Peter Merritt

@SenRandPaul Because they are in on it. Why would they go after their donors?

Independent journalists are putting government to shame. How is it possible they uncover waste, fraud, and abuse, yet people who get paid to monitor and prevent the welfare rip-offs are clearly failing?

@MattWalshBlog It won't matter if the next AG also does absolutely nothing.

Some of us have been critical of how the DOJ bungled the Epstein stuff and has failed to aggressively prosecute left wing extremists, among other failures. We were shouted down by other influencers on this site who insist that everything is fine and the administration should never be criticized under any circumstance. Will those people apologize now and admit we were actually right about Bondi? Of course not. Rhetorical question.

@dom_lucre Democrats hate facts

🔥🚨BREAKING: Nick Cannon has infuriated millions of liberals after announcing that the Democratic Party is “the party of the KKK": "People don’t know that the Democrats are the party of the KKK. People don’t know that the Republicans are the party that freed the slaves."

@ScottJenningsKY Everyone knew this. It was a pillar of his campaign.

Remember when the national media tried to impeach Justice Alito because his wife hung up George Washington’s flag on their porch?

THE DONALD TRUMP FILES What about Donald Trump? Isn't he in the Epstein files? Well, we have now read 1.39 million DOJ documents in the Epstein case. Every one. We have built investigation dossiers on eight people: Bill Gates (2,265 documents), Woody Allen (2,613), Reid Hoffman (1,976), Bill Clinton (1,586), Larry Summers (739), Leon Black (667), Elon Musk (55), and Donald Trump. For Donald Trump, across the entire corpus, we found 40 documents. Not 40 damning documents. 40 documents total -- every sworn deposition, every FBI interview, every civil complaint, every flight log entry, every media reference of any kind linking Trump to Epstein in the largest document production in DOJ history. As with Elon, the number is the story. And as with Elon, the documents themselves tell that story even better. Every quote below is verbatim. Every citation is a DOJ document number you can verify. Click the links. This post comes from those links. There are just 40. You can read them yourself. THE FRIENDSHIP It must be made clear: Trump and Epstein were friends. This must be stated plainly, because everything that follows only makes sense if you understand that. They were Palm Beach neighbors in the 1990s. Both owned waterfront estates. Both moved in the same Manhattan social circles -- the dinner-party circuit that included Mort Zuckerman, Leon Black, Ronald Perelman, and a dozen other New York billionaires. In March 2003, Vanity Fair profiled Epstein as "The Talented Mr. Epstein" and named Trump as one of seven businessmen who dined at his 71st Street townhouse [187-11]. Juan Alessi, Epstein's house manager, named Trump among many prominent visitors to the Palm Beach property [055-12]. A 1993 photograph shows Trump and Marla Maples with Epstein and Maxwell at a New York party [EFTA00787056]. This was before Epstein's convictions. In 2002, reached by phone for a New York Magazine profile, Trump gave the currently most weaponized quote in the entire archive: "I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it -- Jeffrey enjoys his social life." [EFTA00013640] That quote has been cited thousands of times. It was given on speakerphone, before any public allegations, before any investigation, before any reason to be cautious. "It is even said that" is hearsay framing -- Trump reporting what others say. "On the younger side" is ambiguous. But the quote exists, and it reflects a social warmth that post-Epstein scandal Trump would prefer to erase. In 2003, Ghislaine Maxwell assembled a leather-bound album for Epstein's 50th birthday. Trump's contribution: a card with "several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker," signed below the waist [senate_judiciary_to_bondi]. These are the facts, and the facts must be stated openly. The friendship was real. But what happened next matters more. THE FALLING OUT Around 2004, that friendship ended. Trump outbid Epstein at auction for the Maison de L'Amitie estate in Palm Beach. In Michael Wolff's 2017 recordings, Epstein himself confirmed the real estate dispute as the breaking point [wolff_tapes_transcript_exhibit]. But the real estate dispute was simply the excuse that Epstein made for something darker. Brad Edwards, the attorney who represented Epstein's victims, established under oath that Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after Epstein sexually assaulted an underage girl at the club [773-04]. There is no documented contact between Trump and Epstein after the falling out in 2004. Not one email. Not one phone call. Not one schedule entry. Not one reference of any kind in 1.39 million documents. After 2004, the relationship was over. Trump had drawn a hard line. THE GIRL IN THE SPA Virginia Roberts was sixteen years old, earning nine dollars an hour as a locker room attendant at Mar-a-Lago [1218-11]. In her memoir, she described the club in awestruck terms -- "sheer awe at the gold arches." Ghislaine Maxwell approached her while she was reading a book about massage [EFTA01689026]. "I was working at Donald Trump's spa in Mar-a-Lago and I was prompted by Ghislaine to come to Jeffrey's mansion in Palm Beach that afternoon after work." [1090-16] Roberts names many powerful men in her testimony. Clinton. Prince Andrew. Dershowitz. Wexner. She does not name Trump. He was the property owner. But Maxwell did the recruiting. An FBI interview of a different victim's mother captures how this worked: she "heard that a prince and DONALD TRUMP visited EPSTEIN's house and this made [her] think that if they are there then how could EPSTEIN be a criminal" [EFTA00089603]. That is what Epstein did with famous names. He wore used them as bait. As camouflage. If Epstein was associated with so-and-so, then how could he be a predator? Trump, unlike others, immediately put a stop to that. THE ACCUSATIONS Three allegations against Trump exist in the corpus. A Jane Doe civil lawsuit against Epstein's estate alleges that Epstein introduced her to Trump when she was fourteen, "allegedly elbowing Trump and saying, 'This is a good one, right?' Trump smiled and nodded in agreement" [1078-5]. At the Maxwell trial, a victim testified under oath that Epstein introduced her to Trump and took her to Mar-a-Lago when she was fourteen [120-cr-00330/745]. That testimony confirmed the social introduction. It contained no allegation of misconduct by Trump. Defense counsel used Trump's name to establish Epstein's social reach, not to implicate Trump. In 2016, during the presidential campaign, a civil complaint alleged the rape of a thirteen-year-old at Epstein's 71st Street house in the summer of 1994 -- Katie Johnson v. Trump & Epstein [EFTA01386393]. It was filed pro se, dismissed for improper filing, refiled with an attorney, and dropped before trial. It was never proven, never tested under cross-examination, never corroborated by any other witness in the criminal investigation. In August 2017, Epstein told Michael Wolff on tape: "I was Donald's closest friend for 10 years" [wolff_tapes_transcript_exhibit]. He claimed Trump liked to "f--- the wives of his best friends" and that Melania first slept with Trump on Epstein's plane. These recordings were released days before the 2024 election. They are unsworn claims by a convicted pedophile and serial liar to an author -- a man who told the same journalist his week included "woody allen, elon musk, frank gehri... bill gates" [EFTA02561193]. And that pedophile and liar had an axe to grind. A big one. Those are the allegations. What follows is what happened when they were investigated. THE INVESTIGATION The FBI investigated Donald Trump in connection with the Epstein case. The master case index lists him as a "positive case hit" with "salacious information": "Donald Trump (one identified victim claimed abuse by Trump but ultimately refused to cooperate)" [EFTA00161528]. One allegation. One victim who refused to cooperate. No prosecution. The FBI's National Threat Operations Center received four separate complaints naming Trump [EFTA01660679]. A hearsay oral sex claim via a friend-of-friend chain. An anonymous party guest list. A claim about "big orgy parties" from a sixteen-year-old model. A Trump Golf Course allegation "deemed not credible." All anonymous. None corroborated. The Senate Judiciary Committee -- bipartisan, Grassley and Durbin -- reported that FBI personnel were specifically instructed to "flag" any records in which President Trump was mentioned across all 1.39 million documents. The result: no incriminating "client list." No evidence of criminal conduct [senate_judiciary_to_bondi]. The Southern District of New York, which prosecuted the Epstein case, had Trump's phone records in their evidence. Their grand jury presentation includes a message slip showing Trump called Epstein on November 1, 2000 -- a routine call, no message content [EFTA00008599]. The same presentation, same pages, includes message slips reading "She has females for Mr. J.E." Prosecutors had Trump's innocuous call alongside explicit trafficking procurement. They found nothing to charge. Attorney General William Barr, under oath before the House Oversight Committee: "I was never informed of the evidence, and I'm skeptical there is any... if they had evidence, this would've been low-hanging fruit." [oversight_republican_staff_memo] THE ATTORNEY WHO WOULD KNOW Brad Edwards represented Epstein's victims for years. He investigated every lead. He subpoenaed records, deposed witnesses, and built the case that led to federal prosecution. He was the attorney most motivated to find evidence against anyone connected to Epstein. In April 2010, Edwards filed a sworn affidavit: "While research by other plaintiffs' attorneys and myself has uncovered other persons that were acquaintances of Mr. Epstein, specifically Donald Trump, Alan Dershowitz, Bill Clinton, Tommy Mottola, and David Copperfield, we have no information that any of those people (other than Mr. Dershowitz) have spoken to Mr. Epstein about Jane Doe or any of the other specific victims of Mr. Epstein's molestation." [560-03] Edwards' attorney Jack Scarola: "There is no evidence the President was involved in Epstein's schemes" [773-04]. Edwards filed a notice to depose Trump in September 2009 [701]. As a witness. Not as a suspect. He sought Trump's testimony to help the victim's case. And there is this: when Edwards was investigating Epstein, reaching out to the powerful men in Epstein's orbit for cooperation, Trump was the only person who picked up the phone and returned his call [50-2009-CA-040800/549]. The attorney who spent years investigating on behalf of Epstein's victims -- who had every reason to find evidence, every incentive to implicate the powerful -- swore under oath that his investigation found nothing linking Trump to the abuse. When he called, Trump answered. Readily. Trump knew what Epstein was and wanted to talk about it. WHAT THE DOCUMENTS DON'T SHOW Pilot David Rodgers flew Epstein's planes for twenty-eight years. He sat for a seventeen-page FBI interview and reviewed his flight logs covering 1991 through 2007 [EFTA00159180]. Trump appears once: Flight 934, January 5, 1997. Passengers: Epstein, Maxwell, Donald Trump, Mark Epstein, and Didier, a chef. Route: Palm Beach to Newark. No flight in the corpus shows Trump traveling to Little Saint James, to Zorro Ranch, or to any international destination on Epstein's aircraft. Epstein's famous ninety-two-page personal contact book does not contain a "Donald Trump" entry [black-book-redacted]. It lists Robert and Blaine Trump, Ivana Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Trump Management Inc. -- the socialite channel, not Donald. There are zero financial transactions between Trump and Epstein in any direction. No donations. No investments. No advisory fees. No foundation grants. Even Epstein's own defense lawyers, in a motion to pare down a 169-person witness list, argued that Trump had "no connection at all" to the case [1338]. And Epstein himself, in a draft letter, grouped Trump among "friends and other innocent bystanders" whose names had been dragged in by "abusive discovery" [EFTA01128737]. THE COMPARISON The Epstein documents reveal concentric circles of association. At the center: people who were financially entangled, who visited the island repeatedly, who maintained the relationship through and after Epstein's conviction. Trump was not in any of these circles. Woody Allen: 2,613 documents. Nine years of regular contact. Dinner companion. Epstein attended his film shoots. Bill Gates: 2,265 documents. Multiple confirmed meetings. Donations routed through Epstein. Boris Nikolic named in Epstein's will. Reid Hoffman: 1,976 documents. 36 documented gift exchanges. Slept at Epstein's 71st Street mansion. Bill Clinton: 1,586 documents. 147 sexually explicit messages with Maxwell. Multiple confirmed island visits. Flights on Epstein's plane confirmed by his pilot ("ten or twenty times"). Active participation in the post-arrest denial campaign. Larry Summers: 739 documents. Regular dinner companion. Island visits with family. Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics funded through Epstein. Leon Black: 667 documents. $158 million paid to Epstein across a decades-long financial relationship. Elon Musk: 55 documents. Zero financial transactions. Twenty-two months of sporadic, taciturn emails with Epstein chasing Musk, but leaving Epstein little to grab onto. Donald Trump: 40 documents. Zero financial transactions. Zero island visits. One commuter flight. A friendship that ended in 2004, eleven years before the first federal prosecution, after Trump drew the line and Epstein was banned from Mar-a-Lago for his behavior. The only person in Epstein's orbit who returned the victim's attorney's call. Trump's entire file is 1.8% the size of Gates's. WHAT REMAINS These documents show a man who was part of an early social world he did not yet completely understand, who called a predator "terrific" before anyone knew what that predator was, who sent a crude birthday card before there was any reason not to, whose property was used as a hunting ground without his knowledge or permission -- and who, when the investigation came, banned the predator from his club, picked up the phone for the victim's attorney, and was cleared by every investigative body that looked. 40 documents. Every quote verbatim. Every citation verifiable. Full compendium (40 docs): drive.google.com/file/d/1HhFLNr… AI-optimized compendium (upload to any LLM and ask it anything): drive.google.com/file/d/1Sl1Su1…

@NewswirePatriot Damn, who could have known? Absolutely shocking.

Rep. Stacie Marie Laughton, the first openly transgender person elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives, pleaded guilty to child sex abuse charges against children as young as 3 years old. Laughton's partner took naked photos of children between the ages of 3 to 5 in a daycare bathroom and sent them to Laughton. The couple sent thousands of text messages about the children with Laughton requesting access to have sex with them. Laughton faces 30 years in prison for the charges. Do you think 30 years is a just punishment for this crime? ❓

@GovKathyHochul Yea you tell them Kathy. Keep taxing the hell out of the poor and middle class just for driving to work.

Donald Trump's attempt to kill congestion pricing just failed in court — and in spectacular fashion. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The cameras are staying on.

@GrimsMemes @RealJamesWoods Everyone's first thought.

This is what they’ve been up to all along. They did everything but strike the match.

@mattvanswol It's always been that way.

I don't know how you all who have been long-time conservatives have dealt with the media lying to you like this. I can BARELY take it anymore. Every morning I wake up to some insane lie by the mainstream media. Something so blatantly false, a 2-second read of the situation instantly debunks it. How have you all dealt with this for years????? I know I'm new to the conservative scene, but I'm starting to lose my cool... ...how on EARTH do you deal with the ONSLAUGHT on media lies? I am literally staring at nonstop, incessant, brazen lies about Trump, his administration, everything he is doing for us, even small things like ICE raids, and DOGE... Just constant lies. How the hell do you deal with this?!!!!

@alexbruesewitz Please stop. You're going to lose true conservatives who pay attention and read these bills. Massie and Paul are the two best conservatives in Congress. We just had 87 "Republicans" vote to fund the democrats' censorship slush fund. Those are the RINOS we need to get rid of.

🚨 California is the breeding ground for voter fraud in America, as millions of people vote with no ID, month-long election processes, inaccurate voter rolls, dead people caught voting, even a dog successfully registered to vote, and voter verification is all based on your signature — not who you actually are. In this video, I go to locations from California’s public voter rolls from the Secretary of State, and not a single location could verify the voter rolls. - Irregularities in voter numbers per location - 30+ people registered to one mail store - Voters inaccurately aged at 125 years old Without any voter ID and negligence from the state government to update their voter rolls, California’s one-party state has created a complex system where fraud is inevitable in their voting process. If you appreciate this video give it a like and share it around!

@lawler4ny New York shouldn't get a cent until Labor Law is repealed and jobs are competitively bid on to protect the best interests of tax payers. No more ripping New Yorkers off with prevailing wage and DEI requirements either.

The Gateway Project has a direct effect on New York’s 17th district, providing a one seat ride into New York City. This is a critical infrastructure project. The federal government should be working with our state partners to make sure there are not cost overruns.

@BasedMikeLee Now do property taxes.

The “unrealized capital gains” tax is a progressive favorite It’s just straight-up wealth confiscation Thankfully, Congress is constitutionally prohibited from imposing such a tax in the U.S.

@LibertyLockPod The swamp runs deep. If you don't support Massie you aren't a conservative.

"It's personal to me now. It's true my political life is on the line but my health & wellbeing may very well be too" If you aren't backing up Massie in this fight I don't want to hear another fkn word from you about battling the deep state This is OUR guy

@mattvanswol Democrats need him on the streets so he can vote.

🚨WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL???!!!! THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS NOW BEGGING MY CITY, ASHEVILLE NC (A SANCTUARY CITY FOR ILLEGALS!!!), TO HAND OVER THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT THAT R*APED 3 CHILDREN A FEW MILES FROM MY HOUSE... ...AND THEY WON'T DO IT????? WHAT????!!!! "The child told detectives that the man kissed the child. When he attempted to “take it further,” the child told him “no.” "He slapped (the child) on the face and proceeded to r*pe (the child)." I HAVE NO WORDS!!!!!!! WHY ARE YOU PROTECTING A CHILD R*PIST ASHEVILLE?????!!!!!!!

@kevinolearytv It's absolutely insane. You can't renovate your home either. For the privilege of improving your home, my town in NY charges 1.5% of the total cost of your renovation. Then naturally they punish you even further by raising your taxes year after year.

@libsoftiktok So shutdown the government until they cave.

BREAKING: The Senate just FAILED in a vote to pass a federal funding bill for DHS. The votes were 52-47. It needs 60 votes total to pass. John Fetterman was reportedly the ONLY Democrat to vote in favor of the bill. Democrats don't want to fund our national security. They are putting the United States at risk.

@IngrahamAngle Massie and Rand Paul are the two best conservatives we have in Congress. Why isn't Trump pushing to make Doge cuts permanent and end pork barrel spending?

It’s as simple as this: Massie hates Trump. He has no other agenda.  His version of the “Constitution” means open borders, jobs being shipped overseas, and lower living standards for working people in America.  Now he wants to help Hakeem Jeffries become speaker.  No thanks.

@nypost This is a very misleading headline. They offered him a flight home to Ireland as soon as he was arrested. He CHOSE to stay in the detention facility. He should be deported and banned from ever coming back.

Irishman stuck in ICE custody 2K miles from his Boston home for overstaying visa 16 years ago: ‘It’s just torture’ #Echobox=1770826139" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nypost.com/2026/02/11/us-…

@GovKathyHochul @NYCMayor "Affordable" housing incentivizes people to earn less and have more children in order to enter a lottery with very slim hopes of winning. Meanwhile you get donations from the developers. Lower property taxes if you want housing to be affordable.

More homes means a more affordable New York. Today I stood with @NYCMayor and our partners in labor to send a clear message: Let them build.