No Donald…
It is NOT going away anytime soon…
The fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein case is spreading around the world.
Politicians, diplomats, business leaders and royals have seen reputations tarnished, investigations launched and jobs lost after a trove of more than 3 million pages of Epstein-related documents released by the U.S. Justice Department revealed their ties to the American financier and convicted sex offender who died behind bars in 2019.
Apart from the former Prince Andrew, none of them face claims of sexual wrongdoing. They have been toppled for maintaining friendly relationships with Epstein after he became a convicted sex offender.
Here’s a look at some of those caught up in the scandal:….
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Congress erupts over Trump admin “spying” on Epstein file searches
The Justice Department is coming under intense scrutiny from members of Congress in both parties for allegedly cataloguing the search history of lawmakers who have gone to review the unredacted Epstein files.
Why it matters: It’s a fresh and high-octane scandal for Attorney General Pam Bondi at a time when she is already facing bipartisan heat over her handling of the Epstein matter.
- “There is no bottom for the Trump administration,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said at a press conference Thursday.
- The Democratic leader added: “It’s a disgrace. It does violate the principles of separate and co-equal branches of government.”
- Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he doesn’t think “it’s appropriate” for anyone to be tracking what members of Congress are searching — though he speculated that it may have been “an oversight.”
Driving the news: Bondi was photographed at a testy House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday with notes that showed a “search history” for Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) referencing specific Epstein files….
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The Jewish angle…..
…Denunciations of out-of-touch elites and the “money power” are a recurring feature of American politics. But in response to the Epstein files, antiestablishment voices have advanced the claim that Jewish networks and interests are corrupting American society.
In doing so, they have revived two ancient slanders against the Jewish people: the medieval blood libel, which states that Jews engage in ritual killings of children to advance their power; and the 1903 hoax “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” which asserts that Jews use blackmail to subvert democratic societies.
Both claims are false, but that has not kept them from spreading. Candace Owens, who has a top 10 podcast on Spotify, responded to the Epstein files by accusing Jews of “ritualistic murder” — a reference to the blood libel. “We are ruled by satanic pedophiles who work for Israel,” she told her audience.
Tucker Carlson, speaking to an even larger audience, presented child sex abuse as a modern form of ritual murder. “There are rituals involving children underway … rich and powerful people, sexually abusing young people,” he said. Carlson’s guest responded, “our government has been blackmailed on behalf of a foreign, malign, malignant interest.” The listener is left to understand that the foreign interest is Israel, a frequent target of Carlson and his guests.
Progressive influencers got in on the act. Ana Kasparian, the host of a popular left-wing online news show, described Epstein’s network as a “pedophile ring/Israeli blackmail operation.” The month before, she asked an Israeli interlocutor, “Why are you monsters always slaughtering innocent children and shaking us down for money?” Briahna Joy Gray, former press secretary for Bernie Sanders, called Epstein’s network a “ring of billionaire pedophiles with ties to Mossad” engaging in “full-on blackmail.”
Conspiracy theories about Jewish power are not confined to the ideological fringe….
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Joe Rogan went after President Trump for his administration’s mishandling of the Epstein files and its failure to protect the victims of the pedophile sex trafficker, the Daily Beast reports.
Said Rogan: “It’s crazy. The whole thing is crazy because like… why have you protected people?”
He added: “It looks terrible for Trump when he was saying that none of this was real. This is all a hoax. This is not a hoax. Like, did you not know? Maybe he didn’t know, if you want to be charitable, but this is definitely not a hoax. And if you’ve got redacted people’s names and these people aren’t victims, you’re not protecting the victim. So, what are you doing? And how come all this shit is not released?”
Bondi Says All Epstein Files Have Been Released
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in a letter on Saturday night that “all” Epstein files have been released, Fox News reports.
I SERIOUSLY Doubt this…..