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Two decades’ worth of emails that reportedly belonged to Jeffrey Epstein shine light on the late sex offender’s relationship with accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell — and raise new questions about his relationships with Donald Trump and other well-connected political figures. Bloomberg News reported that it unearthed emails from Epstein’s personal Yahoo account from 2002 through 2022, three years...
Continue Reading on https://www.msnbc.com/This is an adapted excerpt from the Sept. 9 episode of “The Briefing with Jen Psaki.” One of the things Donald Trump is supposed to be good at is lying. If Trump doesn’t like something, whether it’s a news story, a statistic or an immutable law of physics, he can just say it’s fake, over and over again and eventually — at least in MAGA world — the issue will go away. Now, I would not...
Continue Reading on https://www.msnbc.com/In recent weeks and months, congressional efforts to force disclosure of the Jeffrey Epstein files have largely concentrated in the House, where there is a bipartisan discharge petition seeking signatures. But as it turns out, the upper chamber can tackle the controversy, too, despite the Republican majority. NBC News reported: The Republican-led Senate narrowly voted Wednesday to defeat an...
Continue Reading on https://www.msnbc.com/The Powerful Man publishing event of the season—what “Steve Jobs” or “The Lives of John Lennon” or “Iacocca” were to their respective moments—is “The First Fifty Years,” a set of three leather-bound tomes commissioned by Ghislaine Maxwell to celebrate the milestone birthday, in 2003, of her onetime boyfriend and, eventually, fellow convicted child-sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “The idea behind...
Continue Reading on https://www.newyorker.com/Politics / Why Is The Washington Post Whitewashing Epstein’s Stomach-Churning Birthday Book? In their social circle, Trump and Epstein were so identified as predators that the pair’s trafficking of young women would be instantly recognized as fodder for a joke. Why Is “The Washington Post” Whitewashing Epstein’s Stomach-Churning Birthday Book? In their social circle, Trump and Epstein were so...
Continue Reading on https://www.thenation.com/Politics / Sisterhood Could Be Powerful The victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell’s sex-trafficking scheme are increasingly banding together—and could wind up outing more famous Epstein customers on their own. Representative Ro Khanna speaks during a news conference with alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein outside the Capitol on September 3. Khanna and Representative Thomas Massie...
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