust was just one part of a much larger set of atrocities being tried.
Twenty-four hours after House Speaker Mike Johnson announced an pending vote to “compel” the DOJ to release the Epstein files, President Trump shocked the world by demanding an investigation of people named in the Epstein disclosures, including (but not limited to) Bill Clinton, former Harvard President Larry Summers, billionaire Democrat donor Reid Hoffman, and mega-bank J.P. Morgan-Chase. ...
The Times never saw this coming. The article practically gasped with shock, angrily reminded readers about the DOJ’s unsigned July memo closing the investigation, and frantically speculated that Trump only opened these new investigations so DOJ would have an excuse not to turn over its Epstein files because of pending investigations.
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: The Jeffrey Epstein Client List is now delayed until at least Jan. 22 after the court grants Jane Doe 107’s request for a 30-day extension claiming a "risk of physical harm in her country."
Yikes. It may never come out. Expect more of this.https://x.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1742380130486321587?s=20
Can't be Gislaine, she's in prison. Who? I'd say Kamala, but she's in DC.