Right-wingers have long alleged a government cover-up of the files to protect the powerful.
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Charlie Kirk was increasingly at odds with the president in the final months of his life.
Donald Trump had strong words for the GOP’s youth connection last July, two months before Kirk was shockingly assassinated at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University. At the time, Trump reportedly berated Kirk for allowing one of his college rallies to turn into a grieving session over the…
When the Epstein files became a political liability, Trump's top advisers gathered in the Situation Room — not to pursue justice for victims, but to figure out how to make the story go away. A new book says they couldn't.
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He indicted Trump's enemies, subpoenaed journalists at the president's direction, and told reporters he would say "I love you, sir" if asked to step aside. Now he wants the nation's top law enforcement job — permanently.
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Former Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly had a disastrous meeting with the House Oversight Committee on Friday regarding her bungling of the Epstein files release.
MS NOW’s Kyle Griffin reported that Bondi “lost her temper a bit at some points and grew frustrated when asked about [Donald] Trump,” something Bondi did frequently during public hearings as attorney general. Democratic committee…
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Former Attorney General Pam Bondi threw acting Attorney General Todd Blanche under the bus during her closed-door testimony with the House Oversight Committee on Friday, stating that she “delegated oversight” over the disastrous release of the Epstein files to him.
“These investigations span FOUR administrations … The only time federal prosecutors were permitted to launch investigations against…
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Democratic Representative Robert Garcia called out Republicans on the House Oversight Committee for how they’re handling former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s testimony Friday.
Outside of the room where she is testifying, Garcia, the committee’s ranking member, pointed out that she was not sworn in under oath before her closed-door testimony, which is also not being videotaped.
“I just want to be…
The Epstein files dispute is no longer only about disclosure, but about whether the Justice Department’s accounting can satisfy Congress after millions of pages were reviewed, millions were released, and critics still say the public record remains incomplete. The Department of Justice said on January 30 that it had published more than 3 million additional […]
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Jeffrey Epstein’s former assistant has provided the House Oversight Committee with the names of three new alleged co-conspirators.
Sarah Kellen appeared before the committee in a closed-door hearing Thursday. Committee Chairman James Comer described her participation as forthcoming, and shared that her testimony was “what we’ve been waiting for.”
“Sarah Kellen has been very helpful. Of all the…
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Palm Beach, Florida is one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound is on one end, and less than two miles up the beach, in a private cul-de-sac, sits the mansion that Epstein purchased in 1990. There, he developed a system of recruiting and grooming vulnerable underage girls from nearby working-class neighborhoods to be sexually exploited.
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A federal judge on Wednesday released a document described as a suicide note purportedly written by the late Jeffrey Epstein and including the line: “It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye.” Epstein, the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker, was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in […]
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Lawmakers emerged from the private interview with vastly different assessments of Lutnick's answers, with Democrats calling on the U.S. commerce secretary to resign.
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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee claimed Wednesday that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick lied several times during his testimony about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
During a closed-door hearing to discuss his ties to the alleged sex trafficker, Lutnick reneged on past claims about Epstein recording his guests’ sexual misconduct and using it to blackmail them, Representative Ro Khanna…
House Democrats forced a breakthrough Wednesday in their fight to question former Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, filing a civil contempt resolution after she skipped a subpoenaed deposition and prompting Republicans to announce, within hours, that she will now testify next month.
Rep. Robert Garcia, the gay ranking Democrat on…
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Pam Bondi may think that being fired as attorney general gets her out of a congressional subpoena, but the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform disagrees.
After missing her scheduled deposition April 14, Bondi will now testify before the committee on May 29, the committee announced Wednesday. At the same time, Democrats on the committee announced that they have filed contempt of…
(RNS) — More than 100 alumni of Wexner Foundation fellowships and professional development programs have started a fund to aid survivors of sexual abuse and exploitation.
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New Mexico authorities reopened a long-stagnant investigation into Epstein’s Zorro Ranch property, and we’ve already seen troubling developments.
“Time and again, our two countries have always found ways to come together,” King Charles III is expected to tell the US Congress later today, in what will be the first address to Congress by a British monarch since 1991.
The King’s words are a tacit acknowledgment that his trip to the US, the first British state visit since 2007, comes at a precarious moment for the “special…
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A prominent commercial contractor with government ties built a secluded residence in the New Mexico desert for Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein purchased Zorro Ranch from former Democratic Governor Bruce King in 1993. Then he hired Bradbury Stamm Construction, a company better known for building classified facilities at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Kirtland Air Force Base, to erect him a mansion…
The government watchdog said it would publish its findings but did not provide a timeline for the investigation.
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The Department of Justice is auditing itself over the chaotic rollout of the Jeffrey Epstein files, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was pushed through Congress by an eclectic bipartisan group even after Donald Trump dismissed it as a “hoax,” made millions of government files on the convicted sex trafficker publically available.
But the slow,…
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A pathway to freedom is slowly opening up for Ghislaine Maxwell, thanks to the work of several House Republicans.
Conservatives on the House Oversight Committee are reportedly “split” over whether Donald Trump should pardon Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend and longtime accomplice.
Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer told Politico Wednesday that “a lot of people” in his caucus believed it was a…
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President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, tried to dodge questions Tuesday about his financial ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
At his confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Senator Elizabeth Warren asked Warsh about more than $100 million in investments that he has “refused to disclose to ethics officials and the public,”…
A philosopher argues that Donald Trump’s falsehoods are not lies intended to deceive but expressions of contempt, which are now alienating his base as they feel the effects.
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Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche claims that his department released every single Epstein file—and that if any weren’t released, it’s because they “were not responsive to the law.”
“You have the authority to go ahead and release more [of the Epstein files], do you not?” Blanche was asked Tuesday on Fox News. “And you have the authority to go to Congress, perhaps?”
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“What the f**k is she doing right now?” one Trump advisor asked.
Extraordinary address raises issue Trump has tried to downplay Melania Trump urges Congressional hearings for Epstein’s victims She denies Epstein introduced her to Trump and says, ‘I am not Epstein’s victim’ WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump denied on Thursday that she had any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and said she was not one of his victims, thrusting the Epstein […]
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Only days before the US ruling class attacked Iran, they were reeling from the fallout of the Epstein scandal. They were all implicated.
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