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"If Trump has nothing to hide, he should honor his campaign promise and immediately release the Epstein files. Any other outcome raises the reasonable inference that Trump and his Republican enablers are concealing Trump's involvement in Epstein’s horrific crimes.

We must not relent on this issue. An overwhelming majority of the American people support full disclosure—and believe that the government is concealing evidence relating to Epstein."

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp
/4

"In any other era, the shockingly cushy treatment for the convicted sexual offender Ghislaine Maxwell would be a weeks-long scandal.

The longtime associate of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein sat down with a justice department attorney last month & then, before long, was transferred to a minimum-security prison in Texas known for its arts & crafts programs and inmates’ ability to move around the grounds."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#Epstein#Trump#GhislaineMaxwell
/7

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/20/ghislaine-maxwell-prison-transfer-epstein

"The Maxwell prison transfer – outrageous as it is – is just another element of the many-ringed circus act that is American politics these days. ...

Her transfer is more than special treatment; it smacks of a struck deal – a transaction that is deeply unfair, a slap in the face to the many victims of her and Epstein’s exploitation."

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp#GhislaineMaxwell
/8

"Over 80 percent of America, it's the only issue that's bipartisan in America that 80 percent of Republicans, 80 percent of independents and 90 percent of Democrats want to know more about the Epstein files."

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp#GhislaineMaxwell
/6

"If Trump has nothing to hide, he should honor his campaign promise and immediately release the Epstein files. Any other outcome raises the reasonable inference that Trump and his Republican enablers are concealing Trump's involvement in Epstein’s horrific crimes.

We must not relent on this issue. An overwhelming majority of the American people support full disclosure—and believe that the government is concealing evidence relating to Epstein."

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp
/4

"MAGA is not going to let it go. The Epstein files is like herpes. It's going to stay with them forever, right? No matter how much he tries to punt and distract, and he will, and as he punts and he distracts and he becomes more and more authoritarian."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp#GhislaineMaxwell
/5

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/on-putin-playing-trump-and-how-the

"If Trump has nothing to hide, he should honor his campaign promise and immediately release the Epstein files. Any other outcome raises the reasonable inference that Trump and his Republican enablers are concealing Trump's involvement in Epstein’s horrific crimes.

We must not relent on this issue. An overwhelming majority of the American people support full disclosure—and believe that the government is concealing evidence relating to Epstein."

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp
/4

"Despite [Mike] Johnson’s efforts to shut down a floor vote, the House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to the Department of Justice requiring the production of the Epstein files on Tuesday of this week. On Monday, the DOJ announced that it would miss the Tuesday deadline and would begin a partial production on Friday.

In other words, the cover-up continues."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp#GhislaineMaxwell
/3

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-epstein-scandal-isnt-going-away

"The DoJ will start turning over some of the Epstein files to Congress on Friday. And Dem Rep. Robert Garcia said what we’re all thinking: 'Releasing the Epstein files in batches just continues this White House cover-up … The American people will not accept anything short of the full, unredacted Epstein files.'

Garcia’s right. So, where are the FULL Epstein files?"

~ Scott Dworkin

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp#GhislaineMaxwell
/2

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-mail-in-voting-meltdown-is

"DOJ was supposed to turn over the Epstein Files to the House Oversight Committee today [i.e., Tuesday], but instead announced that they would be providing selected documents incrementally over time."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp#GhislaineMaxwell
/1

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-190-81925

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"Apparently, enough of MAGA world is repulsed enough by that fact that this is one time in the last decade when Trump’s attempts to wave it all away as a Democrat hoax aren’t cutting it. It looks like we’ve finally found the matter on which plain, old-fashioned morality is more important than trolling the libs. That’s one thing Trump wasn’t counting on."

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles #predators#CoverUp
/8

"Apparently, enough of MAGA world is repulsed enough by that fact that this is one time in the last decade when Trump’s attempts to wave it all away as a Democrat hoax aren’t cutting it. It looks like we’ve finally found the matter on which plain, old-fashioned morality is more important than trolling the libs. That’s one thing Trump wasn’t counting on."

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles #predators#CoverUp
/8

"Things aren’t going Donald Trump’s way. He hasn’t ended the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. His economy looks shaky. And then there’s Jeffrey Epstein. …

Trump’s own efforts to manage the story have only fed it."

~ Jonathan Lemire

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles #predators#CoverUp
/9

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/trump-ukraine-gaza-economy/683786/?gift=ZIT7NMCmIj_IC4HqpIXYJiTYuHJx4nv9qcAa_wvIOWs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

"Apparently, enough of MAGA world is repulsed enough by that fact that this is one time in the last decade when Trump’s attempts to wave it all away as a Democrat hoax aren’t cutting it. It looks like we’ve finally found the matter on which plain, old-fashioned morality is more important than trolling the libs. That’s one thing Trump wasn’t counting on."

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles #predators#CoverUp
/8

"I hear a lot of people on cable news talk about how poorly the Trump people have handled this situation. Of course that’s true, but it seems to me reasonable for us to conclude that they’re handling it the way they’re handling it because it’s probably the only choice they have: to stonewall and lie and try to put things off.

Even a lot of MAGA people smell it."

~ Michael Tomasky

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles #predators#CoverUp
/7

https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=908a6f6a6c131a850ecb0e3f11b08189.2093&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

"If you’re counting, we’re now a month into the Epstein crisis, and it shows no signs of abating. If anything, there is a growing public consensus around the need for full transparency around the Epstein files. A Washington Post survey, taken about a week ago, revealed remarkable convergence on this question even among MAGA Republicans."

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles #predators#CoverUp
/5

"Epstein wanted a modeling agency of his own. He admired Trump’s T Models and sought to replicate it. He invested in one based in Paris operated by Jean-Luc Brunel, a model agency head who was also accused of sex trafficking. ...

In New York, in the 1990s, Brunel lived in Trump Tower. 'The modeling agency was the perfect vehicle for Epstein to get more victims,' [Virginia] Giuffre said."

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles #predators#CoverUp
/3

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"Each time he opens his mouth, he reveals his cruelty, ugliness, and misogyny. ... Trump can’t even be bothered to read a prepared statement that mourns the numerous girls and underage women who were victims. He can’t even offer concern for all the Palestinians killed by Israel during the ongoing genocide, and instead believes Palestinians should be thanking him for aid."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp#VirginiaGiuffre#GhislaineMaxwell
/14

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/trumps-trademark-racism-and-misogyny

"Virginia Giuffre died by suicide only three months ago, having lived much of her life as an advocate for survivors of sex trafficking. Now the president is speaking about her like she's property. ...

She was 17 at the time she was lured away from Mar-a-Lago by Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell."

~ Rex Huppke

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp#VirginiaGiuffre#GhislaineMaxwell
/15

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/29/trump-virginia-giuffre-epstein-mar-a-lago/85431490007/

"Giuffre would later say she was 'passed around like a platter of fruit' to rich, powerful men in Epstein’s circles. …

At no point in the unfolding Epstein scandal has Trump focused on the young victims of these heinous criminals. ...

The president has shown no concern for anything other than protecting himself."

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp#VirginiaGiuffre#GhislaineMaxwell
/16

"Each time he opens his mouth, he reveals his cruelty, ugliness, and misogyny. ... Trump can’t even be bothered to read a prepared statement that mourns the numerous girls and underage women who were victims. He can’t even offer concern for all the Palestinians killed by Israel during the ongoing genocide, and instead believes Palestinians should be thanking him for aid."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp#VirginiaGiuffre#GhislaineMaxwell
/14

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/trumps-trademark-racism-and-misogyny

"Virginia Giuffre died by suicide only three months ago, having lived much of her life as an advocate for survivors of sex trafficking. Now the president is speaking about her like she's property. ...

She was 17 at the time she was lured away from Mar-a-Lago by Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell."

~ Rex Huppke

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp#VirginiaGiuffre#GhislaineMaxwell
/15

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/29/trump-virginia-giuffre-epstein-mar-a-lago/85431490007/

"Each time he opens his mouth, he reveals his cruelty, ugliness, and misogyny. ... Trump can’t even be bothered to read a prepared statement that mourns the numerous girls and underage women who were victims. He can’t even offer concern for all the Palestinians killed by Israel during the ongoing genocide, and instead believes Palestinians should be thanking him for aid."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp#VirginiaGiuffre#GhislaineMaxwell
/14

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/trumps-trademark-racism-and-misogyny

"As law Professor Ryan Goodman points out, two years [after Trump now says he broke up with Epstein] the bromance was still going strong, with Trump guffawing to New York Magazine that Epstein was a 'terrific guy … a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.'”

~ Liz Dye

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp#VirginiaGiuffre#GhislaineMaxwell
/13

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/ghislaine-maxwell-blanche-bondi-trump-pardon

"Weird that the FBI is in possession of a tape that has three extra minutes of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell and yet that wasn’t what they stitched into the 'raw, unedited' three-missing minutes 'transparency' video they released to the public."

~ Rebecca Schoenkopf

#Epstein#Trump #pedophiles#CoverUp#VirginiaGiuffre#GhislaineMaxwell
/12

https://www.wonkette.com/p/raw-and-uncut-tabs-wed-july-30-2025