Friday afternoon saw the Department of Justice (DOJ)'s release of over 300,000 pages of unclassified Jeffrey Epstein files ahead of a congressional deadline of Dec. 19 cemented in statute; the legislation was signed into law by President Trump shortly after that vote, as RedState's Ward Clark wrote. On Saturday morning, the administration kept it coming, with two more tranches. More on that in a minute.
A major feature of the initial tranche, something that could not have been missed by anyone reading it, was photos showing former President Bill Clinton, with not only the convicted sex trafficker and his companion/accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, but various redacted "people" -- women who were victimized by the couple, and their relatives, according to the DOJ.
It sure didn't elude one reader of the reporting, "Slick Willy" Clinton himself, and he made his immense displeasure about their release known. My colleague Bob Hoge shared in a late Friday update that the former POTUS didn't exactly earn laurels for how he reacted.
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As I hinted, the DOJ has released two more tranches of Epstein docs, per multiple outlets, including 2019 grand jury testimony by a Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent on the sick method Epstein and Maxwell used to lure young women into their sex trafficking scheme, among other information.
Some of what CBS News has found (so far):
An FBI agent told a 2019 grand jury in New York that Epstein used his victims to recruit other young girls, testimony released on Saturday shows.
In the testimony, the FBI agent said he interviewed multiple victims in New York and Florida, who told him that they would go to Epstein's home to give him a massage and that "things progressed each additional time."
The agent also recalled what they learned about a 2005 police raid of Epstein's West Palm Beach home, where they found a massage table and sex toys, phone messages and more. In a room, they found message pads that included one note saying: "she has a female for Mr. JE" and a date of birth.
The testimony and docs included intriguing details from victim-survivors of Epstein, on Maxwell's role, in the CBS live-blog linked above:
Ghislane Maxwell was "like a cool older sister and made comments like this is what grownups do," a survivor of Epstein's abuse said, according to an FBI agent who testified before a 2019 federal grand jury.
The agent described interviews with three different women, who, as teenagers, were abused by Epstein. The agent said the women described Maxwell being either present or waiting just outside, as Epstein sexually abused them in massage rooms at his residences in Palm Beach, New York and New Mexico, as well as another location in London.
There was also info on messages left for Epstein that the grand jury saw, most of which had redacted names:
Over a dozen handwritten messages left for Epstein were shown in what appears to be a 2019 grand jury presentation.
Several similar messages for "Mr. JE" reference females being available or asking if they are, while two others focus on whether a female can work. Another message appears to be from a girl trying to talk to "JE" about college. Another message seems to be from a female trying to get in touch with Epstein and includes the note "please call her."
You can comb through the newly released testimony and court documents, officially known as Data Sets 6 and 7, respectively, here and here.
As RedState also previously shared about these document dumps by the Justice Department, they could prove to be something of a snare for both the former president and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who are trying to avoid testifying about Jeffrey Epstein in front of Congress. More information will continue to trickle out, undoubtedly.
Stay tuned!
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