This indicates the FBI wanted to pursue a criminal child sex trafficking investigation into Donald Trump based on this woman’s account. She refused to cooperate. When Trump came up an FBI interview, her lawyer demurred, citing her “fear of retaliation”

I know it seems pretty hard to believe for some reason, but it looks like the FBI at some point really did want to pursue a criminal child sex trafficking investigation into Donald Trump based on what this woman told them (and may have been able to corroborate to some extent)

NEWS: The woman who told the FBI that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a child "refused to cooperate" with the FBI against him, according to an email in the Epstein database; in a previously unreported file, her name was initially unredacted. substack.com/@sollenberge...

Brendan Carr is 47 years old

In the last 7 months, Cory Mills and his company have each faced their own separate and unrelated eviction lawsuits for not paying rent, AND each have had judges slap them with their own separate and unrelated restraining orders—Cory for dating violence, his company to freeze its assets

Rep. Cory Mills’s weapons company is going broke so fast & being so dishonest that a federal court froze its assets this week. Congressional and court reporters, check out this order along with the earlier and *completely insane* recent activity for DSS v. Pacem Defense, EDVA

Roger does amazing, essential reporting.

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By choosing not to publicly release three FBI interviews with an underage Trump accuser—interviews the DOJ gave Ghislaine Maxwell at trial—Trump's DOJ has allowed Maxwell to retain potential blackmail over the president. But that leverage over Trump vanishes if DOJ made them public, as law requires

By choosing not to publicly release three FBI interviews with an underage Trump accuser—interviews the DOJ gave Ghislaine Maxwell at trial—Trump's DOJ has allowed Maxwell to retain potential blackmail over the president. But that leverage over Trump vanishes if DOJ made them public, as law requires

NEW: I caught the DOJ deleting a record showing Ghislaine Maxwell has potential blackmail on Trump. The document reveals that DOJ gave Maxwell's lawyers three FBI interviews with an underage Trump accuser that have not been released to the public. sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/doj-delete...

This email was forwarded within the FBI. The person who forwarded it wrote "FYSA" — for your situational awareness. The original email is also an internal FBI email. It should be in the Epstein files. But searches for the subject line and phrases within that email turn up—you guessed it!—nothing

This internal FBI email — July 22 of last year, just before Todd Blanche interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell — might be the most significant document in the Epstein files www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

UPDATE: DOJ has restored the doc showing 4 FBI formal interviews with the Trump accuser, which I reported accurately was taken down. (We still don't have access to 3 of the interviews.) Link: justice.gov/epstein/file... Proof the link was down earlier today: web.archive.org/web/20260219...

NEWS: The Epstein victim who told the FBI that Donald Trump also sexually assaulted her when she was an underage teen had a brother who was arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The woman was suing Epstein’s estate at the time. sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/underage-t...

As promised, NEWS: The woman who told the FBI that Trump sexually assaulted her as a child included a matching claim against a "prominent, wealthy man" from New York in the lawsuit she filed against Epstein's estate and was reportedly paid to settle. sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/underage-a...

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NEWS: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was underage not once — but at least FOUR times. But the document that shows those additional interviews appears to have been deleted from the DOJ website. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Just occurred to me that as Trump’s DOJ was investigating, indicting, and arresting Epstein — and talking that same summer to a woman accusing Trump of assaulting her as a child — across almost that exact same timeline he does all that crazy shit with Ukraine that ends up getting him impeached

As promised, NEWS: The woman who told the FBI that Trump sexually assaulted her as a child included a matching claim against a "prominent, wealthy man" from New York in the lawsuit she filed against Epstein's estate and was reportedly paid to settle. sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/underage-a...

Hey gang, so sorry for this — really, I am — but... more news coming soon

NEWS: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was underage not once — but at least FOUR times. But the document that shows those additional interviews appears to have been deleted from the DOJ website. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Big news coming.

Leaving to spend more time investigating the flammability of pants.

Remember that mindbending saga about Kristi Noem that WSJ ran a few days ago & dropped every jaw in the house? NBC has a follow-up saying Noem directed a USCG plane to deport people while the plane was searching the Pacific for a servicemember overboard. Never found. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

"Europe’s privacy watchdog has opened a 'large-scale' inquiry into Elon Musk’s X over AI-generated non-consensual sexual imagery, in the latest sign of how regulators are scrutinising the social media site’s Grok chatbot."

Missouri officials directed county election administrators to make voters temporarily unable to vote if they were flagged as potential noncitizens by a federal tool. But in hundreds of cases, the tool's determinations were wrong. With @texastribune.org

No, fake news, you see what the president obviously meant was that he kicked Epstein out of his club for being a creep

The same Black activists who fought to get Philadelphia to install memorials to slavery had to fight for them again after the Trump administration removed the plaques. They won. Again.

Black activists fought for slavery exhibits 24 years ago. The fight returned under Trump. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

Bill Barr’s preemptive interference with the Mueller report — a month into his tenure as attorney general — will one day be understood as one of the most influential and significant inflection points for political journalism and media in U.S. history

Lots of criticisms of this DOJ for “withholding” a lot of the Epstein files, in defiance of the law. I see files are missing. Seems to be a fair criticism. But what if DOJ isn’t “withholding” any files? What if instead they severed cases from “the Epstein files” and are making a technical argument?

Honest question: Has Trump ever in his life actually been completely exonerated of anything for which he’s said he’s been completely exonerated

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On one hand, Trump says he was “totally” or “completely” exonerated in the Epstein files about 200 times in 30 seconds. On the other, last year the FBI internally flagged a victim they’d interviewed saying he forced her as a minor to give him oral sex & punched her www.instagram.com/reel/DU10Cia...

This informative clip cuts just before Frank, citing his extensive experience with the Bureau, notes that agents typically have five days to write & file interviews. However, this form says it was filed 16 days after the interview. Epstein was found dead the next day. substack.com/@thefrankfig...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

A question about the Epstein files: What happened to Pam Bondi’s dramatic order to Kash Patel a year ago, to tell her why the FBI NY office suddenly “surprised” her with “thousands of pages” of additional docs? At exactly the same time the FBI returned some, maybe not all, of Trump’s stolen MAL docs

So about that White House pretense that Trump hasn’t been accused of any wrongdoing (via @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social) substack.com/home/post/p-...

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

"The interview was conducted July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell."

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

NEWS: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who credibly accused Trump of sexual assault, Epstein files show. substack.com/@sollenberge...

Absolutely insane band. youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

“They’re real.” This would be the greatest revelation in human history. On a podcast. It is statistically likely that there are or were, at some time somewhere, aliens, but there are equally strong arguments that it’s statistically unlikely we’d ever be aware of them. “They’re real” is wild.

This is one crazy article about Gwendolyn Beck www.lbc.co.uk/article/who-...

In 2021, I reported on an internal meeting at Facebook about discussions to put facial recognition on new smartglasses. One of their execs complained about the coverage and said the co would have a "very public discussion" about the tech. They never did. And now: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Looks like Lewandowski put a DHS lawyer on leave after the lawyer wouldn’t agree that the United States government should issue Corey—a temporary employee—a firearm. DHS eventually used an autopen to sign the gun papers, but seems they iced the plan when press found out, knowing it is totally insane

BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...