If you’re like me, your news feed is full of Jeffrey Epstein, a subject where President Donald Trump has poor polling numbers. From the strategy that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) may employ in next week’s vote to criticism from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who thinks President Trump’s opposition to releasing files is “insanely the wrong direction to go,” the headlines go on and on.
What you may not have seen is a tool from Courier news that allows any of us to search the 20,000+ document tranche from the Epstein estate that was recently released by Congress.
The 20,000 documents come in the form of poorly organized folders with unhelpful labels, screenshots of emails, and heavily redacted spreadsheets. Some of the files are devoid of context, such as a video in the NATIVES folder of a dog playing with plushies of Trump and Hillary Clinton, while others are broken up in confusing ways, like email chains split into several PDFs.
I did not set out to search for Bill Clinton. But I stumbled on a reference while scanning a filter on Donald Trump.
Color me clueless, but this was news to me. From the affidavit of Bradley James Edwards:
15. … Epstein alleges that there was something improper in the fact that I notified him that I intended to take Bill Clinton’s deposition. Clinton was properly noticed because: (a) it was well Icnown that Clinton was friends with Ghislaine Maxwell, and several witnesses had provided information that Maxwell helped to run Epstein’s companies, kept images of naked underage children on her computer, helped to recruit underage children for Epstein, engaged in lesbian sex with underage females that she procured for Epstein, and photographed underage females in sexually explicit poses and kept child pornography on her computer; (b) newpaper articles stated that Clinton had an affair with Ghislaine Maxwell, who was thought to be second in charge of Epstein’s child molestation ring. The Cleveland Leader newspaper, April 10, 2009…
I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated: 1/2-, 2010 (emphasis added)
Note that in 2009 Epstein had been convicted of a state crime, soliciting sex (without any mention of minors or trafficking).
Flash forward nine years. Politico reported that “Epstein’s connections to two U.S. presidents ran through one bubbly British heiress: Ghislaine Maxwell.” The presidents? Clinton and Trump.
In 2020, “A Convenient Death: The Mysterious Demise of Jeffrey Epstein,” by Alana Goodman and Daniel Halper, claims Bill Clinton had an affair with Ghislaine Maxwell, according to the New York Post.
From Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on Aug. 11, 2025:
[Ghislaine Maxwell] was convicted in 2021 of conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors to participate in illegal sex acts, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts, sex trafficking conspiracy, and sex trafficking of a minor. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence…
One week after two days of meetings with [Trump’s] Deputy Attorney General Blanche, Maxwell was transferred to the minimum-security prison camp…As Whitehouse and Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-IL) wrote in a letter to Blanche, it “is highly unusual, if not unprecedented” for the second highest-ranking official at the Justice Department to conduct such an interview instead of a line prosecutor familiar with the case.
Bureau of Prisons policy requires individuals convicted of sex offenses to be placed, at a minimum, at low-security facilities, not minimum-security facilities.
So… why is there so little written about Clinton and Maxwell? What will a comprehensive review of the full set of Epstein Files reveal?
This is an issue where party should not matter.
The coverup has lasted too long. Powerful men have been immune for too long.
It’s past time to expose the abuse, the lies and the coverup. No matter who is involved.
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