Jul 22, 2025 10:19:17 pm
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Things are moving rather quickly now as it seems that the spider’s poison is having the desired effect. Alan Dershowitz is helping Trump plan the legal manoeuvres, and Steve Bannon is in charge of the war plans. It is a two-pronged attack meant to save the Regime from being sucked into the Epstein black hole. All hands on deck as this is by far the biggest crisis Trump has ever faced.
It is now Tuesday July 22 and the scandal is growing, not subsiding. There is way too much going on so I’ve put together a highlights package to manage the workload. Keep in mind I’m only one person doing the job of a team of people. Plus I’m not getting paid. This is all being orchestrated to whitewash the client list and to lay the groundwork in order to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell.
TELL ME SWEET LITTLE LIES: The Department of Justice said it plans to reach out to Ghislaine Maxwell for a meeting amid recent calls for the associate of Jeffrey Epstein to testify about the accused sex trafficker.
“Justice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: what do you know? At @AGPamBondi’s direction, I’ve contacted her counsel. I intend to meet with her soon. No one is above the law—and no lead is off-limits,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in an X post.
Maxwell’s attorney David Oscar Markus told CNN, “I can confirm that we are in discussions with the government and that Ghislaine will always testify truthfully. We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case.”
Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for carrying out a years-long scheme with Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls.
President Donald Trump said it “sounds appropriate” for the Justice Department to reach out to Jeffrey Epstein’s former associate Ghislaine Maxwell for a meeting.
“I don’t know about it, but I think it’s something that would be, sounds appropriate,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked about the plans.
“He’s very smart,” the president said about Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who announced earlier Tuesday that he intends to meet with Maxwell soon.
“I didn’t know that they were going to do it. I don’t really follow that too much. It’s sort of a witch hunt, just a continuation of the witch hunt,” Trump added.
GASLIGHTING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC: The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned whether a meeting between Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell would produce anything, saying his focus remains on wanting more information from the Department of Justice and FBI.
“We’ve already had the attorney general announce that she is possession of client list information and then can’t produce it. So I don’t, I’m not sure what this visit is going to glean,” Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said.
On Maxwell potentially testifying on Capitol Hill, Durbin said: “I’m not sure she what she has to offer. The question in my mind, why isn’t the attorney general and the head of the FBI producing the documents they already have? They talked a lot about them, talked at great length about what they contain, but yet they won’t produce them.”
Durbin, who has requested documents from the FBI and DOJ, suggested that a subpoena could potentially be necessary to get top officials to testify before the Judiciary Committee.
The Democrat claimed that the committee has received information that FBI agents were assigned to look through the Epstein files and flag mentions of President Donald Trump’s name.
THE INJUSTICE DEPARTMENT: The federal judge overseeing the case of Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell said he needs more information before he can unseal grand jury transcripts requested by the Justice Department. The judge has set an initial deadline of next Tuesday for the DOJ to provide that information.
Judge Paul Engelmayer, who is assigned to the Maxwell case, said the Justice Department hasn’t addressed various factors that he will need to consider in order to decide whether to grant its request to unseal the transcripts, including why disclosure is being sought and whether Maxwell opposes their disclosure.
Grand Jury proceedings are conducted behind closed doors and are typically shielded from public view unless a judge allows the testimony to be unsealed.
“The Court intends to resolve this motion expeditiously. However, the Court cannot rule on the motion without additional submissions,” he wrote.
A parallel request is pending before Judge Richard Berman, who oversaw the prosecution of Epstein who died by suicide before trial.
Judge Engelmayer ordered prosecutors to file their response as well as the complete set of grand jury transcripts, a proposed redacted version and a description of other grand jury materials, including exhibits, by July 29.
A redacted version of the government’s legal arguments can be filed on the public docket.
The judge said Maxwell’s attorneys and lawyers for any victims have until August 5 to file their positions.
Maxwell was convicted and is serving a 20-year prison sentence. She has asked the Supreme Court to hear her case.
NOT DEALING WITH IT: House Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team made the case to House Republicans behind closed doors today that the Trump administration needs time to deal with the Jeffrey Epstein issue, according to multiple sources in the room.
The message from Johnson to House GOP members was “the administration is dealing with it,” according to a GOP lawmaker. Johnson also argued that Republicans should not play “the political games” that Democrats are doing by trying to force uncomfortable votes on the issue, the lawmaker added.
But many were not pleased with that call for patience. The deadlock on the issue has essentially ground House floor activity to a halt.
Immediately after the closed-door meeting, GOP Rep. Tim Burchett forced the House Oversight Committee to vote on a motion to subpoena Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The panel is expected to subpoena Maxwell “as expeditiously as possible,” according to a committee source.
THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS: The House will leave for its August recess a day earlier than initially planned as Republican leaders hope to sap the momentum behind a GOP push by Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie to force the chamber to vote on a Jeffrey Epstein-related measure.
A group of 11 Republicans and counting have signed onto what’s known as a discharge petition requiring President Donald Trump’s Justice Department to release all federal documents related to Epstein.
Massie is leading the measure, alongside Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California. If Khanna can deliver all Democrats, their maneuver would have enough support to circumvent Speaker Mike Johnson, who has signaled he doesn’t support Congress taking action to release the Epstein files on the floor. GOP leaders would have to allow it to come to the floor.
Massie introduced the measure on July 15 and under House rules, it requires seven legislative days to “ripen” before he and Khanna can formally begin collecting signatures.
If the House had been in session on Thursday, Massie’s resolution would have ripened the first day the House returned from its August recess. Now, it will take two more days.
GETTING BEATEN UP AT HOME: A number of House Republicans are voicing their concerns over House Speaker Mike Johnson’s call to allow the Trump administration more time to deal with the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Here’s what they are saying following a closed door meeting the Johnson and his leadership team:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who supports the effort to release additional documents related to Epstein, told CNN that “they are getting beaten up at home in their districts.” Greene, who said she tracks all the calls made to her office, said the people demanding transparency on Epstein is “extremely high.”
Rep. Keith Self, who also supports the release of the files, said GOP leadership did not leave open any room to bring up the issue on the House floor before September. “It doesn’t matter what I want. It’s not going to happen,” Self said. “Read between the lines, folks.”
House Rules Chairwoman Virginia Foxx told CNN that “it’s going to be awhile” before her committee comes back and allows for legislation to move through it again.
Rep. Thomas Massie, who is working on a bipartisan measure to force a vote calling for the release of the Epstein files, warned that Trump’s support is “eroding” among his base over the case and could hurt Republicans in the midterms.
Rep. Ralph Norman said that the Epstein issue will not fade away over August recess, adding, “Let’s just put everything on the table and let the American people be the judge.
THE PEDOPHILE RINGLEADER: President Donald Trump declared his intent to “go after people” for what he says were attempts to interfere in the 2016 election by claiming Russia was seeking to influence the result.
“Whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people,” Trump said in the Oval Office, where he is hosting the Philippine president.
Trump insisted former President Barack Obama was guilty of crimes for what he said was his role in weaponizing intelligence, calling the former Democratic president the “ringleader” of the alleged conspiracy.
“They caught President Obama absolutely cold,” Trump claimed. He added later:
“Obama’s been caught directly,” saying his actions amounted to “treason.”
“This is like proof, irrefutable proof that Obama was seditious, that Obama led, was trying to lead a coup, and it was with Hillary Clinton, with all these other people, but Obama headed it up,” he said later.
Last week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified and released new intelligence documents that she claimed were evidence of a “treasonous conspiracy” by top Obama administration officials to manufacture the notion that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
But the Trump administration’s allegations conflate and misrepresent what the intelligence community actually concluded, according to a review of a GOP-led Senate investigation from 2020 and interviews with congressional sources familiar with the probe.
The newly unsealed documents do nothing to undercut the government’s core findings in its 2017 assessment that Russia launched an influence and hacking campaign and sought to help Trump beat Clinton, the sources said.
MY LEAST FAVOURITE POS: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt praised Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for declassifying and releasing new intelligence documents that the administration claims are evidence Obama administration officials manufactured the notion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
“This is huge news, and I give great credit to Tulsi Gabbard, who’s doing a phenomenal job for declassifying key documents that prove the president, and you know, his supporters, millions of Americans, who always saw this for what it was, were right,” Leavitt told “The Ruthless Podcast” in an episode released today.
Gabbard claimed the documents were evidence of a “treasonous conspiracy” and she threatened to refer Obama administration officials to the Justice Department for prosecution.
Trump himself touted Gabbard’s findings over the weekend, reposting videos of her speaking on Fox Business and memes of Obama and his top officials in prison jumpsuits.
By Maureen Chowdhury, Elise Hammond and Aditi Sangal, CNN – Tuesday, July 22, 2025.