Letter to Congress From Epstein Victims (Friday):
"There is no middle ground here. There is no hiding behind party affiliation. Epstein and Maxwell's crimes exposed a double standard of justice where rich and powerful men and women evade repercussions. Despite years of work to bring them to justice most of Epstein and Maxwell's co-conspirators remain completely free and continue to amass power and prestige, having no apparent shame."
And as Jessica Gross put it in her Saturday NYT piece:
"As we were reminded with the release of a new tranche of Jeffrey Epstein emails, some of the richest, most powerful men in the world either abused young women, or knew that their buddy did, and didn’t seem to care."
And neither does The Wall Street Journal seem to care, as per its lead editorial Friday, i.e.
The Epstein Follies Return
First order of business after the shutdown: Emails from the grave!
Wading into the first paragraph, just as clueless:
“Could there be a better example of Congressional dysfunction
than that its first pressing business after the government reopens is . . . the
return of the Jeffrey Epstein follies? This is exactly what the
American people weren’t waiting for.
But this is Washington in 2025, so everyone is obsessing about
Epstein’s emails from the grave that mention Donald
Trump long before he was President. Democrats selectively
leaked the emails (acquired as part of a Congressional investigation) that
refer to Mr. Trump. Republicans countered by releasing thousands of other
emails that are embarrassing for many but tell us little new about the deceased
sexual offender.”
Incredibly, the same Wall Street Journal that exposed Trump’s “bawdy 50th birthday letter” connections to Jeffrey Epstein back in July e.g.
Is now trying to wash it away with snide humor that mocks the hundreds of victims with “Emails from the grave”. Actually no. We have real firsthand evidence, compliments of the Epstein estate, of the deep connections of Trump to Epstein in at least 300 mb of emails. Material that Deputy AG Todd Blanche could also have obtained but chose not to – when he went to interview Epstein’s comrade in sexual predation – Ghislane Maxwell.
The Journal editors, however, believe now is the time to yuck
it up and dismiss the case, despite the fact what Epstein did (and Trump as
well – else he’d not fight so ferociously to hide the files) was deadly serious
to the hundreds of survivors. Victims of thousands of rapes and other sexual
offenses traced to a global sex trafficking ring that Epstein operated with Maxwell to assist.
And yeah, you’re damned right this is what Americans have been
waiting for because a majority (excluding hard core MAGAs like Alex Jones)
believe members of a pedophile sex predation ring shouldn’t be rewarded, like
Ghislane Maxwell has – by being transferred to a country club camp –“prison” in Bryan, Texas, where she has nice comfy surroundings, the warden at her beck and call
and her own puppy. As Michelle Goldberg described in her Friday column:
"Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, has had custom meals delivered to her cell. The warden personally arranged for Maxwell to meet privately with family members and other visitors and even provided snacks and refreshments. According to Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), her guests were allowed to bring computers, potentially allowing her unauthorized communication with the outside world.
Maxwell was allegedly taken to the prison’s exercise room after hours so she could work out alone, and “allowed to enjoy recreation time in staff-only areas,” wrote Raskin. An inmate who trains service dogs was reportedly instructed to give her special access to a puppy. Raskin claimed that a top official at the prison said that he is “sick of having to be Maxwell’s bitch.”
Some of the details in Raskin’s letter were confirmed on Thursday by CNN, which added one more. Whereas other inmates carefully conserve their toilet paper because they’re given only two rolls a week, CNN reported, Maxwell “is given as much toilet paper as she needs. All she has to do is ask.”
So are the what the WSJ’s illustrious editors getting shits and giggles out of Maxwell's top class treatment? Of course not. They'd rather adhere to the FOX party line and protect Trump.
So what they call “obsessing about the Epstein emails” is in reality seeking justice for the survivors call a demand for full transparency to nail every last child sex pedophile who’s thus far escaped.
So who are the WSJ editors protecting? The Epstein ring pedophiles including Trump, whom Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse asked AG Bondi about being with “half naked girls” less than two months ago in a Senate oversight hearing. And which Bondi refused to answer, instead attacking Sen. Whitehouse. The obvious ploy of an authoritarian who believes she's sitting in the catbird seat and need show no deference to U.S. Senators in an oversight hearing.
As Ms. Goldberg notes. The relative pampering she’s enjoying seems particularly significant given newly released emails between her and Epstein suggesting she’s harboring some sort of secret about Trump. What is it? Or does the WSJ want us to just ignore further investigations as wasteful follies with the congress having more pressing business to do? But they miss the point that this is about protecting our democracy which they now seem willing to give away for a Trump autocracy.
With the discharge petition already signed by the requisite members of the House- and ready to vote next week on Epstein files release in FULL, one wonders why the WSJ is suddenly scoffing at his victims and willing to protect pedophiles. Or is it only Trump they seek to protect?
Instead of making light of the Epstein-Maxwell victims, The WSJ Editors would do better to focus on Thomas Hartmann's recent post in his Hartmann Report:
"The documents — now the focus of fierce scrutiny and
verification efforts — raise three searing questions: What did Trump know, and
when did he know it; what did he do and who did he do it to/with; and is he
preparing to start a war to distract us from his exposure?
The allegations are shocking, but the larger danger lies in
what happens next. Every time the walls close in, this man reaches for
spectacle — rage, chaos, or even war — to change the subject."
This is not navel gazing or 'obsessing' over "emails from the grave". It gets at the root of what a democracy ought to be about: Transparency and holding high level predators to the same laws as everyone else. Yet the WSJ editors seem now to want us to turn a blind eye, just when Trump is set to launch a 'wag the dog' distraction attack on Venezuela.
Newsflash for WSJ editors: The coverup of a massive crime involving hundreds of innocent victims is not "follies" nor should it be treated as such. Stop protecting Dotard and his collaborators in the Epstein cover-up with more editorial twaddle i.e. mocking the released emails as unbefitting a serious congress. Or, worse, making any attention to the emails political by attributing a sinister motive to the Democrats.
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by Lesley Abravanel | November 17, 2025 - 6:21am | permalink
When the 20,000 pages of documents received from the estate of late convicted Jeffrey Epstein were released, the Republicans in control of the majority on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee couldn't avoid the fact that President Donald Trump’s name keeps coming up and as a result, it's unleashing "political friendly fire," reports the Washington Post.
This "bombshell document drop," the Post reports, "began after Democrats on the Oversight Committee released on Wednesday just three select emails from the Epstein estate that the convicted sex offender had sent to his friends and allies, including one alleging that Trump 'knew about the girls.'"
Trump has spent the past several days attacking Democrats for what he deems another "hoax," but the Post says that Republicans are actually more embroiled in a tenuous situation than their political opponents.
And:
The New York Times reported that Donald Trump personally called Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and then had Bondi, Blanche, and Patel take her into the top-secret no-recording-devices-allowed Situation Room to urge her to drop her support for releasing the Epstein files. He apparently also tried to reach Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) for the same reason.
Yesterday’s newly surfaced details about Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump again reveal something far larger than the tawdry specifics of their relationship, as grotesque as those are.
They point to a structural crisis at the heart of American democracy.
As Republican President Theodore Roosevelt said:
And:
by Carl Gibson | November 13, 2025 - 6:39am | permalink
Before launching his political career, President Donald Trump was close friends with multimillionaire financier (and eventual convicted child predator) Jeffrey Epstein. But after their falling out, Epstein reportedly bragged to friends and acquaintances about having compromising information about the eventual president of the United States.
The New York Times reported Wednesday evening that Epstein repeatedly insulted Trump in exchanges with various people, referring to him as "borderline insane" in a conversation with former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University President Larry Summers. He also referred to Trump as "demented donald" and "dopey donald" in correspondence with author Michael Wolff.
Epstein also hinted that he had what the Times characterized as "potentially damaging" information about Trump pertaining to his finances and business dealings, though none of the Epstein-related emails the House Oversight Committee released on Wednesday give specifics on what Epstein was referring to. But he gave several hints regarding Trump's debts and real estate holdings.
by Carl Gibson | November 15, 2025 - 6:47am | permalink
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is now responding to President Donald Trump's attacks on her and his push for her ouster in next year's Republican primary.
On Friday night, Trump called Greene "wacky" in a 294-word post to his Truth Social account, and that he didn't have time to take constant phone calls from "ranting lunatic." He added that the "right person" could win his endorsement should they mount a primary challenge to the three-term congresswoman.
Shortly after Trump wrote his post, Greene authored a lengthy post of her own on her official X account. She accused Trump of erupting at her in response to text messages she sent him on Friday urging him to publish the unreleased Department of Justice (DOJ) files about deceased child predator Jeffrey Epstein.
by Thom Hartmann | November 15, 2025 - 6:11am | permalink
“Russia unleashed a massive combined attack on Kyiv” last night, The Guardian reports. “Five people were hospitalised, including one man in critical condition and a pregnant woman, after a series of powerful explosions sounded in the city and air defenses were activated. …
“Pictures posted on social media showed different sites in flames and residents gathering in rubble-strewn streets outside apartment buildings.”
The child victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes are apparently not the only ones who‘ve paid the price for Donald Trump’s long relationship with that notorious pedophile.
Epstein’s “partying” with Trump has apparently also led to thousands of civilian deaths abroad, the collapse of America’s credibility around the world, and a serious threat to the future of democracy in Europe.
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