WASHINGTON — The House voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill Tuesday to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a
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President Donald Trump is intensifying his efforts to thwart attempts to force the release of the Epstein files, even as the House moves toward a vote that could send disclosure legislation to his desk for his signature or veto further heightening scrutiny of his past ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. On Friday, the president announced he will ask the U. S. Department of Justice, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation “to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J. P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him.” The New York Times reported that the “inquiry appeared to be retribution for the renewed focus on his own ties to Mr. Epstein.” After White House officials reportedly held a Situation Room meeting with Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert on Wednesday to convince her unsuccessfully to remove her name from the discharge petition, the president on Friday took a different tack, appearing both to try to wash his hands of the entire ordeal while refocusing attention on his political opponents and others.“Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem!” Trump railed on his Truth Social website, while attacking Democrats. “The Democrats are doing everything in their withering power to push the Epstein Hoax again, despite the DOJ releasing 50, 000 pages of documents, in order to deflect from all of their bad policies and losses, especially the SHUTDOWN EMBARRASSMENT, where their party is in total disarray, and has no idea what to do,” Trump alleged.“Some Weak Republicans have fallen into their clutches because they are soft and foolish,” the president continued. “Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem!”“Ask Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, and Larry Summers about Epstein, they know all about him, don’t waste your time with Trump. I have a Country to run!” Deadline on Friday noted that “Since the email release, Trump has avoided answering reporters’ questions about Epstein.”Pointing to Trump’s Friday remarks, Politico’s Kyle Cheney remarked, “Trump again pleads with Republicans to stop talking about Epstein. The pressure hasn’t worked as well as it usually does. Also, the emails show Epstein was politically amorphous, deriding Ds just as much as Rs. And these latest emails were from the Epstein estate, not DOJ.”Attorney Aaron Parnas added, “I guarantee you if Donald Trump truly believed Epstein was the ‘Democrat’s problem,’ he would have released all of the files by now.”.
One of the emails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein recently released by the House Oversight Committee reportedly shows correspondence with Steve Bannon one of President Donald Trump’s longtime advisors about getting Trump’s embattled second Supreme Court nominee through a major controversy. On Wednesday, journalist Sean Morrow of More Perfect Union posted a September 2018 email exchange between Epstein and Bannon, in which the two are seen discussing a potential line of attack on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. According to the emails, Epstein suggested that then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s attorneys press Ford who accused Kavanaugh of assaulting her at a high school party on medications she may have been using that can sometimes cause memory loss.”I delayed my trip a day. So I’m still around,” Epstein wrote from a personal gmail account. “Tell [Kavanaugh attorney Bill Burck] they should make sure they ask Ford about her medications, what type and for how long. My guess is that [Ford lawyer Debra Katz] won’t let her answer. Roger,” Bannon responded. Epstein then sent Bannon another email with a link to a 2015 Pharmacy Times article entitled “8 Medications That May Cause Memory Loss.” Bannon wrote back: “Is this a hint,” with Epstein replying: “Duh.”The convicted child predator then sent Bannon a link to a 2017 University of São Paulo study entitled “false memories in social anxiety disorder,” followed by another correspondence that read: “She couldn’t recall if the lie detector was given the same day as her mother’s funeral or the next day? MEDS. Oh I get it now,” Bannon wrote back. Even though Bannon was no longer Trump’s White House chief strategist after August of 2017, the Washington Post reported several months after his firing that Bannon and Trump regularly kept in touch in regular phone calls that Trump himself usually initiated. Bannon still called Trump “sir” even though he was no longer an administration employee, according to the Post. Morrow wrote that while the email address Epstein had been corresponding with was redacted, he determined the recipient was Bannon, as previous exchanges with that recipient mentioned that they had been on comedian Bill Maher’s show. Morrow reported that he verified that Bannon was indeed a guest on Maher’s program on the night in question.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the firebrand Georgia Republican, has been breaking ranks with President Donald Trump and the GOP leadership in Congress on an increasingly long list of issues. She wants Congress to end the government shutdown by agreeing to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. She has demanded the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, called for a pathway to citizenship for immigrants, blasted the White House’s funding of wars in Ukraine and Israel and, most recently, torched the
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Prince Andrew said Friday he is giving up his royal title of the Duke of York after his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein returned to the headlines.
Sarah Ferguson lost patronage from five charities after her email calling Jeffrey Epstein a supreme friend surfaced, prompting backlash over her ties to the convicted sex offender.
Sarah Ferguson lost patronage from five charities after her email calling Jeffrey Epstein a supreme friend surfaced, prompting backlash over her ties to the convicted sex offender.