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Exclusive: Trump May Launch Strikes on Iran â Regime Change, Not Nukes, Is the Goal
By Joshua Scheer A Drop Site News exclusive reports that senior U.S. military officials have informed the leadership of a key Middle Eastern ally that President Donald Trump could authorize direct military strikes on Iran as early as this weekend, with targets potentially extending beyond nuclear and missile facilities to include senior Iranian leadership â […]
Epstein Files Expose His Friendship With Steve Bannon and Elon Musk
A new batch of documents released by the Justice Department on Friday confirm that sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein had activeâand seemingly closeârelationships with Elon Musk and Steve Bannon.One email shows Musk reaching out to Epstein in December 2013, mentioning that he would be staying around the British Virgin Islands and St. Barts, asking, âIs there a good time to visit?ââI will send heli for you,â Epstein replied. A large number of texts between Bannon and Musk also appeared in the files. âEnormous number of Steve Bannon texts in these new batches of Epstein Files,â Politicoâs Kyle Cheney wrote on X. âThey had an obvious familiarity/comfort, joking with each other, mocking Trump, while discussing financial arrangements, the Mueller probe, We Build the Wall, geopolitics re Qatar, UAE, Russia, China, actual contacts with foreign leaders, and making constant arrangements to meet, talk and film an Epstein documentary.ââDid he fold on the wall,â Epstein asked in one of his texts to Bannon, likely referring to President Trump.âYes,â Bannon replied. âBut reserves the right to call a national emergency.ââSounds like my suggestion,â Epstein saidâwith a smiley-face emoji attached. The new documents raise even more questions about Muskâs accusation last year that Trump is in the files, given that Musk appears in the files himself.While Bannon and Epsteinâs close friendship has been covered before, Muskâs connections are notable given his previous threats. Last June, before any files were released, Musk accused Trump of being mentioned by name in the Epstein files, claiming that the presidentâs alleged attachment to the predator was the real reason the files hadnât been released in full. And in July, Musk simply posted, âBannon is in the Epstein files.â Now itâs abundantly clear that he is tooâand possibly had a much closer relationship with Epstein than was previously known.Musk has yet to comment on the newly released files.
Epstein Emails Reveal How He Tried to Hide His Friendship With Trump
President Donald Trump was named in more of convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epsteinâs unsealed emails on Friday.After the Department of Justice released a new trove of emails, social media sleuths and journalists scoured the files for mentions of Trump, who had a long and well-documented friendship with Epstein.Itâs hard to say when that friendship ended, but Trump claimed in 2019 that he hadnât spoken to Epstein for â15 years.â He has denied being a part of Epsteinâs sex-trafficking ring.But two new emails unearthed by The Bulwarkâs Sarah Longwell appear suspicious. On March 22, 2011, Epstein emailed a man named âNicholas L. Ribisâ the following (edited to correct spelling and grammar):The girl in the new papers that has made all this trouble said she worked at Mar-a-Lago when she was 15, in 1998. Iâm virtually positive that is a lie. It was when she was 17, in 2000. Her name is [REDACTED]. Who would I go to verify? I donât know how Donald would respond?Epsteinâs longtime accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell then replied (edited to correct spelling): I thought you said not to involve Donaldâanyway so now the die is castâyou now have to get her employment recordâIt will either show she started work in 1999 or 2000, as she was full-time there, and I believe you cannot be a minor and work full-time anywhere, so she had to be at least 16 to be in full-time employment. Perhaps start that wayâthat alone would kill her allegation that she was 15âas I said, you canât work full-time anywhere at that age ⌠either that or she gave fake ID to Mar-a-Lago, which is also possible âŚMaxwell reminding Epstein that he said ânot to involveâ Trump in his sex-trafficking scandal is vague, but it could imply that Epstein knew Trump was at least partially involved in the crimes. If so, itâs no wonder that Trumpâs DOJ has been periodically removing files that mention the president from the official government database.
You Can Arrest Journalists, But You Canât Arrest the Truth
Posted by Joshua Scheer I have reported this time and time again, and it bears repeating: where are our so-called âleadersâ? As democratic norms erode in real time, we are left with fewer and fewer options. What we are witnessing is not abstractâit is a direct attack on press freedom itself. As the former president […]
NEW Epstein Files Released - BAD NEWS FOR TRUMP
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Top Trump Official Admits Epstein Files Cover Up Key Evidence
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is claiming that, somehow, the Justice Department has no knowledge on the men who used convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epsteinâs network to abuse dozens of young womenâand it certainly wonât be found in the millions of new documents released on Friday.âJust to clarify, is the public going to learn the identities of the men who abused the girls with the information youâre releasing?â a reporter asked Blanche at a Friday press conference. âAnd if not, why not?â âI mean, you just baked in an assumption into your question that I have never said, and I donât know to be true,â Blanche replied. âIs the public going to learn about men that abused these girls? What does that mean? I donât understand what it means.â Blanche: "I do not whether there are men out there that abused these women. If we learn about information and evidence that allows us to prosecute them, you better believe we will. But I don't think the public is going to undercover men within the Epstein files that abused women.⌠pic.twitter.com/fvDGs72m3kâ Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 30, 2026âWe said in July ⌠if we had informationâwe, meaning the Department of Justiceâabout men who abused women, we would prosecute them,â Blanche continued. âThereâs a built-in assumption that somehow thereâs this hidden tranche of information of men that we know about, that weâre covering up, or weâre choosing not to prosecute. That is not the case. I donât know whether there are men out there that abused these women.âI donât think that the public [is going to] uncover men within the Epstein files that abused women,â he concluded. It was ridiculous to see a top Justice Department official feign confusion at the most pertinent question that anyone could have asked him at that moment. The department released three million files related to Epstein, who was facing federal charges of sex trafficking of minors when he died. Many of his victims have come forward over the years to talk about how they were abused by Epstein and his friends.Just this week, Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell claimed that 29 friends of the late sex trafficker were âprotectedâ by the Justice Department by way of âsecret settlements.ââSo Todd Blanche is claiming: They have 6 MILLION *files* (and have released <5% of it in 3M *pages*), [and proved] that Epstein and Maxwell trafficked. But CANâT prove who they trafficked to,â professor Adam Cochran wrote on X. âHow stupid do you need to be, to believe that? Even if you somehow donât think its Trump, then at the very least Trumpâs DoJ is protecting wealthy abusers!âRepresentative Ro Khanna, who co-sponsored a bill mandating the release of all unclassified Epstein files, noted that even as millions more documents dropped Friday, the right documents werenât being releasedâspecifically the â302â files, in which the victims identify their abusers, a convenient group of files to leave unreleased. âIf Blanche believes that there is no coverup, then he should release the 302 files. The 302 files are where the survivors name who these rich and powerful men are,â Khanna responded. âIâve talked to the survivors. They say that they have named those people in the FBI witness interviews. So if those witness interviews are released, the American people can see for themselves who the survivors named ⌠but if Blanche continues to not release the 302 statements, to not release the prosecution memosâthen itâs a cover-up.â The survivors want a transparent release. If there's no coverup this release should have the 302 statements and prosecution memos to show who these rich and powerful men were. pic.twitter.com/ZgjrHEKO3zâ Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) January 30, 2026
DOJ Briefly Erases Long List of Tips Against Trump in New Epstein Docs
In the latest part of its Epstein files rollout, the Justice Department released a long list of sexual abuse allegations against Donald Trump. Then it temporarily retracted it.The DOJ published three million pages of the Epstein files Friday, more than a month past its congressionally mandated deadline. The trove included one particularly shocking document: an FBI tip line record that included previously unreported sex abuse allegations against the president, some of which involved minors.The tip line includes unsubstantiated and potentially uninvestigated claims of abuse, sometimes by way of secondhand information.In one such undated line, a self-described friend of one of Trumpâs alleged victims submitted a tip.â[Redacted] reported an unidentified female friend who was forced to perform oral sex on President Trump approximately 35 years ago in NJ,â the top entry of the tip sheet reads. âThe friend told Alexis that she was approximately 13-14 years old when this occurred, and the friend allegedly bit President Trump while performing oral sex. The friend was allegedly hit in the face after she laughed about biting President Trump. The friend said she was also abused by [Jeffrey] Epstein.âThe page notes that the friend âwas sent to the Washington Office to conduct an interview.âBut just a couple of hours after the DOJ published the tip sheet, the document was removed from the larger document cache.âPage not found,â read the page that replaced by the original document link. âWe are sorry, the page youâre looking for canât be found on the Department of Justice website.âThe altered webpage is incorrectly dated, as well, suggesting that it was last updated May 30, 2025.Then, inexplicably, the document was accessible again.Email messages and signatures attached to the document signal that it was partially censored and transferred between FBI agents in August, when a journalist filed an information request in relation to New York property brothers turned child predators Tal, Oren, and Alon Alexander.