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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.
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
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House Oversight Committee Releases Jeffrey Epstein Email Correspondence, Raising Questions About White House Coverup of Epstein Files
Washington, D.C. — Today, Oversight Democrats and Ranking Member Robert Garcia released never-before-seen emails from the latest production from Jeffrey Epstein’s Estate, striking a blow against the White House’s Epstein cover-up.The Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democrats
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.
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.
#law
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:
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Oversight Committee Releases Additional Epstein Estate Documents - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
United States House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformOversight Committee Republicans Verified account
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
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.”
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.
#law
![EMAIL From: Michael Wolff Date: 10/29/2016 12:21:03 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] Subject: Now could be the time There's an opportunity to come forward this week and talk about Trump in such a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him. Interested?](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5286751 "EMAIL From: Michael Wolff Date: 10/29/2016 12:21:03 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] Subject: Now could be the time There's an opportunity to come forward this week and talk about Trump in such a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him. Interested?")
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
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
![[Email thread] From: Sent: To: Subject: Kathy Ruemmler 9/19/2014 11:54:57 AM jeffrey E. lieevacation@gmail.com] Re: Importance: High Doesn't look like you are prioritizing your schedule very effectively.....how are you going to manage all of that? this is unga week so the boss will be in town too.....I'll be here all weck -- you may get sick of me....just sat down on the train so can't talk freely. On Sep 19, 2014 7:48 AM, "jeffrey E." < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: "girls?",, careful i will renew an old habit, . this week, thiel, summers,bill burns, gordon brown, jagland. ( council of europe and nobel chairman). mongolia pres, hardeep purce (india), boris ( gates). jabor (qatar ). sultan (dubai, ), kosslyn (harvard), Icon black, woody, you are a welcome guest at any.... also if you think there are interesting people in town, everyone here for climate summit, clinton security council, holy shit im on for next 30 minutes On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Kathy Ruemmler > wrote: Most girls do not have to worry about this crap. On Sep 19, 2014 7:09 AM, "jeffrey E," < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: understood. it comes down to high risk / reward / low risk / reward. professional, emotional. and financial On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Kathy Ruemmler < Agreed, but I need to be prepared to say yes before I talk to him. wrote: Sent from my iPad On Sep 19, 2014, at 1:21 AM, "jeffrey E." < jcevacation@gmail.com wrote: You need to talk to boss](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5286748 "[Email thread] From: Sent: To: Subject: Kathy Ruemmler 9/19/2014 11:54:57 AM jeffrey E. lieevacation@gmail.com] Re: Importance: High Doesn't look like you are prioritizing your schedule very effectively.....how are you going to manage all of that? this is unga week so the boss will be in town too.....I'll be here all weck -- you may get sick of me....just sat down on the train so can't talk freely. On Sep 19, 2014 7:48 AM, \"jeffrey E.\" < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: \"girls?\",, careful i will renew an old habit, . this week, thiel, summers,bill burns, gordon brown, jagland. ( council of europe and nobel chairman). mongolia pres, hardeep purce (india), boris ( gates). jabor (qatar ). sultan (dubai, ), kosslyn (harvard), Icon black, woody, you are a welcome guest at any.... also if you think there are interesting people in town, everyone here for climate summit, clinton security council, holy shit im on for next 30 minutes On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Kathy Ruemmler > wrote: Most girls do not have to worry about this crap. On Sep 19, 2014 7:09 AM, \"jeffrey E,\" < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: understood. it comes down to high risk / reward / low risk / reward. professional, emotional. and financial On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Kathy Ruemmler < Agreed, but I need to be prepared to say yes before I talk to him. wrote: Sent from my iPad On Sep 19, 2014, at 1:21 AM, \"jeffrey E.\" < jcevacation@gmail.com wrote: You need to talk to boss")
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
![From: Larry Summers Sent: 10/27/2017 3:10:13 PM To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] Subject: Re: Trending Now: Friends for three decades, Trump whisperer says he is 'stunned' by president's rhetoric Importance: High Softbank deputy guy i liked and seemed aware and honest re Son. Lots of slathering to saudis. I yipped about inclusion. I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population.... Mnuchin plumbs new depths. War seems more likely than I used to think DiT is world s luckiest guy in terms of opposition, economy etc. still think his world will collapse. I'm trying to figure why American elite think if u murder your baby by beating and abandonment it must be irrelevant to your admission to Harvard, but hit on a few women 10 years ago and can't work at a network or think tank. DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5286747 "From: Larry Summers Sent: 10/27/2017 3:10:13 PM To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] Subject: Re: Trending Now: Friends for three decades, Trump whisperer says he is 'stunned' by president's rhetoric Importance: High Softbank deputy guy i liked and seemed aware and honest re Son. Lots of slathering to saudis. I yipped about inclusion. I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population.... Mnuchin plumbs new depths. War seems more likely than I used to think DiT is world s luckiest guy in terms of opposition, economy etc. still think his world will collapse. I'm trying to figure why American elite think if u murder your baby by beating and abandonment it must be irrelevant to your admission to Harvard, but hit on a few women 10 years ago and can't work at a network or think tank. DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT")
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
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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
#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
#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.
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
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
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ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
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#News #Portland #Oregon #NationalGuard #Protest #Fox #Media #Trump #ICE
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)
Under DOJ standards and requirements, people seeking pardons generally must wait five years after release, demonstrate good conduct and remorse, and file petitions through the Office of the Pardon Attorney.
Trump has largely abandoned that process.
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#News #Trump #Pardons #DOJ #CriminalJustice #Law #USPolitics #Jan6
How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters
The president’s second term has brought a flood of clemency for allies and donors — as well as felons, like him, who were convicted of financial wrongdoing.cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)
#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
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Noting that she is not a Christian or a Christian thinker but an Americanist who specializes in American history, Heather Cox Richardson explains why she thinks it important to talk to someone like Diana Butler Bass, whose specialization is religious history: as Richardson says,
"Evangelical Christian nationalism ... is right now making a play to take over our entire country."
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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“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
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.
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.
#law
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
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Venezuelan #military preparing #guerrilla response in case of #US attack
#Venezuela is deploying #weapons, including decades-old Russian-made equipment, & is planning to mount a guerrilla-style resistance or sow chaos in the event of a US air or ground attack, according to sources with knowledge of the efforts & planning documents seen by Reuters.
#Trump #law #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #LawOfArmedConflict #authoritarianism #autocracy
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Good. Stop enabling the fascist #Trump regime’s #ExtrajudicialKillings
#UK suspends some #intelligence sharing with #US over boat strikes in major break
The #UnitedKingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the #Caribbean because it does not want to be #complicit in US #military strikes & believes the attacks are #illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
#law #murder #DueProcess #WarPowers #Congress
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#Trump to propose opening #California Coast to #oil #drilling for the first time in roughly 4 decades, acc/to 3 people.
The move would set up a confrontation with Gov #GavinNewsom, a #Democrat who has fought #OffshoreDrilling & who has emerged as one of Trump’s chief political antagonists. Newsom is in Brazil for the #UN #climate summit, where he is drawing a contrast between himself & Trump, who denigrates efforts to fight #GlobalWarming.
1-yr-old pepper-sprayed by federal agent in #Chicago
Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam’s Club Saturday morning. The action obviously violates a judge’s restriction on use of force.
#Trump #law #immigration #judiciary #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
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1-year-old pepper-sprayed by federal agent in Cicero: 'My daughter didn't have to go through this'
Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam's Club Saturday morning. The action appears to violate a judge's restriction on use of force.Chicago Sun-Times
With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global
US president’s latest media target comes from across the pond as he continues to scrutinize coverage he does not likeJeremy Barr (The Guardian)
#Trump Officials Accused of Mob Tactics to Kill a #Climate Measure
Nations were poised to approve the first fee on #pollution from #ships. That’s when the Trump admin began the #threats.
Among other threats from US officials, Secretary of #State #MarcoRubio personally called officials in several countries to threaten financial penalties & other punishments if they continued to support the ship pollution agreement.
#MafiaState #law #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
nytimes.com/2025/11/06/climate…
A judge on Monday allowed the continued deployment of more than 300 #WestVirginia #NationalGuard members to #WashingtonDC.
Kanawha County Circuit Judge Richard D. Lindsay made the ruling after hearing arguments in a lawsuit by a civic organization.
#Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey authorized the Guard’s deployment in August to support #Trump’s *crime-fighting* efforts in the nation’s capital.
#law #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #PosseComitatusAct #fascism #Gestapo
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Al Letson asks Jason Stanley if the US is living through a coup under Trump. Stanley replies:
"Let’s look at what’s happening with the boats that they’re blowing up and now in the Pacific, first in the Caribbean, now in the Pacific, they’re just simply assassinating people for no reason whatsoever. It’s completely illegal. In fact, what it now means is that Trump could just kill anyone anywhere just by saying they’re a terrorist."
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I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”Mother Jones
#Trump admin renews #SCOTUS appeal to keep full #SNAP payments frozen
The request is the latest in a flurry of legal activity over how a program that helps buy groceries for 42 million Americans should proceed during the historic US govt #shutdown. Lower courts have ruled that the govt must keep FULL payments flowing, & SCOTUS asked the admin to respond after an appeals court ruled against it again late Sunday.
#law #Plutocracy #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #FoodStamps
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#Signal is not secure!
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It supports #surveillance
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#SignalApp is #Trump friendly
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It collects your #Metadata like #WhatsApp
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Everyone can spy you
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80 #Signal
77 #Session
68 #Wire
56 #Element / #Matrix
37 #Apple #iMessage
32 #WhatsApp
27 #Telegram
26 #FB Messenger
The Revolution Will Not Be Signaled - CounterPunch.org
We are constantly told that the messaging platform Signal is totally secure and benevolent. While Signal may be preferable to the dominant alternativesThe Mapping Project (CounterPunch.org)
The Pardon for Pay President
The Pardon for Pay President The Bombshell Inside Trump’s $1.3 Billion Pardon Market In December 2020, federal prosecutors unsealed evidence of a presidential pardon bribery scheme during Trump’s …Chris Armitage (Medium)
