Jeffrey Epstein, Trump and Wall Street Journal
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"All the work that we did to tell the world what happened to us, it’s all being erased," victim Danielle Bensky said.
Tulsi Gabbard’s claim that the Obama administration waged a “treasonous” plot was met with trepidation online.
President Donald Trump sued reporters at The Wall Street Journal and the paper’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, on Friday, a day after the paper published the contents of a racy birthday message Trump reportedly sent Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, according to a court docket.
White House officials and other Trump allies said that the president, not the attorney general, has been the one having to answer questions about Jeffrey Epstein.
Despite recent claims by President Donald Trump that former Biden officials doctored files related to Jeffrey Epstein, many of the documents -- including those mentioning Trump and several prominent Democrats -- have been public for years.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday asked a federal judge to release the transcripts of grand jury testimony made against Jeffrey Epstein years ago, as the Trump Administration faces a wave of criticism from lawmakers and the public over its handling of the late sex offender’s case.
“He told me he has like 15 or 16 hours of videotape of Jeff. He was trying to help Jeff rehabilitate his reputation,” Mark Epstein said of Bannon. He said his meeting and conversation with Bannon took place in New York City after his brother’s death in prison — in either 2019 or 2020.
The Journal published a story on Thursday, alleging the president wrote a bawdy message to Epstein in a collection of birthday letters.
The Justice Department formally requested Friday the unsealing of grand jury records tied to federal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, according to a court filing.President Donald Trump announced the previous day that he ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the release of additional Epstein material following pushback from conservatives and others for more transparency in the case.
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AFP on MSNJeffrey Epstein's legal saga and political falloutJeffrey Epstein, the man at the center of a conspiracy theory creating political headwinds for President Donald Trump, was facing federal charges of sex trafficking underage girls when he was found dead in his New York prison cell.