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Trump (not drag queens) appears in Epstein files & DOJ told him months ago, The Wall Street Journal reports
President Donald Trump’s name appears “multiple times” in documents reviewed by the Department of Justice during its internal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Wednesday afternoon. Senior administration officials said Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche informed the president of this during a private White House meeting in May.
Yet Trump has publicly claimed otherwise. On July 15, during a gaggle with reporters at the White House, an ABC News journalist asked him directly: “Specifically, did [Bondi] tell you at all that your name appeared in the files?”
“No, no, she’s — she’s given us just a very quick briefing,” Trump said, adding that Bondi had “really done a very good job,” handling the Epstein situation.
The Wall Street Journal report confirmed that Trump’s name was among many found in the DOJ’s Epstein records, which officials characterized as containing hearsay and unverified claims about individuals who had associated with Epstein before his 2006 state-level conviction. The Justice Department concluded the material did not contain sufficient grounds for prosecution and opted to withhold it, citing both the presence of child sexual abuse material and the need to protect victim identities.
Bondi and Blanche told the Journal, “As part of our routine briefing, we made the President aware of the findings.” They said Trump agreed with the DOJ’s decision to withhold further disclosures.
Also Wednesday, a federal judge in Florida denied the Trump administration’s effort to unseal transcripts from two grand juries convened in 2005 and 2007 as part of Epstein’s early federal investigation. The Justice Department had petitioned the court just days earlier, on July 17, to make the records public, arguing that the documents are “of significant historical interest and enduring public importance” given the government’s past handling of the Epstein case.
Related: Trump sues Murdoch, News Corp, and WSJ over Epstein story
In that filing, the DOJ wrote that “release of the requested materials will shed important light on the role of federal prosecutors and the grand jury system in an extraordinary case involving an infamous figure, alleged to have committed grave and repeated crimes." It further argued that many of the usual reasons for grand jury secrecy “no longer apply,” especially given Epstein’s 2019 death and the public’s long-standing scrutiny of the case.
But U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg ruled that the court lacked authority under Eleventh Circuit precedent to grant the petition. “Eleventh Circuit law does not permit this Court to grant the Government’s request; the Court’s hands are tied — a point the Government concedes,” she wrote in a 12-page decision. Rosenberg also denied the DOJ’s request to transfer the case to the Southern District of New York, where Second Circuit precedent may allow greater flexibility.
The Justice Department has also said it is seeking a meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime associate who was convicted in 2021 of child sex trafficking and is currently serving a 20-year sentence.
The administration’s reversal has enraged many of Trump’s supporters, who for years believed the Epstein files would expose Democrats and global elites. “Donald Trump is hiding something,” said U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat and the gay ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. In a July 17 interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Garcia said, “He spent his entire campaign talking about releasing the Epstein files … instead, he’s betrayed his base and his promises.”
Also on July 17, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X (formerly Twitter) that “if Trump was guilty of anything regarding Jeffrey Epstein, Democrats would have used it against him the past 4 years.” She followed the statement with anti-LGBTQ+ attacks, accusing Democrats of supporting “drag queen story time, naked men dancing in front of children at pride parades, and mentally ill men in girls and women’s bathrooms.”
The Journal previously reported that Trump once sent Epstein a lewd 2003 birthday letter. The note included a typewritten message surrounded by a crude drawing of a naked woman, with Trump’s signature positioned beneath her waist. Trump has denied authoring the note and filed a defamation lawsuit against the Journal and its parent companies, Dow Jones and News Corp.
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Jerome Powell Calls BS to Trump’s Face as He Spouts Made-Up Numbers
Fed Chair Jerome Powell called out President Trump for lying about the cost of renovations to the Federal Reserve headquarters.
Trump has been purposefully trying to increase the cost of the renovations so that he can blame Powell for mismanaging funds, as a pretext for firing him.
“It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion, it went up a little bit. Or a lot,” Trump said to the press, while standing next to Powell wearing matching hard hats. “So the $2.7 is now 3.1.”
“I’m not aware of that,” Powell interjected, looking visibly concerned.
“It just came out,” Trump replied.
“I haven’t heard that from anybody at the Fed,” Powell said.
“It just came out,” Trump repeated, unfurling a piece of paper he had folded in his suit pocket and handing it to Powell.
“This came from us?”
“Yes. I don’t know who does that,” Trump said, pointing at the paper.
“You’re including the Martin renovation, you just added in a third building is what that is. That’s a third building,” said Powell.
“Well I know, but it’s a building that’s being built.”
“No, it was built five years ago. We finished Martin five years ago.”
“It’s part of the overall work.”
Trump Clashes With Jerome Powell on Live TV Over Federal Reserve Renovation Costs: ‘I’m Not Aware of That Mr. President’
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“It’s not new.”
“So we’re gonna take a look, we’re gonna see what’s happening, and it’s got a long way. Do you expect any additional cost overruns?” Trump asked.
“Don’t expect ’em. But we’re ready for ’em. We have a little bit of a reserve that we may use, but no, we don’t. We expect to be finished in 2027. We’re well along, as you can see.”
Trump has targeted Powell for some time now, as the Fed chair has repeatedly refused to lower interest rates to help the president. Trump has made it known that he wants Powell fired, and this number fudging was purely antagonistic. At least Powell was there to fact-check him.
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Ken Blackwell
In the span of three hours, Hunter Biden didn’t just humiliate himself… he blew the lid off the entire Biden operation and exposed the rot festering
inside the Democrat Party.
This wasn’t a gaffe.
This wasn’t a breakdown.
This was a full-blown confession, broadcast with arrogance, entitlement,
and zero fear of consequence.
Here’s what Hunter Biden admitted on camera, in plain English:
• He gave step-by-step instructions on how to cook crack
• Told Nancy Pelosi’s daughter to go f*** herself
• Claimed that Nancy Pelosi secretly despises Kamala Harris
• Said Joe Biden was drugged on Ambien during the Trump debate
• Bragged that he was the one actually running his father’s operation
• Claimed he should be the one running for president in 2028
• Took credit for managing Joe Biden’s political machine
• Admitted the Biden family uses illegal alien labor and pays them next to nothing
• Threatened to send U.S. forces into El Salvador to retrieve gang members
• Finally confessed the infamous laptop was real after years of screaming “Russian disinformation”
• Claimed Israel allowed the October 7 massacre in order to justify going to war
• Argued that crack cocaine is safer and cleaner than alcohol
• Defended cheating on his taxes
• Said the pardon he received from Joe Biden was the only legitimate thing his father ever signed himself.
This was not a moment of weakness. It was a display of raw arrogance from someone who knows the system protects him.
What we witnessed was not just a meltdown.
It was the unraveling of a protection racket that includes political allies, media figures, prosecutors, foreign partners, and deep state loyalists.
This isn’t a DOJ failure. This is a coordinated wall of protection: legal, political, financial, and global.
Hunter Biden acts untouchable because he is untouchable. He knows where the bodies are buried. And every major Democrat player is terrified he might take them all down if they don’t keep shielding him.
Nancy Pelosi? Silent.
The same woman who can’t go a day without lecturing the country about “saving democracy” has nothing to say while her own party’s heir lights the entire narrative on fire.
And now Hunter says he’s ready to run in 2028.
Good. Let him. Put him on a ticket with Jasmine Crockett and let the American people see exactly what the Democrat Party has become.
Crack pipes. Corruption. Cartel money. Communist rhetoric.
That’s the platform now.
This is not politics.
This is rot. Organized, protected, and emboldened.
And unless it is rooted out completely, it will poison everything this country stands for.
We are not watching the fall of a political party.
We are watching the decay of a regime.
And it is up to the American people to tear it down before it takes the nation with it.
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its a typical Lefty tactic. Deflect away from all Trump's successes and Obama's lies about Russian by using a story they never cared about for years. Suddenly everyone is a pedo. Pedo this pedo that. Pedo Pedo pedo.
That is all they got. But Ashley Biden's diary where she wrote about her daddy taking showers with her is fine. So what that she was frightened to take a shower because Joe might hear. All the inappropriate touching and sniffing of children by Creepy Joe, that was all normal behavior.
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after Crooked Joe Biden, Obama was the worst president. He did nothing for 8 years except blame the other guys, smoke Newports, spied in Trump's campaign, lied to everyone about the Russian collusion thing, and allowed men in women's bathroom. He was an empty suit.
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Oh you feel attacked now!? Let's look at your post history, just this week even!!
And after your years of constant talk about pedo issues with Clinton and Biden your "pedo this pedo that" comes across just like Trump's "I don't know why anyone cares about this boring guy".
Keep on deflecting and protecting the ring Slew
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Jonathan Turley: Brennan may be most vulnerable to charges: "He’s like a 30 point buck out in the open."
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Governor Newsom’s wife says, “It’s time for America to follow California’s lead
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Haha that is some funny shit. You are making shit up as usual.
If you remember the court's decision, it didn't give the president blanket immunity. We spoke about this often. We gave all sorts of examples. Like when Obama killed Americans when he dropped a bomb somewhere, he can't be then charged for murder because it was an official act as a president. Makes sense. The scotus only verified what we ALL knew already for years. Expect the radical Lefties. They pretended differently. You guys went ballistic because you wanted Trump to be stopped at any cost and even imprisoned no matter how. It was embarrassing to watch. It still is.
There is no slander also. They have actual proof that Obama lied. The have the receipts. Tulsi released them. Obama is a huge POS and I knew it for years. Now everyone else knows it too. Except the TDSers. He lied and you fell for it of course. You always do and you always will.
Good luck prosecuting a Harvard Law graduate at the top of his class. Better bring your A game Dwighty!Obama was elected the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, prior to graduating magna *** laude in 1991. He returned to Chicago in 1992 and served as the Illinois Executive Director of PROJECT VOTE!. In 1993, he was hired as an associate at the firm of Davis Miner Barnhill & Gallard, where he largely worked on voting rights cases.Leave a comment:
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By Ben Meiselas
This is the karma you deserve, Donald.
You’ve lived a sick and depraved life. You are an adjudicated sexual abuser, a felon, a fraud, a cancer, and a leech on the human race.
You and your despicable family have caused irreparable damage to our country and our world. But now you suffer as karma is smacking you down.
Your ghoulish past with Jeffrey Epstein haunts your every waking moment.
Drip drip drip.
Your tricks to distract, divert, and delay are not working. The American people—and the world—see you panicking. You damn panican!
We see you squirming. We see the pathetic, cornered rat you’ve become.
You have taken what should be the most powerful position in the world and made it so small—like everything you’ve done in your life.
Bankruptcy. Ponzi scheme. Playing the victim. Cry more, you pathetic two-year-old.
Look at the fraud you are.
Today, you are sending your top DOJ officials to try and cut a deal with sex trafficker—and your former close friend—Ghislaine Maxwell to silence her. You’re not fooling anyone but your most loyal cultists, you pathetic criminal.
Even your MAGA base has joined with Democrats and issued a subpoena for the DOJ to turn over the Epstein files. As The Wall Street Journal reports, your name is all over those files, Donald. Of course it is. We know what you did with Epstein.
Your face will never be on Mt. Rushmore, Donald. It will never be beside the great Presidents. Instead, your picture will be next to Jeffrey Epstein, John Casablancas, and the others you threw “beauty pageants” and parties with—for underage girls.
The walls are closing in, Donald.
By the way, did you like the South Park episode last night, Donald?
You may have gotten Colbert removed from CBS, and got Paramount to settle a BS lawsuit against 60 Minutes, but Paramount just signed a $2 billion deal with South Park—and their first episode since the deal was the greatest cultural takedown in recent history.
You are the laughingstock of the world, Donald.
We the people hold the power. You can try to divide us, demean us, degrade us, and destroy us. But you will fail. You are failing.
We will grow stronger. Our numbers will grow. And we will ensure your regime will fail.
We have the momentum.
We, the Meidas Mighty, have the largest news network in the world right now, powered by the Subscribers of this Substack.
We are organized.
We are fearless.
We are pissed off.
We are not going to let you change the topic now.
We are going all in.
Every damn day.
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