How BIG are the revalation’s going to contiune to be?
How WIDE did this guy Reach?
Oh?
Donald Called the Cop’s back 2006?
Wall Street Journal: “When the Justice Department released its last trove of millions of files about Jeffrey Epstein, President Trump found himself in the same place he had spent a year trying to avoid — dealing with the fallout, again.”
“The files showed his own commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, had visited with Epstein long after Lutnick said they had cut ties.”
“Lutnick had to publicly explain his past statements, provoking a direct conversation with Trump, according to administration officials familiar with the matter. Trump questioned why he previously denied connections to Epstein when he knew he had visited Epstein’s island, the officials said.”
“The latest episode started during a conference call just before Christmas, when aides broke the news to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche that another million documents attorneys believed were likely duplicates in fact weren’t.”
“Blanche sighed in exasperation, eventually alerting senior White House aides, who shared his anger and received updates for days, according to administration officials. In the ensuing weeks, the agency ordered hundreds of additional prosecutors to review the files, working through weekends to redact sensitive information and at times plying them with pizza to keep going at night.”
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Epstein Scandal Leaves Some Young Trump Voters Feeling Betrayed
“Not to be trusted.” A “betrayal.”
This is how some young people on the right have characterized President Trump and his administration’s response to the Justice Department’s latest release of Jeffrey Epstein files. For them, the Epstein story is something of a full-circle moment in their political lives — a reason they cast their ballots for Mr. Trump in 2024 that has calcified into anger and disillusionment.
“We started out not trusting the government, so we voted for Trump and for something new,” said Kai Schwemmer, 23, a student at Brigham Young University and a member of the Utah Federation of College Republicans. “And now, we’re watching him turn into the same thing we’ve had for all this time. If a populist, right-wing president is not to be trusted, what does that leave you with?”
Drawn to Mr. Trump for his pledge to take down the political elite, Mr. Schwemmer is among those Gen Z conservatives who cast their first-ever ballots for Mr. Trump to see a disruptive outsider enact a sweeping political reset.
But they say their faith in Mr. Trump has diminished in recent weeks as they have observed the administration’s response to the Epstein scandal. For his part, Mr. Schwemmer thinks the president has demonstrated a “lack of seriousness” and a pattern of “obfuscation” as communications related to Mr. Epstein have revealed a globe-spanning web of ties to powerful figures in politics, finance, professional sports and the arts. Included in the recently disclosed files are the names of six current administration officials, Mr. Trump’s among them….
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The Epstein Files Reveal What Trump Knew
So, in 2006, Donald Trump has what kind of communication with the police chief?
He called the police chief on the phone.
And there’s paper on that?
There is. There’s an F.B.I. report. It’s an interview that the police chief gave to the F.B.I.
So what does that suggest to you about Trump—that he was doing the right thing or that he was complicit in some way?
I think people are going to look at it one of two ways: A) that he was somewhat of an informant for the police, in that he called them after this case became active and he became aware of it, and admitted, “Wait a minute, I know he was doing this.”
Or you could look at it another way, in that he was also one of those people who knew, and really didn’t go to the police before then to tell them what he was doing. The police were sort of hearing that there were things happening at Epstein’s mansion well before this, but, every time they went to investigate, all the women who were coming and going who they saw on the street and stopped were of age. So they couldn’t find any evidence that a real crime was being committed. But if in fact Trump knew that there were some crimes being committed against underage girls, and he knew about it and didn’t tell them ahead of time, I guess people will look at that from a different vantage point, in that he should have told the police sooner….
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