[FoxNews] Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein ...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whoressex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He was really surprised when he commited suiciede in jail... , who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, returned to national infamy this year after a federal judge ordered the unsealing of hundreds of documents about allegations against him in a civil lawsuit.
While Epstein's brother, Mark, is not alone in questioning the government's conclusion that he died of suicide in federal custody, there is also great public interest in the disgraced financier's associates, clients and potential accomplices.
Nearly 200 names that had previously been redacted from court documents in a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein's former lover and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell were made public on orders of a federal judge in New York. Hundreds of documents were released in multiple waves in January.
Epstein had many high-profile connections, including former U.S. presidents, foreign prime ministers and Britannia's Prince Andrew, as well as Hollywood stars, leading academics, people in the modeling and fashion industries and other public figures. Some of the names were previously known through other means despite having been withheld from the public's eye in the lawsuit.
Many of the names belong to people who have not been accused of wrongdoing, like former President Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is... , who could have asked the court to have his name remain sealed but declined. A spokesperson for Clinton also denied claims in one of the documents that alleged the former president and Epstein had a "close personal relationship."
Other names unsealed included billionaire Glenn Dubin and his former private chef, Rinaldo Rizzo, the magician David Copperfield, Tony Figueroa, Limited Brands founder and former Victoria's Secret CEO Les Wexner, and Epstein accusers such as Johanna Sjoberg and Annie Farmer.
Former President Clinton, who had a brief business relationship with Epstein, wrote in his new memoir that he wishes he "had never met him."
Clinton took flights on Epstein's private jet on trips for the Clinton Foundation. He wrote that they only discussed "politics and economics" and that he never traveled to Epstein's infamous Little St. James Island.
"Traveling on Epstein’s plane was not worth the years of questioning afterward," he wrote in "Citizen," a new book about his life after leaving the White House.
In a deposition from Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg, which was unsealed during the January document dump, she said Epstein bragged about knowing the former president.
"I knew he had dealings with Bill Clinton," she said. "I did not know they were friends until I read the Vanity Fair article about them going to Africa together."
Under questioning, she later added, "He said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls."
Clinton has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, and spokesperson Angel Urena has denied claims in the documents that Clinton and Epstein had any kind of personal relationship.
"I had always thought Epstein was odd but had no inkling of the crimes he was committing," the former president wrote in his book.
[Fortune] Treasury Department to take ‘extraordinary measures’ after hitting $36 trillion debt limit as soon as mid-January.
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Subpoena everything the cabinet has done in the last four years. The purpose of executive privilege is to allow for cabinet members to provide confidential advice not for them to cover up his incapacitation and operate as warlords.
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[ZERO] Lawmakers in Georgia have been granted the authority to serve subpoenas on Fulton County DA Fani Willis as part of an inquiry into her prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump.
In a Monday ruling revealed later in the week, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shukura Ingram allowed the Georgia Senate to compel Willis's testimony - giving her until Jan. 13 to argue that the lawmakers' demands are overly broad, or seek confidential information.
Willis plans to appeal the ruling, the Epoch Times reports.
"We believe the ruling is wrong and will appeal," said Willis's attorney, former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes.
Earlier this year, a state Senate committee was formed over allegations of misconduct by Willis during her prosecution of Trump and his co-defendants (one of whom revealed that Fani hired her lover to help with her prosecution). In August, the committee subpoenaed Willis, who then skipped a September hearing, delaying the inquiry. Her attorney argued that the committee's subpoenas are overly broad and lack legitimate legislative purpose - and that they seek confidential information.
Republican state Senator Greg Dolezal applauded the ruling.
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Her testimony will be very short, but she will still have to dig a couple of Gs from under her mattress to cover the cost. Maybe her county will foot the bill. Maybe she will charge back the DOJ. My quest remains: will the Trump DOJ follow the Biden precedent and negate any Biden claims of Executive Privilege?
In reality nobody was advising or counseling Biden of anything other than when to sit down and how to get off the podium without wandering into a jungle or a closet. Merrick Garland gets no protection for his scam to coordinate all this Lawfare.
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I suspect the directives from the White House will remain undisclosed.
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The argument for the concept of executive privilege is made based on the idea of a sole executive needing high quality advice. It makes sense with regard to Donald Trump, who makes good decisions based on debate among subordinates. Ironically, Trump was routinely given knowingly false and misleading information by various people and departments.
Currently, no argument can be made that the DOJ has executive privilege itself separate from the AG providing advice to Biden. We are in an interesting reality where no rational person would believe that the DOJ was providing Biden privileged advice on their Lawfare campaign against DJT. The DOJ would claim that no such initiative ever existed. Biden wasn’t taking advice on complex topics to begin with. He had four staged cabinet meetings and needs a teleprompter to order ice cream.
Uniquely, the DOJ has negated the idea of executive privilege with regard to the Fulton County case anyway. They negated it for Trump. Why should they enjoy protection?
The table is set to use this case to clean out a large rotting chunk of DOJ. Will Bondi and Patel go after this? Conventional thinking says no. We will see.
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"Fani to be slapped"...heh...i see what you did there
[NYPOST] The Biden administration has agreed to a court order preventing it from selling off rusting pieces of border wall material that the outgoing president has refused to install, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton revealed Friday. Idiot Journolists. It's Corten steel, made to rust so you don't have to maintain it once the surface oxidizes
''We have successfully blocked the Biden Administration from disposing of any further border wall materials before President Trump takes office,'' Paxton said in a statement.
''This follows our major victory forcing Biden to build the wall, and we will hold his Administration accountable for illegally subverting our Nation's border security until their very last day in power, especially where their actions are clearly motivated by a desire to thwart President-elect Trump's immigration agenda,'' he added.
Construction crews install panels of the border wall in La Casita-Garciasville, Texas on Nov. 26, 2024.
[Western Journal] Former Rep. Matt Gaetz is just that — a former representative.
That made the release of an investigation by the House Ethics Committee into his professional and private life — begun during former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 117th Congress — highly unusual. The interest of the House Ethics Committee is generally into the ethics of sitting members.
Moreover, the position that Gaetz resigned to pursue — attorney general of the United States — is one he’s no longer pursuing due to the fact that some of the contents of that report had already been revealed long ago and he didn’t have the votes to get confirmed by the Senate, report or no report.
Gaetz has now moved into the land of cable news punditry, with a new show on One America News television network. If he’s likely to pursue any sort of career in politics in the future, it seems unlikely he’d re-transition into the world of elected or confirmed public officialdom. As the old "Simpsons" meme goes, "Stop! Stop! He’s already dead!"
That being said, it’s worth examining the Gaetz ethics report — something the media is loath to do, inasmuch as they’ve reported on the findings as if the former Florida representative’s resignation and attorney general recusal is a prima facie admission that everything in it is true.
Skipping down:
One of the few people who’s been following this story — and not taking everything in the report at face value — is Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist, who’s noted several issues with the report.
The latest? At least one of the people mentioned in the report, a friend of Gaetz’s, has demanded corrections from the House Ethics Committee for mentions of him in the report which he says are erroneous.
The letter was first reported by Marc Caputo of NeverTrump outlet The Bulwark, but Hemingway noted how it dovetailed with numerous other issues with the report.
“At the outset, I’ll note the release of your committee’s report is bizarre, Congressman Gaetz is no longer subject to your jurisdiction, and the precedential effect of the release of this report cannot be overstated,” a lawyer for Chris Dorworth, the man mentioned, wrote in a letter to House Ethics Committee chair Rep. Michael Guest, a Mississippi Republican.
The letter went on to list “three demonstrably false statements within your report” regarding Dorworth.
The first involved a mention that “Mr. Dorworth believed that Representative Gaetz invited people to his home on the evening of July 15, 2017.” This evening was critical, inasmuch as the most problematic allegation in the report — that Gaetz paid to have sex with a minor — happened on that night at Dorworth’s home.
“No, Mr. Dorworth did not and has never believed that Representative Gaetz invited people to his house on July 15, 2017,” the letter stated.
“To support your claim that Gaetz ‘invited’ people to my client’s home, you cite, in footnote 97, a gate log that doesn’t include Gaetz’s name on it and reference an affidavit and deposition transcripts that say nothing about Gaetz inviting anyone to my client’s home.” [Emphasis theirs.]
Furthermore, the letter stated, “Mr. Dorworth’s deposition transcript does not support this statement in your report, and it should be retracted immediately.”
Again, this basically undermines the most serious allegation completely, inasmuch as the Ethics Committee’s report relies upon Dorworth’s memories of that evening and the fact that he lived in a complex where “non-residents are required to present a driver’s license before entering, and entry records are maintained.”
If those entry records don’t have Gaetz’s name on them, they were either 1) tampered with, or 2) the preponderance of the evidence regarding the allegation shifts radically.
The second discrepancy also involves that allegation, noting that “Mr. Dorworth was deposed and confronted with cell phone records showing that he was in fact at his residence during the party.”
“As an attendee at Mr. Dorworth’s deposition, I can assure you he was never ‘confronted with any cell phone records,” adding that the records “were deemed ‘Attorneys Eyes Only’ at the time of Mr. Dorworth’s deposition” and that he was “mortified that the Committee on Ethics would include such a ridiculous conclusion” in its report.
The third alleged discrepancy, later in the same paragraph: “The Committee requested, through counsel, that Mr. Dorworth clarify his testimony regarding his whereabouts on the evening of July 15, 2017; his counsel did not respond.”
His counsel, being the author of this letter, noted that he did, saying he emailed the staff on Sept. 6 of this year.
“Interesting. The House ‘Ethics’ Committee is caught here just flat out lying about three things in its report on Matt Gaetz. (In addition to all the other alleged falsehoods),” Hemingway noted in an X repost of the letter:
Again, it’s difficult to overstate how damning serious mistakes in this part of the report would be, particularly given the decision to release it absent any real reason to do so; without substantial evidence that Gaetz paid to have sex with a minor, what you have is essentially a log of someone’s alleged substance use disorder and/or dysfunctional sex life the better part of a decade ago.
And again, this isn’t the only issue with the report. As Hemingway noted in a November article, “the same two central witnesses the House Ethics Committee has relied on for its critical report of Gaetz” are the two witnesses whose credibility issues led the Department of Justice to drop its investigation of Gaetz in 2022.
One is a former tax assessor who agreed to plead guilty to charges that included “sex trafficking of a child, aggravated identity theft and wire fraud,” according to The Washington Post, in exchange for “substantial assistance” in building cases against other people.
He’s currently in prison for those charges. The other is the woman who was allegedly the minor Gaetz paid for sex; the Post said her “testimony has issues that veteran prosecutors feel would not pass muster with a jury.”
Let me reiterate: Joe Biden’s Department of Justice thought this case wouldn’t fly based on the believability of the witnesses central to the House Ethics Committee’s report. If the Biden DOJ wouldn’t go ahead with the public crucifixion of a Trump ally, it generally has to be really bad.
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The Ethics Committee has been a scam for a long time.
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The same "ethics" committee that allows Congressthings and their astute Jesse Livermore-like spouses to engage in insider trading on MNPI (material non-public information).
[NYPOST] The daughter of former Rep. Carolyn Maloney is riding her mother's coattails in a ''shameless'' bid to reclaim the 78-year-old Democrat's old City Council seat, insiders told The Post.
Virginia Maloney, a product manager at Meta, has flaunted her political pedigree in campaign material to potential voters since announcing her bid last month to replace term-limited Democratic Councilman Keith Powers, whose district comprises much of the Upper East Side and Midtown.
On her campaign website, the 37-year-old UES native lays out her concerns about the need for more affordable housing, combating extremism and improving healthcare access — but also leans into family lore of her mother going into labor with her while debating legislation on the City Council floor.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, right, is joined by her daughter Virginia while campaigning on the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan
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Would you like a helping of more of the same? The political equivalent of pulling up to the drive thru and ordering a number 1 with a medium Coke. A vote for generational hegemony expecting improvement seems overly optimistic.
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The words 'shameless' and 'Democrat' in the same sentence? Seems redundant.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word 
[NYPOST] The Biden administration has agreed to a court order preventing it from selling off rusting pieces of 
[Western Journal] Former Rep. 
