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Jeffrey Epstein pictured at Mar-a-Largo with a novelty check for $22,500 with a “DJTRUMP” signature. The photo was part of Epstein’s 50th Birthday Book. An accompanying note jokes that Epstein sold a “fully depreciated [woman] to Donald Trump.” The New York Times reported the page was made by Joel Pashcow, a member of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club.

February was a busy month for FBI Director Kash Patel. On the 23rd he partied with the gold medal-winning U.S. Men’s Hockey team. Two days later he fired a dozen FBI agents who had worked on a probe into classified documents kept at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The agents were part of a global espionage unit known as CI-12, charged with monitoring threats from Iran. The firings came just three days before the U.S. attack on Iran.

Patel fired the agents after learning that his phone, along with that of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, had been under subpoena as part of the investigation into classified documents stored at Trump’s private club in Palm Beach. More than 13,000 government documents were recovered by the FBI, including nuclear information as well as FBI, CIA and NSA documents related to national security interests.

The FBI is reportedly bracing for more firings of C1-12 agents and staff, veteran employees trained on threats and spy operations with a special focus on the Middle East and Iran. The unit also investigates Cuba and other terrorist organizations.

Although the firings may seem incongruous during a time when the U.S. has initiated a war in the Middle East, they aren’t surprising. Patel has fired dozens of employees over the past year who contributed to the investigations of the president or who were perceived not to align with the administration’s agenda.

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2005: Donald & Melania Trump’s Wedding Day

The U.S. Department of Justice is now facing calls from Republican Senators to release Epstein files with President Donald Trump’s name in them. The move comes a day after House Democrats called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Attorney General Pam Bondi for allegedly committing perjury during her February 11 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee when she said, “there is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime.”

“Release the documents,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La), a member of the Judiciary Committee. “Redact the names of the victims. Don’t release photographs, naked or otherwise, of minors. Release the documents. This is not going to go away until there is full disclosure and the American people want to know, and they’re entitled to know, who if anyone, did Epstein traffic these women to … and why they weren’t prosecuted.”

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) all called for a full release of the files. Grassley said he has not yet made a decision on whether he will hold a hearing on the Justice Department’s compliance with the law.

The Epstein Files span at least five U.S. presidential administrations, and Democrats are finally calling for accountability. House Oversight Committee member Yassamin Ansari (D-Az) and Congressman Shri Thanedar (D-MI) have said they would introduce articles of impeachment against Attorney General Pam Bondi for engaging in an Epstein files coverup and weaponizing the DoJ to go after Trump’s political opponents, among other charges.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, said Tuesday that former Attorney General Merrick Garland, who served under President Biden, should testify to Congress about the files.

“Why the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland, or others, weren’t forthcoming in what was actually in these files, I think is an important question that has to be answered,” said Garcia on CNN’s The Situation Room. “I’ve talked to [House Oversight Committee] Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), I think it’s important that we hear from Merrick Garland, and others, and former directors of the FBI and former attorneys general. That is an important part of this investigation.”

Hillary Clinton with Donald Trump and his sons Donald (left) and Eric during her years as First Lady. Credit: SARAH MERIANS

Epstein was first investigated for molesting an underage girl in March of 2005 by Palm Beach police. The FBI began their investigation in July of 2006. Alberto Gonzales was Attorney General at the time, under George W. Bush. Michael Mukasey subsequently served under Bush. Eric Holder then served under President Barack Obama, followed by Loretta Lynch. Jeff Sessions served as Trump’s first AG during his first term, followed by William Barr.

The FBI has also been aware of Epstein’s vast network of money laundering, political espionage and sex trafficking since 2006. Robert Mueller was FBI Director in 2006, having served since 2001 through Bush and Obama’s administrations. James Comey served both Obama and Trump, but was fired by Trump for his role in the Hillary Clinton email investigation. He was followed by Andrew McCabe, who was Acting Director for three months until he was also fired.

“The big picture is a tale of what can happen when law enforcement is politicized, public servants are attacked, and people who are supposed to cherish and protect our institutions become instruments for damaging those institutions and people,” McCabe said after he was fired in 2018.

He was replaced by Christopher Wray, who served both Trump and Biden until Kash Patel was appointed by Trump.

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Perhaps emboldened by his tax-payer funded party trip to the Olympics, Kash Patel has fired 10 FBI employees for their work under the Biden administration investigating President Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

The firings are only the beginning of what is expected to be retribution against agents who worked on two federal prosecutions of Trump during his first term as President. They were announced only hours after Patel told Reuters that the FBI had subpoenaed his phone metadata as well as that of Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff, in relation to the documents inquiry.

In September, Patel testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee under oath that the FBI has “no credible information” that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked young women to any individuals other than himself.

Patel himself appears dozens of times in the files, including this email from last February with the subject “Letters to The Honorable Kash Patel.” The sender(s) and recipient(s) names have been redacted, but the email discusses “getting ahead” of the inevitable release of the files and calls for an inventory to be taken on files falling into five subject categories. The email includes attachments titled, “2025-02-2I_September_11_-_FBI.pdf,” “2025-02-21_Assassination_Letter_-_FBI.pdf,” “2025-02-21 COV1D Origins_Letters _FBI.pdf,” “2025-02-21 UAP Letter – FBI.pdf,” and “2025-02-21_Epstein_FB1.pdf.”

Patel also appears in this email chain from March of 2025, which seemingly includes Trump as well. All sender and recipient names are redacted. The emails call out Trump and New York Times reporters Mike Baker and Emily Steel and include allegations like “YOU DO KNOW THAT THE NY TIMES INVOLVEMENT WILL BE EXPOSED AND THE AMOUNT IF PROFIT THE NYT HAS EARNED OF THE BACK OF RAPE AND SEX TRAFFICKED VICTIMS.”

The sender also asks Trump, “Aren’t you tired of the US ALWAYS GETTING THE FLACK FOR TRAFFICKING CHILDREN AND WOMAN FOR EPSTEIN AND CO??” And adds, “YOU SEE WHEN I HAVE A FIRST HAND WITNESS THAT SAYS JEAN LUC BRUNEL WAS THE BIGGEST TRAFFICKER OF EUROPEAN CHILDREN AND WOMAN TO THE UK AND EVEN NAMED THE WOMAN “BELLA” THE MADAM WHY HAS EUROPE OR THE UK ACKNOWLEDGED THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN EPSTEINS CRIMES!!! I WAS EVEN TAKEN TO EPSTEINS HOUSE DELIBERATELY BY FRANCE 2 JOURNALISTS IN PARIS. CNN WAS THERE IN PARIS WATCHING WHIST I TRIED TO BREAK HIS DOOR DIWN AND GET INSIDE HIS HOUSE. WHY DID THE FRENCH AUTHORITIES NEVER ARREST EPSTEIN? MACRON SHOULD ANSWER THIS QUESTION OR DOES HE GET OF SCOTT FREE WHISLT YOU CLEAN UP THIS MESS YOURSELF. I EVEN HAD A MASSIVE ALTERCATION WITH EPSTEIN HOUSE STAFF AT HIS HOUSE IN PARIS. CNN WAS THERE!! IM SURE THE FRENCH JOURNALISTS CAN TELL YOU WHICH CNN REPORTERS THEY WERE. MACRON AND THE FRENCH GOVERMENT CERTAINLY BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!!!”

An email with broken attachments from Redacted then follows, “Hi Alina, Pam and Kash Patel. Please can you open an investigation in Timea E Nagy. Please set screen shots attached. She was introduced to me by Bryn Freedman and [REDACTED]. This girl is very very bad news!! There is nothing normal about my interaction with her especially and believe she is involved. Please can you investigate her especially after her only concern was Prince Andrew. No other men were of interest to her? Please see screen shots. Very very star”

Nagy is a Canadian human trafficking survivor and advocate, originally from Hungary. Freedman is a journalist, author and executive producer who has worked for ABC, NBC and as the editorial director and curator for the TED Institute.

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