Evening Roundup, November 12
Featuring Tim Dickinson, Maxwell Frost with Jennifer Rubin, Norm Ornstein, Mimi Rocah, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Brian O'Neill, Meghan Houser, The Contrarian Podcast and our new limited merch drop!
Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Senate’s Bad Deal
Adelita Grijalva has been waiting.
Tim Dickinson wrote about and spoke with the crucial Representative who was just sworn in today, after 50 days of stalling from Mike Johnson and the GOP.
New Epstein Emails, Air Traffic Jams, & ACA Premiums: Rep. Maxwell Frost Gives Us the Latest
There’s a new development concerning the Epstein files, namely there is an alleged, ongoing coverup of President Trump’s presence in the files. This morning, Oversight Democrats released more emails from Epstein’s estate that places Trump in a location he swears he’s never even seen.
When will Democrats learn that mollifying bullies is a fool’s errand?
When I was in elementary school, I had to cope with a recess yard bully, who turned his attention to me. I tried to mollify him—offering him part of my lunch or even lunch money. Sensing my weakness, he doubled down. He provoked a fight, and I ended up in the nurse’s office with a bloody nose. It taught me a lesson: Mollifying bullies is a fool’s errand…
What we learned from newly released Epstein emails
The newly released emails of convicted sex offender and charged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein should be a huge inflection point, and here’s why.
Celebrate the menopause treatment news
On Monday, Nov. 10, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would eliminate the “boxed labeling” requirement for menopause hormone treatments.
The next war might start on Truth Social
On Nov. 1, President Donald Trump used his Truth Social account to claim that “Islamic Terrorists” were carrying out a mass slaughter of “our CHERISHED Christians” in Nigeria and warned that the United States would “go into that now disgrace country ‘guns a-blazing’.”
Quiz: Guess the Real Headline
Last week, The New York Times published a podcast taping hosted by op-ed columnist Ross Douthat, featuring two “conservative feminist” writers in conversation around, let’s say, a very hot take. We are here to gawk at the headline accompanying this conversation.
What's in the latest Epstein emails?
More files related to Jeffrey Epstein were released today. Three emails from the Epstein estate suggest Donald Trump knew much more about the pedophile scandal than he has previously let on.
When will Contrarian promote the Nov. 18 day of action?
Tom Massie, R. Ky says many Republicans will vote to open the records.
If we don't try to convince House Republicans, it's on us.
Jeffries says he'll hold the line. May lead to further negotiations.
Hopefully it'll be Epstein time. Besides the Epstein emails, the most recent revelations involve money laudering allegations.
Many Congressional Republicans privately admit Trump is nuts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNzVt7q0W5A
I keep posting. According to Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) Trumpepstein may cause an "Epstein bomb" causing over 100 Republican members to "jailbreak" from Trump.
Massive Congressional visits November 18.
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Visit CongressionalRepublicans.
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I think that if we play our cards right, many can be convinced by the election outcome to come forward.
"SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT"
Maxwell's Credibility Takes a Dark Turn
That Trump’s Attorney General assigned Trump’s former personal attorney, now her Deputy Attorney Genera, Todd Blanche, to interview Maxwell about whether Trump had illicit sexual relationships with under age girls enabled Maxwell’s lawyer to cleverly craft a response for her that would be worthy of an Olympic vocal gymnastic.
It must have taken a full week for Maxwell and her lawyers to cleverly craft the disclaimer that she “never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way.” The emphasis is on the word “witnessed”, which means that she didn’t personally witness Trump having sex with under age girls. She hardly would have been invited by Trump, Epstein or any other lecher to take a front row seat to “witness” it.
And certainly she was never asked and she never volunteered whether she observed or knew of Trump being alone in a room “for hours” with under age girls.
Maxwell’s struggle to steer the narrow path and claim that she “didn’t know nothin’ about nothin’” has already won her a transfer to a country club-like detention facility where she is waited on hand and foot by the prison staff, all of whom know that the President of the United States is watching them and biding his time in deciding whether to commute her sentence or pardon her - depending upon what happens next.
But now that the Epstein files reveal that Epstein had told Maxwell in an email that a (purported under-age victim of sexual assault) “ had spent hours at my home with him (Trump)” strips away any semblance of Maxwell’s credibility and puts even more pressure on her to continue to protect Trump to win her release.
And isn’t it rather odd that neither the Attorney General nor her Deputy Attorney General, who presumably reviewed the entire Epstein file before interviewing her, saw fit to release this email when they released her comment that she had not actually “witnessed” Trump engaging in inappropriate conduct. But perhaps they had reviewed the entire file and found Epstein’s email to Maxwell to be “irrelevant”, or more likely too hot to handle.
Perhaps all this reveals, like Watergate, that a massive cover-up is going on and that the only way that the public could possibly restore its faith in our judicial system and the Department of Justice is the complete public disclosure of all files, documents, recordings, emails and other evidence relating to Epstein and Maxwell.
On the other hand, there may be much grappling with consciences on where to draw the line between restoring the public’s faith in Donald Trump and his Department of Justice and restoring our faith in our democratic processes.
Perhaps what is best called for is adherence to the adage that “Sunlight is the best disinfectant,” and let the chips fall where they may.