"Sending Congress home early, taking over the District of Columbia, and now threatening Illinois. We don’t know whether some of these increasingly desperate moves by Trump, like destroying a boat that was allegedly being used to run drugs to 'send a message to drug cartels,' are a part of an effort to distract, but they may well be."

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/2

"Trump promised to release the investigative files repeatedly during the campaign. Unlike grand jury material, which requires a judge’s permission for release, Trump can do this by executive fiat. You don’t need to have my 25 years of experience as a prosecutor to understand that people who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. It’s time to release the files."

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/3

"Trump's attack on the survivors of the crime by claiming they are part of a hoax will not work. Unlike other issues that Trump was able to circumvent by labeling them as a hoax, he spent nearly 2 years demanding the release of the Epstein files in order to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Now that he has the power to release those files, he is desperately seeking to conceal them."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/4

roberthubbell.substack.com/p/w…

We are writing America’s history in the streets.

September 4, 2025

^{Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)}

"The only logical inference is that he fears what is in those files, which means that we must work tirelessly to ensure that they are disclosed.

Trump is frightened and cornered by the Epstein scandal."

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/5

"He has started calling the scandal a 'hoax' which in Trumpspeak is an admission of guilt."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/6

hopiumchronicles.com/p/as-trum…

As Trump's Powers Ebb We Must Fight To Win The Fall And Send A Clear Message The Tide Is Turning Against Him (New Video, Analysis)

Please call your Senators today and demand Kennedy be removed from HHS!!!!!

^{Simon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)}

"It was revealed after the press conference that the victims are assembling their own 'black book' of Epstein 'clients' they knew to be involved in abuse of underage girls. That’s got to be giving Trump and others the worst heartburn of their lives tonight, because when that list comes out, AI will have it."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/7

luciantruscott.substack.com/p/…

What can we do to save our country?

I’ve been getting a version of that question from readers ever since Trump raised his makeup encrusted right hand and took the oath of office in January.

^{Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)}

"One of the really interesting parts [of yesterday's press conference] was one of the lawyers for the victims get up there and said, 'It's interesting that in 2008 and 2009, Donald Trump was helping us. He didn't have a problem trying to give us certain evidence. We weren't even looking into Donald Trump.'"

~ Lev Parnas

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/8

thelefthook.substack.com/p/eps…

Epstein Victim Press Conference Recap and Reaction

I joined Lev Parnas and Zev Shalev to discuss how Democrats need to be more aggressive in keeping the Epstein scandal in the news and uplifting the voices of his survivors.

^{THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)}

"And you said because back then, he wasn't president. Back then, he wasn't thinking that it's going to connect right back to him, the money trail, the relationships, Russia, and so on and so on."

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/9

"What did candidate Donald Trump say in 2024? He promised he’d release the Epstein files. He hasn’t. ... Republicans said they’d release the Epstein files. They haven’t."

~ William Kristol

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/10

thebulwark.com/p/downbeat-gath…

A Downbeat Gathering at MAGA’s Dead End

National conservatives have the power they’ve been craving. What they can’t seem to agree on is what to do with it.

^{William Kristol (The Bulwark)}

"As someone who watches liars far too much, out of necessity, I was particularly moved by the testimony of the survivors."

~ Jim Stewartson

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/11

mind-war.com/p/darvo-flyover

DARVO Flyover

The psychology behind Donald Trump’s aerial threat of Epstein survivors

^{Jim Stewartson (MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy)}

"These are human beings who were so harmed by Epstein and Maxwell that they exposed themselves to a national audience a mile away from Donald Trump, listened to cruel questions from corrupt press, voluntarily told retraumatizing stories, and were threatened by a formation of fighter jets.

Nevertheless, they persisted."

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/12

"What once kept us silent now fuels that fire and the power of our voices. We are not the footnotes in some infamous predator’s tabloid article. We are the experts and the subjects of this story. We are the proof that fear did not break us.

This is what power looks like. Survivors united, voices joined, refusing to be dismissed."

~ Jess Michaels

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/13

heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

September 3, 2025

[Please note that this post talks about sexual assault in the last four paragraphs.]

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

"Know this: justice and accountability are not favors from the powerful. They are obligations, decades overdue. This moment began with Epstein's crimes, but it's going to be remembered for survivors demanding justice, demanding truth, demanding accountability, and we will not stop until survivor voices shape justice, transform culture, and define the future."

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/14

"'My name is Marina Lacerda,' one woman said, 'I was Minor Victim One in federal indictment of Jeffrey Epstein in New York in 2019.'"

~ Charles Pierce

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/15

esquire.com/news-politics/poli…

The Epstein Files Belong to the Victims, Too. It’s Time to Release Everything.

Today’s press conference showed that anything less than that is cowardly.

^{Charles P. Pierce (Esquire)}

"With that simple introduction, all the persiflage and evasions and total bullshit surrounding the so-called Epstein Files fell away and all that was left was a group of women, subjected to incomprehensible injuries as young girls, demanding to know what evidence their government gathered in their names and at their expense as taxpayers."

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/16

"The only reason to withhold these documents is because some influential someones somewhere wants the information buried. Redacting the names of the innocent, assuming there are any, should take maybe a week, maybe two."

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
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