And of course Blanche is, implicitly if not explicitly, carrying with him the prospect of a potential pardon or commutation for Maxwell … https://t.co/fmaVvVIStm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 24, 2025
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July 24, 2025 at 01:06PM
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These could also just have been home security cameras.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 24, 2025
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July 23, 2025 at 11:05PM
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“Tapes” may be the wrong word. In Florida, “Epstein had purchased covert cameras …[the] images were then downloaded onto a proprietary spyware software for later viewing.”–from “Dead Men Tell No Tales” by Howard, Cronin & Robertson
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 24, 2025
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July 23, 2025 at 11:02PM
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He’s Trump’s guy. He comes to bury the Epstein case, not pursue it. https://t.co/6EmkeAglA3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2025
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July 23, 2025 at 04:03PM
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Blanche is a proud co-architect of DOJ’s “no further release” Epstein case shutdown memo. https://t.co/hW858gOPhb Is he the guy you trust negotiating with Ghislaine Maxwell, one of the last possible sources of actual information on the case? He should stay out of it. https://t.co/xndsByrJwY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2025
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July 23, 2025 at 03:55PM
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Wolff’s persistence in pushing this idiotic BFF epiphany suggests he doesn’t have the goods on Trump-ie evidence of pedophilia-nor does he expect the goods to emerge, whatever photos Wolff says he has locked in his safe. Hence the fallback: ‘I don’t need goods! They were BFF!’ https://t.co/Jwdyp5wxch
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2025
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July 23, 2025 at 02:36PM
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Farmer–“She believes there are tapes.” @SemaforBen
does not. Who you gonna believe? (All those cameras for nothing?) https://t.co/r06eNubnVL— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2025
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July 23, 2025 at 02:32PM
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“Funding is ephemeral. Legislation is lasting.” True, but amnesty is forever. Good report on internecine debate among restrictionists on whether to explore deal to trade “a partial amnesty for millions of resident illegals in exchange for trimming the legalized inflow of https://t.co/Ogpx8qfTNu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2025
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July 23, 2025 at 02:11PM
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This was a great institution, for the brief shining moment when Clubhouse was cool. (They were mocking Clubhouse.) Convinced me that there was hope. Glad they are bringing it back. https://t.co/j9qDkyyfoe
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2025
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July 23, 2025 at 02:42AM
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Trouble? https://t.co/9rxExq0df6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2025
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July 22, 2025 at 09:24PM
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Re: Farmer–“She believes there are tapes.” @SemaforBen does not. Whom to believe? https://t.co/r06eNubnVL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2025
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July 22, 2025 at 07:27PM
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Note that the Maria Farmer who was the source for the @NyTimes’ big anti-Trump story over the weekend (https://t.co/xZ2tKqC7R9) was also a main source for the existence of Epstein’s elaborate video surveillance system (“toilet, toilet, bed, bed”) https://t.co/AS922412B5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2025
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July 22, 2025 at 07:25PM
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Yes, Trump’s diversions and the @WSJ attack have really put the furor over his Epstein decison to rest! https://t.co/3oykudhZ6W Big influencers agree! Old news! MAGA is united again … Wait, what’s this? https://t.co/F0TzYLETBz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2025
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July 22, 2025 at 01:27PM
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If she were lying she would have come up with a better anecdote.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2025
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July 22, 2025 at 02:47AM
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Wolff recommits to his silly morph ’em strategy: “How can we condemn Epstein but excuse his BFF Trump?” Wait, I know! Call on me teacher! Trump may have been a “sexual sleazeball,” but Epstein screwed underage girls–children, by law. Seems a distinction.https://t.co/AmL0nLNX0U
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2025
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July 22, 2025 at 02:36AM
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Wolff’s persistence in pushing this idiotic BFF ephiphany suggests he doesn’t have the goods on Trump-ie evidence of pedophilia-nor does he expect the goods to emerge, whatever photos Wolff says he has locked in his safe. Hence the fallback: I don’t need no goods! They were BFF! https://t.co/8TWpmFVbm1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2025
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July 22, 2025 at 02:35AM
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Wolff’s persistence in pushing this idiotic BFF ephiphany suggests he doesn’t have the goods on Trump–ie evidence of pedophilia–nor does he expect the goods to emerge, whatever photos Wolff says he has locked in his safe. https://t.co/8TWpmFVbm1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2025
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July 22, 2025 at 02:27AM
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Wolff recommits to his silly morph ’em strategy: “How can we condemn Epstein but excuse his BFF Trump?” Wait, I know! Call on me teacher! Trump may have been a “sexual sleazeball,” but Epstein screwed underage girls–children, legally. Seems a distinction.https://t.co/AmL0nLNX0U
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2025
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July 22, 2025 at 02:25AM
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They’re the sort of scrappy newcomers that made America great, right? Newsom has an opportunity to lecture the former homeowners on how they need to “welcome the stranger,” not evict him.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2025
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July 22, 2025 at 02:09AM
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Comic-book California: People whose homes burned down in the Palisades/Altadena fires are now faced with squatters who’ve moved on to their vacant lots and, thanks to California’s very California laws, are hard to get rid of. Over to you, Gov. Newsom … https://t.co/SmYX0GSd6P
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2025
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July 22, 2025 at 02:02AM
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‘Nobody who’s in prison has evidence to give about anybody important, or else they’d have cut a deal’ just isn’t an assumption you can make, let alone an assumption a journalist makes. https://t.co/0R3SblqaxK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2025
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July 21, 2025 at 05:08PM
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Semafor’s Ben Smith echoes his assertion that Ghislaine Maxwell is “sitting in jail and presumably if she had something to give the authorities would have.” https://t.co/hSYsAJhzUk Smith can’t imagine a reason Maxwell might not want to spill the beans? Hello?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2025
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July 21, 2025 at 05:01PM
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Or it could be a play for Resistance Relevance. (The whole family kind of desperately needs some relevance, to somebody, at the moment, if only for financial reasons., no?) https://t.co/r0CovKvyqj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2025
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July 21, 2025 at 02:05PM
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Reupping: Of course, if the Trump opposition focused on his blocking of the files to protect other bigshots, not himself–a better way to split MAGA– the bigshots they found being protected would more likely than not be Democrats. … https://t.co/63yTcPUWwP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2025
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July 21, 2025 at 01:27PM
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I’m not questioning the truth of Farmer’s account. And her 1996 instinct (that someone should check out all the bigshots a guy like Epstein was roping into his circle) seems sound. It’s just not a very damaging anecdote. https://t.co/JKvobT1Fvh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2025
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July 21, 2025 at 03:11AM
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