NEW/EXCLUSIVE: A French branch of HSBC closed a bank account maintained by Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 after compliance officers flagged transactions for suspicious activity, including payments tied to a modeling agent later accused of rape & sex trafficking 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Zelensky: “We are facing one of the most dangerous periods in Ukrainian history, a choice between losing our dignity and freedom and losing US support. We choose dignity. My answer is my oath of office. I did not betray Ukraine in Feb 2022 and we won’t betray in now.”

Tariffs “don’t raise prices.” But now that we’re dropping them, they’ll lower prices. 🤡 @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/4e55...

Trump’s 28-point proposal on the Ukraine war is literally being dictated by Russia to the corrupt Witkoff: “[The] new peace plan is being crafted by U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, who's been in contact with Kirill Dmitriev, Russia's top economic negotiator.” kyivindependent.com/us-pushes-uk...

To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Page One in Iowa.

NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

Terrific

This is pretty intense foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/t...

The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.

"I'm trying to have a pleasant conversation with my friend, the cold-blooded murderer, and you have the effrontery to ask me about my other friend, the sex trafficker. No more questions for you."

“Quiet, Piggy” getting more pickup. @cnn.com @peoplemag.bsky.social @dailymirrornews.bsky.social

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/andr...

Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten. For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.

What if Olivia Nuzzi DELIBERATELY wrote a terrible book, thereby ensuring that professional writers and editors, with their large platforms, would mock it, indirectly generating publicity for her silly, salacious story. Is she capable of doing something so cynical and corrupt?

Trump: “Tariffs protect you!” Also Trump (a few months later): “We’re cutting tariffs to help with the cost of living!” Economists: “So… you admit it?” Trump: nervous coughing noises

Maddening, but the right move. Earlier this year, anyone who ever took Macro 101 was telling the Trump administration that its crazy tariffs would lead to higher prices. They ignored us. And now: "Trump on Friday moved to lower tariffs on beef, coffee and dozens of agricultural and food goods."

Steve Bannon went from managing Trump’s campaign in 2016 to advising Jeffrey Epstein on PR and communications in 2018. Epstein and Bannon had an extremely close relationship.

This email from Jeffrey Epstein to himself & then forwarded to Michael Wolff is quite significant. Among other things, he writes: “[Redacted] worked at Mara Lago. Trump knew of it, and came to my house many times during that period. The testimony of the houseman John Allessi [sic] confirmed it.”

Kristi Noem: "You cross the border illegally we'll find you. Break our laws we'll punish you." It's ironic to see Noem sitting in front of the Black Hills, talking about borders & enforcing the law. When White prospectors came to the Hills in 1874-75, they violated a border & broke the law.

Important story: The Russian military intelligence officer Aleksey Lukashev, who was involved in the 2016 election interference operation, has been arrested in Thailand. It will be interesting to see how Trump FBI & DOJ makes this story disappear.

Wow. Russian media outlet “Vot Tak” reports that Thai police arrested a 35yo Russian hacker wanted for attacks on US and EU government systems. FBI agents observed the arrest and seek extradition. He may be Alexey Lukashev, a GRU officer linked to the Fancy Bear hacking group.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

Epstein on Trump: “…he lists his ‘income’ as the Gross receipts of the clubs. with no expense deducted…ie the doral golf club loses money every year. It pays out more than it takes in, but he lists the revenue as his income. AMAZING.” Even the criminal Epstein is shocked by Trump's corruption.

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

Michael Wolff’s pitch for his next book: “The reason I know Jeffrey Epstein was blackmailing Donald Trump is because I was the one advising him to do so.”

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Probably not the greatest timing for JP Morgan.

The Epstein files are clearly more damning than we assumed, which is saying something.

In Dante's Inferno, contrapasso was the relationship between the sin and the subsequent punishment. When Karoline Leavitt goes to the Inferno someday, she'll be forced to defend the crimes of her boss, over and over, for eternity.

What does Steve Bannon know?

Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou on Donald Trump: “Ghislaine Maxwell did introduce me to him and she introduced me to him with a clear message of my being with him in the same way that she had trafficked me and brought me to Jeffrey Epstein” #OpDeathEaters

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."

Remember how Elon said that Trump was in the Epstein files and that’s why he won’t let them be released and he apparently knew all about that but then decided to be friends with Trump again a week later so he just deleted that tweet and doesn’t mention it and no one regards that as a bit of an issue

New reporting from @nytimes.com: “In one of the messages, Mr. Epstein flatly asserted that Mr. Trump ‘knew about the girls,’ many of whom were later found by investigators to have been underage.”

"Look, every word the president just said is a lie." -- Me, telling the truth.

We have all been thinking about this, Ghislaine.

It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States. Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011: "i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."

Jeffrey Epstein: “I want you to realize that dog that hasn’t barked is trump…[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him,,he has never once been mentioned. police chief, etc. im 75% there.” Ghislaine Maxwell: “I’ve been thinking about that.” Trump's fear of Ghislaine now makes a lot of sense.

New reporting from @nytimes.com: “In one of the messages, Mr. Epstein flatly asserted that Mr. Trump ‘knew about the girls,’ many of whom were later found by investigators to have been underage.”

French combat deaths during WWI: roughly 1.3 million. USA deaths during WWI: about 100,000. Also, France had a large part of its country occupied for 4 years, resulting in tremendous property losses.

He campaigned on cutting the cost of living, but he has governed to raise it: regressive tariffs, immigration, fiddling with the Fed, cutting renewable energy, and firing the person whose job was to measure all of this.

In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.