Epstein, Epstein, Epstein . . . but don't give up

[KaraBulut]

And while we're talking about Alan Dershowitz... the man is the Zelig of pedophiles and sexual predators.

In spite of all the tawdry associations with Epstein, Dershowitz was at the White House this week. Guess what Trump wanted to talk with him about?

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5654824-dershowitz-trump-constitution-third-term-talk/

Dershowitz says he told Trump constitutionality of third term ‘not clear’

Alan Dershowitz, the former lawyer of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, said he told President Trump it’s “not clear” whether it would be constitutional for him to serve a third term in the White House.

Dershowitz, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, said he gave Trump a draft copy of his upcoming book on the topic during a recent Oval Office meeting.

The president said he would take a look at the book — titled “Could President Trump Constitutionally Serve a Third Term?” — and asked about the former litigator’s analysis, according to the Journal.

“I said ‘it’s not clear if a president can become a third-term president, and it’s not clear if it’s permissible,’” Dershowitz told the outlet Wednesday.

Dershowitz, being Dershowitz, said "not clear".

What Trump heard Dershowitz say: "Possibly. Give it a shot!".

 

[rareboy]

The Justice Department says it will not meet Friday’s congressionally mandated deadline to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein, according to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Unsurprised.

 

[Alistair]

 

[KaraBulut]

The Justice Department says it will not meet Friday’s congressionally mandated deadline to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein, according to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Unsurprised.

The Congress set the deadline on the same day that they are leaving for holiday break for three weeks.

Reminder: the House had 52 days of paid vacation when Speaker Mike Johnson adjourned the House during the shutdown.

Blanche's excuses are empty. A reminder: DOGE managed to erase thousands of webpages that had DEI references in a matter of days. They also canceled millions in research grants for having references to DEI. DOJ has had 11 months to review and redact information from the Epstein files.

 

[cityboy-stl]

The Congress set the deadline on the same day that they are leaving for holiday break for three weeks.

Reminder: the House had 52 days of paid vacation when Speaker Mike Johnson adjourned the House during the shutdown.

Blanche's excuses are empty. A reminder: DOGE managed to erase thousands of webpages that had DEI references in a matter of days. They also canceled millions in research grants for having references to DEI. DOJ has had 11 months to review and redact information from the Epstein files.

Just watch. No one will do a freaking thing about it. All we'll get is lip service.

 

[KaraBulut]

Just watch. No one will do a freaking thing about it. All we'll get is lip service.

It's MAGA that wants the documents. Watch them burn it all down.

 

[KaraBulut]

Brooks discussed this on the PBS News Hour.

The picture is from a 2011 TED Conference. There was a dinner in the evening that had multiple people, including Epstein. He was not at dinner with Epstein. Brooks said that he has had no relationship or correspondence with Epstein and he doesn't recall ever speaking to Epstein, even at the TED dinner.

Brooks also asked, if there were multiple men who had sexual relationships with Epstein's women, why were those men never charged?

 

[opinterph]

The picture is from a 2011 TED Conference.

Was the conference held at Epstein's estate, as the meme suggests?

 

[KaraBulut]

Was the conference held at Epstein's estate, as the meme suggests?

Good question. Brooks didn't specifically mention that but there used to be two big TED conferences - one in Long Beach, CA and the other was in Scotland.

The transcript is here:

Brooks and Capehart on Trump's approval ratings and mental acuity

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump’s attempts to address his sinking approval ratings on the economy, the Department of Justice begins to release the Epstein files and the renaming of...

www.pbs.org

So, in 2011, I attended the TED Conference, and there was an adjacent dinner to that conference, which, in my memory, maybe two or three dozen people, different roundtables. And I was at that dinner. And, apparently, Jeffrey Epstein was at that dinner.

As far as I know, I did not ever meet him. I never exchanged a word with him. We must have been at different tables. And, in my life — I went through all my e-mail files — I have never exchanged a word. I have never had any contact with Jeffrey Epstein. The photos are not of me and Epstein. There's one of me alone, because nobody wants to talk to me at a party, and another with me chatting with Sergey Brin, one of the Google co-founders.

And so the bottom line is, I had no idea who Jeffrey Epstein was in 2011, so I didn't know he was at the party, and I have had no contact with him.

Edit- I remembered correctly. Here's the website link:

TED2011: Program

pastconferences.ted.com

David Brooks is on the agenda as a speaker at the conference:

TED2011: Speakers A-Z

pastconferences.ted.com

 

[Alistair]

 

[Alistair]

 

[cityboy-stl]

It's MAGA that wants the documents. Watch them burn it all down.

DOJ will do nothing of course, since they're the perpetrator. Congress will do nothing other than possibly a hearing that results in no action that releases anything meaningful.
What specifically will MAGA do that "burns it all down". What can MAGA do that results in action that gets the files released and holds the perpetrators accountable for violating the law?

 

[rareboy]

^ This. I think we all knew all along that the Epstein files will be released fully redacted and there is no one who will do anything about it as both Repubs and Dems protect their major donors and one another.

Lawsuits will be useless. Congress will not act in spite of their tub thumping proclamations they raise money off of.

And MAGA? I think they now must be pretty much up to speed and know that Trump is covering it all up. They won't make any effort to push for release from here on in, because they love thier race hate more.

Even if the Dems were to take Congress, nothing will happen.

And think of this. There are a number of people who have read the files. There is more than one copy out there.

At any point in time, someone could have/could still release the files unredacted. But I'll bet they don't.

The fix was always in.

 

[rareboy]

The WH is not above outright dirty tricks either.

And they knew this was an easy lie to prove.

The motive? Make it so that no one believes anything.

 

[rareboy]

 

[rareboy]

 

[KaraBulut]

...And MAGA? I think they now must be pretty much up to speed and know that Trump is covering it all up. They won't make any effort to push for release from here on in, because they love thier race hate more.

There's two audiences that matter.

The first audience is the Epstein victims. Any information that does get the light of day helps their case. The fact that the victims had so many votes for this legislation also shows that the scales of political power have tipped toward their favor.

The other audience is MAGA. You're exactly correct that the MAGA base, for all its conspiratorial insanity, really believes that there is a cover-up in favor of very powerful people. Everything that Todd Blanche, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel to do cover up and conceal just adds more fuel to the fire. The MAGA base is turning on Trump and you're hearing a lot of, "Does he think we're that stupid?" questions coming from that base.

And the answer to their question is, "Yes, he thinks you're that stupid".

 

[rareboy]

Apparently redacting after the release:

 

[KaraBulut]

The DOJ also removed a picture of Trump that had been uploaded.

Todd Blanche was confronted about this in an interview this weekend. Blanche said that the picture wasn't removed to protect Trump it was removed to protect "the victims".

So, Trump was in a picture with Epstein victims?


Massie is out giving interviews saying that he is going to move to censure Bondi and hit her with daily fines for non-compliance. This would dock her pay up to $5,000 per day. If the fines don't get her off her ass, then Massie proposes articles of impeachment.

The view is that Bondi has bungled the whole PR gambit around Epstein. Susie Wiles confirmed this in the Vanity Fair interview. It's particularly a bad look that the Democratic House members have been releasing documents that they obtained from the Epstein estate- documents that the DOJ never requested or subpoenaed from the estate! Bondi has only one ally- Donald Trump - and Bondi may be the sacrificial lamb in all of this.

 

[rareboy]

It is all just theatre. Massie can move whatever he likes. He knows his fellow members won't vote for it when next they return and Johnson is likely to delay even that possibility. Articles of impeachment? In what world does he think that Congress would impeach Turmp's handmaiden in crime? Seriously.

I can't believe that everyone didn't know exactly what would happen and are just acting out a scripted poli-porno playbook in order to run out the clock.

The fact is that some of the richest and most powerful men in the world will get away with everything because they always get away with everything.