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The White House’s response raises several questions. First, the conversation Giuffre recalled having with #Trump took place at Mar-a-Lago. The email in question described an encounter at #Epstein’s home, where the interaction may have included more than babysitting tips. Further, contextualizing this email by noting which girl it involved is a strange way to respond to a “fake” document.
#Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
The encounter was *perfectly innocent*—just *several hours* of #Trump brainstorming ideas for babysitting clients, a familiar act of generosity from a man known for his passion for mentoring young people. (Giuffre cannot be subpoenaed, because she died by suicide in April.)
#Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Rapid Response 47, an official White House X account, fired off a message noting that in her new posthumous memoir about surviving #Epstein’s abuse, Giuffre says that #Trump was friendly & that he offered to help her find babysitting work. The account later added, “Democrats redacted the victim’s name because the victim said Trump ‘couldn’t have been friendlier,’ was a ‘gentleman,’ & that she didn’t witness any wrongdoing.”
#law #criminal #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Wait, Are the #EpsteinFiles Real Now?
The White House’s responses get curiouser & curiouser
…the revelations are a bit too damning to be dismissed as a news-cycle gambit, so the WH took a different tack a few hours later. It released a statement noting that the unnamed victim in the #Epstein email who “spent hours” with #Trump at Epstein’s house was #VirginiaGiuffre, who “repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever.”
#law
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trump-epstein-email/684909/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxX56Ij8bIjTjicNUwOfcTHk
The #legislation does include some caveats. The #DOJ would not be required to alert a senator that their records were sought if the lawmaker was the target of the investigation, allowing a federal judge to delay any such notification requirements.
The legislation comes as #Trump has also sought compensation from the DOJ related to his own legal troubles, asking for a $230 million settlement related to the investigation conducted by Robert Mueller & from Smith’s classified documents probe.
“If we believe that citizens should receive notice when the #government subpoenas their phone bill, great! Perhaps this revolutionary new policy—which #CivilLiberties groups would probably support—should be the law. But then the law should protect the civil liberties of all 320 million Americans, as the #EqualProtectionClause of the #Constitution demands, not just the 100 Americans in the #Senate,” #JamieRaskin added.
#law #Trump #Republicans #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy #shutdown
“The Senators may not like being treated like the rest of America, but these phone-record subpoenas & non-disclosure orders are routine in grand jury investigations at the state & federal level. No one has an absolute right to be notified that their call records have been subpoenaed, much less the right to a million bucks if it happens. This provision would not give any Americans other than US Senators these rights,” #JamieRaskin said.
“There was no ‘phone tap’ or eavesdropping on the content of their conversations. The call records subpoenaed were the kind of information you see on a phone bill—a list of calls made & received,” #JamieRaskin said, adding that the 8 senators were “pathetically casting themselves as victims.”
Jack Smith sought the phone records of 8 senators as well as 1 member of the House during his investigation into #Jan6, including those known to have spoken to #Trump during the #insurrection.
Rep #JamieRaskin (D-MD) called the provision “one of the most blatantly #corrupt provisions for political self-dealing & the plunder of public resources ever proposed in #Congress.”
The provision, which is retroactive to 2022, only applies to members of the #Senate & would allow them to sue for $500,000 if data was sought without their being notified, as well as once it was obtained.
“That’s a cool one million per Senator,” Raskin said in a stmnt.
#law #Trump #Jan6
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5601358-senate-phone-record-legal-challenge-raskin/
#House passes bill to reopen government after longest #shutdown ever
The legislation now goes to #Trump to sign into #law.
The bill INCLUDES the provision allowing Senators who were investigated by the #DOJ for their alleged involvement in Trump’s effort to overturn the #2020election to sue the #US #government for $500,000.
It DOES NOT INCLUDE the #healthcare subsidies for the #ACA, nor a reversal of the GOP #Medicaid cuts Democrats wanted.
#SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-reopen-update-house-returns-5771f2befb15f4ab45e327369f2e98d9?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-12-Breaking+News
Here’s the photo Lisa was referencing
Epstein birthday book photo of him holding a novelty check bearing Trump’s signature, along with a note suggesting Epstein “sold” him a woman for $22,500
#Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Dec 8, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Epstein replied to Landon Thomas Jr:
[picture] my 20 year old girlfriend in 93,, that after two years i gave to donald
#Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Here’s Lisa Rubin on this series of emails:
Her reaction to how grotesque these men are is exactly mine.
[Thomas cont]
In response to a msg left seeking the Trump campaign's comment on this article, on Thurs Trump's general counsel Alan Garten emailed threatening legal action against BuzzFeed News. "Mr. Trump's only connection with Mr. Epstein was that Mr. Epstein was one of thousands of people who has visited Mar-a-Lago. That's it. Mr. Trump has NEVER been accused of having any involvement or even having any knowledge of any of Mr. Epstein's conduct by anyone," Garten wrote…
Dec 8, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Epstein wrote: [pic] hawain tropic girl lauren petrella
Dec 8, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Thomas Jr., Landon wrote: I am serious man – for the good of the nation why not try to get some of this out there. I would not do it myself, but would pass on to a political reporter.
[Landon Thomas Jr links a Buzzfeed article http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexcampbell/court-papers-trump-ate-at-jeffrey-epsteins-house#.ltoekLMRz6]
Plus: look at these lies!
#Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Dec 8, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Thomas Jr., Landon wrote: Because of this. "I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy," Trump booms from a speakerphone. "He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, & many of them are on the younger side.…"
Dec 8, 2015, at 4:43 PM Epstein wrote: would you like photos of donald & girls in bikinis in my kitchen.
Dec 8, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Landon Thomas Jr. wrote:
Yes!!!
Fmr NYT financial reporter #LandonThomas Jr’s emails with #Epstein about #Trump seem far more damning & disgusting than the 3 that the #House #Democrats released.
#Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
On Friday, the US attorney’s office in Southern Florida issued 30 #subpoenas to individuals such former #CIA director #JohnBrennan, & other fmr intelligence officials. Shortly before Executive Assistant United States Attorney Manolo Reboso signed off on the subpoenas, 2 career US attorneys resigned because they “felt like there was something they could not take part in because it would violate their ethical responsibilities,” acc/to MSNBC.
Judge #AileenCannon Is Back—& Poised to Do More Damage for #Trump
Donald Trump is sending all of his #revenge cases to his favorite judge.
The #DOJ is teeing up a sprawling “conspiracy” investigation into Trump’s perceived political enemies, which will be sent to the same judge who got him his #ClassifiedDocuments get-out-jail free card.
#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment
https://newrepublic.com/post/203075/judge-aileen-cannon-donald-trump-lawsuits
Confirmation: the so-called discharge petition that would force a vote on the #EpsteinFiles has the backing of 218 members, their signatures are frozen & cannot be removed.
#House #Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #Trump #Epstein #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
I mean 🤬🤬🤬
Though #AdelitaGrijalva provided the final signature necessary to advance a vote on the #EpsteinFiles, the vote will likely not place before December. Under the rules that govern this procedural maneuver, the #House cannot act on the measure until after it “ripens” for 7 legislative days — days when #Congress is in session.
How slowly the bureaucracy moves!
#Trump #Epstein #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
#Epstein emails suggest a cozy friendship w/ #LarrySummers.
A series of exchanges between Jeffrey Epstein & Lawrence Summers, fmr #Treasury Secy & #Harvard president, suggest a far cozier & intimate relationship than previously known.
Emails between the 2 show the men bantering, sometimes multiple times a day.
The discussions, which occurred 2017–2019, largely focused on #Trump. But many of the emails focused on Summers’ conversations with a woman & how to handle relations with her.
Rep #AdelitaGrijalva, Democrat of Arizona, addressed #Congress for the first time as a lawmaker in a fiery speech calling out #Republicans for delaying her swearing in for the purpose of quashing the #EpsteinFiles vote. She chastised them for abdicating their #power as a coequal branch of government to #Trump & for letting millions go without benefits during the shutdown. After finishing her speech, she immediately signed the petition to release the full #Epstein files.
Well, there ya go, Rep #AdelitaGrijalva #Democrat of #Arizona has been sworn in.
She will be the 218th signature needed to force the #EpsteinFiles release vote, as long as no #Republicans defect.
#Trump #Epstein #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
#House #Congress #Shutdown
https://apnews.com/article/adelita-grijalva-arizona-house-epstein-files-johnson-da75c9f0e362291f3d0edb1da99e019d
But as fear spread, so did something else — neighbors stepping up for one another & finding creative ways to show up for vendors & restaurant owners. This includes a grassroots effort to organize so-called “buy out” events meant to allow vendors who fear being detained by #immigration agents to go home early.
#Trump #law #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
Since the start of a federal #immigration crackdown that has led to >3,200 arrests in the #Chicago metropolitan area, streets & storefronts in the city’s Latino neighborhoods have emptied out. Street vendors, fearing arrest, have been afraid to leave their homes to #work. Local restaurants have struggled as customers stay home.
#Trump #law #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
This is #Chicago
Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid #Trump #immigration crackdown
The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods & stopping at tamale carts, elote stands & candy stalls. They buy out every last item — every tamale, every corn cob, every bundle of sweets. Then they load up the food & deliver it to #shelters & #families in need.
#law #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism #ICE #CBP
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-illinois-immigration-ice-c24537965e31860fb07ba83e79de4f4b
As The Guardian & The Oregonian/OregonLive have reported, #FoxNews on Sept 4 used footage from the 2020 protests after the police killing of #GeorgeFloyd & said it was from 2025. Propublica found 2 clear cases from that night as well as 1 that seemed to match a scene filmed at a key site of the 2020 protests. Fox also “mislabeled” 2 other dates of actions shown on screen, & 1 broadcast implied that a protest from elsewhere was happening in Portland.
#Trump later said he’d told #Oregon’s governor, Tina Kotek, that “unless they’re playing false tapes, this looked like World War II. Your place is burning down.”
ProPublica examined months of #FoxNews’ coverage & reviewed >700 video clips posted to social media by #protesters, counterprotesters & others in the 3 months preceding the Sept 4 broadcast.
The review found that the “news” network repeatedly provided a “misleading” picture of what was happening in #Portland.
#Trump didn’t say which channel he watched; he said at one point he saw something “today” & at another “last night.”
The evening before, on Sept 4, #FoxNews aired a 2½ minute segment spotlighting protests outside an #ICE field office in #Portland. Similar footage aired the morning of Trump’s remarks. The president went on to announce Sept 27 on Truth Social that he would send #troops, saying that he was “authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”
“Riots Raging”: The *Misleading* Story #FoxNews Told About #Portland Before Trump Sent #Troops
When #Trump told reporters on Sept 5 he’d started looking at sending the #NationalGuard to Portland, #Oregon, he said it was because of something he saw on TV.
He said the city was being destroyed by paid agitators. “What they’ve done to that place, it’s like living in hell,” he said….
#law #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #fascism #MilitaryState #PosseComitatusAct
https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-protests-national-guard-fox-news-coverage
#Trump *connected with* #LaurenBoebert by phone Tues morning, acc/to 2 people familiar with the call, a day before Speaker #MikeJohnson was set to finally swear in a #Democrat, Rep #AdelitaGrijalva of AZ, who was expected to provide the 218th signature needed to force the #Epstein vote. [Also before today’s release of emails]
Trump has also been reaching out by phone to #NancyMace (R-SC), another of the #Republicans who have signed the petition…. The two have not yet connected.
#LaurenBoebert is one of 3 #Republican #women in the #House who have signed on to a petition aimed at forcing a vote on a bill demanding that the #DOJ release all of its investigative files on #Epstein.
If they refuse to remove their names, the petition is set later Wednesday to reach the 218 signatures needed to compel action within weeks.
#Trump #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #EpsteinFiles #CoverUp
Top ofcls met in the White House #SituationRoom on Wednesday with Rep #LaurenBoebert (R-CO) who is backing an effort to force a House vote on whether to demand the release of the files.
She was *summoned* to sit down with top #DOJ & #FBI ofcls, acc/to 2 people familiar with the matter. One of the people said the session included AG #PamBondi & FBI Dir #KashPatel.
#Trump #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #EpsteinFiles #CoverUp
More on the #LaurenBoebert #SituationRoom meeting. Shocker, it wasn’t about the #Trump admin being transparent, but pressuring her to back down from voting to release all the #EpsteinFiles.
Trump & his admin on Wednesday ramped up a pressure campaign on congressional #Republicans who are pushing for a full release of the #DOJ’s files about the convicted #SexOffender #JeffreyEpstein, rushing to head off a #House vote on the matter.
#criminal #law #rape #felon47 #CoverUp
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein-vote-boebert.html?smid=url-share
Yuck. Lawrence H. Summers [Larry], the fmr #Treasury secretary & president of #Harvard University email to #Epstein October 2017:
BTWs, so much for his directive “DO NOT REPEAT”
#Trump #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #EpsteinFiles #CoverUp
Via southpaw:
Lest there be any insinuation that #Democrats spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released.
#Trump #Epstein #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #EpsteinFiles #CoverUp
In tales from the surreal:
Just now White House press sec Karoline Leavitt appeared to confirm to reporters that Rep #LaurenBoebert met Wednesday in the #SituationRoom to discuss the #Epstein case & demands for the public release of the investigative case file.
“Doesn’t that show the level of transparency, when we are willing to sit down with members of Congress & address their concerns?” Leavitt said
#Trump #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #EpsteinFiles #CoverUp
The #journalist #MichaelWolff has said that #Epstein approached him about writing his biography. The author said he declined the request but nevertheless began interviewing the #SexOffender & conducted about 100 hours of interviews with Epstein. He told Washington Monthly earlier this year that Epstein became a source as he was writing his books on #Trump, which began with the 2018 tell-all “Fire and Fury.”
But in these communications Wolff is offering advice not conducting interviews.
One theme emerging is how #MichaelWolff acted as adviser to #Epstein. Wolff advised Epstein to be “anti-Trump” as a way of garnering sympathy.
“I believe Trump offers an ideal opportunity,” Wolff wrote to Epstein in March of 2016, acc/to the emails. “It’s a chance to make the story about something other than you, while, at the same time, letting you frame your own story. Also, becoming an anti-Trump voice gives you a certain political cover which you decidedly don’t have now.”
In the 2018 email #Epstein wrote to Lawrence H. Summers, the fmr #Treasury secretary & president of #Harvard University where he called #Trump “borderline insane”, Epstein also made a reference to the lawyer #AlanDershowitz writing, “dersh, a few feet further from the border but not by much.” It was unclear what prompted this assessment from Epstein.
#criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #EpsteinFiles #CoverUp
The release of documents appears to be intended to provide #Republicans with a defense against charges that they have not released all of the government’s files on #Epstein & his longtime partner in #crime #GhislaineMaxwell — & possibly to stave off demands, including from some #House Republicans, to force the release of all of the #EpsteinFiles.
#Trump #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Link to GOP’s 23k Epstein docs:
https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-releases-additional-epstein-estate-documents/
It was not immediately clear if the release would include other disclosures…. But the emails from #Epstein to friends & associates were laced with unflattering, at times mocking, references to #Trump — including a description of Trump’s financial disclosures by an Epstein associate in 2019 as “100 pages of nonsense.”
A year before that, Epstein described Trump as “borderline insane” in an email exchange with Lawrence H. Summers, the fmr #Treasury secretary & #Harvard University president.
Trying to #FloodTheZone, #House #Republicans have now released 23k pages of documents from the estate of the #SexTrafficking rapist #JeffreyEpstein — shortly after Democrats released several emails that stated #Trump knew more about Epstein’s #SexCrimes than acknowledged.
They were published online ~2 hrs after House #Democrats released the emails including one from Epstein in which he wrote that Trump “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims.
#law #rape
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/12/us/epstein-files-trump/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share
Trump Cuts and Orders Have Broad Impact on American Museums, Report Finds.
A survey of museum directors reveals the impact of federal cutbacks: reduced arts programs for rural areas, students and people who are elderly or disabled.
https://archive.ph/3QsHn #globalmuseum #museums #Trump
All 40 of the men interviewed reported facing severe psychological & physical #abuse on an almost daily basis.
The researchers found that the #US became #complicit in the men’s forced disappearances by repeatedly denying family members info about where their loved ones were being held. Acc/to the report, the #Trump admin violated its legal obligation to uphold the principle of non-refoulement, which prohibits sending people to countries where they are likely to be tortured or persecuted.
Museums had a rough 2025: Report shows lower attendance, lost grants, less money.
"We're seeing corporations and foundations thinking twice about funding certain projects or programs they would have naturally funded in the past, because of all these executive orders that came down"
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/11/nx-s1-5604385/museums-attendance-donations-grants-trump #globalmuseum #museums #Trump
#HRW & #Cristosal also found detainees were subject to “constant beatings & other forms of ill-treatment,” including #SexualViolence. They noted guards withholding #food & #medicine. “Many of these abuses constitute #torture under international human rights #law,” the report says.
The #HumanRights orgs determined the #abuse was the result of “systematic violations,” rather than independent actions by guards & other ofcls at #CECOT.
…They described routine beatings & humiliations, medical neglect, & severe punishments in an isolation cell referred to as la isla, or the island, according to MJ reporting. “What they did there was #torture us,” one of the men said.
#HRW & #Cristosal found similar evidence of abuse. They concluded that the #Venezuelans sent to #CECOT “were subjected to what amounts to arbitrary detention & enforced disappearance under international human rights law.”
#Beatings. #SexualAssault. #PsychologicalAbuse. These are some of the horrors endured by the >250 men the #UnitedStates sent to #ElSalvador on flimsy evidence of gang membership, acc/to a new comprehensive report released on Wednesday by #HRW & #Cristosal, a #HumanRights group focused on #CentralAmerica.
#Trump #law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CECOT #DueProcess #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw #CrimesAgainstHumanity
https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/11/12/you-have-arrived-in-hell/torture-and-other-abuses-against-venezuelans-in-el