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Given the hysteria around the Epstein Files and the unsigned memo, I thought I would document this historic happening. The timeline, using comments by Q-Treeoers, is at the bottom of the article. I decided to start off with the more current happenings and various peoples takes on this mess.
….The Grand Jury testimony represents the best version of the case the DOJ believed it could prove, before Epstein’s death, before redactions, and without political caution. It’s the raw indictment pitch, presented to citizens in private, without spin or PR filter. Unlike rumors, anonymous leaks, or pages of potentially related or unrelated documents, grand jury material is presented under oath. The witnesses are sworn. The evidence is carefully cataloged. It’s all been formally curated by prosecutors…. [<== NOTE PROSECUTORS as in M. Comey! GC]
SITREP Ep. 122: Weaponized Institutions, Border Games, and War Crimes – Featuring Reeve Swainston
Reeve is a former Marine and DOJ prosecutor. @ 25 minutes he says that Maurene Comey would be the one who asked the judge to have the Maxwell case SEALED. As far as unsealing the Grand Jury material, @ 28 minutes, Reeve says it is a ‘heavy lift’ and would need court approval. Generally it is NEVER disclosed. This is the same thing Jeff Childers says. [She was at SDNY in 2014 & became assistant US attorney (SDNY) 👉in May 2016. Wiki]
@ 1:13:00 Brian Lupo comments that he thinks the only one who has actually acknowledge that memo is Caroline Levitt. He does not recall anyone else acknowledging it. He also thinks that AXIOS by putting it out before the Trump admin was ready has put them back on their heels and made them defensive.
@ 1:14:10 Alpha says he thinks it is Kayfabe. He notes that the Trump admin was ready this time. People are fired, arrested and moved the minute there is a problem. This tells you they are being watched. Tonight [Jul 17] Trump put out the Grand Jury request to Bondi. Did you see how fast she replied? Under five minutes. There is not how fast one moves on such large scale things. He thinks Bondi does nothing critical that is not approved by Trump. That request to Bondi would have caused a Schiff storm that would require lots of scrambling if it was not pre-approved and coordinated by Trump.
@ 1:16:30 Brian Lupo says it was 30 minutes to be fair and then corrects @ 1:21:00. Bondi published at 9:09 pm and Trump at 9:07 pm – TWO MINUTES, which is very fast. Brian then reiterates the conversation that he and Reeves had before Alpha showed up. He says Trump specified the release is SUBJECT TO COURT APPROVAL and Grand Jury testimony is very confidential… Alpha: I think we will get another Rug Pull… or they might release a partial transcript [NOTICE either way it then transfers the ‘Black Eye’ TO the COURTS. 😉 GC]
Brian & Alpha then go into how they might fabricate Epstein evidence against Trump. Alpha notes they were surveilling Trump and could have matched times when Trump had no alibi with times when Epstein was not in public view.
A quick look at wether or not Alpha’s fabricating evidence idea is possible. Given what they did to General Flynn & Trump the first go round, we KNOW the FIB will fabricate evidence.
Epstein Arrests
In 2005, police in Palm Beach, Florida, began investigating Epstein after a parent reported that he had sexually abused her 14-year-old daughter. Federal officials identified 36 girls, some as young as 14 years old, whom Epstein had allegedly sexually abused.[9] Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute…. Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York – Wiki
FISA Warrants
In 2005, police in Palm Beach, Florida, began investigating Epstein after a parent reported that he had sexually abused her 14-year-old daughter. Federal officials identified 36 girls, some as young as 14 years old, whom Epstein had allegedly sexually abused.[9] Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute…. Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York – Wiki
FISA Warrants
The FBI had surveilled Carter Page under a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant beginning in 2013 or 2014, on concerns that Russian intelligence was attempting to recruit him.[54][63] Trump announced his candidacy for president in June 2015, and Page joined his campaign on March 21, 2016.[64][65] After Michael Isikoff of Yahoo! News reported on September 23, 2016, that Page was being investigated by American intelligence for his contacts with Russian agents,[66] Page immediately left the Trump campaign, while two campaign spokesmen denied he had ever been a part of it.[67][68]
During the summer of 2016, the FBI applied for a warrant to conduct surveillance on four members of the Trump campaign, but this application was rejected by the FISA court as too broad.[69] On October 21, 2016, the FBI filed a new FISA warrant application for Page alone, expressing the FBI’s belief that the Russian government was collaborating with Page and possibly others associated with the Trump campaign,[70] and that Page had been the subject of targeted recruitment by Russian intelligence agencies.. — Wiki
There was also the Alfa-Bank mess and probably private detectives hired by the Hillary campaign.
…In July, BuzzFeed News reports that, from December 2014 to the summer of 2017, numerous suspicious money transfers were made between Paul Erickson’s accounts, including Wells Fargo Bank accounts, an undisclosed law firm, the NRA of America,[a] Jack Abramoff’s son Alex and Abramoff’s brother Robert’s company Landfair Capital Consulting, which was founded in March 2017, and Maria Butina’s Alfa-Bank account .[38] Investigators from Wells Fargo reported these suspicious money transfers to the United States Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and to the FBI.[38] — Wiki
Jack Abramoff
Jack Allan Abramoff is an American lobbyist, businessman, film producer, writer, and convicted criminal.[1][2] He was at the center of an extensive federal corruption investigation,[3] which resulted in his conviction and 21 others either pleading guilty or being found guilty,[4] including White House officials J. Steven Griles and David Safavian, U.S. Representative Bob Ney, and nine other lobbyists and congressional aides. — Wiki
Maria Butina
…her [Maria Butina] first known financial transaction with Erickson was much earlier than that. In December 2014, she sent a pair of wires from her Alfa Bank account to Erickson in the US. They totaled $8,000, and Butina noted they were for “grant assistant.” — BuzzFeed
NSA & American citizen unmasking
On June 6, 2017, Dennis Montgomery and his lawyer Larry Klayman, who founded both Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, sued the FBI and its former director, James Comey.
Dennis Montgomery, a former US Intelligence contractor is suing James Comey and other government figures for covering-up evidence he provided them proving widespread surveillance and unmasking on more than 20 Million American citizens.
Circa is reporting that Montgomery says the evidence he gave to the FBI chronicle the warrantless collectionof phone conversations, bank records, financial data, credit reports, emails, Internet traffic, personal data and theunmasking of identities in spy data about millions of Americans.
This is consistent with public statements made by James Comey at the Boston Conference on Cyber Security at Boston College on March 8, 2017 that, “the 4th Amendment was a compromise for American sovereignty and that we the people have no right to privacy; and that even of thoughts belong to the government.”..
Artist Maria Farmer said she urged the FBI to look into people in the disgraced financier’s social circle, including the president…
Farmer and her younger sister Annie, who testified at Ghislaine Maxwell’s 2021 sex trafficking trial, have spoken publicly about their ordeal with Epstein before. But her account now sheds light on how the Epstein files could contain material that is “embarrassing or politically problematic” to the president, the Times reports.
Farmer’s account is among “the clearest indications yet” of how Trump may appear in the Epstein files, the Times notes, though the White House disputed the alleged encounter…
Looks like the Trump Lawsuit against WSJ did not stop the Cabal from running with the newest Trump smear campaign. 🙄
I think this is what Trump was aiming for with his sting. Remember he has to have extraordinary reasons to unseal Grand Jury material.
IFFF Alpha is correct and they used ILLEGAL surveillance on Trump to determine when he was alone (family does not count) to match him up with Epstein… If salacious footage of Trump with an underaged girl is dropped AND you can prove it was manufactured using that surveillance information, then you CERTAINLY have a very nice RICO case. Unsealing the Epstein Grand Jury info could be very useful in showing the original material showed there was no evidence against Trump.
“POTUS wants to know everything we are doing.” [OBAMA]
Keep that line in mind when anyone talks about the FBI investigating former Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, and beyond.
It’s what Lisa Page, former FBI lawyer, texted then-boyfriend FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok amid the 2016 campaign. We tend to dismiss Page as “Strzok’s girlfriend.” But she was far more than that. Comey’s deputy was Andrew McCabe. McCabe’s right hand was Page. What’s more, Page was the FBI’s White House liaison during the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump investigations. And her message to Strzok, a top soldier in the war against Trump: “POTUS wants to know everything we are doing.”
That president, of course, was Barack Obama. And he wasn’t talking about their canoodling. When Fox News broke the story last week about a criminal investigation into Brennan and Comey, its sources used the word “conspiracy.”
Reese in the Sitrep video above says they had to have CAUSE to fire M. Comey. He also says she badly fumbled the Diddy case but that is not enough reason to fire her. Misshandling–later changing the Epstein information in her care on the other hand certainly would be cause.
Wait, What? If There Was No Epstein Client List Then Why Did NY Court Refuse The Gateway Pundit’s Legal Request for the List Based on an Anonymous ‘John Doe’ Who Was On the List?
On Sunday night the Department of Justice and FBI released a document that concluded that notorious child predator Jeffrey Epstein did not have a “client list” and that he was not murdered but committed suicide.
The FBI released a video that shows an empty hallway in what they insist proves Epstein committed suicide.
This FIB and DOJ are doing good in other areas. On a different site, the names of Bondi, Patel, and Bongino can’t be mentioned without people denigrating all the law enforcement good they are doing and piling on with “What about Epstein?” We have a choice of whether to stay stuck in that mindset.
How important is it that we know more about Epstein, in the grand scheme of things? What good would come of it?
The FBI, under the direction of Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, is back to the basics: Locking up criminals, and cleaning up America’s streets. We have the Greatest Law Enforcement professionals in the World, but “Politics” and Corrupt Leadership often prevented them from doing their job. That is no longer the case, and now, they have been unleashed to do their jobs, and they are doing just that. Keep it up — MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN! thefederalist.com/2025/06/16/a
If you listen to our podcast, I’ve said many times.
With Christoper Wray in charge, I wouldn’t doubt it if all the evidence seized on Epstein’s island never made it back to shore. They had plenty of time to destroy everything and probably did.
No way those snakes would just hand over the truth or any evidence to Trump’s team.
Friday, Wired Magazine ran an explosive story under a very carefully worded headline, “Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified.” It was a rookie mistake. The sub-headline cautiously clarified, “There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death.”
@danbongino’s texts and emails regarding Epstein to Pam Bondi. My guess is that those exchanges will tell us everything we need to know.
Yesterday I learned about Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly. Now it’s Glenn Beck and Michael Flynn. They are all acting directly in contrast to what Pres. Trump has said, which tells me they don’t trust him to a) be just as vigilant as they are about prosecuting pedophiles, and b) know what’s in the best interest of the country. They are actively undermining him and can no longer be trusted, IMO.
Trump’s otherwise terrific sixth all-hands Cabinet meeting yesterday was eclipsed by the shadow of a dead pervert. Mid-day, Michelle texted me the short clip, saying only, “I don’t like this.” She meant she didn’t like how President Trump handled the Epstein question. I’ll give you my lawyer’s take.
First of all, it is already a dramatic improvement that a reporter was freely allowed to ask the unscripted question at all; under Biden, there wouldn’t have been any questions. I give Trump partial credit for jumping in and commenting.
Though the reporter’s delivery was awkwardly circuitous, he clearly asked Pam Bondi two critical questions: (1) Was Jeffrey Epstein an asset of any U.S. intelligence agency? (2) Why is a minute missing from the prison video outside Epstein’s cell? Neither question suggested any wrongdoing, cast blame, or even expressed skepticism.
Trump, with a quick apology to Bondi, immediately interrupted. Here’s his full answer, delivered with the kind of incredulous exasperation of a mom answering a curious child’s 100th repetitive question about how the Sun works right before saying, “from now on, ask your father”:
“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy has been talked about for years. You are asking … we have taxes, this, and all of the things, and are people still talking about this guy? This creep? That is unbelievable. (To Bondi:) Do you want to waste the time? You feel like answering? (To reporter:) I cannot believe you are asking a question on Epstein on a time like this when we are having some of the greatest success, and also tragedy, with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration. (To Bondi:) You go ahead.”
Trump’s unexpectedly aggressive response rubbed Michelle the wrong way. And if you watch the clip, you’ll see what she meant when she said she didn’t like it. Trump comes off as uncharacteristically defensive; his delivery wildly overshot the mark. By labeling the two most often-asked questions on conservative social media “a desecration” unfairly implied that the questions themselves were transgressive— but desecration of what? Epstein’s sacred memory? It was a misstep.
Trump’s answer sounded too much like Hillary’s infamous response to the Benghazi disaster. At this point, what does it matter? Let’s move on.
🔥 My take is simpler. Trump wasn’t deflecting; he was protecting Pam Bondi, buying her a little time, and giving her an out. In other words, he made it possible for her to say, “I don’t want to waste time on that question.” His aggressive defense suggests that none of this was Pam’s idea. To Pam’s credit, she insisted on answering….
SD: “President Trump sent out a very strong message on Truth Social today. “[M]y PAST supporters have bought into this “bullshit,” hook, line, and sinker,” Trump said. Adding, “I don’t want their support anymore!”
President Trump was then asked why he thought his supporters were so focused on the Jeffrey Epstein saga during an impromptu press conference.
Maurene Comey (fired yesterday, daughter of James Comey), was in charge of the Epstein case, the P-Diddy case, and the Ghislaine Maxwell case. And Sam Bankman-Fried.
What are the chances?
Maurene’s husband Lucas Issacharoff, still works for the DoJ (SDNY), as does James Comey’s son-in-law, Troy Edwards.
Told you, the Epstein shit was a distraction from link one, the trap is link 2
ALL MAGA business is coming DUE.
After all this time the STORM is HERE//SHOWTIME.
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The Badlands media group thinks the whole Epstein mess was scripted by POTUS as I outlined at the start. Think about it, the chances that the FIB files were tampered with by the DemonRats is close to 100%. So POTUS has that unsigned memo leaked. Chaos ensues until the DEMOCRATS call for the release of the Epstein files, KNOWING that the NY FIB tampered with them.
Jamie Raskin as Asshole Epstein who was trump’s very close friend.
When asked why Democrats didn’t show any interest in Epstein when they controlled the DOJ from 2021-2025 Jamie Raskin gets exposed as a complete fraud.
REP. JAMIE RASKIN: "So, uh…the, I mean… you have to go back, uh… and look specifically at uh… particular prosecutorial… pic.twitter.com/lyxOFTBOtM
The Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the “blockbuster” story alleging a letter Trump wrote to Epstein for his 50th birthday included some tawdry elements previously worked for Main Justice (his only prior reporting experience listed in his bio).
Main Justice was Glenn Simpson’s wife’s publication. Simpson founded Fusion GPS, which was paid by Hillary Clinton/the DNC (through Perkins Coie) to produce the Steele Dossier at the center of the Russian hoax against Trump.
Both Glenn Simpson and his wife, Mary Jacoby, worked for the Wall Street Journal before launching their own enterprises.
Want to dive even deeper? Mary’s daddy is Jon E.M. Jacoby. He’s a longtime executive at Stephens Investments in Little Rock. Guess who their attorney was? HRC, Rose Law. It’s a small world.
— Julie H Wright✝️⭐️⭐️⭐️🥋 (@juliew38138) July 18, 2025
President Donald Trump on Wednesday embraced the FBI’s decision to open a conspiracy probe into a decade of alleged intelligence abuses and weaponized law enforcement, suggesting it could be led by a special prosecutor and even delve into “credible evidence” in the Jeffrey Epstein case in order to give Americans a greater dose of transparency and accountability. He also vowed to declassify two highly sensitive pieces of intelligence to help further the prosecutor’s efforts. […]
“It was a disgrace what happened, what happened in 2016 and what happened in 2020. It’s a disgraceful situation,” he said. “And our voting has to be straightened out. I always say if you don’t have borders, if you don’t have fair and free voting, you don’t have a country.”
Unprompted, Trump then volunteered on his own that a special prosecutor – if one is appointed by Justice – to look at weaponization could also delve into “anything credible” on Jeffrey Epstein and his files to make sure Americans have a full accounting. – Just the News
President Donald Trump said Thursday he would sue the Wall Street Journal and its owner over a new bombshell report [NEW??? You have to be kidding me! You mean newly manufactured. –GC] about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to begin the process of unsealing grand jury testimony in the disgraced financier’s criminal case.
“Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval,” Trump said on social media, though it’s unclear that a judge would approve the request. “This SCAM, perpetuated by the Democrats, should end, right now!”…
Jeff Childers, since I wrote this has a new article that will make you smile.
…Yesterday, I covered the narrative-crushing New York Times interview with Epstein investigative reporter Julie K. Brown, which pushed the stuffing back in most of the Epstein conspiracy theories and ended observing Epstein could not have done his crimes without help (it also basically exonerated Trump). This morning the Times ran another bizarre story, at the top of the website, headlined, “What to Know About the Epstein Files, a Perfect Recipe for Conspiracy Theories.” The article begins, unsurprisingly enough, by highlighting the “loud, public crack in the president’s support system” that has —according to the Times— widened into “a chasm.” A narrative chasm that threatens to cause the Times’ liberal readers to expire from unrestrained joy. At first, the story seemed to be the traditional Democrat take, but then things started to get … weird.
First, tell me what you think of how the Times described Epstein’s death in prison:
The authorities say he hanged himself. Was the Times injecting a hint of skepticism about the official story?
The article picked itself up and continued merrily along with the usual corporate media take, invoking QAnon, Pizzagate, the X-Files, and other cue phrases designed to make self-anointed intellectual progressives titter like stoned hyenas. But then came another sly dash of cold water:
FBI files contain strange rumors and absurd speculation? Am I imagining things, or did the Times just throw cold water on demands for the “full file?” And right when liberals are demanding full transparency and Congressional Democrats are injecting “full file release” amendments into dam-repair bills?
Regular readers will recall our speculation last week that the FBI files are packed with poison pills deliberately making the “full file” useless and politically explosive at the same time. Now the Times seems to be tracking the same direction, pre-bunking the unreleased material…
