WASHINGTON POST: "Trump and Epstein had a relationship, but there’s no evidence of Trump wrongdoing"

Trump, Melania, Epstein, Maxwell

 

From The Washington Post:

“It’s all been a hoax that’s perpetrated by the Democrats. And some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net.”

— President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters, July 16

The Trump White House and Justice Department are under fire for failing to release, as promised, all of the files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting an underage sex worker. In 2019, after he was charged in federal court with sex trafficking of minors, guards found Epstein dead in his cell at a federal jail in New York. Investigators said he hanged himself. Trump supporters have long suggested the existence of a client list that would implicate powerful people, while also calling into question whether Epstein’s death had been a suicide.

Trump has tried to damp down speculation, fanned mainly by Democrats, that the withheld files contain evidence of a deep connection between Trump and Epstein. Trump has reacted with outrage and disdain, even at members of his political base who have pressed for the files to be released.

A year ago, Florida Circuit Judge Luis Delgado unsealed nearly 200 pages of grand jury testimony related to the 2006 Florida case involving Epstein. The documents showed that prosecutors had heard testimony about Epstein assaulting teenage girls before they cut a plea deal with him in 2008 that was kept from victims and provided for lenient work release. “The details in the record will be outrageous to decent people,” Delgado wrote in his order. “The testimony taken by the Grand Jury concerns activity ranging from grossly unacceptable to rape — all of the conduct at issue is sexually deviant, disgusting, and criminal.”

At the time, we dug deep into the public record and awarded Four Pinocchios to a Democratic lawmaker who suggested Trump’s name was all over the files released by Delgado. Nothing has emerged since then to change our assessment that there is no public evidence of inappropriate behavior by Trump related to Epstein. As a reader service, our findings are presented below.

Pictures of him with Epstein

Trump has acknowledged that he and Epstein were in the same Palm Beach, Florida, social circle decades ago. But their relations appeared to have ended by the time Epstein’s legal troubles began.

There are numerous photos of Trump and Epstein. In 2019, NBC News released video of Trump keeping company with Epstein at a 1992 party with NFL cheerleaders. At one point, Trump points out someone to Epstein and appears to say, “She’s hot!”

In 2002, Trump was quoted in a profile of Epstein: “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

But as The Washington Post reported, the relationship soured in 2004 after the two men battled over acquiring a choice Palm Beach property, an oceanfront mansion called Maison de l’Amitie. Trump won the auction, and phone records — the call logs Rep. Ted Lieu (D-California) referenced last year — indicate that the two men did not communicate after that. Two weeks after the auction, Palm Beach police received a tip that young women were seen coming and going from Epstein’s home — which led to the grand jury investigation.

Multiple plane flights with Epstein

Many prominent people, including former president Bill Clinton, flew on Epstein’s jet. Trump took at least seven flights with Epstein in the 1990s, according to flight logs released as evidence in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, an Epstein associate who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping him sexually abuse girls. Lieu claimed that “young girls were on board,” but no evidence of that has surfaced. The ages of passengers were not recorded in the logs.

Trump took flights between Palm Beach and New York City airports. A June 1994 flight lists some of the other passengers as Marla and Tiffany, an apparent reference to Trump’s then-wife, Marla Maples, and their infant daughter.

Reference to Trump in files

Trump was briefly mentioned in about 1,000 pages of documents released in January in a separate case involving a defamation suit filed against Maxwell by an alleged victim, Virginia Giuffre. (Lieu’s staff sent an article about those documents.)

But these were minor references.

In a 2016 deposition of Giuffre that was released, she was asked about Trump. Giuffre said she had been recruited by Maxwell when she was a 17-year-old spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago.

“I don’t think Donald Trump participated in anything,” she said. “That would have to be another assumption. I never saw or witnessed Donald Trump participate in those acts, but was he in the house of Jeffrey Epstein.”

She said that anyone who visited Epstein’s house would have seen his many nude photos of women displayed on the walls. “These are salacious acts of girls, young girls doing things to each other that would be considered child pornography,” Giuffre testified. “If you walked foot into Jeffrey Epstein’s house and you went in there and you continued to be an acquaintance of his then you would have to know what was going on there.”

Meanwhile, Johanna Sjoberg, one of Epstein’s other alleged victims, was quoted as saying Epstein’s plane made an unplanned stop in Atlantic City between 2001 and 2006. There is no indication they saw Trump, and she said she never gave Trump a massage.

The documents also included emails from an accuser who made allegations against Trump but then withdrew them. (Separately, a woman with the pseudonyms Katie Johnson and Jane Doe accused Trump of raping her in Epstein’s home when she was 13; those filings were dismissed or withdrawn years ago.)

The Bottom Line

As we have documented, 17 women have claimed Trump engaged in sexual misconduct. A Manhattan jury found that Trump sexually abused and defamed one woman on our list. But no credible allegation has emerged to connect Trump to any of Epstein’s crimes. If the full file is ever released, we are confident that no connection would be found.

Rest assured — if Trump were prominently mentioned, it would have been leaked by now.

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Ex-AP Reporter Relates How Daftly The Associated Press Sucks Hamas Cocks and Has Their Babies

🚨BOOM. Share this everywhere. An ex reporter for the @AP reveals how they are completely compromised and possibly complicit in the Hamas PR Jihad warfare
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— Gal G., Adv 🇮🇱 (@ICK_GalG) August 6, 2025

AN OBVIOUS IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS VERY OBVIOUSLY COME! HHS Says mRNA Vaxxes More Dangerous Than Traditional, Robert F. Kennedy Jr Halts $500M in mRNA Funding

We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted. BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward… pic.twitter.com/GPKbuU7ywN

— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) August 5, 2025

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a major shift in vaccine development priorities, winding down mRNA-related activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

This decision follows a thorough review of investments made during the COVID-19 emergency. Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. emphasized that the move is based on scientific data and expert input.

BARDA is terminating twenty-two mRNA vaccine projects worth nearly $500 million, as these vaccines have shown limitations in protecting against upper respiratory infections like COVID-19 and flu.

The department is moving beyond mRNA’s constraints to invest in better solutions that mimic natural immunity. Traditional methods like whole-virus vaccines offer proven durability, unlike mRNA’s rapid but mutation-sensitive design.

Funding will now redirect toward safer, more effective platforms that hold up against viral mutations. This includes whole-virus vaccines and novel technologies with stronger safety records and transparent data practices.

“We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted,” said Secretary Kennedy. He continued that HHS fully supports safe, effective vaccines for all Americans who choose them.

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THE WNBA HAS BECOME THE GREEN DILDO LEAGUE

Someone threw a green dildo on the court during a WNBA game tonight. pic.twitter.com/mFSESW6cfE

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 30, 2025

Nietzsche Predicted This, He Was Right

Objective Truth about Extremism: An Economist’s Analysis of Jihadist Impact on Technological Regression

By applying post-doctoral-level economic analysis, I aim to mathematically and objectively demonstrate that jihadist activity drives countries into technological regression, potentially devolving entire societies to a level of development comparable to the year 1890, given a long enough time horizon.

Using internationally recognized metrics for technological advancement, extremist-controlled territories demonstrate consistent patterns of regression across all major categories. Adult literacy rates remain well below global averages, with Afghanistan at forty-three percent compared to a global average of eighty-six percent. Primary enrollment rates have declined significantly in all examined territories, while secondary and tertiary enrollment have collapsed entirely in many areas.

Scientific output from extremist-controlled regions approaches zero. No meaningful peer-reviewed publications emerge from these territories, patent applications are nonexistent, and international scientific collaboration has been completely severed. Research institutions have been closed, destroyed, or converted to military purposes. The Afghanistan Science Academy, University of Mosul, and Al-Furat University represent examples of once-productive academic centers that no longer contribute to global knowledge production.

Higher education indicators show complete institutional breakdown. Universities have been eliminated from global rankings, STEM graduate production has ceased, and the number of researchers per capita has plummeted due to mass emigration. Gender parity in education has been eliminated entirely in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, which represents the only territory globally with complete prohibition of female education beyond primary levels.

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Trump Administration Staffer Edward ‘Big Balls’ Corsitine Assaulted in DC

A 19-year-old man known as “Big Balls” who played a key role in the DOGE initiative to shrink the size of government was assaulted over the weekend in Washington, according to city police.

Edward Coristine, who still works for the government, was assaulted by approximately 10 juveniles near Dupont Circle about 3 a.m. Sunday, according to a police report obtained by POLITICO.

Coristine told the officers the assailants approached him outside his vehicle while he was with a woman — identified in the report as his “significant other” — and made a comment about taking it, according to the report. He told officers that he got the other person into the vehicle just before he was attacked.

A fellow DOGE staffer, Marko Elez, took the photo of the bloodied Coristine after the attack.

Coristine, who now works for the Social Security Administration, has held key roles in DOGE’s efforts, including its move to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development. He also worked within the Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Transportation Security Administration, helping on initiatives, including Gold Cards.

Elon Musk, the former head of DOGE, claimed on X that “a gang of about a dozen young men tried to assault a woman in her car at night in DC,” and that “A @Doge team member saw what was happening, ran to defend her and was severely beaten to the point of concussion, but he saved her.”

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ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

From Fast Company:

Faced with mounting backlash, OpenAI removed a controversial ChatGPT feature that caused some users to unintentionally allow their private—and highly personal—chats to appear in search results.

Fast Company exposed the privacy issue on Wednesday, reporting that thousands of ChatGPT conversations were found in Google search results and likely only represented a sample of chats "visible to millions." While the indexing did not include identifying information about the ChatGPT users, some of their chats did share personal details—like highly specific descriptions of interpersonal relationships with friends and family members—perhaps making it possible to identify them, Fast Company found.

OpenAI's chief information security officer, Dane Stuckey, explained on X that all users whose chats were exposed opted in to indexing their chats by clicking a box after choosing to share a chat.

Fast Company noted that users often share chats on WhatsApp or select the option to save a link to visit the chat later. But as Fast Company explained, users may have been misled into sharing chats due to how the text was formatted:

"When users clicked 'Share,' they were presented with an option to tick a box labeled 'Make this chat discoverable.' Beneath that, in smaller, lighter text, was a caveat explaining that the chat could then appear in search engine results."

At first, OpenAI defended the labeling as "sufficiently clear," Fast Company reported Thursday. But Stuckey confirmed that "ultimately," the AI company decided that the feature "introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn't intend to." According to Fast Company, that included chats about their drug use, sex lives, mental health, and traumatic experiences.

Carissa Veliz, an AI ethicist at the University of Oxford, told Fast Company she was "shocked" that Google was logging "these extremely sensitive conversations."

I PREDICT BILL CLINTON WILL HANG HIMSELF IN HILLARY'S JAIL CELL BEFORE HE EVER TESTIFIES

Bill and Hillary Clinton, James Comey and Robert Mueller All Subpoenaed for Testimony About Their Dealings with and/or Knowlege About Jeffrey Epstein

Speculation that Ghislaine Maxwell told prosecutors about Bill and Hillary's trips to Pedo Island.

A Trump prosecutor spoke with Maxwell, and the DOJ is considering releasing a transcript. And then the GOP subpeonas the Clintons.

To be honest, I don't think that proves much of anything. The GOP is famous for subpoenas and Strongly Written Letters.

But, Trump's DOJ did move Maxwell from a bad prison to a better prison. Which is obviously something the state does when it likes your testimony.

Clearly, Maxwell told Blanche and investigators something that interested them. The move to a lower-security work camp clearly indicates a level of fruitful cooperation, although how reliable it might be would be another question entirely...

The sudden interest in the Clintons and other "top law enforcement officials" by the House Oversight Committee has to raise eyebrows, too. Subpoenaing a former president and a former presidential nominee for congressional testimony is unusual, to say the least, and it's not something done lightly as a fishing expedition. Coming as it does on the heels of the Maxwell interview, her transfer, and the suggestion that the Trump administration may make the Maxwell transcript public, it's extremely difficult to chalk all of this up as a coincidence.

Lee Smith, author of The Plot Against the President -- which I recently wrongly referred to as "The Hunting of the President," which I think was a book by a leftwing Bill Clinton Apologist -- warns the GOP to not buy into "EpsteinGate," which he says is just "RussiaGate 2.0."

And by "EpsteinGate" he means the claims by the left that Trump is "covering up" his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Zyklon B producer heiress to participate in next Gaza flotilla

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 Zyklon B producer heiress to participate in next Gaza flotilla

A heiress from the German industrial dynasty that profited from producing Zyklon B, the gas used in Nazi death camps, will participate in the next pro-Palestinian flotilla to Gaza, activist groups announced last week.

Marlene Engelhorn is a descendant of the family that founded the BASF chemical industrial company, which in the 1920s merged with IG Farben, one of the largest industrial powers during the Nazi regime. During this period, IG Farben produced the cyanide-based poison, which was used to murder millions of Jews during the Holocaust.

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Joe Rogan Admits ‘It Does Make Sense’ as Navy SEAL Vet Tells Him the Truth About Scripture

 

Podcast host Joe Rogan said it makes sense to him that in order to believe the Bible is the divinely inspired word of God requires both reason and faith.   

Rogan and former Navy SEAL Chadd Wright waded into the issue during an interview published Thursday. Wright is the founder of Three of Seven Project, a health and self-improvement program for the body, soul, and spirit. 

Rogan went on to allude to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls starting in 1947 as a basis to trust that what the original authors wrote centuries ago was accurately passed down to the current text of the Bible. 

“It is ultimately fascinating that you have something like the book of Isaiah, where they found an older version that they didn’t even know existed. It turns out to be a thousand years older, and it’s verbatim,” he said. 

The scrolls all date from the 3rd to the 1st century B.C., meaning that they predate Jesus’ ministry in the 1st century A.D. The Dead Sea Scrolls are all Old Testament, like Isaiah. 

The book’s 53rd chapter contains a well-known passage in which the prophet foresaw the suffering servant — Jesus Christ — who would die for the sins of mankind. “But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed,” it reads. 

“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned — every one — to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” 

Wright told Rogan, “If what I’m saying is correct, in terms of what I believe about scripture, ultimately there has to be some divine influence over the preservation of those scriptures. … It would be the only way for the scriptures in their original language to be truly the word of the Almighty to man. The complete revelation of the Almighty to man. 

“It does involve an aspect of faith,” he acknowledged. “We have to believe the Almighty is influencing man through the power of his Spirit in the man to write the things that the man wrote.” 

Regardless, the podcast host pointed to the limits of human reason in trying to discern if the Bible is true. “That’s where the skeptical person steps in and says, ‘Well, this is ridiculous. … You have to believe in faith, because logically it doesn’t make any sense,'” Rogan said. 

“And so the problem with that is you’re making this assumption that the human mind is flawless and that it can perceive truth, regardless of your learned experiences, regardless of what you know about the world,” he added.