“The Democratic Party is doing everything they can to promote Epstein’s hoax again – even though the Department of Justice has released 50,000 pages of documents – to divert attention from their inadequate policies and their defeats, especially the embarrassing government shutdown, which caused complete chaos in their party.” US President Donald Trump wrote about this in a post on Truth Social.
“Some weak Republicans fell into their clutches because they were naive and lacked resolve. Epstein was a Democrat and this is a Democratic Party problem, not a Republican Party problem! – he continued – Ask Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman and Larry Summers about Epstein, they know everything about him, don’t waste your time with Trump. I have a country to rule!”.”I will ask Attorney General Pam Bondi, the Department of Justice, and the great patriots at the FBI to investigate this involvement. and Epstein’s relationship with them, with JP Morgan, Chase and many other people and institutions, to determine what happened between them,” Trump announced. “All arrows point to the Democratic Party,” he added, “the files show that these people, like many others, spent most of their lives with Epstein and on his ‘island’.”
Trump pressured Republicans to block the release of the documents
Meanwhile, Trump has done just that launched a pressure campaign against Republican deputies who apparently intend to vote with the Democratic Party next weekthereby enabling approval of a motion calling for the publication of all Justice Department files relating to Jeffrey Epstein. Contacts with these Republicans have intensified since Mike Johnson had to vote on the motion for next week, which for several months he tried in every possible way not to put before the assembly.
The change of strategy of the Chairman of the Republican Party was determined on an important day last Wednesday, marked on the one hand by the distribution of an email in which the pedophile financier, who died hanging in his cell in August 2019, claimed that Trump “knew about the girls”, and on the other hand by the presentation of a petition, with 218 signatures of deputies, including a small group of Republicans, that would force the Chairman to bring to the chamber for a vote the motion that he had tried in every way to block.
At this point, Republican leaders decided to move the timing forward — with the petition trail, a vote would have taken place in early December — because “if we have to do it, it’s better to do it quickly,” a Republican source explained to CNN. A change of strategy was agreed upon with Trump understanding that “this is an unavoidable reality”, White House sources told CNN, and therefore opted to exert maximum pressure from Trump to ensure against voting for a motion that today in Truth Social defined as “a few weak Republicans who have fallen into the net” of Democrats who continue to use “Epstein’s falsehoods to divert attention from their bad policies and defeats, especially the embarrassment of the government shutdown”.
With four Republicans having signed the petition, including Thomas Massie who was also one of the signatories of the motion, three MPs having announced that they would vote for the publication, American media predicted that dozens of other Republicans could cast their votes, to avoid betraying election promises made regarding the Epstein case, as Trump ultimately did by blocking the publication of the files.
According to CNN, the White House is focusing on two congresswomen, along with former Trump loyalist Marijorue Taylor Greene, who signed the motion. One of them is Lauren Boebert, also considered a big Trump ally, who in recent days met with Justice Secretary Pam Bondi and FBI chief Kash Patel at the White House and then also received a phone call from the president, but without, the Republican withdrew her signature. Just like Nancy Mace, who was also contacted by Trump and the White House, who explained in her letter to the president that as a victim of sexual abuse, taking the matter of the Epstein files “deeply private” did not interest her.
The possible passage of the law in the DPR would have a strong political impactbut its subsequent passage to the Senate is uncertain. Massie, a Republican congressman who has become something of a foe for Trump who has thrown his support behind one of his challengers in the Republican primary, believes the motion could achieve a veto-proof majority of at least 290 votes, to “put a lot of pressure on the Senate, and if it passes the Senate it would be a serious step for the president” to veto it. Meanwhile, to increase pressure on members of Congress, Massie and other signatories of the motion held a press conference on Capitol Hill with victims of Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring.
The files reveal political exchanges and secret meetings with Bannon
Jeffrey Epstein allegedly served as an informal advisor to Steve Bannonduring a 2018 media campaign aimed at promoting and defending President Donald Trump’s agenda. Here’s what emerges – according to the Guardian – from several documents released by the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee: six-day exchange, from August 17 to 23, in which Epstein provided tips and guidance to Bannon for his television appearances and his political strategy in general. The former Trump strategist’s presence in the documents had been anticipated in recent months by Elon Musk, to which Bannon responded by requesting the intervention of special investigators to analyze “all the documents.”
From the exchange, indications of benefits also emerged for the Trump administration’s economic policies: Epstein presented Bannon with arguments in response to criticism of the tax cuts, arguing that accusations of favoritism toward the richest were “misleading” and emphasizing the public’s perception of relief for corporations. The two also commented directly on the ‘Russiagate’ developments and their consequences for Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, acknowledged the significance of the immunity granted to National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, and predicted further revelations regarding payments to women associated with the president.
Lastly, the messages show the two’s concern for the confidentiality of their contacts. Bannon expressed his fear of constant surveillance around Epstein, while Epstein offered to arrange a meeting in New York “under cover of darkness”, with secondary access and maximum discretion, offering his apartment on East 66th Street and guaranteeing that someone could accompany Bannon inside without being seen. Bannon accepted, asking only to set a time.
