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As MJ & other outlets have reported extensively, most of the men had NO serious criminal history in the #US or elsewhere in the world. What they often had instead were #tattoos that bore NO relation to the gang.
The new report offers even more evidence of the #inhumane treatment the #Venezuelan #immigrants endured in #ElSalvador.
#Trump #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #InternationalLaw #CrimesAgainstHumanity
Based on the testimonies of 40 men who were detained at #CECOT, as well as interviews with 150 other people—including lawyers & relatives in #Venezuela, #Colombia, & the US—it paints a damning picture of the abuses inflicted at CECOT.
The #Venezuelans were released in July and returned to their country of origin as part of a prisoner swap deal. Shortly after their release, 3 of the men told MJ that they faced severe #abuse.
#Trump #law #immigration #Rendition #HumanRights #DueProcess #torture
In early 2025, the #Trump admin flew Venezuelan immigrants to Salvadoran President #Bukele’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center [#CECOT], where they were held for 4 months without communication w/ their families & lawyers. The US govt had accused the men of being members of the transnational gang Tren de Aragua & removed most of them from the #US under the #AlienEnemiesAct—an 18th-century #law that Trump has invoked for only the 4th time in US history.
#Trump Sent Men to #Torture in #ElSalvador, Report Confirms
Human Rights Watch (#HRW) found that Venezuelans shipped to El Salvador by the #UnitedStates were beaten almost every day.
#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CECOT #DueProcess #CivilRights #HumanRights #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #fascism #Tyranny #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw #CrimesAgainstHumanity
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/trump-cecot-torture-hrw-elsalvador-prison-venezuelan/
People have good questions about the qualifications of #JackSchlossberg.
+ good points about dynasties.
Counter on dynasties: after #Trump’s wins, it’s clear Americans love name recognition. I’d rather any progressive in office than a Vance type, if that’s what it takes. Also Schlossberg was raised by #CarolineKennedy, a damn smart & strong woman on the correct side of politics.
But also Schlossberg actually has some of his own laurels.
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KTLA: Epstein alleges Trump ‘knew about the girls’ in emails released by House Democrats
"...Emails ...show convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein telling associates in the 2010s that “of course” President Trump knew about his relationships with underage girls...."
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"And if he did not know, it begs an interesting question: how powerful were the people protecting Trump that even a blackmailer like Epstein could not figure out why Trump had been spared any mention of bad behavior?"
#Trump #Epstein #pedophilia #crime #criminals #pardon #guilt #corruption #coverup #GhislaineMaxwell
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"The just-released tranche of Jeffrey Epstein emails pose an interesting question that no one has yet tried to answer: who has been protecting Donald Trump in the Epstein matter for the last several decades?
It’s something that Epstein seemed to ask Ghislaine Maxwell in this email dump as well."
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #Epstein #pedophilia #crime #criminals #pardon #guilt #corruption #coverup #GhislaineMaxwell
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https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/breaking-epstein-emails-who-is-really
Link to actual emails:
#Democrats #House #Oversight Committee Releases #JeffreyEpstein Email Correspondences, Raising Questions About #Trump White House #Coverup of #EpsteinFiles
#criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #felon47
http://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-oversight-committee-releases-jeffrey-epstein-email-correspondence-raising
"In two other emails to author Michael Wolff, Epstein wrote that 'of course he knew about the girls', referring to the now-president."
#Trump #Epstein #pedophilia #crime #criminals #pardon #guilt #corruption #coverup #GhislaineMaxwell
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"In a new batch of emails released by Democrats on the House oversight committee, Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump knew about the late financier and sex-offender’s crimes. In the three emails released, Epstein apparently told his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump 'spent hours' at his house with one of Epstein’s victims."
~ Shrai Popat
#Trump #Epstein #pedophilia #crime #criminals #pardon #guilt #corruption #coverup #GhislaineMaxwell
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"I think we’re about one step away from having January 6 declared a national holiday."
~ Charles Pierce
#Trump #crime #criminals #pardon #guilt #corruption
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a69382502/trump-pardons-january-6/
"It looks like pretty much every single person Donald has pardoned, give or take, is some kind of criminal who has shown no remorse for his or her crimes. What does that mean? What does that tell us about him?"
~ Mary Trump
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The #Democrats’ release of the emails came hours before Speaker #MikeJohnson was scheduled to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva, Democrat of Arizona, whom he has avoided seating for nearly 2 months since she won her election.
She is expected to provide the final signature necessary on a petition to force a #House vote on a measure demanding that the #Trump admin release all of its investigative material pertaining to #Epstein. The White House has strongly opposed the measure.
Wolff advised inaction, suggesting that #Trump might try to deny a close association with #Epstein. “I think you should let him hang himself,” he wrote of Trump. “If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable P.R. & political currency” that could be used to “hang him” later or “save him, generating a debt.”
Trump never received a question about the matter in that debate, according to a transcript. It was unclear if he was asked about it separately.
![On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Michael Wolff to Epstein: I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you-either on air or in scrum afterwards. On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Epstein < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: if we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be? 12/16/2015 4:26:32 PM Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] wrote: I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn't been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt. Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he'll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.](https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/115/537/285/812/549/702/original/a7acb0efc2f4adba.png "On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Michael Wolff to Epstein: I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you-either on air or in scrum afterwards. On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Epstein < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: if we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be? 12/16/2015 4:26:32 PM Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] wrote: I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn't been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt. Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he'll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.")
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On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Michael Wolff to Epstein: I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you-either on air or in scrum afterwards. On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Epstein < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: if we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be? 12/16/2015 4:26:32 PM Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] wrote: I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn't been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt. Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he'll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.
Wolff was also involved in a third email exchange, which began on Dec. 15, 2015, the night of a debate in the Republican presidential primary. Wolff emailed #Epstein & warned him that CNN was “planning to ask #Trump tonight about his relationship with you — either on air or in scrum afterwards.”
Epstein wrote back, “If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”
#Epstein was months away from the arrest & federal charges that would send him to prison, but he was the focus of significant attention after The Miami Herald had published a series of articles drawing renewed attention to the secret agreement he had signed in 2008.
In his email, Epstein mentioned a victim of his #SexTrafficking operation. He also mentioned Mar-a-Lago, then disputed that #Trump had ever asked him to resign from the club. “Never a member ever,” Epstein wrote.
…At the time #Epstein emailed Maxwell in 2011 calling #Trump the “dog that didn’t bark,” Trump was a reality television star & New York tabloid celebrity who was years away from becoming president.
…Epstein’s email from 2019, which claims #Trump “knew about the girls” & asked Maxwell “to stop,” was sent to Wolff, who had recently written a tell-all book about the president.
The emails were provided to the #Oversight Cmte along with a larger tranche of documents from Epstein’s estate that the panel requested as part of its investigation into Epstein & Maxwell, who is serving a 20yr sentence for #SexTrafficking.
The cmte’s staff redacted victims’ names & any identifying information from the emails. Because the full set of documents has not been released, it was not clear whether the emails were excerpts from larger conversations with fuller context.
“I have been thinking about that,” Maxwell wrote back.
In an email from January 2019, #Epstein wrote to Wolff of #Trump: “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.” #House #Democrats, citing an unnamed whistle-blower, said this week that Maxwell was preparing to formally ask Trump to commute her federal prison sentence.
#criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #felon47 #EpsteinFiles
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Email from Epstein to writer Michael Wolff: “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
They came years after #Trump & #Epstein had a purported falling out in the early 2000s. One was addressed to Epstein’s longtime confidante #GhislaineMaxwell, while 2 were w/ the author Michael Wolff.
In one email from April 2011, Epstein told Maxwell, who was later convicted on charges related to facilitating his #crimes, “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.” He added that an unnamed victim “spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned.”
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Emails between Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell. Epstein: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.” Maxwell reply: “I have been thinking about that.”
“These latest emails & correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding & the nature of the relationship between #Epstein & the president,” Rep Robert Garcia of California, the top #Democrat on the #Oversight Cmte, said in a statement.
The 3 separate email exchanges released on Wednesday were all from after Epstein’s 2008 plea deal in Florida on state charges of soliciting prostitution, in which federal prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges.
The messages are certain to inflame the debate on Capitol Hill over the #Trump admin’s handling of the #EpsteinFiles, & top ofcls’ decision to backtrack on a promise to fully release them. That issue, which has split #Republicans & alienated some of Trump’s right-wing supporters, had faded to the background as the govt #shutdown dragged on.
But the #House is set to return Wednesday to clear legislation to end the shutdown, & attention is likely to shift back to the #Epstein matter.
…#Democrats on the #House #Oversight Cmte said the emails, which they selected from thousands of pages of documents received by their panel, raised new questions about the relationship between the 2 men. In one of the messages, #Epstein flatly asserted that #Trump “knew about the girls,” many of whom were later found by investigators to have been underage. In another, Epstein pondered how to address questions from the news media about their relationship as Trump was becoming a political figure.
#JeffreyEpstein Alleged in Emails That #Trump Knew of His Conduct
#House #Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which #Epstein wrote that Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims, among other messages that suggested that the convicted sex offender believed Trump knew far more about his abuse than he has acknowledged.
#criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #felon47 #EpsteinFiles
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein-emails.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0k8.5Xpw.eV8ZST0R2omh&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Hell yeah
#JackSchlossberg, Grandson of #JFK, to Seek Nadler’s #NY Congressional Seat
#Schlossberg, the son of #CarolineKennedy, said the #DemocraticParty needed someone who could stand up to #Trump & his allies.
#USpol #NYpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/nyregion/jack-schlossberg-congress-run.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The carrier strike group’s arrival pushes the number of #US troops in the region to about 15,000, including personnel spread across roughly a dozen #warships & reinforcements sent in recent weeks to US facilities in Puerto Rico — a stunning #military presence in a region that historically has seen only 1 or 2 Navy vessels assisting the USCG on routine drug-interdiction missions that usually ended with the suspects’ detention & prosecution.
…The Ford, which is the Navy’s most modern & largest carrier, has 4,000 sailors on board. It is accompanied by the destroyers USS Bainbridge, USS Mahan & USS Winston S. Churchill. Cancian…said it can cost as much as $8.4 million a day to operate an #AircraftCarrier.
#Trump #law #military #Venezuela #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #LawOfArmedConflict #authoritarianism #autocracy
“The only reason to move it there is to use it against Venezuela,” Cancian surmised, adding that the Ford’s arrival means “the shot clock has started because this is not an asset they can just keep there indefinitely. They have to use it or move it. And moving it would mean they are standing down” from a potential attack on #Venezuela, he said.
#Trump #law #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #LawOfArmedConflict #authoritarianism #autocracy
Carriers are strategic assets, & the #US uses its fleet of 11 — many of which are in scheduled maintenance & not available to sail at any given time — for power projection & deterrence in its top-tier #security concerns, notably countering #China in the Indo-Pacific region & maintaining a deterrent presence in the #MiddleEast, said Mark Cancian, a senior #defense adviser at CSIS.
#Trump #law #Venezuela #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #authoritarianism #autocracy
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Padrino said on national television that #Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás #Maduro, ordered a massive deployment of soldiers, “almost 200,000,” he said, as part of the special operation.
…The breadth of firepower inherent to an #AircraftCarrier strike group—the Ford typically travels with dozens of fighter jets & an assortment of other lethal capabilities—would seem excessive for the type of strikes that #US forces have carried out on alleged drug boats since early Sept, experts said.
Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said in a statement Tuesday that #Venezuela is preparing to set a maximum level of alert amid rising tensions with the #US.
The objective is to place “the entire country’s #military arsenal on full operational readiness,” Padrino López said. The preparations include “massive deployment of ground, aerial, naval, riverine & missile forces” with the participation of all security forces & militia.
#Trump #law #WarPowers #Congress #InternationalLaw
…The development, though forecast weeks ago, appeared certain to deepen the sense of unease felt in some corners of #Congress since #Trump began to ruminate about a potential regime change in #Venezuela. Last week, admin ofcls hoping to quash bipartisan legislation aimed at restraining the president’s ability to unleash #military force there told lawmakers no active preparations were underway for such an attack — a declaration that persuaded enough #Republicans to vote down the measure.
The Ford & its 3 accompanying #warships arrived in the region Tuesday, the Navy said in a news release. The ships were not yet in the #Caribbean Sea but had crossed into the #US #SouthCom’s jdx, a vast area that also includes part of the #Atlantic Ocean & drug smuggling routes in the #Pacific used by cartels based in #Colombia & neighboring #Ecuador.
#Trump #law #Venezuela #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #LawOfArmedConflict #authoritarianism #autocracy
The USS Gerald R. Ford #AircraftCarrier has entered waters near #LatinAmerica, prompting #Venezuela to put the entire country’s #military arsenal at the ready as the #US naval buildup fuels speculation that the #Trump admin intends to dramatically escalate its deadly counternarcotics campaign there.
#law #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #LawOfArmedConflict #authoritarianism #autocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/11/venezuela-aircraft-carrier-gerald-ford/
Although the guidelines primarily impact people outside the #US or those seeking to renew their #visas, experts warn that they could also affect #family members of people already living in the US who would like to come to visit or live with them.
Adriana Cadena, exec dir at Protecting Immigrant Families, said the policy is “dangerous” & impacts #immigrant #families living legally in the US.
#Trump #law #immigration #discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination
It also tells consular officials that whenever an applicant is seeking to use finances to satisfy #PublicCharge requirements, they should request to view the applicant’s bank & financial documents, evidence of their assets, checking, savings, brokerage, trust funds & retirement accounts.
#Trump #law #immigration #discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #fascism #Nazis #Republicans #USpol
Among the #medical conditions that could disqualify a #visa applicant are chronic conditions; obesity; high blood pressure; cardiovascular, metabolic & neurological diseases; depression; anxiety; & mental health conditions that can require [in the admin’s words] “hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of care,” the cable says.
#Trump #law #immigration #discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #fascism #Nazis #Republicans #USpol
The new directive goes further with more specific requirements. The cable says consular officials must consider a range of specific details about people seeking #visas, including their #age, #health, #family status, #finances, #education, #skills & any past use of public assistance regardless of the country. It also says they should assess applicants’ #English proficiency & can do so by conducting interviews in English.
#Trump #law #immigration #discrimination #ableism #EconomicDiscrimination
#Immigrants seeking entry into the #US already undergo a medical exam by a physician who’s been approved by a US Embassy. They are screened for communicable diseases, like tuberculosis, & asked to disclose any history of drug or alcohol use, mental health conditions or violence. They’re also required to have a number of vaccinations [don’t tell #RFKJr].
#Trump #law #immigration #discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #fascism #Nazis #Republicans #USpol
…#Immigration policy experts say the latest guidance could reduce the number of #immigrant & non-immigrant #visas granted & could disproportionately affect some groups of foreigners seeking access to the #US, such as older adults & people with low incomes.
The cable was sent from #State Dept headquarters to every US Embassy & Consulate around the world.
#Trump #law #immigration #discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #fascism #Nazis #Republicans #USpol
While federal #law already required those seeking permanent residency or legal status to prove they wouldn’t be a #PublicCharge, #Trump in his first term widened the range of benefit programs that could disqualify applicants, & the guidelines in the cable appear to go even further in scope.
#immigration #discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #fascism #Nazis #Republicans #USpol
The directive reveals how the #Trump admin interprets #PublicCharge, the concept in #immigration #law that foreigners can be refused entry or permanent residency status if they are likely to rely on US govt resources, such as certain types of cash & food #aid.
#discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #fascism #Nazis #Republicans #USpol
The guidance, issued last week in a cable from the #State Dept & obtained by The AP, directs embassy & consular ofcls to comprehensively & thoroughly vet #visa applicants to demonstrate that they will not need to rely on public benefits from the govt any time after their admission in the #US. Experts say it could further limit who gets to enter the country at a time when the #Trump admin is already tightening those rules.
#law #immigration #discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #plutocracy #Nazis
And they call Democrats elitists
New #Trump directive could deny more #visas based on applicants' #health & #wealth
A new directive by Trump’s admin could make it more difficult for foreigners to visit or live in the #US if they have certain #medical conditions such as #diabetes or #obesity or lack the economic resources & assets to support themselves.
#law #immigration #discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #fascism #Nazis #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-public-charge-trump-benefits-visas-0929b2c8f635479173929300cb683a27
Messed up bigoted muther f⁕⚠︎ers.
The #DOJ is appealing a #CourtOrder requiring the White House to immediately begin providing American Sign Language (#ASL) interpretation at its #press briefings when #Trump or press sec Karoline Leavitt are speaking.
In a court filing responding to US District Judge Amir Ali's ruling, DOJ requested clarification on which types of events should have ASL interpretation available [ALL dimwits].
#law #access #Deaf #deafness #HearingLoss
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/05/nx-s1-5599118/white-house-asl-deaf-american-sign-language-judge-order