Todd Blanche finally met with Epstein survivors — but only after two senators threatened his nomination. In this week’s Below the Beltway, @camaron.bsky.social breaks down why survivors call it political theater, and why Blanche is now the central figure in the DOJ's cover-up. bit.ly/4vyHIYg

UPDATE on Oversight’s Epstein investigation: Leon Black’s deposition has been postponed as lawyers lawyer things out. The deposition was scheduled for Thurs, and he was supposed to hand over the NDAs he had women sign delivered to Congress last week. Neither has happened, but both are in the works.

While Americans struggle to keep up with rising costs, Trump is pushing for the largest defense budget in U.S. history. @camaron.bsky.social breaks down what's driving Washington's priorities in this week's Below the Belt(way). bit.ly/4eXblOe

The Epstein files didn't disappear—they just got a new handler @sjdemas.bsky.social welcomes @couriernewsroom.bsky.social's @camaron.bsky.social to explain why Todd Blanche has become the man tasked with making the story go away. https://bit.ly/4yeTJ83 Subscribe to watch this episode of First Draft!

This is from my interview with Marina Lacerda, a survivor of Epstein's abuse who breaks down how horribly law enforcement treated her during the Palm Beach investigation, why survivors have been hesitant to trust police, and what the DOJ is still withholding from the public.

Constitution Avenue is being evacuated for a weather emergency, crowds are being told to shelter inside nearby Smithsonian museums #america250

BIG NEWS: Supreme Court rules against Trump administration in birthright citizenship case.

BREAKING: Rep. Comer just served Wall Street billionaire Leon Black two subpoenas after he refused to answer questions about Epstein and NDAs he had women sign.

Just how involved was billionaire Leon Black in Jeffrey Epstein’s world? In this week’s Below the Belt(way), COURIER’s new timeline maps their decades-long relationship using evidence from the Epstein Files. bit.ly/4xFBKqW

Marina Lacerda says she was just a child when Jeffrey Epstein began abusing her and pushed her into recruiting other girls. When the FBI finally investigated, she says they treated her like the criminal. @camaron.bsky.social shares her story in this week’s Below the Belt(way). bit.ly/4ekmLLE

URGENT: The Trump administration has cut the public comment period for a proposed ICE detention center in Marana, Arizona from 30 days to eight. I have an article coming out about this later today, but wanted to get the word out now, as the deadline for public comment is today — June 18.

Turns out Jeffrey Epstein being a registered sex offender wasn’t a dealbreaker in billionaire business circles. New reporting from @camaron.bsky.social in COURIER's newsletter, The Cover-Up, investigates who kept working with Epstein—and why. bit.ly/4eFjtm8

On Thursday, I’ll be joining journalists @ninaburleigh.bsky.social and @normeisen.bsky.social w/ @bigtentusa.bsky.social to talk about the ongoing cover-up by the Trump admin to protect those implicated in the Epstein Files. I’ll also be doing a demo of our new database of all 3M files.

Trump's Justice Department says it didn't find evidence implicating additional Epstein accomplices. But COURIER's @camaron.bsky.social uncovered records revealing that key evidence—including financial records and most witness testimony—wasn't reviewed in this week's Below the Belt(way).

The review omitted all surveillance footage of Epstein's properties. Witness testimony was also severely limited: anything other than on-camera interviews with the Palm Beach Police department was not considered.

COURIER's @camaron.bsky.social uncovers how Pam Bondi used a viral binder stunt to cover-up the administration's secretive Epstein Files redaction project in this week's Below the Belt(way).

NEW: I found internal correspondence between federal agents that outlines how Pam Bondi used the binder stunt to internally launch a project focused on redacting names of high-profile individuals like Donald Trump, while exposing the names and violating the privacy of hundreds of Epstein’s victims.

Both the Trump and Biden administrations are under scrutiny for doing “little to nothing to bring justice for the survivors” and failing to prosecute all but one of Epstein’s co-conspirators. COURIER's @camaron.bsky.social has the story.

In Trump admin official Howard Lutnick's closed-door testimony, he admitted — and then promptly denied — that the White House instructed him to walk back a previous claim about Epstein. COURIER correspondent @camaron.bsky.social covers the story.

The White House attempting to silence a cabinet member in order to impede a congressional investigation would mark a significant escalation, though not a wholly unprecedented one.

The cover-up that keeps on giving! 🤬Another breaking news story filed by @camaron.bsky.social 👇 The only way we get accountability is by keeping the story going while cowardly legacy media is asleep at the wheel. Pls share 🛎️

NEW: In one of the confidential bank documents the DOJ accidentally published, I found evidence of a suspicious transaction Epstein's lawyer, Darren Indyke, didn't want Congress to know about: Epstein bought Indyke a $3M mansion, and the bank thought they were laundering money.

🚨Breaking Epstein news from @camaron.bsky.social + @couriernewsroom.bsky.social this AM - and the launch of a new major investigative reporting initiative by COURIER on the Epstein Cover-Up: epsteincoverup.us

NEW: Darren Indyke swore under oath last month that his large cash withdrawals were not meant to avoid anti-money laundering regulations. Eyewitness accounts from Deutsche Bank employees found in now-redacted SAR reports say different.

After Trump won reelection, Blanche was placed in the DOJ as Bondi’s deputy, where he’s been utilized primarily as the president’s “fixer.” His latest assignment? To stonewall any investigation into Epstein’s sex trafficking network.

Apparently, the DOJ never searched Epstein's business offices, or even questioned his lead accountant or attorney. Banks have paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to victims over civil settlements, yet there's been no serious criminal investigation into Epstein's finances.

🚨 Breaking news from @camaron.bsky.social - According to new Epstein depositions released earlier this week, Trump's DOJ never investigated Epstein's alleged money laundering businesses or interviewed the executers of his estate via @couriernewsroom.bsky.social couriernewsroom.com/news/trump-d...

Join @sjdemas.bsky.social & Copper Courier Founding Editor & Chief Political Correspondent @camaron.bsky.social LIVE today at 11 am ET on First Draft! Trust us—- you won’t want to miss this conversation!

These aren’t inevitable btw:

IF YOU ARE NEW HERE AND YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHY I’M SCREAMING HERE IS AN ARTICLE ABOUT THAT TIME I ALMOST LOST MY MIND AND THEN ACCIDENTALLY STARTED A CULT DEDICATED TO IDENTIFYING THE ADMINISTRATOR OF A NON-EXISTENT FEDERAL AGENCY www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Opposition has been universal: residents of progressive bastions and conservative strongholds alike have rallied against the Trump administration’s plans to set up detention camps in their backyards. And in five locations so far, communities have succeeded in telling ICE to kick rocks.

Camaron Stevenson and Lisa Graves @camaron.bsky.social @thelisagraves.bsky.social How 'Citizens United' Fueled Trump's Greenland Obsession A discussion on Lisa Graves' article: What the Crisis over Greenland Reveals about the Real-Life Perils of “Citizens United” open.substack.com/pub/fromthef...

Last October, the Trump admin formed a propaganda network of far-right content creators. Since then, creators like Nick Shirley have curated highly edited content to create deceptive illusions of protest-induced warzones and rampant fraud rings allegedly orchestrated by immigrant communities.

The Justice Department’s “searchable” Epstein Files Library is garbage, so I made my own. You can search by name, describe an image, find documents deleted by the Trump administration — anything you want! It’s all in there, and more will be added as more is released.

Our @camaron.bsky.social has you covered with a searchable database of all of them — even the ones they deleted: couriernewsroom.com/news/epstein...

I spy @panicworld.com on this list! www.huffpost.com/entry/best-p...

Another fun find by @camaron.bsky.social: "Leaked Epstein Files talking points instruct Republicans how to point blame away from Trump" couriernewsroom.com/news/leaked-...

The memo outlines how congressional Republicans should direct any discussion surrounding the contents of the Epstein Files away from Trump, and includes a list of accusations to hurl at journalists and Democratic lawmakers.

Individually, the small act of civil disobedience may not seem like much. But collectively, it has grown into a problem large enough for the stores to take notice. After months of ignoring raids, followed by protests, the economic boycott and ice scraper returns forced executives to take notice.

Like most data dumps, what we got from Epstein’s Estate via Congress this week was unwieldy, disorganized, and impossible for anyone to search through quickly. So I created a searchable database of all 20,000 documents.

COURIER’s National Correspondent @camaron.bsky.social built a tool to search all the Epstein docs. Get in there and DM us with what you find. One tip is to try searching for “[email protected]” to narrow it down to just emails. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

The lawsuit over Speaker Johnson’s refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva has been assigned to a hardline conservative judge who was appointed by Trump during his first term. Once seated, Grijalva would provide the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein Files.

HAPPENING NOW: Protest outside the federal court in DC over the National Guard’s extended deployment to the city. I’ll be reporting today’s hearing for @couriernewsroom.bsky.social.

Some of the greatest hits include: - $300 Million, WH ballroom - $230 million, reimburse Trump’s legal fees - $172 million, twin jets for Kristi Noem - $1 billion, upgrade Trump’s personal jet - $1.5 million (and counting), dip everything in gold - $40 million (so far), Trump’s "legacy projects"

President Donald Trump centered the roundtable around ramping up far-right media coverage of immigration raids, and promised the group, which he loosely categorized as journalists, that they had the full protection of the United States government — as long as they portray him in a positive light.

A partial publication of Treasury docs has confirmed Trump’s fears and disproved his administration’s claim: within the just six pages are the names of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Bill Gates. The shutdown halts the investigation and prevents the US Treasury from delivering any more records.

"When the military has been used in countries where you have a dictatorship, the military is there to enforce the will of the dictator. Shall I say that again? In America, the military is being used to enforce the will of the president.” - @repgaramendi.bsky.social

BREAKING: A bill introduced by @wyden.senate.gov would widen a congressional investigation into the finances behind Epstein’s sex trafficking operation to include American oligarch Peter Thiel, and known Epstein co-conspirators Nadia Marcinko and Jean-Luc Brunel. www.beltway.news/p/scoop-sena...

Two new lists of Jeffrey Epstein’s potential clients and accomplices were announced on Wednesday: one from an ongoing congressional investigation, and another compiled by the deceased sex trafficker’s victims.

HAPPENING NOW: victims of Jeffrey Epstein speaking at the Capitol w/ Reps. @rokhanna.bsky.social and Thomas Massie on their investigation into Epstein’s criminal operation.