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And there we have it -- Guiliani had nothing to do with the Russia Hoax, and no part in election interference.

Unless, of course, you can find some proof that he purchased a flux capacitor, since the election was a month before these mysterious meetings??

Is that it? Time travel?

Of course they traded Flacco because of the record and knowing they were out of competing for anything.

I assumed you would interpret what I wrote. I guess I need to clarify.

Why continue with 40 year old Flacco? Two rookies on the team play them and see what they can do.

The plan IMO was and remains to draft a QB.

In major loss for Trump, Supreme Court blocks National Guard deployment to Chicago

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s request to allow him to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to protect ICE agents, a significant and rare loss for the administration on the conservative court’s emergency docket.

“At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,” the court said in its unsigned order.

The decision, which came over dissents from conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, was a substantial setback and appeared almost certain to jeopardize deployments of the National Guard in other cities as well.

In a statement Tuesday, a White House spokeswoman said the ruling will not stop Trump’s efforts to enforce immigration laws, protect federal personnel and “safeguard the American public.”

“He activated the National Guard to protect federal law enforcement officers, and to ensure rioters did not destroy federal buildings and property,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told CNN. “Nothing in today’s ruling detracts from that core agenda.”

“This is a significant repudiation of President Trump’s efforts to use federal troops to supplement immigration enforcement especially in Democratic-led jurisdictions,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at Georgetown University Law Center. “It’s hard to see how the administration can continue to use this obscure 1908 authority to try to deploy federalized National Guard troops.”

Vladeck described the decision as “by far the most significant defeat the Supreme Court has handed Trump all year.”

Federal law allows a president to federalize the National Guard when he can no longer execute the laws of the United States with “regular forces.” A debate cropped up during the case about whether that term, “regular forces,” meant the regular military or federal agents, such as those who work for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In its order, the court said that the term “likely” refers to the standing military. Further, the court said the ability to federalize the guard under the law Trump attempted to invoke “likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws.” In other words, the court suggested, it does not apply to protecting agents enforcing immigration laws.

“Thus, at least in this posture, the government has not carried its burden to show that” the law at issue in the case, “permits the president to federalize the guard in the exercise of inherent authority to protect federal personnel and property in Illinois,” the court said.

The decision leaves Trump with few options if he wants to continue to deploy soldiers into cities — but not zero options. It appears likely that the president could still invoke the Insurrection Act, for instance, to deploy regular forces to Chicago and other cities. That may be a politically fraught move, however, because it challenges the longstanding prohibition on the military being used for law enforcement.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative who sided with the court’s underlying decision, said he would have done so on more narrow grounds. He agreed that the term regular forces means the US military.

“The court’s legal interpretation, as I understand it, could lead to potentially significant implications for future crises that we cannot now foresee,” Kavanaugh said.

But he said the court’s decision appeared to bind the court’s hands in potentially unforeseen ways. What if, Kavanaugh hypothesized, an angry crowd gathered outside a federal court house threatening to storm the building. If regular military forces could not deploy in time, the decision appears to bar the president from federalizing the National Guard to deal with that situation, Kavanaugh said.

“Nearly 250 years ago, the framers of our nation’s Constitution carefully divided responsibility over the country’s militia, today’s U.S. National Guard, between the federal government and the states – believing it impossible that a president would use one state’s militia against another state,” said Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, a Democrat. “The extremely limited circumstances under which the federal government can call up the militia over a state’s objection do not exist in Illinois, and I am pleased that the streets of Illinois will remain free of armed National Guard members as our litigation continues in the courts.”

Alito, joined by Thomas, wrote that he “strongly” disagreed with the way the court dealt with the case.

“The court fails to explain why the president’s inherent constitutional authority to protect federal officers and property is not sufficient to justify the use of National Guard members in the relevant area for precisely that purpose,” Alito wrote. “I am not prepared at this point to express a definite view on these questions, but I have serious doubts about the correctness of the court’s views.”

Alito argued that his colleagues had “no basis for rejecting the president’s determination that he was unable to execute the federal immigration laws using the civilian law enforcement resources at his command.”

“Whatever one may think about the current administration’s enforcement of the immigration laws or the way ICE has conducted its operations, the protection of federal officers from potentially lethal attacks should not be thwarted,” Alito wrote.

The court’s decision, which landed two months after the Trump administration filed its emergency appeal, came as tensions on the ground at an ICE facility west of Chicago appeared to have eased. The administration told a federal court in a different case weeks ago that “increased coordination” with local police had “reduced the need for federal officers” to engage with protesters at the building in suburban Broadview.

And defense officials announced in November that they were “rightsizing” planned deployments to Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland. The officials said at that time that only about 300 National Guard units from Illinois would remain ready to deploy. Lower court orders have blocked their ability to conduct operations with the Department of Homeland Security.

The court took an unusually long time to resolve the emergency dispute, which the Trump administration first brought to the court in mid-October. Given the unusual amount of back and forth between the justices in Tuesday’s order, it appears likely the court’s conservative majority wrestled with how to resolve the case.

Though the situation on the ground in Chicago quieted, the administration argued in court papers in November that the deployments were still needed.

While the case has been pending, the Justice Department told the Supreme Court, “violent assailants have fired shots at DHS agents, thrown bricks and concrete at barricaded agents, and rammed into their vehicles with trucks.”

In that sense, the emergency appeal remained a major test of the president’s power to mobilize and deploy the guard in American cities.

The court’s decision came weeks after a shooting in Washington, DC, in late November that killed one National Guard member and critically wounded another. The shooting suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is an Afghan national who previously worked with the US in Afghanistan. Lakanwal has been charged with several crimes including premeditated murder and assault with intent to kill.

Trump is using the National Guard in Washington under a different federal law that was not at issue before the Supreme Court.

Trump had argued that a lower court decision blocking that deployment in Chicago “improperly impinges on the president’s authority and needlessly endangers federal personnel and property,” effectively inserting the courts into the chain of command.

The Supreme Court was asked to take up the issue as the administration was attempting to deploy guard members to multiple cities, including Portland, Memphis and Los Angeles.

A federal district court in Chicago blocked the deployment there in October.

When the feds come to town: In cities targeted by Trump’s immigration crackdown, a shared playbook emerges

US District Judge April Perry, nominated to the bench by President Joe Biden, said the administration overstepped its authority with the deployment given the conditions on the ground. In a lengthy opinion tied to her short-term order, she questioned the administration’s justification for the troops.

Perry pointed to what she described as a “troubling trend” of the administration of “equating protests with riots.” The Chicago-based 7th Circuit largely upheld that decision — allowing the administration to federalize the guard members but not deploy them.

In the Chicago case, Trump had federalized 300 members of the Illinois National Guard to “protect officers and federal property.” Another 400 federalized members of the Texas National Guard were also set to be deployed to the state. The administration said those guard members would serve “solely in a protective capacity” and would not engage in law enforcement.

Under the new arrangement announced in November, about 200 Texas National Guard troops in Chicago were sent home and about 200 more remained on standby at Fort Bliss. Roughly 300 Illinois National Guard troops will remain in the Chicago area.

Though the case was initially speeding through the courts, the justices slowed things down considerably in late October by ordering additional briefing on a technical but important question about what the law means when it allows a president to use the guard to augment “regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.”

Illinois argued that language meant Trump could call in the guard to help the standing military, not civilian law enforcement agencies like ICE. The Department of Justice countered that reading would be counterintuitive since the standing military is generally barred from executing federal law. The state and the administration spent weeks filing briefs and counter briefs addressing that question.

To make its case for the deployments, the Justice Department has relied heavily on a Supreme Court decision from 1827 — Martin v. Mott. The case dealt with Jacob Mott, a member of the New York militia who disobeyed President James Madison’s order to mobilize during the War of 1812. The Supreme Court rejected Mott’s argument that Madison had misjudged the danger and wrote that “the authority to decide whether the exigency has arisen belongs exclusively to the president.”

The states challenging the administration have balked at the suggestion that the protests against ICE agents are akin to an invading foreign army.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/23/politics/supreme-court-blocks-trump-national-guard-chicago

It appears King trump is going to have to make up some other story in order to take over American cities. Even this conservative SCOTUS isn't buying into his current BS.

Oh look, you fond another rando.

Trump’s revival of Greenland takeover dismays Denmark

President Trump is drawing a backlash from Greenland and Denmark with the revival of his effort to acquire the world’s largest island.

Trump, who has repeatedly expressed interest in acquiring Greenland for the U.S., angered officials by tapping Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) as his envoy to Greenland.

He says Greenland is paramount to U.S. national security and that Landry’s goal will be to make the autonomous Danish territory “part of the U.S.”

This goal seems unlikely to be reached, given the irritated joint statement from Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen that Greenland “belongs” to Greenlandic people and that the U.S. “shall not take” the mineral-rich island that has a population of about 57,000 people.

But that’s unlikely to end Trump’s efforts, leaving analysts wondering if he’d be satisfied with some other alternative.

They also warn that the further the president pushes, the more blowback it would prompt from Europe and the international community.

“I think that this would be viewed, if it did go that direction, it would be viewed worldwide as the beginning of a new era, an era in which the United States was not just not supporting existing norms about sovereign territory, but also actively attempting to overturn those norms,” said Christopher Chivvis, a senior fellow and director of the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP).

Denmark was angry enough with Trump’s appointment of Landry, who took office as governor in January 2024, that the country’s foreign minister summoned the U.S. ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, to elaborate on the president’s remarks.

Greenland’s foreign minister, Vivian Motzfeldt, said that Greenlandic officials recently met with Howery, but the administration’s plans to appoint Landry as envoy were not brought up.

“In Greenland nothing has changed. The future of our country is decided by the people of Greenland. We are not Danes. We are not Americans – and we do not wish to become so. We are Inuiaat Kalaallit, we are the people of Greenland,” the foreign minister said on Tuesday. “Our country belongs to us and it is not going to be controlled or owned by others.”

Trump has floated buying Greenland, which is just more than three times the size of Texas, with 80 percent of it covered in snow.

It’s also possible the U.S. could seek to gain influence through strategic investments, or by convincing Greenland’s government that Denmark is a bad partner.

Marc Jacobsen, an associate professor at the Royal Danish Defence College and an Arctic security expert, told The Hill this week that Landry’s appointment as envoy and appointment of venture capitalist Thomas Dans as head of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission “should be seen as new elements in this strategy.”

“In Greenland, however, these efforts are counterproductive as Greenlanders are seeing the U.S. as more and more antagonistic and a less desirable partner on the road to independence,” Jacobsen said.

Although some Greenlandic people are in favor of gaining full independence from Denmark, which has a say in the island’s foreign and defense policy posture, the large majority of residents are against joining the U.S.

The island, which is a part of Denmark and covered under NATO’s security guarantees, is loaded with mineral deposits, including zinc, lithium, graphite, nickel and copper — all critical minerals necessary in technology manufacturing. The president said on Monday that his interest in Greenland does not lie in the island’s mineral abundance, but rather in its strategic qualities.

“We need [Greenland’s] financial security, not for minerals. We have so many sites for minerals and oil and everything,” the president said while at Mar-a-Lago. “We have more oil than any other country in the world. We need Greenland for national security.”

“If you take a look at Greenland, you look up and down the coast, you have Russian and Chinese ships all over the place,” Trump told reporters. “We need it for national security. We have to have it.”

Chivvis, of CEIP, questioned what Trump’s endgame is and the potential benefits Washington would gain beyond what it already reaps from its relationship with Denmark, with whom it has a bilateral defense partnership, including patrols around the island.

“It’s not clear exactly what the president believes he’s going to get, maybe a slightly better deal on some of those fronts, but it would be paying an extraordinary cost for a very small benefit,” Chivvis told The Hill.

Denmark has looked to refurbish ties with Greenland in 2025 as its relationship has cooled in recent years over revelations about the past mistreatment of Inuit people by the Danes. At the same time, Denmark has looked to normalize relations with Washington, spending more on Arctic defense after criticism it had not done enough.

Vice President Vance visited the island in late March, stopping by the Pituffik Space Base, a U.S. Space Force Base located on the northwest coast of Greenland, and hammered Denmark for not prioritizing the island’s security. A week later, Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, went to Greenland, saying the U.S. cannot annex earth’s largest island and that both Denmark and Greenland want to “strengthen security” in the Arctic.

Landry, who previously advocated for Greenland to be a part of the U.S., said Monday the new role would not affect his governorship and claimed that Trump called him to help out Secretary of State Marco Rubio. On Tuesday, he billed the administration’s push as a chance for Greenland to experience economic benefits under Washington’s guidance and retain more strategic security.

“This is an opportunity for Greenland to be invited to [the] economic table with the United States, the strongest most advanced economy in the world. And we care. We care about them, with the fastest security route to give them the security and the protection,” the governor said during an appearance on Fox News.

Some European countries, including France and Sweden, reaffirmed Greenland’s territorial sovereignty, while top congressional Democrats on foreign policy-focused committees said the president is destroying U.S. relationships with allies and that he should direct his attention to Russia.

Analysts argued that if the situation intensifies, Europe might ramp up their pushback on Washington, including by possibly deploying European Union security services to closely monitor what the U.S. is doing in Greenland and raising the frequency of military exercises and investments in the region.

Although Chivvis, a former U.S. national intelligence officer in Europe, noted that Europe’s pushback against the U.S. would come with a “high cost for Europe itself.”

“So you could also see a point at which the solidarity that we’ve seen within Europe itself, within Europe for Denmark, begins to fall apart as the cost for individual countries like … Spain or Italy rises,” he said.

Jacobsen, of the Royal Danish Defence College, said there are enough people in the “right positions” to “pull the handbrake” on Trump’s idea of taking over Greenland and, ultimately, the administration’s push might yield a new defense agreement between the U.S., Greenland and Denmark, one that the president could count as a win.

“It might not be significantly different from the one already in place, but it could provide Trump with a visible outcome, which he could present as a victory,” Jacobsen said.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5661855-trump-greenland-backlash-denmark/



Now, whose job is it to tell him that it would have been impossible for us to have been there with boats three hundred years ago like Denmark since we were not a country three hundred years ago?

This is a live video feed from the "Brownville's Food Pantry For Deer "Trough View"..located near Bangor, Maine.

They just filled the feeders and some of the deer are returning to feed. They have some fantastic bucks that frequent the feeder...enjoy..!

The Jets currently have the 4th and 18th pick in 2026 and three first rounders in 2027.

If the Raiders and Jets are in front of us. We will be looking at the 3rd QB most likely.

Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues is currently showing on Netflix. If you liked Spinal Tap you would probably like this one too.

I see a flurry of posts from Fate today... Seems like normally he comes in, posts something sarcastic and then runs. Since he's about, maybe we can get a Straight answer on whether there's support for Trump ignoring states rights.

I wrote my life story here lol

Congrats Arch good job, and Brian nice job all season

Was that the year we drafted Braylon?

Plus Chucky Frye?

Trump flew on Epstein's private jet 'MORE times than we knew'... along with pedophile and 20-year-old woman, new files reveal
By IMOGEN GARFINKEL - SENIOR FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER and WILL POTTER, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

Published: 05:29 EST, 23 December 2025 | Updated: 09:57 EST, 23 December 2025

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A huge new trove of Epstein files have alleged that Donald Trump flew on the pedophile's private jet 'many more times than has been previously reported', including one journey with a 20-year-old woman.

Some 8,000 more documents including videos and photos related to the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been released on the US Department of Justice's site (DOJ).

Among the documents is an email from a New York assistant US attorney, which states that Trump was listed as a passenger on eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including at least four where Epstein's co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell was also present.

Trump's presence in the Epstein files does not imply any wrongdoing. The president has not been accused of any malpractice concerning the disgraced financier.

The email says: 'For your situational awareness, wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump travelled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware), including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case.'

It continues: 'On one flight in 1993, he and Epstein are the only two listed passengers; on another, the only three passengers are Epstein, Trump and then-20-year-old [redacted].'

The new release follows the more than 300,000 files which were released by the DOJ on Friday.

The department has been accused of withholding information and was criticised by Democrats over the slow release and heavy redaction of records from the investigation into Epstein.

It failed to meet its deadline for complying with a 'transparency' law requiring the broad release of remaining Epstein files, sparking widespread outrage among Democrats and Republicans.

Among the documents is the suggestion that US President Donald Trump travelled on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet 'many more times than previously has been reported', including one journey with a 20-year-old woman
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Among the documents is the suggestion that US President Donald Trump travelled on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet 'many more times than previously has been reported', including one journey with a 20-year-old woman

US President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein pictured in a photo together released earlier this month
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US President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein pictured in a photo together released earlier this month

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Epstein lawyer ALAN DERSHOWITZ: The scandal everyone has missed in THOSE photos of Trump and Clinton
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Following the latest dump of evidence from Epstein's case files, the Department of Justice issued a statement downplaying the files that included Trump's name.

'Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already,' the DOJ wrote on X.

'Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims.'

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The new files include hundreds of videos and audio recordings, notably surveillance footage from August 2019, the month Epstein was found dead in his jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

The DOJ posted around 11,000 links to documents online, some of which direct viewers to pictures of Epstein's old United States passport.

It was issued in February 1985 and expired in 1995. Below his signature is a black and white passport photo of Epstein dressed in a suit and tie.

Congress nearly unanimously passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), which mandated the complete release of the Epstein files by last Friday.

A group of victims earlier complained that only a 'fraction' of the files were released and even those were 'riddled with abnormal and extreme redactions with no explanation'.

EFTA co-sponsors Ro Khanna, a Democrat, and Thomas Massie, a Republican, threatened to bring contempt charges against Attorney General Pam Bondi for failing to comply with the law.

Within this latest release are images of an old United States passport belonging to Epstein
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Within this latest release are images of an old United States passport belonging to Epstein

Epstein pictured in a helicopter with a redacted woman, in a document released by the Department of Justice on December 19, 2025
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Epstein pictured in a helicopter with a redacted woman, in a document released by the Department of Justice on December 19, 2025

This redacted photo released by the US Department of Justice shows a framed photograph of Jeffrey Epstein with a person on his lap, documented on August 12, 2019, during a search of his home on Little St. James island in the US Virgin Islands
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This redacted photo released by the US Department of Justice shows a framed photograph of Jeffrey Epstein with a person on his lap, documented on August 12, 2019, during a search of his home on Little St. James island in the US Virgin Islands

A photo released by the US Department of Justice on December 19 shows Epstein posing shirtless with what appears to be a child's foot in frame
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A photo released by the US Department of Justice on December 19 shows Epstein posing shirtless with what appears to be a child's foot in frame

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced a resolution on Monday calling for legal action against the administration for failing to release the complete Epstein files.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche blamed the delay on the need to redact the identities of Epstein's more than 1,000 victims, and on Sunday denied allegations of protecting Trump, who was formerly a close friend of Epstein's.

Trump had initially tried to block the disclosure of the files.

But the president, who cut ties with Epstein years before his arrest and faces no accusations of wrongdoing, finally bowed to mounting pressure from Congress and signed the law compelling publication of the files.

Also featured in the documents are court transcripts, FBI and DOJ records, emails and news clippings.

Friday's disclosure represented only a fraction of the total data the FBI and Justice Department have said they possess related to Epstein and was heavily redacted, including several documents or 100 pages or more that were entirely blacked out.

Also notable was the dearth of references to Trump, who had a well-publicised friendship with Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Instead, the released files extensively featured former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat and political foe.

The Department of Justice released hundreds of thousands of files on December 19 related to disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
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The Department of Justice released hundreds of thousands of files on December 19 related to disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein is seen at an undisclosed location, watching people meditate
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Epstein is seen at an undisclosed location, watching people meditate

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Former president Clinton poses with an unknown woman

Clinton swims in a pool with Maxwell and an unidentified woman
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Clinton swims in a pool with Maxwell and an unidentified woman

A photograph of two woman without shirts features in the released files
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A photograph of two woman without shirts features in the released files

'The DOJ needs to quit protecting the rich, powerful, and politically connected,' Representative Massie, a maverick conservative Republican from Kentucky, said in a post on X.

Clinton spokesman Angel Urena issued a statement urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to immediately release any remaining materials in the Epstein case that refer to Clinton in any way, including photographs.

'Someone or something is being protected. We do not know whom, what or why. But we do know this,' Urena said, adding: 'We need no such protection.'

Urena said there is 'widespread suspicion' the Justice Department is 'using selective releases to imply wrongdoing about individuals who have already been repeatedly cleared by the very same Department of Justice'.

He did not detail who else harbored that suspicion.

A photograph of Trump flanked by women in bikinis was mysteriously removed without explanation from the Epstein Files, before being reinstated.

The photo showing a desk with an open drawer containing the image of Trump was flagged by the Southern District of New York for review to protect potential victims.

Following furious backlash, it was reinstated on Sunday morning after it was determined that ‘there is no evidence that any Epstein victims are depicted in the photograph’, a statement posted on X said.

Among the hundreds of photographs released on Friday, one showed an open desk drawer containing two photos of President Trump
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Among the hundreds of photographs released on Friday, one showed an open desk drawer containing two photos of President Trump

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Ghislaine Maxwell is pictured at the wheel of a car while wearing a white robe

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is seen lying across women at a black-tie event with Maxwell at the royal estate in Sandringham, UK
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is seen lying across women at a black-tie event with Maxwell at the royal estate in Sandringham, UK

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said earlier on Sunday his office removed the photo because of concerns about women in the photo. 'It has nothing to do with President Trump,' Blanche said during a Sunday morning appearance on NBC’s 'Meet the Press with Kristen Welker'.

During an ABC News interview on Sunday, Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called for a 'full and complete investigation as to why the document production has fallen short of what the law clearly required'.

The 300,000 pages of released files on Friday largely dealt with three police investigations into the convicted paedophile. First, a Palm Beach police inquiry from 2005.

Then a probe by federal prosecutors in Florida that ended with the financier's 2008 plea deal, in which he was handed a notably soft sentence.

And finally, the 2019 inquiry by Manhattan prosecutors that was cut short when Epstein died in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in New York City.

There was a series of never-before-seen photos of former President Clinton, including images of him relaxing in what appears to be a hot tub and smiling at parties with women.

A spokesman for the former president commented on the new photos, saying they were decades old.

'They can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn't about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be,' Ureña wrote on social media.

'There are two types of people here. The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light. The second group continued relationships with him after.

'We're in the first. No amount of stalling by people in the second group will change that.

'Everyone, especially MAGA, expects answers, not scapegoats.'

Bill Clinton is seen with his arm around Michael Jackson. The pair pose with Diana Ross
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Bill Clinton is seen with his arm around Michael Jackson. The pair pose with Diana Ross

Two young women pose in bikinis, with one smoking a cigarette, in a picture from the files
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Two young women pose in bikinis, with one smoking a cigarette, in a picture from the files

He has never been accused of wrongdoing by survivors of Epstein's abuse, and has denied knowledge of his sex offending.

'I don't like the pictures of Bill Clinton being shown. I don't like the pictures of other people being shown. I think it's a terrible thing,' Trump told reporters on Monday.

'I think Bill Clinton's a big boy, he can handle it. But you probably have pictures being exposed of other people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago ... and they're highly respected bankers and lawyers and others.'

Another photo appears to show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor lying across five women’s laps.

Dressed in black tie, the former Duke of York is seen laughing with Maxwell, who is standing in the background.

Andrew has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, and said he did not 'see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...es-including-videos-photos-released.html

What I hope we never lose sight of is the part the GOP and SCOTUS has played in all of this. They have the power to stop him but have chosen not to exercise it.

Senators and the House of Reps alike have allowed him to make our laws a joke. They are responsible as much as the guy at the top. Supporters of Donald Trump are, IMO, Traitors to America. They are Traitors to the Constitution of the United States of America and all it stands for.


When this is all said and done, I hope we have the courage NOT to dispense "Retribution" in the manner of Donald Trump had vowed to do. I hope we have a better sense of what America was supposed to be and was until Jan 20, 2025.

They do need to pay for their crimes but they also need their day in court. Something Trump and the GOP and SCOTUS don't seem to want for everyone else that opposes them.

It's a shame, but it is what it is.

Never heard of the guy, but peace to his family and friends.

RIP

I think they're replaced every year. They need to do away with the committee, have some play in guidelines for the lower seed teams, do away with the league championship games and come up with a set of guidelines factoring strength of schedule and a loooong list on tiebreakers like the NFL has. Also do away with that weekly CFP selection show. That does nothing but create controversy to draw ratings.

I recall when many posters here advocated for Chris Tabor's firing.

Tabor is still in league. The Bills special teams looked pretty good yesterday.

In yesterday's game, I chuckled that there was no call after the OL pulled Garrett's helmet off.

If Garrett touches a QB's helmet, that's a "ruffing the passer" penalty.

I'm with Bone, who cares what Steeler fans think! Browns gave Watt plenty of gift sacks over the years defending him with a high school RT. Steeler fans whine about whining!

I hope he breaks the record and then some against the Steelers.

I'm about to stop by and pick up my prescriptions. With my prescription rebate check after the 600% decrease in prices along with both my DOGE and tariff checks it should make for a prosperous holiday season!

White House pushes Smithsonian to comply with review to receive federal funding

The Trump administration has signaled to the Smithsonian Institution that the White House could withhold federal funding from the museum organization if it does not comply with the administration’s unprecedented, sweeping review.

In a Thursday letter to Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III, White House officials said funds are available only “for use in a manner consistent” with President Donald Trump’s executive order from March, which tasked aides with rooting out “ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives” within the organization.

Tensions between the White House and the Smithsonian ramped up in August, when the administration asked the organization to turn over an array of materials, including gallery labels, future exhibition plans and internal communications about artwork selection.

The White House officials said materials the Smithsonian handed over in September “fell far short of what was requested, and the overwhelming majority of requested items remain outstanding.”

CNN has reached out to the Smithsonian for comment.

The letter, penned by White House Domestic Policy Council Director Vince Haley and Trump’s budget chief Russ Vought, urged the Smithsonian to align itself with the administration’s push to get rid of what it considers anti-American propaganda.

“The American people will have no patience for any museum that is diffident about America’s founding or otherwise uncomfortable conveying a positive view of American history, one which is justifiably proud of our country’s accomplishments and record,” the officials said.

While the Smithsonian, a unique public-private trust, does not consider itself an executive agency, the federal government supplies two-thirds of its budget. It’s a potential vulnerability for the 179-year-old institution, which has tried to maintain its independence despite unprecedented scrutiny of its programming by the Trump White House.

Federal funding has emerged as a major leverage point for the Trump administration, which, through the Vought-led Office of Management and Budget, has gutted agencies and initiatives that don’t align with the president’s agenda.

Trump directed his attorneys in August to conduct the review, claiming the Smithsonian was “out of control” and that “everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.”

The museum complex now has until January 13 to turn in the rest of the requested documents, which include organizational charts, curatorial manuals, proposals for future exhibitions, and in-depth information about its programming for the US’ 250th anniversary next year.

The Washington Post has reported that Bunch, the institution’s secretary since 2019, committed to sharing information in a letter responding to the White House on Friday. He also noted that the recent 43-day government shutdown delayed the requested work, according to The Post.

Exhibits at the Smithsonian take years of planning and are heavily evaluated by teams of scholars and curatorial experts. Janet Marstine, a museum ethics expert, told CNN shortly after the White House review that the demands laid out by the Trump administration “set the Smithsonian up for failure.”

“Nobody could provide those kinds of materials in such a comprehensive way, in that short amount of time, and so it’s just an impossible task,” she said.

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"For I will dictate and censor which parts of American history you are allowed to show the American people and which parts you can not! We have no intention or permitting you to cover all of our history because some of it is terrible! You will not be allowed to show any of the terrible parts from this day forth says the great and powerful Oz!

Currently the federal government has a former heroin addict, anti-vaxxer who had a brain worm with no medical degree running Department of Health and Human Services. Who is obligated to get involved with that? Do you have any idea how many billions of dollars the federal government has been connned out of? Do you know just how lame that sounds?


Yet crime, especially violent crime is lower than it was during trump's first term. Just like Portland. Nobody needed to "step in" in Portland. Or any other major city for that matter. You're just buying into the BS trump has been spewing as excuses to play a strong man.


It is. The problem is many who have common sense aren't using it. They are buying into a bunch of propaganda being spewed to convince them that the way America has conducted itself for over two centuries now no longer matters. In many cases turning their backs on the very things they stood for most of their life. And they can't even see it.

Common sense certainly isn't very common these days.

What law covers blowing up vessels and kill people because you accuse them of being a drug smuggler?

When the regular season ends draft coverage starts to ramp up.

At that time the draft order is known except for the playoffs teams.

Senior Bowl week is interesting because you get to see the prospects in their first NFL test with NFL coaches.

Mendoza displays good characteristics overall. He is a solid prospect. He got drilled on the first play against Ohio State.

The DT nailed him. He got up and played well. He has come up big in big moments. That is a good quality.

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