Jason Epstein

Won’t get fooled again.

🚨🚨@RCPolitics EXCLUSIVE: Female Secret Service Agent Faulted for J13 Butler Failures That Nearly Killed Trump Suspended Again This time, the agent in question, Miyo Perez, is under internal Secret Service investigation for allegedly secretly marrying a foreign national and failing to report it for nine months. "DO NOT ADMIT" This is the third time Perez has been suspended in a little more than a year. She is on administrative leave and under "Do Not Admit" status while the investigation continues. Congressional investigations that examined the Butler failures faulted Perez for not placing any Secret Service or local police asset on top of the now-notorious sloped roof of the American Glass Building where would-be assassin Thomas Crooks fired off his shots, among other security problems at Butler. Yet Congress also questioned why the Secret Service allowed an inexperienced agent to be placed in such a crucial role at an outdoor rally with thousands of people in attendance. The decision to have Perez in a leading security role for the Butler rally is even more concerning considering that top-level Secret Service officials, including current Secret Service Director Sean Curran, who was serving as the Trump campaign detail leader at the time, had been briefed on an Iranian threat to Trump’s life. Despite the ongoing congressional investigations and internal Secret Service review of her role in the Butler failures, Perez quietly married a Brazilian foreign national last April without notifying the agency, according to a copy of her marriage certificate located on the Brevard County public records website and according to sources familiar with the timing of when she informed the agency of her marriage. THE INVESTIGATION IS LOOKING INTO THE TIMING OF PEREZ'S MARRIAGE TO A FOREIGN NATIONAL AND WHETHER THE WOMAN WAS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT AT THE TIME OF THE MARRIAGE Perez had informed the Secret Service of her contact with the Brazilian woman in 2024 before the assassination attempt on Trump’s life, but the agency may have either lost the notification or failed to act on it at the time, according to several sources in the Secret Service community. It’s unclear, however, whether Perez characterized the contact accurately in 2024 and ever since. Agents are questioning whether she followed mandatory protocol to keep the Secret Service updated on how the relationship was developing and when the two began to live together and subsequently married. The marriage took place in April 2025, according to the marriage certificate attained on a public records database. I'll link to the marriage certificate below. Yet sources in the Secret Service community say Perez didn’t inform the agency until January, nine months after the marriage took place. The internal Secret Service investigation is examining whether the woman Perez was dating and married last year had overstayed her visa and was facing a deportation order, multiple sources familiar with the matter told RCP. SECRET SERVICE HAS A CHECKERED HISTORY OF COVERING UP OR UNEVENLY DISCIPLINING AGENTS WHO HAVE HAD RELATIONSHIPS WITH FOREIGN NATIONALS, INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE KNOWN RUSSIAN SPY In 2018, news broke that a suspected Russian spy had been working for the Secret Service in the U.S. embassy in Moscow for at least a decade. Dan Bongino @dbongino revealed on his podcast that he had tried to report the spy when he was serving in the embassy before he left the Secret Service in 2011 but was dismissed and told to keep his mouth shut. The same Russian woman was suspected of being involved in an affair with the top Secret Service agent working at the embassy, who had served as the Resident Agent in Charge, or RAC, after Bongino left but several years before her discovery as a spy, multiple sources in the Secret Service community told RCP. The Secret Service and the FBI launched an extensive investigation and suspended the former Secret Service RAC because he couldn’t pass his polygraph when questioned about his relationship with the spy, according to sources familiar with the matter. At the time, the agent in question was the head of the Inspections Division, which oversees disciplinary actions and investigations against all Secret Service employees. The agency allowed this agent to remain on administrative leave until he retired in 2019, a breach of normal disciplinary protocol to benefit an agent and keep the matter out of the press, the sources told RCP. READ The FULL @RCPOLITICS STORY BELOW, INCLUDING SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR SEAN CURRAN'S DECISION TO PROMOTE TWO SUPERVISORS WHO WERE CHARGED WITH OVERSEEING PEREZ'S HANDLING OF THE BUTLER RALLY SECURITY. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

⚡ BREAKING: Federal government sues @Harvard for discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

@DKThomp @senderowiczj So convincing.

@senderowiczj I think it’s comparable in exactly the way I compared them and it’s not comparable in the ways I don’t compare them

It’s amazing to me how many resources must be devoted to geopolitical strategy, intelligence gathering, and war planning in the US and Russia; and yet the two most high-profile wars of the last five years involve a military superpower attempting a blitzkrieg decapitation of an opponent and appearing shocked and stunned and flummoxed when the attacked adversary doesn’t surrender but actually fights back

Thank you, President @realDonaldTrump, for your warm hospitality today at the White House and at this evening’s dinner. We had substantive and forward-looking discussions across a wide range of issues, reaffirming the strength of the Japan-U.S. Alliance. It was a truly meaningful and productive day. I look forward to continuing close cooperation between Japan and the United States to make our two nations stronger and more prosperous. トランプ大統領、本日のホワイトハウス、そして今晩の夕食会での温かいおもてなしに感謝します。 幅広い分野について、内容の充実した前向きな議論を行い、日米同盟の力強さを改めて確認することができました。 大変実り多く、有意義な一日となりました。 強く豊かな国作りのために、今後も日米で緊密に協力していきたいと思います。

昨日の夕食会では、夕食会場の外に私が到着したら、軍の音楽隊の方々が、Ｘ Japanの「Rusty Nail」を演奏して下さり、大感激でした。

@tedperl @BradOnMessage Very funny.

@BradOnMessage Trump could end this in 30 seconds. Just call Rep leadership and tell them to pass Dem bill on funding TSA.

Who's going to stick a mic in Jon Ossoff's face and make him defend what he's doing to Georgians in this airport? Or are we gonna interview the people in line & ask if they are mad at Ossoff? Or are we not doing that in this particular shutdown, unlike the prior ones?

@guypbenson OK. Are any conservative publications up to the task?

Journos overwhelmingly support this shutdown, want ICE defunded, and support Ossoff’s reelection. They treat Dem shutdowns differently because they are Dems.

Air raid alerts sounded and UAE air defenses were activated as worshippers arrived for Eid al-Fitr prayers early this morning.

@dpatrikarakos The bloke doesn't care. The next time he posts something even remotely factual will be the first.

No it did not. Utterly irresponsible post. I wrote a book on Iran’s nuclear program - this lie totally misrepresents Iran’s stance in all negotiations and its strategic mindset.

@FurkanGozukara The next time you post something even remotely factual will be the first.

BOMBSHELL: Iran offered to give away ALL of its enriched uranium during peace talks in Geneva. The British thought it was a credible offer. Hours later, Trump started bombing Iran anyway. The US didn't want peace, they wanted war.

Another video shows the moment a fragment from an Iranian ballistic missile struck Jerusalem's Old City this afternoon.

@neeratanden Are you high?

The GOP in Congress shut down a bill to fund the TSA a mere days ago.

Please listen to the great Thomas Sowell talk about the existential threat posed by the Islamist Regime in Iran “You don’t deter suicidal people…you either stop them or you don’t” This isn’t about Trump, it’s about western civilization…Trump just had the courage to stop them

I don’t think the world realizes how close we were to the Iranian regime destroying Al Aqsa Mosque today. But of course, it doesn’t care. It’s an apocalyptic cult. It knows if it hits the mosque, millions will say it’s a “Zionist false flag.” Maybe that’s what it’s aiming for.

A Republican Party that won’t compete is a Republican Party that won’t win

@CTIronman You don't win 100% of the elections you don't enter.

𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚.𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗝𝗢𝗘 𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗘𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗕𝗔𝗧𝗘. Joe Kent goes on Tucker Carlson. Within minutes — not hours, minutes — the same clip, same caption, same outrage floods hundreds of accounts simultaneously. HonestReporting.AI Labs tracked every amplification event in real time, and the data is damning. The trigger quote — 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 — was clipped and posted across hundreds of accounts almost simultaneously. Not after it trended. During the broadcast. Real breaking news takes time to spread organically. This had a running start. Who amplified it? Look at the coalition: Russian state TV (RT). Iranian state media through HispanTV. Hamas-aligned Quds News Network. Turkish state broadcaster TRT. Sputnik Brasil. And simultaneously — Jackson Hinkle, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Max Blumenthal. Russia, Iran, Hamas, and MAGA dissidents. All posting the same message. At the same time. When does that happen naturally? It doesn't. The charts tell the story precisely. Within 2 to 4 hours of the Tucker broadcast, tracked amplification events spiked to 30 — dominated by MAGA dissident amplifiers and Pro-Palestinian/Islamist networks firing in parallel. The second chart shows how far the narrative traveled from what Kent actually said. By the time the amplification cycle was complete, the message had escalated from Kent's original claim all the way to "Israel controls America" — an approximately 85-90% departure from source material. That is not interpretation. That is narrative laundering. The rollout wasn't spontaneous. Kent resigned. Tucker booked him within hours. Real whistleblowers are chaotic. They call journalists from parking lots. They don't have a media tour lined up before the ink dries on their resignation letter. And here's what got buried in all of it: from 2020 to 2024, Joe Kent publicly and repeatedly called for destroying Iran's nuclear AND ballistic capabilities. That record was almost completely absent from the amplified conversation. Narrative laundering doesn't only determine what to amplify. It determines what to erase. The FBI was already investigating Kent. He resigned to control the narrative. The speed, the uniformity, and the foreign state amplification are not organic. This was a coordinated information operation — and the people pushing it included both foreign adversaries and Americans who should know better. 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮, 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻, 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

@shashj @DickensianYouth During the Biden administration did you endorse Elbridge Colby's repeated call for a significant mobilization of the defense industrial base? If not, then maybe you should sit this one out?

I wrote this week with @DickensianYouth on how the Iran war might affect US military power for years to come, depleting stockpiles & eroding naval readiness. The war is a testing ground for new technologies. But it could also reveal some tactics to China. economist.com/briefing/2026/…

RIP Chuck Norris. A legend.

@GabiAMitchell JFK is a total clusterf*ck these days. With any luck, that renovation will be done before the end of this or next decade.

@Southfive ah i thought it was just a regular day...i have nightmares from laguardia and jfk

This insanity brought to you by every Senate Democrat not named Fetterman.