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Time of India
2 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Epstein Files: Democrats seek answers from Kash Patel, ask if Trump has any role in reviewing evidence
Democrats ask FBI chief Kash Patel to come clean on Elon Musk's allegation that Donald Trump is named in Epstein Files. House Democrats asked the FBI and the Department of Justice to reveal the truth of the Jeffrey Epstein Files and what Elon Musk claimed about Donald Trump's involvement with the sex offender. The revelation came amid a heated to-and-fro between the President and the Tesla CEO and Musk decided to drop a bomb as he claimed that Trump is named in the Epstein Files. He did not reveal how he got to know about the information as no such information has been disclosed yet. Epstein Files have been released in phases throwing many surprises like Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Stephen Hawking's association with the pedophile but no such involvement with Trump has been claimed. According to information publicly available, Trump parties with Epstein several times, took his private jet but they fell out over a property issue and Trump banned Epstein from coming to Mar-a-Lago after the accusations against him started surfacing. Musk was confident about the dirt that he threw on the president as he said Trump is the reason Epstein files have not been made public. In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel first obtained by Axios, Reps. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch vàng CFDs với sàn môi giới tin cậy IC Markets Tìm hiểu thêm Undo Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) asked that they "immediately clarify whether this allegation is true." Axios reported that the lawmakers asked for a timeline of the DOJ's declassification and publication of the Epstein files, an explanation for why they haven't turned over any new documents since February. They requested a description of Trump's role in reviewing the files, a list of personnel involved in their release and an answer for why files previously released to Congress contained "significant redactions." MAGA activists strongly stood by Trump in the face of the serious allegations and shrugged them off as baseless and asked Elon Musk why he allowed his son X to hang out with Donald Trump if he knew the president was a 'sex offender'.
India.com
2 days ago
- Politics
- India.com
Private island, 'Lolita Express', and Trump's parties with…, Elon Musk drops big bomb on US President by pointing classified...
Private island, 'Lolita Express', and Trump's parties with…, Elon Musk drops big bomb on US President by pointing classified… Some secrets buried in the past, regarding the United States President Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, have started to come out. The bitterness between Trump and the world's richest man, Musk, is so intense that Musk made public his friend's secrets from youth days. In recent days, the conflict between the US President and Elon Musk has made headlines across the world. Another name, Jeffrey Epstein, has also been in the news. Who is this Jeffrey Epstein? What are the Jeffrey Epstein Files? Why is Trump's name appearing in these files such big news? So big that Elon Musk himself is announcing it. Musk has claimed that President Trump's name is in the Jeffrey Epstein files. He has indicated that this is the reason why these files fall under the category of 'top secret' files and have not been 'declassified' till now. You must have read the news of the conflict between Trump and Elon Musk. But you may not be familiar with the name of Jeffrey Epstein.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Pam Bondi ‘scrambled' to find Epstein material to appease MAGA after Phase 1 release flopped, report claims
Attorney General Pam Bondi 'scrambled' to find Epstein material to appease the far right over the failed Phase 1 release of the files, but 'found little', according to a report. Since vowing to carry out President Donald Trump's executive order demanding the government make documents related to cases of national interest public, including Jeffrey Epstein, Bondi has been under intense pressure, particularly from the right, to release the files on the disgraced financier. Epstein was accused of sex trafficking of minors in a decades-long scheme. Epstein, who had links to a number of high-profile names, died behind bars awaiting trial in 2019. A botched release of the 'Phase 1' files saw MAGA influencers descend on the White House for what turned out to be a photo opportunity. Right-wing influencers posed, clutching binders containing information that was already in the public domain. According to The New York Times, Bondi made moves to appease the right by deploying staff from the Department of Justice's National Security Division to scour through files. 'After 'Phase 1' of the Epstein Files flopped, Pam Bondi diverted staff from the NatSec Division, an elite DOJ unit, to scour archives for any material to appease the far right,' Glenn Thrush, the newspaper's D.C. correspondent, posted on X. 'They found little.' 'Phase 2, when (or if) it happens, is likely to be a dud too,' Thrush added, citing sources. The Independent has contacted the Department of Justice for comment. Bondi reportedly pushed the FBI and her own agency to urgently review and declassify more files, with the FBI enlisting thousands of agents to help with the effort, ABC News reported last month. But nothing materialized. FBI Director Kash Patel was quizzed about the Epstein files on May 8 during a Senate Appropriations hearing and said the bureau was 'working through' releasing the files. Patel suggested their release would be 'in the near future.' 'We've been working on that and we're doing it in a way that protects victims and also doesn't put out into the ether information that is irrelevant,' Patel told the panel. Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman of New York on Monday accused Bondi of deliberately delaying the release of the Epstein files. 'I write to express my grave concern about what appears to be a concerted effort by you to delay and even prevent the release of the Jeffrey Epstein Files in their entirety – potentially at the direction of the sitting President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,' Goldman's letter to Bondi said. 'President Trump's well-documented affiliation with Epstein, and his view that the Department of Justice is his personal law firm raises serious questions about whether President Trump has intervened to prevent the public release of the Epstein Files in order to hide his own embarrassing and potentially criminal conduct,' Goldman added. Trump was quizzed by a reporter on April 22 about when the public could expect to see the release of more documents. 'I don't know, I'll speak to the attorney general about that, I really don't know,' Trump said. A few days later, Virginia Giuffre, one of the first and most prominent survivors of Epstein's abuse to speak out, died by suicide.
