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Stephen Miller, a key advisor on the Project 2025 overhaul of the federal government, flanked by Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon

U.S. President Donald Trump voted by mail in a Florida special election being held today, despite calling the method “cheating” as he tries to force Congress to pass a voting law that could potentially block millions of U.S. citizen from voting. The move comes as the Supreme Court weighs the legality of mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day that are received later.

Trump has refused to consider funding measures for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has been defunded for more than a month, until the Senate passes his SAVE America Act. The Act has some of the strictest voting provisions since the Jim Crow measures of the late 1800s that sought to suppress votes based on race. The bill passed the House last month but has failed to garner enough support to pass the Senate.

After a meeting last night, Senate Republicans have now said Trump is backing off on tying DHS funding to the Save Act. According to a Senate source, Trump is willing to separate funding for ICE’s enforcement and removal operations from the DHS appropriations bill to gain enough Democratic support to pass that bill. Republicans would then try to pass additional money for ICE through a separate reconciliation bill.

Republicans may also try to include elements of the Save Act in the ICE bill. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who was confirmed as the new DHS Secretary yesterday, reportedly attended the meeting along with border chief Tom Homan and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.

The repeated attempts to lump ICE funding and voting rights restrictions illustrate how important civil rights suppression is to the current administration. As currently written, the SAVE Act would require voters to provide proof of citizenship to register in the form of a birth certificate or passport. It is unclear if those who have changed their legal names since birth but do not possess a passport would be able to register, which could impact a large number of married women, trans people and others.

The SAVE Act would also require states to hand over voter rolls to the DHS, which raises a host of privacy and surveillance concerns and moves toward the federalization of elections. The bill would also essentially eliminate mail-in voter registration and voting, although it is unclear if Trump is aware that he also would not be able to legally mail in his vote.

The Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections website reveals Trump voted by mail in today’s special election for the Florida state house and mailed in his ballot at least one other time, in 2020.

“Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating,” said Trump yesterday during an appearance in Memphis, TN. “I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all.”

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A still shot from one of Kristi Noem’s infamous DHS horse ads

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, facing threats from drug cartels and over her handling of the Epstein files, has reportedly moved from her Washington, D.C. apartment to a U.S. military base in the area. Threats to Bondi also allegedly ramped up after the questionably legal capture and prosecution of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela in January.

She joins a host of Trump administration officials who have recently relocated to taxpayer-funded military housing, including Stephen Miller, top domestic policy advisor and key architect of the Project 2025 initiative that has provided a blueprint for U.S. immigration policy. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and War Secretary Pete Hegseth have also relocated.

And a new analysis from government watchdog Open the Books found that as of September 2025 (the end of the fiscal year), the Pentagon had approved more than $93 billion in spending. In the month of September alone, Hegseth’s War Department spent $6.9 million on lobster tails and $2 million on Alaskan king crab. Additionally in September, the department spent $15.1 million on ribeye steaks, $124,000 for new ice cream machines, and $139,224 on doughnut orders. Other Hegseth splurges include $100,000 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff and $5.3 million on Apple devices, including brand new iPads.

The Pentagon spent $225.6 million in 2025 for furniture, including $12,540 for fruit basket stands and more than $60,000 for recliners from high-end furniture maker Herman Miller. The Pentagon furniture budget was the largest since 2014, when Chuck Hagel was Barrack Obama’s Defense Secretary.

The spending spree news comes on the heels of Noem’s dismissal. Noem is now being investigated by the department’s internal watchdog, the Office of Inspector General, for “systematically” obstructing its work and refusing to cooperate with criminal investigations.

The Office is also investigating Noem’s $220 million in ad spending, funded by taxpayers, in self-promotional spots featuring her on horseback. Noem had no-bid contracts with three businesses, including a $77 million contract awarded to The Strategy Group operated by a former colleague of Noem’s top advisor and alleged boyfriend Corey Lewandowski. The company does not appear on public documents about the contract and the main recipient listed on the contracts is a mysterious Delaware company, created days before the deal was finalized.

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Leon Black, Glenn Dubin, Steven Sinofsky, Les Wexner

Left to right: billionaire Thomas Pritzker, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, Jeffrey Epstein director Woody Allen. Magician magician David Blaine stands to the left. Source: U.S. DOJ

Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime accountant Richard Kahn testified before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee yesterday, providing the names of several prominent individuals who conducted business with the late sex trafficker during a closed-door session.

Kahn named Les Wexner, the former CEO of Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch who testified last month, Leon Black, former CEO of Apollo Global Management, Steven Sinofsky, former Microsoft Windows Division president and Glenn Dubin, a prominent hedge fund investor.

The Rothschilds

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) said Khan had also implicated the Rothschilds, one of the oldest and richest banking families on the planet, who show up thousands of times in Epstein’s emails. In a press briefing after the deposition, Comer said there were at least 64 entities related to Epstein that the Committee has discovered, including LLCs and other companies.

“These were the five people that transferred significant sums of money to Epstein,” said Comer.

Ehud Barak

“When I asked about heads of state or elected officials with financial ties to Epstein, Kahn mentioned Ehud Barak,” Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) posted on X yesterday. Barak is a former Israeli Prime Minister and Minister of Defense who appears thousands of times in the Epstein files. Subramanyam also confirmed during the briefing that Epstein’s estate had settled with one of President Donald Trump’s sexual abuse accusers, but wouldn’t name the victim.

“One of the things that I think is outrageous, that every American should be outraged about, is the fact that some of the people closest to Epstein, including Mr. Kahn, were never questioned by the FBI, law enforcement, U.S. attorneys,” said Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) at the briefing. “This is the first time that Mr. Kahn has sat down under oath, outside of civil litigation. The idea that those individuals who received, who made payments to Epstein were not necessarily questioned by the FBI, Mr. Kahn not questioned by the FBI, Mr. Indyke [Epstein’s lawyer and co-executor of his estate with Kahn] not questioned by the FBI, Les Wexner not questioned by the FBI, is absolutely outrageous. They all need to be questioned and if necessary more fully investigated.”

Epstein lawyer Indyke is scheduled to testify before the Committee next week.

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Amy Robach

In 2019, ABC News anchor Amy Robach was caught on a hot mic complaining that the network “quashed” her interview with key Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who was trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell for two years. “I’ve had the story for three years,” said Robach in the video. “We would not put it on the air. Um, first of all, I was told, ‘Who was Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story.’ Then the palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways.”

“I tried for three years to get it out to no avail, and now these new revelations and — I freaking had all of it,” said Robach in the video. “I’m so pissed right now. Like, every day I get more and more pissed, ’cause I’m just like, Oh my God! It was — what we had, was unreal.”

Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s longtime friend and attorney during his first arrest, supporter of Hillary Clinton and a member of Trump’s legal team during his 2020 impeachment trial, was mentioned in Giuffre’s interview. Dershowitz told NPR that he had called ABC News in 2015 just before the interview was supposed to have been broadcast to dissuade the network from airing Giuffre’s allegations. He said he had mainly called to warn ABC against giving Giuffre a platform. “I did not want to see her credibility enhanced by ABC,” Dershowitz told NPR.

Julie K. Brown

In 2017, Julie K. Brown, a reporter for the Miami Herald, began investigating Epstein. She uncovered 80 potential victims, some of whom were 13 and 14 years old when they were trafficked. She documented eight individuals through a series of reports published in November of 2018.

Brown also extensively covered the secret deal Epstein made with federal attorney Alex Acosta, who would later become U.S. Secretary of Labor during President Trump’s first term. Through a 2008 plea deal with Acosta, Epstein was allowed to plead guilty to only two state-level prostitution offenses. His federal charges disappeared and an FBI probe linking Epstein to dozens of victims was shut down. The deal also granted immunity to any possible co-conspirators.

Epstein’s plea deal came under fire after his 2019 arrest, and amid bipartisan criticism, Acosta resigned as Secretary of State.

Dershowitz wrote an open letter to the Pulitzer Prize committee in 2019, urging them to shut out Brown and the Miami Herald for the “fake news” reporting on the Epstein case. Brown didn’t receive the award.

She later said she had been warned by former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter to expect pushback for her reporting, as other members of the media who had attempted to report on Epstein received. Reiter had said, “Somebody’s going to call your publisher and the next thing you know you are going to be assigned to the obituaries department.”

It wasn’t an idle warning. The Epstein Files reveal that in 2011, Epstein asked private detective William Riley of Riley Kiraly to get information about a Miami reporter and “her boyfriend.” Riley sent Epstein a full report on the target, all redacted in the U.S. Department of Justice’s published files.

Brown herself revealed late last year that the DOJ was monitoring her, as information about a 2019 flight booking is included in the Epstein files. Brown said she expected to see her name in the files because of her extensive reporting on Epstein. “What I didn’t expect to see was an American Airlines flight record from 2019 with my full name on them, including my maiden name, which I don’t use professionally. It’s an unusual name, so it’s clear it’s me.”

“Does somebody at the DOJ want to tell me why my American Airlines booking information and flights in July 2019 are part of the Epstein files (attached to a grand jury subpoena)?” she asked on X.

Lucia Osborne-Crowley 

Shortly after journalist Lucia Osborne-Crowley met with Epstein and Maxwell victim Carolyn Andriano in 2022, she was approached in a restaurant by a private detective who asked what she was writing about. She said the man offered her drugs, cash and a meeting with one of Epstein’s pilots, then put his hands under her skirt. The restaurant manager asked him to leave and he then waited outside for her, forcing Osborne-Crowley to sneak out through a staff exit.

Andriano, who was trafficked between the ages of 14 and 17, was a key witness in Maxwell’s 2021 trial. Osborne-Crowley had been interviewing survivors for her book on the trial, “The Lasting Harm,” published in 2024. She wondered who was paying the private detective and other people following her and victims who had come forward.

“It could be any of the people who are not yet facing charges,” Osborne-Crowley told The Guardian. “Firstly, they can afford it. The weekend I was in Miami, there was a person following me, a person following a survivor in South Africa who was in my book, and a person following a survivor in the UK. Just so that we all were aware.”

Two women withdrew from “The Lasting Harm” after receiving threats. In November of 2025, 28 victims released a statement alleging many of them had received death threats and asking for police protection. “Ghislaine used to tell them, ‘If you ever tell anyone what’s going on here, no matter how far into the future, we will find you and we will stop you,'” said Osborne-Crowley. “And in a lot of ways, that promise was kept.”

Conchita Sarnoff

Investigative journalist Conchita Sarnoff was in a unique position when she began investigating sex trafficking. Her former husband is the grandson of Brigadier General David Sarnoff, the founder of NBC who also oversaw the construction of Radio Free Europe during World War II. Those connections brought her into the same social orbit as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, whom she met in the 1990s. 

When Epstein was arrested in 2008 in Palm Beach, Sarnoff phoned him and then interviewed him at home while he was under house arrest.

“Because I had a social relationship with Epstein and Maxwell, I knew who they were, who their friends were, and more or less how they thought,” said Sarnoff. “This allowed me to expand my investigation.” That reporting turned into a book, “TrafficKing: The Jeffrey Epstein Case,” which Sarnoff completed in 2008.

Twenty-seven publishers turned her down after reading it. She said multiple media outlets scheduled her to discuss the book and her investigation but then rescinded the invitations without explanation.

The book became widely available in 2021, and discusses how Sarnoff risked her life to expose the reality of human trafficking despite bribes to stay silent. It includes witness accounts of Epstein, Maxwell and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Sarnoff is now executive director of the Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking.

Savannah Guthrie

In 2019, Today Show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie interviewed six Epstein/Maxwell victims, including Virginia Giuffre. It was the first television appearance for Giuffre and aired on the NBC’s Today Show and Dateline. The survivors shared their experiences of grooming and abuse, and the Dateline special focused on the failures of the U.S. justice system to protect victims.

The high-profile disappearance of Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, has dominated headlines recently. Guthrie was last seen on January 31, one day after the U.S. DOJ released 3.5 million additional pages of the Epstein files. Nancy Guthrie remains missing and law enforcement has found no ties between her disappearance and her daughter’s reporting.

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Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump hold hands

Russia is preparing to make a lot of oil and gas money as conflict in the Middle East threatens the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most strategic shipping chokepoints. “We are seeing an increase in demand, a substantive increase in demand for Russian energy providers in connection with the war in Iran,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitri S. Peskov said during a Friday briefing.

The boon for the Russian economy during the country’s prolonged war with Ukraine is one of the many interesting consequences of President Donald Trump’s longstanding relationship with Russia and President Vladimir Putin. In a 45-minute speech to a largely empty chamber this week, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) outlined Trump’s and his administration’s numerous entanglements with Russia.

He began by mentioning former FBI Director Robert Mueller’s 2019 special report on Russian election interference related to Trump’s first presidential term. Attorney General Bill Barr issued a letter ahead of the report’s release which said the investigation found the Trump campaign did not collude to steal the 2016 election. Trump then referred to the entire investigation as a “Russian hoax.”

By the time Mueller’s report was released a month later, its message had been obscured. “The Mueller report actually concluded that the Trump campaign knew of and welcomed Russian interference and expected to benefit from it,” said Whitehouse. “That conclusion was later echoed and reinforced by an investigation led by then Chairman Marco Rubio’s Senate Intelligence Committee, a bipartisan report.” Rubio is now serving as U.S. Secretary of State.

Whitehouse outlined 10 ways the Trump administration has helped Russia recently, including pausing weapons shipments to Ukraine during key moments in the war with Russia. In July, during Russia’s worst bombing campaign up to that point, Trump paused already funded shipments of Patriot interceptors, designed to protect Ukrainian citizens.

“That same month, Trump’s Treasury Department stopped imposing new sanctions and closing sanctions loopholes, effectively allowing dummy corporations to send funds, ships and military equipment to Russia,” said Whitehouse.

He said leaked phone calls between U.S. real estate investor and Russian envoy Steve Witkoff and Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev reveal they have worked closely behind the scenes on a Ukrainian peace deal that would benefit Russia. He mentioned that soon after Pam Bondi was appointed Attorney General, the U.S. Department of Justice shut down its anti-kleptocracy initiatives, which were focused on seizing assets from corrupt foreign officials and Russian oligarchs.

Finally, Whitehouse accused the Trump administration of paving the way for Russia’s return to global sports competitions, even with knowledge of the country’s state-backed systemic doping programs.

“If Trump were purposefully doing Russia’s bidding, it’s hard to see what he’d be doing differently,” said Whitehouse.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Role

Still shot from a 1992 NBC video that shows Trump, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell partying with NFL cheerleaders at Mar-a-lago

Whitehouse discussed the impact of the Epstein files and how they reveal the breadth of Epstein’s global network, which repeatedly touched Russia. Trump has called the files a “Russian hoax.”

“Epstein’s ties to foreign intelligence may never be fully known,” said Whitehouse. “It’s a murky world. He had links to officials in the United States, Russian and Israeli governments and many others.”

Epstein began his career as a high school math teacher at the elite Dalton School in Manhattan. The outgoing headmaster at the school when he was hired was Donald Barr, a former intelligence officer and Bill Barr’s father. He eventually moved on to work with British defense contractor and arms dealer Doug Leese. It was Leese who allegedly introduced Epstein to Robert Maxwell, father of his eventual girlfriend and partner Ghislaine Maxwell. Robert Maxwell had complex, shifting ties to British, Soviet and Israeli intelligence. He was initially bankrolled by Britain’s MI6 but also accepted payments from the KGB.

In a 2021 article for Rolling Stone, journalist Vicky Ward spoke to convicted fraudster Steven Hoffenberg about his relationship with Epstein. She said Hoffenberg told her that via Maxwell and Leese, Epstein was involved in something that Hoffenberg described as “national security issues.” He told Ward that this involved blackmail, influence trading and trading information at a level that is very serious and dangerous.

“Four separate sources told me on the record that Epstein’s dealings in the arms world in the 1980s had led him to work for multiple governments, including the Israelis,” wrote Ward.

It was during the 1980s that Trump and Epstein began their friendship. “They shared everything,” said author Michael Wolff, who interviewed Epstein extensively about his relationship with Trump. “They shared their airplanes. They shared women between them. They constantly shared business and financial advice.”

As Trump now infamously said in 2002, “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

Trump and Epstein publicly fell out shortly after that. While the full story of their breakup is unknown, it was at least in part due to a 2004 bidding war for a Palm Beach mansion. Trump eventually won, purchasing the property for $41.3 million. Four years later, after modest renovations, he turned around and sold it for $95 million to billionaire Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev. At the time it was reported to be the most expensive residential property sale in U.S. history.

The oligarch never moved in.

Epstein had a well-documented history of ties to Russia, including the Russian and Eastern European models he trafficked through his global drug and sex ring. A 2017 FBI report claims Epstein was Putin’s “wealth manager.” He also claimed to have given some insight on Trump to the Russians, meeting many times with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s UN representative from 2006 until his death in 2017.

In a 2018 email to former Norwegian prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland, who was charged with corruption last month for his ties to the disgraced pedophile, Epstein wrote, “Churkin was great. He understood Trump after our conversations. It is not complex. He must be seen to get something. It’s that simple.”

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Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein in Moscow

New DOJ documents reveal a five-year Drug Enforcement Administration investigation into Jeffrey Epstein based on allegations of money laundering, drug trafficking and the procurement of Eastern European prostitutes for high-profile clients. The investigation was conducted by a secret intelligence and law enforcement unit of the DEA along with a transnational crime-fighting task force.

The investigation began after an informant claimed Epstein was involved in the illicit funding and distribution of ketamine, ecstasy, methamphetamines and other “club drugs.” It includes the names of Epstein’s accountants, attorneys and European women who worked as his assistants or as fashion models. None of the individuals were charged with any offenses as a result of the investigation. 

In 2011, the DEA enlisted the help of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a Reagan-era DOJ division, to investigate the proliferation of drug trafficking in night clubs. OCDETF then launched Operation Chain Reaction and spent the next four years targeting and prosecuting close to a dozen people in New York, including members of the Genovese crime family. Charges included racketeering, loan sharking, drug trafficking and running illegal gambling businesses. One of the informants in that case tipped off authorities about Epstein’s involvement.

The OCDETF was shut down by President Trump’s administration last September as part of their cost-cutting efforts. But the organization was able to amass a huge amount of intelligence and financial data on Epstein and his associates during its investigation, pulling information from seven federal agencies along with the FBI’s National Crime Information Center.

The heavily redacted DOJ document shows that Epstein and 12 other individuals were the subjects of 40 suspicious activity reports involving the movement of nearly $50 million. More than a dozen law enforcement agencies in the US and abroad, including the U.S. Secret Service and its White House Division, ICE and Harvard’s police department queried a national crime database 311 times between 2013 and 2015 seeking information about Epstein.

In April of 2019, a few months before Epstein’s final arrest, the OCDETF launched a separate investigation with the FBI known as Trip Knot. It centered on money laundering and human and drug trafficking tied to Russian organized crime and drew on FBI and DEA probes from 2017 and 2018. Epstein’s name turned up repeatedly in that case as well.

Operation Chain Reaction was officially closed in June of 2023 under the Biden Administration.

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ICE agents aggress protestors In East Side, Chicago in October of 2025

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee sternly questioned U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem this week for the alleged misconduct of her agency, including the ICE killings of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Instead of showing a shred of remorse over the unlawful killings of Americans, Noem predictably went on the offensive against the collective “they.”

“Today, they’re defending citizens because they know they shouldn’t be putting illegal aliens in front of citizens,” Noem told the committee. “They’ve changed their method now. They realize that when they’re fighting for people who shouldn’t be in this country to begin with, that that’s a losing statement with the American people.”

President Donald Trump’s administration has sought to make ICE a centerpiece of his second term in office. As of mid-January, 73,000 people were being held in U.S. detention centers, a 75-percent increase since Trump took office.

That scale of mass surveillance, capture and imprisonment comes with a giant price tag. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, signed on July 4 last year, allocated $45 billion for ICE detention. U.S. citizens will ultimately pay that price, with the bill handily cutting close to $1 trillion in Medicaid benefits over a 10-year period. The expected result is that more than 10 million Americans will lose their healthcare coverage.

The Trump administration is aiming to get more than 100,000 detention beds “online” by the end of the year, and is reportedly looking into the purchase of unused commercial warehouses capable of housing thousands of people.

Private prison companies are experiencing a major windfall thanks to the aggressive ICE expansion funded by cuts to U.S. citizens’ healthcare coverage. CoreCivic and GEO Group, the two largest private prison companies in the US, both saw massive revenue increases last year. CoreCivic’s Q4 earnings were up 26 percent over the previous year, while GEO Group’s annual revenues jumped from $2.4 billion in 2024 to $2.6 billion in 2025.

And the Department of Homeland Security is only getting started.

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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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