"Trump-a-palooza" Search Redirects To Epstein Files

 

ICYMI, an exemplary and fitting piece of trolling (our emphasis):

A website that tops search results for the Republican Party's first midterm convention sends visitors to the Justice Department's files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The redirect was first reported Friday by journalist Jake Lahut, who wrote in his newsletter, Straight from the Hut, that the top Google result for the Sept. 9-10 gathering in Dallas kept sending users to the Epstein page.  [snip]

And although the RNC convention website did not appear on the first page of Google's results, the troll domain was the very first result, presenting itself as the genuine article and carrying the title "RNC Midterm Convention | Dallas, TX Sept 9-10."

Visitors who click through reach a Justice Department page headed "Epstein Library," which asks whether they are 18 or older before showing anything else. The page carries a notice that officials redacted personal information about victims, the Western Journal reported.  [snip]

The search-result trouble arrives days before a convention that Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters has branded "Trump-a-palooza," according to the Washington Examiner.

A Politico survey of more than 70 Republican candidates and members found that most either do not plan to attend [Ed.: Ouch!] or remain undecided, with dozens more declining to say. Forty-five cited prior commitments such as fundraisers, weddings and college tours. Reps. Zach Nunn (R-IA), Nick LaLota (R-NY) and Tom Barrett (R-MI) have said they will not attend, Politico reported.  [snip]

House members are being asked to pay at least $25,000 to attend [Ed.:  Ouch, again!] , an amount that covers two tickets and a single hotel room, according to a registration guide obtained by Politico.

As for those pesky Epstein-Trump files?

About 3.5 million pages of Epstein records released by the Justice Department will be printed and displayed in binders from Sept. 8 to 12 at a Dallas pop-up, The Dallas Morning News reported. Organizers call it The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.

A taco truck converted into a bookmobile and wrapped in a photograph of Trump and Epstein together will circle the city on Sept. 10, the convention's second day, carrying a micro-printed set of the same documents, according to the newspaper...

Here's that truck:

The Malignant Fascist and his party/cult will never outrun the stench or wash out the stain of their intimate connection with, and coverup of, the largest child sex trafficking ring in history.

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

 

The good:

President Donald Trump on Sunday declared himself the winner of yet another golf tournament held at a facility he owns while also mocking the other participants.

“I won with a score of 70, and am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, because I’m focused on many other things,” Trump boasted on his Truth Social website. “It’s called TALENT, and I have it, and they don’t!” 

Critics were quick to point out it might be more than “TALENT” at work. Trump has been dogged by allegations of cheating at golf for decades, with many of the accusations coming from those who’ve played with him. Those allegations include a viral video last year that showed what some observers said looked a lot like cheating.

Trump also has a history of winning at courses he owns, and rarely plays elsewhere. When he does, the results look more like they did at a 2006 celebrity tournament in Tahoe, where Trump finished in 62nd place out of 80 people.

Even the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a longtime ally and frequent golf partner before his death last month, seemed to admit when speaking under oath in a 2022 deposition that Trump cheats at golf.

“Some people say you may outdrive him, but you’re not going to outdrive his caddy,” Graham said. “It is what it is.”

That was likely a reference to a tactic others have accused Trump of using: he has a much faster golf cart than everyone else.

Sports writer Rick Reilly, who authored an entire book on how the president cheats, said Trump then moves his ball to better spots and kicks his opponents’ balls into the bunker.

“One time in L.A., he was playing $50 a hole with these three guys, he hits it in the pond. They see the splash,” Reilly said in 2024. “By the time they get there, it’s in the middle of the fairway, and they’re like, ‘What the F, Donald?’ And he goes, ‘It must’ve been the tide.’”

Reilly told The Associated Press in 2019 that there were “dozens and dozens of people” who could verify that Trump cheats...

Ha ha.  Good to know.... OF COURSE HE CHEATS! -- in golf, in politics, on his three wives, in business, in life.  It's always good to remind the over 70 million Americans who voted to return this rotted out piece of shit needy narcissistic sociopath to office in 2024 what they got.  Congratulations, they have a "winner"!  (Not that they care.)

The bad:

Experts sounded the alarm on Sunday after Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed a dubious new scheme to protect some of the people mentioned in the Epstein files.

In a court filing last week, Blanche submitted explanations to Judge Emmet Sullivan about the Department of Justice's process for redacting the Epstein files. That court filing included a new definition of what it means to be a victim in the case, according to Allison Gill, host of "The Breakdown," who discussed the filing with Katie Phang, the journalist who sued the DOJ over its redactions, on a new episode.

The new definition of "victim" in the Epstein case now includes people who "self-identified" as victims, which led Gill to worry that abusers who hung out with Epstein may self-identify and therefore be protected from disclosure.

Phang pointed out that the new definition also carries some stark implications.

"It does two things. One, it creates a very slippery slope in terms of how we are viewing who we are now defining as victims," Phang said. "It's never easy to identify a victim, especially in a trafficking situation. My concern is the expansive nature that Blanche is taking is that he's going to use that as an excuse to not investigate, as an excuse not to prosecute."

"We know that there are people who were brought into the Epstein orbit and were, according to them, groomed and abused by Epstein and Maxwell ... and were tasked to recruit ... almost as if it's a grotesque Ponzi scheme," she added.

Phang noted that her lawsuit is not seeking to "out" anyone who was abused by Epstein, which is explicitly prohibited by the Epstein Files Transparency Act that was signed into law last year.

Even so, Phang argued that Blanche could use the definition to put the case into a "weird position."

"If Todd Blanche allows people who were co-conspirators with Epstein, Maxwell, and others ... to be able to self-identify as victims, and in doing so, protects their names from possible ... pursuit of the truth, we have a problem. We have a serious problem," Phang added.  (our emphasis)

The scurrilous pedophile protector Blanche is now likely to be confirmed as Attorney General (the Republican Party/cult is in the pedophile protection racket, after all).  There is a lot of evidence as to why Blanche should be rejected, mostly showing that he's a lying, ethics-free weasel, and this should be added to that pile.  He's continuing to violate the Epstein Files Transparency Act, trying to get his "client," who's mentioned more than 38,000 times in the files, off scot-free.

The ugly:

Detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement set a monthly record high for the second Trump administration in July, internal agency data obtained by CBS News shows, as ICE widened its crackdown, making arrests at airports, immigration check-in offices and communities across the U.S.

Last month, ICE took into custody more than 46,000 individuals facing deportation because of alleged immigration violations, like entering the U.S. illegally or overstaying their visas, according to preliminary Department of Homeland Security figures. 

The statistics, which have not yet been publicly disclosed by the federal government, show that a summer enforcement surge by ICE continued to intensify in July, as the agency faced pressure from the White House to record 2,000 arrests across the country each day. An average of 1,500 detainees entered ICE custody each day last month, the data indicates, though some of them were first arrested by Customs and Border Protection agents.

The over 46,000 book-ins in July surpassed the roughly 43,000 detentions recorded by ICE in June, at the time the highest tally during President Trump's second term. As of this weekend, ICE was holding 68,000 detainees in its sprawling detention system, approaching a record high of over 70,000 detainees set in January, according to internal agency figures.

The numbers also show the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration has rebounded this summer, following a significant drop in arrests earlier this year after federal agents killed two American citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, during an enforcement blitz in Minneapolis that garnered bipartisan criticism...

This has largely gone under the radar with the firehose of insane, destructive, anti-democratic, and un-American actions taken daily by the Maglignant Fascist and his regime.  But the cruel arrest and deportation policies being implemented by the likes of Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and their masked thugs have been proceeding apace.

Judge: Release Unredacted Epstein-Trump Files

 

The long-awaited release of unredacted copies of a number of Epstein-Trump files was ordered by a Federal District Judge, in response to the lawsuit filed by journalist / lawyer Katie Pfang citing the Epstein Files Transparency Act.  From ABC News:

"A federal judge is ordering the Department of Justice to turn over unredacted versions of some of the files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein or explain why the materials were withheld. 

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan sided with an independent journalist who sued over the withheld materials, concluding that the Trump administration likely violated the terms of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. 

The Department of Justice has until July 2 to either turn over the documents with less redactions -- namely identifying the sender and recipient of some emails and the names of co-conspirators included in a draft indictment -- or explain 'why the redactions should not be removed.'

He also ordered the Department of Justice to publish a log detailing all the redactions. 

Among the documents included in the ruling, Judge Sullivan ordered the DOJ to hand over the underlying notes from the FBI's interview with a woman who accused President Donald Trump of assault. Those claims were uncorroborated, and Trump has denied the allegations. The DOJ has released the interview reports from some of those interviews, but not the underlying notes. 

The Trump administration also was ordered to reveal the sender and recipients of a series of emails that reference the recruiting of young women.  

'The key are the 14 to 15 year old girls--i am a sexual pervert because i say they are now of a reproductive age?' said one email sent to Epstein in 2015. 'My heart goes out to you brother ... being called a sexual pervert is no fun.' 

'She is like Lolita from Nabokov , femme miniature :) So now I should send you her type of candidates only,' another email, sent to Epstein in 2017 said." (our emphasis)

Let's hope the degenerate Malignant Fascist's acts are uncovered behind the redacted black paragraphs, but he's going to do everything to try to stop the release, for obvious reasons.  Compared to the panic in the White House over the release of the Haberman - Swan book "Regime Change," his reaction to the public eventually seeing his interactions with Epstein and his victims should be volcanic.  Stay tuned.

(Gif:  the perverted MF with his friend Epstein, picking out girls) 

 

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

 

The good:

The Trump administration was hit Thursday with a new lawsuit from survivors of Jeffrey Epstein over what they say was a “deliberate” oversight from the Justice Department (DOJ).

“The United States, acting through the DOJ, made a deliberate policy choice to prioritize rapid, large-volume disclosure over protection of Epstein survivors’ privacy,” the plaintiffs in the lawsuit said, according to a report from NBC Los Angeles.

“[The DOJ] outed approximately 100 survivors of the convicted sexual predator, publishing their private information and identifying them to the world. Survivors now face renewed trauma. Strangers call them, email them, threaten their physical safety, and accuse them of conspiring with Epstein when they are, in reality, Epstein’s victims.”

In its recent release of millions of Epstein-related documents, the DOJ accidentally exposed the identities of several victims, redacting the material only after discovering the errors. The oversight stands in direct violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandates victim-identifying information be redacted.

The plaintiffs are seeking from the Trump administration a minimum of $1,000 in damages per survivor, and have also named Google in their lawsuit for allegedly “refusing victims’ pleas to take down” search results that reveal victims’ personal information.

“No survivor of sexual abuse should have to live in fear that a stranger can type their name into a search bar and instantly find out about their worst trauma,” said Julie Erickson, an attorney for the plaintiffs, in a statement last week, per NBC Los Angeles. “Yet that’s exactly what happened here.”

The pedophile- protecting rats should be facing criminal charges for doing this to keep victims from coming forward -- and that's exactly what these bastards intended.

The bad:

... The war is at a critical point. If there is no deal between the Americans and the Iranians, Trump has very few choices. He could declare victory, saying America has destroyed Iran's military, therefore it is mission accomplished, and that opening the Strait of Hormuz is not his responsibility. That could melt down world financial markets and horrify his already disgruntled allies in Europe, Asia and the Gulf. A wounded, angry Iranian regime would have plenty of scope to put more pressure on the world economy.

More likely, Trump would decide to escalate the war. The Americans have more than 4,000 US Marines on ships heading to the Gulf, paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne on standby and are discussing further reinforcements.

No-one is talking about a full-scale invasion of Iran, but it is possible the Americans will try to capture islands in the Gulf, including Kharg island, Iran's main oil terminal. That would involve a series of challenging and dangerous amphibious landings. That might even suit Iran, which wants to drag the Americans into a longer war of attrition. Iran calculates that the regime's capacity for pain is greater than Trump's.

Trump has found in Iran that he is coming up against the limits of his power. The Iranian regime has a different definition of victory and defeat than he does. For them, mere survival is victory.

But now they are hoping for more, believing that control of the Strait of Hormuz gives them new leverage to make demands, perhaps even to make strategic gains. The Iranians have demanded, among other things, a promise not to be attacked in future and recognition of their control of the Strait of Hormuz as a price for opening it to all shipping.  [snip]

The longer the war continues, the greater the consequences for the region and for the wider world. One leading Iran analyst, Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Group told me they could be "catastrophic".

In 1956 the United Kingdom and France went to war alongside Israel after the Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal, a global waterway that was as  significant a chokepoint for the world economy as the Strait of Hormuz is now. They attained all their military objectives but were forced to withdraw by President Eisenhower of the United States.

For the British, it was the beginning of the end of their imperial domination of the Middle East.

America is faced by the rise of China. When the history is written of their competition to be the world's strongest power, Trump's badly planned war against Iran might be seen as a turning point, a waystation of decline, as Suez was for the United Kingdom.

Our kakistocracy comes through again.  Here's another opinion on why the "excursion" is likely to be an operational success, but a strategic failure.

The ugly:

Architects are warning that President Donald Trump’s ballroom vanity project has disastrous design flaws.

The National Capital Planning Commission, which Trump has stacked with loyalists, is expected to take a final vote on the ballroom on April 2. But the president has already entirely demolished the East Wing to make way for the new event space. 

Ahead of the vote, the New York Times published a piece on Sunday by a trained architect, fine arts expert, and urban planning writer who warned about serious flaws in the ballroom mockups. 

The authors warned that the ballroom has “fake windows on the north side,” columns that “block interior ballroom view,” and an “unnecessarily big” rooftop area.

The Times story also warned about “its stairs lead nowhere,” as several of the staircases from the ground appear not to be connected to a way into the ballroom.

The ballroom, as it stands, is set to be more than three times the size of the White House, which will disrupt the historic property’s symmetry, the experts also noted.

“The hurried reviews, with construction cranes already swiveling above the White House grounds, are an abrupt departure from how new monuments, museums and even modest renovations have been designed and refined in the capital for decades,” the Times wrote. “And the ballroom will be worse off for it, architects warn.”

The scale and scope of the project have changed since the Trump administration first demolished the East Wing, once home to the Office of the First Lady and her staff. The White House has maintained that the new ballroom’s $300 to $400 million price tag will be “privately funded.”

The president’s vanity project has been met with immense public pushback. Around 98 percent of 32,000 public comments are against the construction of the ballroom, according to a review by the Times...

Stairs that lead to nowhere, fake windows, a giant blob attached to the White House.  It all sounds like a metaphor, doesn't it?  More here.

 

Teenage Girl Told FBI Of Trump's Assault

 

Daily Beast columnist Roger Sollenberger, writing in his Substack, highlights evidence that the perverted Malignant Fascist was reported to the FBI for a sex act when she was underage.  It goes against the MF's narrative that he's never been accused of wrongdoing in connection with convicted underage sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein:

"The FBI spoke to a victim of Jeffrey Epstein who also accused Donald Trump of sexually and violently assaulting her, according to records in the Justice Department’s publicly searchable Epstein database.

The records don’t show what became of the DOJ’s investigation into the allegations, but the documents indicate the government found her to be a credible accuser. Records elsewhere in the files reveal that a woman with matching biographical details sued Epstein’s estate and won a settlement in 2021.

The allegations and FBI interview are landmark revelations, undermining the White House’s protestations that Trump hasn’t been accused of wrongdoing and showing instead that the U.S. government has been aware of a credible Trump accuser in the Epstein files." (our emphasis)

The allegation against the MF was contained in a 21-page internal presentation by the FBI in connection with Epstein partner Ghislaine Maxwell:

The victim was considered credible enough by the Department of Justice to be selected as a witness in Maxwell's trial.  The FBI presentation was created last summer, around the time that corrupt MF defense lawyer / Deputy Attorney General met with Maxwell, and later saw her transferred to a minimum security facility in Texas.  As Sollenberger notes, it's unclear what the FBI did with the investigation into the allegation.

There is more, well-researched documentation in Sollenberger's piece, and it's painting a more perverted picture of the shit stain in the Oval Office, as though more evidence was needed. 

(gif: The MF to Epstein: "She's hot")