Need to reinforce: These documents contain unsubstantiated allegations against Trump.
Notable: These documents were posted the day after Pam Bondi was subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee.
The Epstein Files: The Justice Department Releases the Missing FBI Interviews
The DOJ released missing files in which Donald Trump is credibly accused of sexual assault.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-epstei...
This piece is referring to SCOTUS*, but:
The Speaker of the House is an evangelical Christian, as is the Senate Majority Leader.
See also:
· Secretary of Defense
· OMB director
· Outgoing DHS sec
· Incoming DHS sec (if confirmed)**
· HUD Sec
· Head of the White House Faith Office
Massie on Newsmax: "We're not getting the answers we need from Pam Bondi. I just spent 3 hours at the DOJ this week looking at the unredacted files. And I'm finding evidence of files they haven't released yet." (Note that the Newsmax anchor agrees with him!)
Wouldn't it be great if we had a Congress that would flex its powers and restrain a belligerent, reckless President who is leading America into WW3?
I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.
I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
"The Real Religious Fanatics Behind the Iran War"
They're not in Tehran, they're in Washington DC. I bring receipts in my lede piece for today's First Draft morning newsletter from Zeteo.
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I’m a hard pass on the whole Armageddon thing.
Sun and wind don’t need the Strait of Hormuz.
In Trump’s America, flunkies and henchmen are never fired for breaking the law.
They’re fired for breaking the illusion.
johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/kristi-noe...
We will bomb and tariff our way to prosperity! bsky.app/profile/atru...
G Elliott Morris: "The takeaway from these numbers is that the new war in Iran is very unpopular...Worst-ever-support-for-war-when-it-started unpopular. With just 38% of Americans in favor, support for bombing Iran is lower than retrospective support for the war in Iraq was in 2014."
This passage of Cosmos came to mind while I was watching Pete Hegseth strut across the stage at the Pentagon yesterday.
“.. National average gasoline price is now up by 10.8% over the past 4 days ... the only other time we've seen a larger increase was in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.”
- Schwab ⛽️
I'll also note that we still appear to be missing a ton of pages from this woman's file. There were at least *53 pages* missing (that we know about) and we still don't seem to have all of them — specifically the FBI's contemporaneous notes for these interviews
🔴 Investigation by VSquare reveals Putin's plan to rig Hungarian elections for Orbán.
NEW: Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is next month.
Liberals have a huge opportunity: if they win, they can lock down the majority of this court thru 2030.
That means they’d have it in the next presidential race, a big democracy guardrail.
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A DOJ source says FBI agents found the woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child to be credible:
"They would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."
there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).
the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.
In this week’s newsletter, I look forward to “Beto O’Rourke 2” while also explaining why SCOTUS ruled 9-0 to send an immigrant back to a hitman.
I also complain about the modernization of baseball because I’m old.
Aerial view of five rows of graves being prepared by people and digging equipment, with vehicles on the left side.
Once you see this image as a grim American flag you cannot unsee it.
Wow did something happen in the US in January 2025?
Two days ago, Sen. Kennedy and I pressed Kristi Noem under oath whether the President approved her $220 million PR contract with the spouse of her former flack.
She told our committee that Trump signed off.
Today, Trump fired her.
Last week, Denver’s mayor announced a new executive order that bans ICE agents from city property, citing the killing of protesters by federal agents in Minneapolis this year as motivation for the measure.
@whitehouse.senate.gov on Trump, Epstein, & Putin
“My old friend, Senator John McCain, used to say that Russia is a gas station run by gangsters with an army.
It doesn't make sense that the president of the United States who insists, insists on being dominant in essentially ever relationship…”
BREAKING NYT:
Lindsey Halligan, the ex-U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who brought criminal cases against Trump's enemies over the objections of career prosecutors, is under investigation by Florida's bar association, according to a letter the organization sent last month.
On NJ Transit on the way home and the train just died.
Just another day/reminder of how “the richest and most powerful nation in the world” cannot do mass transit.
We can afford a war and build concentration camps, but not mass transit.
