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President Donald Trump dropped a bomb on Air Force One, telling reporters that Jeffrey Epstein “stole” an employee from the spa at Mar-a-Lago — saying he “thinks” Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre was one of the people he hired away. After three weeks of the Trump administration trying to bury the promised mountain of information on deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, the heat just keeps going up. At every turn, Trump’s efforts to quash the story have only intensified interest in it, and deepened Trump’s own association with it. As the president made his way to Turnberry, Scotland and his “Trump...

The FBI and other government agencies have a copy of the video from outside Jeffrey Epstein’s cell on the night he died, which includes the so-called “missing minute” from the version of the tape that was released publicly. According to a report from CBS News, the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice inspector general have a copy of the video containing the minute from 11:59 p.m.-12:00 a.m. that was not included in the public release. Government officials have cited the video as crucial evidence that Epstein died by suicide, but critics have raised many questions about...

The "missing minute" from the surveillance video at the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center where Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019 may not be missing after all, CBS News has learned. When the Justice Department and FBI released nearly 11 hours of footage earlier this month, the time code on the screen jumped forward one minute just before midnight, prompting questions about the one-minute gap. The video shows part of the area near the cell where Epstein was being held the night he died in what the medical examiner ruled a suicide. A government source familiar with the investigation says the FBI,...

Enquiring minds want to know: What the heck is up with Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein? Whether it’s a slow news month or just proof that the news business has a sweet tooth for the salacious, all media outlets – both old and new – have been working overtime to explain the bizarre machinations of Team Trump to either expose or cover up (take your pick) the truth about Epstein’s predilection for pedophilia. SNIP I posit that we can build a logical explanation for why Trump is protesting so hard that the Epstein story is a hoax or a waste...

"We cannot run a republic like this."FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said that he’s been “shocked” by what he’s learned so far during his time with the Bureau, specifically with regard to the politicization and “weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations.” Bongino, who left a lucrative career in talk radio to take his post at the FBI, shared his observations in a lengthy post on X, promising to follow the investigations wherever they might lead in order to ultimately get “the answers WE ALL DESERVE.” “During my tenure here as the Deputy Director of the FBI, I have...

Summary: The video covers growing scrutiny over the 2016 U.S. intelligence assessment that claimed Russian interference aimed to help Donald Trump. Key points: Senator Tom Cotton, Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has sent a letter to the FBI questioning former Director James Comey’s actions and potential bias against Trump. Cotton accuses Obama, Biden, Clinton, Brennan, Comey, and Clapper of colluding to suppress dissent within the intelligence community that found no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion. The Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) is criticized as a politically directed product, allegedly influenced directly by Obama and senior appointees like CIA Director John Brennan. Former...

Is there something about liberal elite networks, you should understand? snip Because I spent decades in the same elite liberal circles that sheltered Epstein, I am not puzzled. I think I understand the matrix of this situation. snip I also believe that there are make-or-break tech bro Trump supporters on the list, because of a moving interview given by Eric Weinstein on July 14, 2025— interestingly, in the midst of the Bondi furor — to Steven Bartlett, on the “Diary of a CEO” podcast. snip Indeed, Harvard was an avid matchmaker for Epstein among the scientific and mathematics community. Harvard...

Former President Bill Clinton dined with financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 1995, records show—years before the interactions detailed in a statement from his office earlier this week. That statement condemned the wealthy hedge fund manager after his indictment for alleged sex trafficking crimes was unsealed Monday. The statement said Clinton "knows nothing" about Epstein's alleged crimes and included a timeline of Clinton's interactions with him starting in 2002. But according to a story published back in March 1995 by the Palm Beach Post, then-President Clinton attended a “three-hour dinner” at the time with a “very select group of...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Tech publication Wired published an extraordinary article Thursday about mobile devices that visited multimillionaire financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious Caribbean island, Little St. James. According to Wired, the mobile device data was collected by Near Intelligence, a location data broker that does business with the U.S. military and a variety of other clients. Wired reported that the data can be found by a simple Google search.“The coordinates that Near Intelligence collected and left exposed online pinpoint locations to within a few centimeters of space … The data pinpointed their movements as they were transported...

Yesterday, in the warm, cozy, Sunshine State climate, “Todd Blanche, Attorney General Pam Bondi’s top deputy, concluded a second extraordinary day of interviews with Ms. Maxwell,” the article explained. In other words, after years of Biden Administration stonewalling (and file padding), Ghislaine Maxwell got a two-day DOJ interview faster than Little Caesars could deliver a jailhouse pizza. And not just any random DOJ interviewer, either. They didn’t send some junior prosecutor with a legal pad who used to work for Maurene Comey.

Nobody saw this coming. I mean nobody. Yesterday, the Times ran another electrifying story headlined, “After Ghislaine Maxwell Interview, Concerns Mount Over Possibility of a Trump Pardon.” Pardon concerns mount! In the passive voice! By themselves! Yesterday, in the warm, cozy, Sunshine State climate, “Todd Blanche, Attorney General Pam Bondi’s top deputy, concluded a second extraordinary day of interviews with Ms. Maxwell,” the article explained. In other words, after years of Biden Administration stonewalling (and file padding), Ghislaine Maxwell got a two-day DOJ interview faster than Little Caesars could deliver a jailhouse pizza. And not just any random DOJ interviewer,...

Much is expected of Ms Maxwell, 63, who was found by the courts to have enabled the campaign of sexual abuse that her late friend and lover, Jeffrey Epstein, waged against young girls. In particular, the Justice Department wants to establish exactly what Ms Maxwell knows about long-running claims of a conspiracy between senior politicians, financiers and public figures who, it is widely alleged, joined Epstein in the abuse and then covered up the evidence. Meanwhile, Americans who believe the claims of a conspiracy hope fervently that she will spill details of the supposed high-level corruption and the 'truth', whatever...

By 2017, Jeffrey Epstein was a social pariah. Even his right-hand woman, Ghislaine Maxwell, attempted to reinvent herself as a charity boss and was careful to no longer be pictured with the convicted sex offender. But as an avalanche of reports uncovered more lurid details of Epstein’s world of questionable financial dealings and proclivities for sex with underage girls, he had one regular visitor at his huge townhouse at East 71st street — Steve Bannon. Conspiracy theorist and media provocateur Bannon felt he could help the disgraced money man improve his image, sources say, despite how laughable that may have...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer says she fully cooperated and answered all DOJ questions during today’s interview. "Miss Maxwell answered every single question. She never stopped, she never invoked a privilege, she never declined to answer.” “She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability. And that's all the comment we're going to have today about the meeting. We don't want to comment about the substance of the meeting, for obvious reasons, and we'll go from there." 4:25 PM · Jul 24, 2025

"We just ask that folks look at what she has to say with an open mind, and that’s what Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has promised us," David Oscar Markus said Top Department of Justice officials are to interview Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell for a second day on Friday.Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Markus, said ahead of her interview with the officials that his client "has been treated very unfairly" for more than five years, and she doesn't have a reason to lie in answering their questions, NBC News reported.Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche first met with Maxwell in Tallahassee,...

Ghislaine Maxwell was seen carrying a mysterious box back into her Florida prison after meeting with a top Justice Department official on Thursday. The 63-year-old convict was transported in a white sedan back to a gate at the FCI Tallahassee complex, where she’s been serving her 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking young girls to Jeffrey Epstein, according to drone footage captured by WCTV. The disgraced British socialite, wearing all brown, was handcuffed in the front and led through a barbed-wire-laced fenced-in area in front of the prison. One officer carried the bin behind Maxwell as she was escorted back inside....

Maxwell knows ‘where the bodies are buried’. As the Jeffrey Epstein trafficking ring becomes a bigger story by the day, the DOJ Number 2 official, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, headed down to Florida to meet in person with the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s long-time ‘partner-in-crime’. After a 5-hour questioning marathon yesterday (24), today the official met with the disgraced British socialite for the second time in the US Attorney’s Office in Tallahassee, Florida. Maxwell’s attorney David Markus told the press after this second day of interviews that his client answered questions about ‘a hundred people’. Daily Mail...

The Wall Street Journal has just released an alleged birthday letter from former president Bill Clinton to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Wall Street Journal reported that the letter from Clinton was obtained from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2003 “birthday book.” The letter reportedly from Clinton read, “It’s reassuring, isn’t it, to have lasted as long, across all the years of learning and knowing, adventures and (illegible word), and also to have your childlike curiosity, the drive to make a difference and the solace of friends.” LOOK:

democrats have no message for America. None. Donald Trump has them careening about trying to find something to stand for. Their Russiagate hoax has collapsed and the cretins of the intelligence community (Brennan, Clapper, Comey and assorted scum and villainy) are in jeopardy of going down with it. So, democrats changed course- to defending illegal alien criminals over Americans. Americans aren't liking that either, so they've turned to a Hail Mary play- demanding that Trump release the Epstein files. Guilt by association. It's a Machiavellian ploy. They know whatever remains can't be released without a court order. Former Epstein lawyer...

A senior Department of Justice official is meeting with longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday in Tallahassee, Florida, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. The meeting between Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Maxwell is occurring in downtown Tallahassee at the U.S. attorney's office, which is located inside the federal courthouse, sources familiar with the matter said. Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking and other charges and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022. She is serving her sentence at a federal prison in Tallahassee. MORE: Ghislaine Maxwell engaged in 'significant pattern of dishonest conduct,'...