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Ghostwriter Says She Knows Who’s In the Epstein Files

October 22, 2025 · 11:26 am ET · Leave a Comment

“The ghost writer who helped Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, pen her posthumous memoir claimed she knows everyone named in the so-called Epstein files,” the New York Post reports.

Said Amy Wallace: “I know all the names.”

She added: “It exists in the FBI files. It exists in the Epstein files, as we now call them… There are four different document dumps, and there are many, many names in those… They have the names — and they’ve had them for more than a decade.”

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Epstein Had Dinners with Top Prosecutor on His Case

October 18, 2025 · 1:32 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“Jeffrey Epstein had multiple appointments, phone calls and dinners with Matthew Menchel — the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office chief criminal prosecutor who spearheaded Epstein’s sweetheart deal in 2007,” the Miami Herald reports.

“A tranche of over 8,500 pages of records from Epstein’s estate — released by the House Oversight Committee Friday — show that Epstein’s calendars and emails reflect that Menchel, who left the DOJ in 2007, had multiple meetings or dinners with Epstein in 2011, 2013 and 2017. Lawmakers also referred to a photograph of Menchel on a ski trip with Epstein sometime in the 2000s, but didn’t produce the photo.”

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Donald Trump Feared This Day Would Come

October 6, 2025 · 7:11 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Rick Wilson: “The Supreme Court just refused to even look at Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal. No oral arguments. No grand jurisprudential debate. A curt ‘hard pass,’ and the door clicks shut. Her conviction stands.”

“And if you’re Donald Trump, or his Epstein cover-up team, particularly his personal attorney turned deputy attorney general and damage-control valet, Todd Blanche, this is the moment the game stops being theoretical and starts being kinetic.”

“The one person who knows where an awful lot of bodies are buried just ran out of legal runway, and that gives her something priceless in Trumpworld: leverage.”

Scandal, White House

Lutnick Calls Epstein the ‘Greatest Blackmailer Ever’

October 1, 2025 · 3:09 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, in a notable break with the Department of Justice, claimed late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was ‘the greatest blackmailer ever’ — and may have traded the feds video of his rich and well-connected associates getting massages from young women in exchange for a controversial 2008 plea deal,” the New York Post reports.

“The 64-year-old cabinet secretary said that Epstein himself showed off his notorious ‘massage room’ while giving Lutnick and his wife a tour of the infamous East 71st Street townhouse after the couple moved in next door to the since-disgraced financier in 2005.”

Said Lutnick: “I say to him, ‘Massage table in the middle of your house? How often do you have a massage?’ And he says, ‘Every day.’ And then he gets, like weirdly close to me, and he says, ‘And the right kind of massage.’”

Scandal, White House

Wall Street Firms Kept Ties With Jeffrey Epstein

October 1, 2025 · 8:17 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Jeffrey Epstein never got kicked out of Wall Street’s VIP club,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Epstein’s banking and investment activities in the years before his 2019 death were more widespread than previously known, including accounts at several banks as well as large transactions with well-known hedge funds, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and people familiar with the matter.”

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Epstein Papers Mention Possible Meeting with Elon Musk

September 26, 2025 · 1:08 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released partial records from a third batch of documents they received from the Jeffrey Epstein estate earlier this week that includes notes that contain the names of current and former Trump allies Elon Musk and Steve Bannon, as well as Peter Thiel and Prince Andrew,” NOTUS reports.

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Inside the White House Struggle to Tame the Epstein Crisis

September 25, 2025 · 6:21 am ET · Leave a Comment

Wall Street Journal: “Trump told aides he couldn’t understand why people were so obsessed with the deceased financier and sex offender, according to people familiar with his comments. People don’t understand that Palm Beach in the 90s was a different time, he groused.”

Washington Post: Park Service removes statue of Trump and Epstein from National Mall.

Scandal, White House

Republicans Work to Block Vote on Epstein Files

September 24, 2025 · 8:48 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“Top congressional Republicans and White House allies are working behind the scenes to prevent a politically charged floor vote to release the government’s Jeffrey Epstein case files next month,“ CNN reports.

“While the exact strategy to avoid a vote is not yet clear, some of the GOP lawmakers who have signed on are privately being pressured to withdraw their name from the petition, which would prevent a vote from taking place.”

House of Representatives, Scandal

Kash Patel Blames Former Trump Cabinet Secretary

September 16, 2025 · 11:04 am ET · Leave a Comment

“FBI Director Kash Patel testified Tuesday that President Trump’s former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who served under his first administration, committed the ‘original sin’ in the Jeffrey Epstein case,” Mediaite reports.

“As U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida in 2008, Acosta oversaw a secret non-prosecution deal with Epstein that allowed the financier to plead guilty to state charges involving a single underage victim, shielding him from federal prosecution.”

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Jeffrey Epstein Estate Turns Over More Documents

September 15, 2025 · 4:12 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has turned over additional documents to the House Oversight Committee, including a previously redacted name from the late sex offender’s now-notorious 50th birthday book,” NBC News reports.

“The name that was unredacted was not immediately publicly released.”

Scandal

Ken Paxton In Affair with Christian Influencer

September 12, 2025 · 7:00 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), who is running for U.S. Senate in the Republican primary, was “caught in shocking sex scandal as details of secret affair with married Christian influencer mom-of-seven are exposed,” the Daily Mail reports.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s First Political Casualty

September 12, 2025 · 8:20 am ET · Leave a Comment

Peter Mandelson’s career as Britain’s ambassador in Washington collapsed this week after the release of explosive documents tying him to Jeffrey Epstein.

More than 100 emails between Mandelson and the convicted sex offender from 2005 to 2010 show he remained loyal even after Epstein was charged.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Inbox

September 11, 2025 · 8:56 am ET · Leave a Comment

Bloomberg obtained more than 18,000 emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo account which shed light on his yearslong partnership with socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.

“The emails span a 20-year timeframe but the message traffic is most active between 2005 and 2008. The communications reveal that Maxwell and Epstein were closer, in many respects, than either publicly admitted. They exchanged at least 650 emails in all and about 203 messages during the first six months of 2008, undercutting Maxwell’s public assertions that her connection to Epstein had diminished by the time he went to jail in June 2008.”

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U.K. Ambassador to Epstein: ‘I Think the World of You’

September 10, 2025 · 4:46 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Bloomberg has obtained more than 100 previously undisclosed emails between U.K. Ambassador Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 through 2010 that reveal Mandelson’s steadfast support for Epstein after Epstein was charged with sex crimes.

Said Mandelson, in one email: “I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened. I can still barely understand it. It just could not happen in Britain.”

Scandal

You Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself

September 10, 2025 · 9:17 am ET · Leave a Comment

Charlie Warzel: “This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.”

Here’s a PDF of the entire book.

Scandal

What If They Won’t Release the Epstein Files?

September 9, 2025 · 2:08 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“A bipartisan House resolution directing the Justice Department to release all of its investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein appears poised within weeks to draw enough backers to force action on the House floor,” the New York Times reports.

“But while the effort will probably remain a headache for President Trump and Republican leaders, there is still no guarantee it will receive a vote and little chance that the Justice Department would comply even if it did.”

Scandal, White House

Trump’s Epstein Letter Is the Final Test

September 9, 2025 · 12:05 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Andrew Egger: “In a way, Donald Trump and his allies have spent their entire political lives preparing for this moment. The whole miserable decade of ‘alternative facts,’ of witch hunts, of flooding the zone with shit—it all amounted to a long, powerful education for his base. It’s a training in a certain kind of zen meditation, in which stories damaging to Trump pass from the eyes and ears directly out of the body without ever intersecting the brain. By now, the base has gotten in their 10,000 hours. They’ve become masters of the craft. They can perform all sorts of remarkable feats—the media-cope equivalent of lying on beds of nails while cinderblocks are smashed on their chests. These cinderblocks, they whisper serenely, are just a liberal plot. If I pay attention, the Democrats win.”

“This Epstein story might as well be their final test. They’ve clamored for years for more information about Epstein’s sexual-deviant associates—and here Trump is, wallowing in that muck of perversity, clear as day. Trump plainly thinks he’s got them well trained enough that he doesn’t even need to find a good cover story. They’re ready to excuse him all on their own.”

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Trump Calls Epstein Letter a ‘Dead Issue’

September 9, 2025 · 11:38 am ET · Leave a Comment

President Trump declined to discuss his birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein released by the convicted sex trafficker’s estate, calling it a “dead issue,” NBC News reports.

Said Trump:  “I don’t comment on something that’s a dead issue. I gave all comments to the staff. It’s a dead issue.”

Scandal, White House

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