Impeach Barack Obama?

American Thinker    

"What about the farce of impeaching Obama after he is out of office?  Yes, it is a farce, but it was a farce when Congress did so with impeachment #2 against Trump.  It makes no difference that Obama has been out of office longer."

"There has been at least a temporary setback to indicting James Comey on making a false statement to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation.  This, combined with liberal judges running continual interference in such cases, the thorny five-year statute of limitations, and the media constantly portraying any prosecutorial action taken against the seditious actors as a personal vendetta by Donald Trump against his political enemies, is leaving many of us with the uneasy feeling (if we didn’t already have it) that no one will pay for trying to set up and bring down the leader of the opposition party and president of the United States.

"The evidence that has trickled out proves beyond a shadow of doubt that, far from doing everything “by the book,” or merely ignoring “See Something, Say Something,” Barack Obama was actually directing the Trump-Russia collusion plot.  Count me among those who think he’ll never see a jail cell for it, for a number of reasons: The crime doesn’t exactly fit the technical definition of treason or sedition; statute of limitations; he still has supporters in DOJ who will run interference for him; he’s The One.  

"Rather than let him and the others skate, here’s an idea: Let Congress impeach Obama, just as the Democrats did to Donald Trump after he was out of office.  The purpose would be to embarrass him and expose his treachery to the masses, to the point that even the MSM will have trouble hiding it.

"What do they charge him with?  Policy “inconsistent with consensus views of the interagency.”  Do those words sound familiar?  That was Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s  testimony about Trump leading to Trump impeachment #1.  When Vindman first said those words, I instantly thought three things:

1) Yes, that’s exactly why we elected Trump.

2) Trump’s the commander-in-chief, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

3) Vindman’s use of an adjective [interagency] as a noun was annoying, not endearing the way a different Alexander — Haig — a former general, made nouns into verbs as Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state.   More

The thought processes of Democrats make one fear for our nation

UPDATE: The Mamdani Model: More Socialist Mayors to Come 

  "I’ve written countless times in recent years about the model established by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to get its members elected to office. It’s a brilliantly cunning strategy that goes like this: . . 

Rich Terrell

. . . "First, the DSA identifies a Democrat-safe, if not guaranteed, district. These are areas where registered Democrats vastly outnumber Republicans; that is, where a Republican candidate has virtually no chance. 

Second, the DSA identifies offices in which the incumbent Democrat — typically, a more conventional Democrat, a party person — is highly vulnerable. That part of the process is crucial. It must be a target of opportunity in which the incumbent can be defeated in the party primary.

"Third, the DSA recruits a member — someone with charisma and political skills — willing and capable of challenging and defeating the incumbent." . . .

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell rejects locking up repeat criminals during tense debate | New York Post

"Repeat offenders have been a part of the national conversation with respect to crimes in recent weeks after several high-profile murders carried out by suspects with lengthy criminal records, including in North Carolina where Ukrainian Iryna Zarutska was stabbed 

to death on a train by a suspect with a long history of arrests going back more than a decade, including charges of felony larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon and communicating threats." . . .

. . . Seattle Red talk show host Jason Rantz, who first posted about Harrell’s debate response, told Fox News Digital that the mayor’s “governing philosophy” was on display. 

“Harrell says he has ‘no desire’ to jail an eight-time criminal. Well, the feeling’s mutual, because criminals in Seattle clearly have no desire to stop offending,” Rantz said. 

Dems move to set limits on Trump’s donor-funded White House ballroom, claiming ‘bribery in plain sight’    . . . "Meanwhile, the White House dismissed the measure and Democrats’ efforts to impose new restrictions on donations.

" 'President Trump is making the White House beautiful and giving it the glory it deserves," White House spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement to Fox News Digital on Monday. "Only people with a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome would find a problem with that."

"Trump has initiated several renovation projects at the White House during his second term, including adding gold accents to the White House’s Oval Office and paving the Rose Garden. "

Women’s March Leader Tossed Out for Anti-Semitism Lands on Mamdani Transition Team   . . . "The Women's March cut ties with Mallory in 2019 after founder Teresa Shook wrote in a Facebook post that Mallory and three other leaders had "allowed anti-Semitism, anti-LBGTQIA sentiment, and hateful, racist rhetoric to become a part of the platform by their refusal to separate themselves from groups that espouse these racist, hateful beliefs." Shook called on the co-chairs to leave the organization, stating that their extremism had "steered the Movement away from its true course." . . .

(RELATED: Mamdani Won, But Socialism Still Lost) . . .

Democrats Calling for Mutiny Must Be Punished

J.B. Shurk 

"Let’s hope, for the sake of our country’s future, that guilty Democrats begin to pay a price.  Forgive me for not holding my breath." 

https://townhall.com/political-cartoons/afbranco/2025/11/25/212978

 "By now everyone is aware that six Democrats in Congress created videos in which they openly encourage members of the U.S. military and Intelligence Community to mutiny against the commander in chief.  They couched their seditious statements in the pretense that they are interested only in protecting the Constitution, but their message is unmistakable: Resist President Trump’s lawful orders, and we’ll have your backs.

"Americans whose minds have not been pickled by leftism are not impressed.  The Democrat instigators have been called “TikTok Traitors,” the “Seditious Six,” the “Idiot Six,” and worse.  President Trump immediately accused the lawmakers of sedition and demanded that they be arrested and stand trial for their potentially deadly provocations.  In response, the Democrat provocateurs have pretended to be outraged that the commander in chief would correctly describe their seditious actions as seditious.

"Democrat word games have become so exhausting over the last thirty years.  Remember when Bill Clinton lied about his affair with twenty-two-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky by telling a grand jury, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”?  No matter how corrupt American politicians were before Clinton’s galling equivocation, it has seemed as if rhetorical obfuscation began exponentially accelerating after that moment.  

"Fast-forward to 2025, and former CIA director John Brennan is entirely comfortable going on national news shows and telling the world that he and fifty other “intelligence professionals” never lied about Hunter Biden’s “laptop from Hell” being Russian disinformation because the spies clearly stated in their 2020 pre-election op-ed defending the Bidens that the laptop’s treasure trove of criminality had merely “the hallmarks” of a Russian operation.  If Americans were confused about their attempt to blame Hunter’s crimes on the Russians, that’s because Americans are poor readers!  

"Senator Elissa Slotkin — one of the “Seditious Six,” a former CIA analyst, and a protégée of John Brennan — is busy playing the same sick word games as Slick Willy and commie Brennan.  She claims that her seditious video is meant only to draw attention to President Trump’s “illegal orders,” but when she is pressed to name one such “illegal order,” she admits that she is “not aware” of any.  

"If Slotkin can’t identify any of President Trump’s orders as illegal, why is she making videos encouraging rank insubordination among America’s military and intelligence personnel?  The Democrats are executing the exact same playbook that they have been using against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.  For months, Democrat governors and lawmakers have threatened federal agents with future prosecution for doing nothing more than enforcing existing immigration law and arresting criminal illegal aliens in their states.  In order to protect millions of foreign nationals from deportation, Democrats have been obstructing law enforcement operations by promising to punish officers who do their jobs." . . .  More...

'Absurd' Meghan Markle insists staff announce her as Duchess of Sussex

 Mercury News  

"Sykes also pointed out that, traditionally, such announcements are only made when a royal walks into a crowded room — not when they walk into a friend’s house — leading him to surmise that Meghan staged this “absurd scene” for the benefit of the journalist." 

"In a gushing new interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Meghan Markle wants to let everyone know how “authentic” she is, starting with the way she appeared to not wear any makeup while posing for the fashion magazine cover.

"But of course, the wife of Prince Harry was probably wearing enough makeup to look glamorously au naturel so that her fans will praise her for being so brave. Meanwhile, that claim of authenticity gets challenged by the way Meghan and her PR team seem to have arranged a hagiographic profile that brushes by her many controversies, including the multiple staff-bullying allegations or that a Spotify executive famously called her and Harry “(expletive) grifters.” This profile certainly doesn’t mention journalist Tina Brown’s view that she has made “one terrible professional decision after another” in her ambition to become a media mogul and lifestyle influencer.

"Another “terrible professional decision” may come from doing the Harper’s interview, according to Tom Sykes, the Daily Beast’s royal expert. That’s because the profile reveals Meghan’s “astonishing self-importance” when it comes to trading on her connection to the British royal family by apparently insisting that she be referred to as the Duchess of Sussex in one key moment in the story, Sykes wrote in his Royalist newsletter. Sykes also expects that this interview could further inflame Prince William, who is reportedly keen on stripping Meghan and Harry of their royal titles when he becomes king.

"The big reveal about Meghan comes near the end of the profile. Writer Kaitlyn Greenidge describes how the Los Angeles-born former TV actor apparently expects to be announced as the Duchess of Sussex during a visit to a friend’s New York City mansion, which she’s using for the interview." . . .  More...

The Royal Family has failed to learn the folly of marrying a Yank. In 1937, as Hitler and the Nazis threatened Europe and millions of doomed people, King Edward abdicated his Royal Throne in favor of his brother, Edward VI as shown in the movie The Kings Speech. TD.

"After his abdication, Edward was given the title Duke of Windsor, and he married Wallis Simpson in France on June 3, 1937. Although they were married, Wallis was not granted the style of "Her Royal Highness," which further emphasized her controversial status within the royal family."

Jews in New York, "Feel unsafe in New York? Start looking for a home in Israel"

 Jerusalem Post  

"For Jews who can afford it, a modest apartment in Jerusalem, Haifa, or Beit Shemesh is no longer just a sentimental indulgence or a theoretical; it's an anchor." 

Demonstrators attend a pro-Palestinian protest on the day of the two-year anniversary of the attack on Israel by Hamas, in New York City

"Two scenes in the past week – one on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, one in Tel Aviv – send a single message to Diaspora Jews: it may be time to think seriously about owning a home in Israel.

"Outside Park East Synagogue, some 200 anti-Israel activists surrounded a Nefesh B’Nefesh aliyah fair, chanting “From New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada” and “Resistance, you make us proud, take another settler out.”

"One masked speaker led the crowd in a chilling refrain: “We need to make them scared!” as Jews trying to enter their synagogue were forced to push past jeering protesters. Inside, a Nefesh B’Nefesh staffer said that, compared with previous events, there was “more serious discussion of aliyah as an option.”

"New York’s incoming mayor, Zohran Mamdani, responded with a carefully balanced statement. His press secretary, Dora Pekec, said he “has discouraged” the language used outside Park East and “believes every New Yorker should be free to enter a house of worship without intimidation,” yet added that “these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law.” To many Jews, it sounded like a mayor-elect unwilling to say clearly that targeting a synagogue with threats is antisemitic.

"The broader American backdrop is no less troubling. In its latest annual audit, the Anti-Defamation League logged more than 9,300 antisemitic incidents in 2024, a record high, and for the first time, most were explicitly tied to hostility to Israel or Zionism. “In 2024, hatred toward Israel was a driving force behind antisemitism across the US,” said Oren Segal, who leads the ADL’s efforts to combat extremism and terrorism." . .

. . . "Real estate decisions are personal and financial, not only ideological. Yet the question for many Jews is starting to sound less like “Should I buy in Tel Aviv or stay in New York?” and more like: In an age of multiplying uncertainties, where do I want my family’s emergency key to fit?"       .More...

'The View' Fans Are Sick Of Joy Behar's On-Air Rude Habit

 

'The View' Fans Are Sick Of Joy Behar's On-Air Rude Habit    "The View fans pick up on many things that the panel does during the show. Although the election didn’t turn out the way the ladies had hoped, they are continuing the conversation. However, now fans are saying they are sick of Joy Behar’s on-air rude habits interrupting the show."

"Undoubtedly, it has been a tense week for America and especially, the ladies at The View. During the weeks leading up to the election, many fans wanted Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines to “play nice” in the sandbox. Now, they are mourning the decisions made by the American people. But Joy Behar was accused of making her own questionable decisions by cheating. Likewise, fans thought she would be fired for outing her co-host’s lesbian relationship. However, now Joy is standing out to fans for another reason. While many people will excuse her bluntness at times, she has frequently become more and more rude and dismissive." . . .

. . . "While some of The View followers find the interaction funny, others are tired of it. Since it seems to be a bad habit of Joy Behar’s, fans are speaking up." . . . More...

‘The View’s Joy Behar Says She Wouldn’t Even Let A MAGA Supporter Give Her The Heimlich Maneuver: “That’s How Little I Feel About People”   . . . "However, Griffin — who previously worked under Trump’s administration before resigning in 2020 — noted that “New England Republicans” and “Southern Democratic” gentlemen are her “favorite” types of men, describing them as “moderate, sound-minded, and just very decent people.”

Man named Jeffrey Epstein has devilish revenge plan for Democrat who confused him with convicted pedophile

. . . "Long Island neurosurgeon confused with late sex offender by outraged Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett" . . .

The Independent

  . . . "So, number one, I made sure that I was clear that it was a Jeffrey Epstein, but I never said that it was specifically that Jeffrey Epstein.”

A Long Island neurosurgeon who has the misfortune to be named Dr Jeffrey Epstein has an ingenious idea for how he might respond to Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett after she confused him with the notorious sex offender of the same name.

“I think that I should contribute money to Jasmine Crockett and then let everybody know that she also took money from Jeffrey Epstein,” the physician joked to The New York Post.

"Crockett threatened on the floor of the House of Representatives Tuesday that she was “gonna expose it all” after discovering that “somebody named Jeffrey Epstein” had donated to the campaign of the former New York Republican congressman Lee Zeldin, now director of the Environmental Protection Agency.

"She also called out Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and the late John McCain, amongst others, for taking money from Epstein, not realising she had the wrong man."  . . . 

"The Democrat failed to notice that the pair of $1,000 donations she was referring to in Zeldin’s case had been made to in April and August 2020 while the disgraced financier died by suicide in a New York City jail cell in August 2019 as he awaited trial. “No freaking relation you genius!” Zeldin responded to Crockett on X."

. . . " As for the Democrat, Crockett has risen to prominence over the last two years as one of her party’s most frank and outspoken representatives but has attracted flack from MAGA and President Donald Trump in the process, with the latter routinely referring to her as “low IQ.” . . .

Democrat Swalwell (California) shows the way to be edgy is to use the f-word in each video

High school level messages for his Gen-Z supporters

Rep. Eric “Fang Fang” Swalwell Vows to Go After Private Citizens Working With President Trump Should Democrats Seize Control of Congress

Sep. 29, 2025

. . . "Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-China) went on CNN this morning and vowed revenge on the Trump Administration.

"He stated that should Democrats gain control of Congress, they would subpoena the Department of Justice and try to bully them into coughing up answers.

“ 'We’re going into the majority a year from now,” Swalwell said. “We will bring oversight…We will subpoena the Department of Justice.” . . .

Here We Have Eric Swalwell Posting a Cringe Video That Backfires Into a Sea of Mockery  "Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) on Saturday joined in on the new Democrat strategy to fight back against President Trump's agenda, which involves cursing to seem super-edgy while producing videos worthy of entry into the Cringe Hall of Fame.

"Swalwell took to TikTok and posted a video where he joked that Elon Musk is secretly the "real" president and yet somehow didn't speak at the joint address to Congress this past week.

"What a f**king week, huh?" the bleary-eyed congressman says, holding his phone in selfie mode. "You know how weird this week was?"

" 'I went to the State of the Union, and the president didn't even speak. He just sat up in the visitor's gallery like a total weirdo and let his press secretary do all the talking," he continued. "What a week.' " . . .Childish high school video here... Check me on this.

We Didn't Think Eric Swalwell Could Be Any Grosser, but He Just Proved Us Wrong – RedState   "Says the guy taking a creepy selfie video from what appears to be a bathroom stall in a middle school. Sure dude. We're the weird ones," another fired back.

Eric Swalwell Is So Stupid About So Much and So Often I've Lost the Joy in Writing About How STUPID He Is   

"Seriously, the man can only say and do so many stupid things for me to write about and mock him for before it gets boring, even for me. So I know if I'M bored writing about him being a brain-dead doorknob of a human being, you guys must get sick of reading about him. Case in point, I thought about writing this today because once again, Swallwell(sp) said something stupid and is pushing a lie that he knows damn well is a lie."

 Eric Swalwell laments it’s ‘so stupid’ for parents to control their kids’ education

When Joy Reid Discovers Biology -- In The Locker Room

Brian C. Joondeph

"Nothing reveals the hollowness of progressive politics faster than the moment when theory collides with biology."

Image generated by ChatGPT, whatever that is

. . . "The specific trigger here was the now-viral confrontation at Gold’s Gym in Los Angeles, where singer/actress Tish Hyman, a black lesbian, complained about a biological male in the women’s locker room. Rather than take her seriously, the gym expelled her for objecting. 

"In the new progressive hierarchy, the feelings of a biological male now override the privacy concerns of a lesbian woman.

"In the LGBTQ+ alphabet salad, T is king and L is a back bencher. 

"Suddenly, Joy Reid is worried about a man changing next to her. It’s the same pattern we see when big-city liberals call to defund the police, right up until their home is robbed and 911 puts them on hold.

"This isn’t evolution -- it’s optics. Let’s rewind and take a walk back through Reid’s past ideological contortions.

"Asked years ago “What is a woman?” Reid floundered, visibly eager to avoid the obvious answer of an adult human female. Her discomfort was less about nuance than denial of reality. She is in good company, however, as a U.S. Supreme Court justice couldn’t answer that question either. 

"She then deployed crude analogies -- equating opposition to trans-medicalizing children with Nazi totalitarianism, claiming parents or doctors questioning puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones were on a morally “brutally violent” path.

"Add to that her 2018 fiasco, when her old hateful blog posts surfaced. She denied writing them, blamed hackers, and offered up a half-hearted apology when exposed." . . . More...

3 Taxpayers Will Have Fled California In The Time It Takes You To Read This

Issues & Insights   

"Why do those who don’t or can’t leave put up with it? Why do they keep electing the same cast of criminals who are stealing their money and ruining their state?"

"Over the weekend, we learned that the Golden State loses one taxpayer to another state every minute, and faces an $18 billion budget shortfall, which is $5 billion higher than was projected just a few months ago.

"We also learned that only now, 10 months after wildfires destroyed thousands of buildings in the Los Angeles area, has the first home been rebuilt.

"These stories are yet more evidence of a completely dysfunctional state captured by ideologues who couldn’t care less about the harm their policies cause. Will voters there ever learn?

"The National Taxpayers Union Foundation used IRS data to calculate how many taxpayers are moving into and out of states each year.

"What it found was stunning. California is losing taxpayers at a rate of one every 1 minute 44 seconds – the fastest of any state in the nation. That amounts to billions in lost tax revenue every year.

"Florida, in contrast, is gaining taxpayers at a rate of one every 2 minutes 9 seconds."

. . . "Next, we come to the story in the Los Angeles Times over the weekend that “The first home has been rebuilt in the wake of the Palisades Fire.”

"L.A. Mayor Karen Bass calls it “an important moment of hope.”

"It is anything but that. As the Times itself notes, the Palisades fire destroyed nearly 7,000 buildings, but 10 months later, only 2,000 building permits have been issued and only 340 projects are under construction.

"In Atladena, the site of the other massively destructive wildfire in January that claimed some 6,500 buildings, the first home that managed to get an occupancy permit last week was a garage that had been converted into 640-foot “accessory dwelling unit.”

"Meanwhile, more than 70% of the Palisades fire victims still live in temporary housing, as are 67% of the victims of the Altadena fires.

"Most of them have little hope of ever returning, or seeing their communities rebuilt." . . .More...

Douglas Murray: New Yorkers need only look to Newsom’s California to see how Mamdani can bring ruin to Big Apple  . . . Take Governor Gavin Newsom of California. In recent days, he has been trying to “win” the internet. That’s because, having failed at his job of governing an actual state, he seems to have decided to become chief troll online. Democrat pundits are “LOLing” all over the place at Newsom’s alleged brilliance in aping the internet manners of President Trump.

"It would be a lot more fun if the situation in Gavin’s own state were sunnier.

"As it is, while Newsom plays cute online, California is in a disastrous state. Just this year, it has suffered ruinous wildfires, causing billions of dollars worth of damage. And even if the areas of Los Angeles that burned to the ground are rebuilt, good luck to anyone trying to get home insurance." . . .

TDS Now Resembles Orwell’s ‘Two Minutes Hate’

The American Spectator    

. . . "The scary part of the next several years is that once the empty suits or dresses have been discarded, the Newsoms or the AOCs, someone will emerge who can win hearts as well as votes." . . . 

"Some complain that “Orwellian” has become the most overused phrase in current political discourse, but I beg to disagree. Although George Orwell succumbed to tuberculosis — and perhaps political despair — at the age of 46, some 75 years ago, his characterizations of our political condition have never been more apposite — and more chilling.

"In a world in which violent fascists cloak themselves in the name Antifa, one can readily picture the pigs in Animal Farm, indistinguishable in the end from human tyrants. In a world in which the murders and rapes of October 7 are celebrated on American university campuses, or when young New York voters reject the memory of 9/11 to elect as mayor a radical Islamist, we see inversions of truth and decency that Orwell predicted throughout his mature work, most notably in 1984. 

" 'War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.” Not far removed, then, from “women’s reproductive health” or “gender-affirming care,” to take only a handful from among dozens of contemporary leftist deceits. It’s not hard to imagine what Orwell would have made of Mamdani, AOC, and the so-called “Democratic” Socialists of America, and easier still to picture the contempt he would have had for the Schumers and Sanders and Newsoms. One suspects that Orwell might not have much cared for Trump, but he would have clearly seen through the humbuggery of the Democrats.

"None of Orwell’s insights, however, are as relevant to our present political moment as his construct, in 1984, of the “Two Minutes Hate.” In the novel’s dystopian universe, the citizens of Oceania are subjected on a daily basis to terrifying images of the countries enemies, transmitted into every home, office, and public place through “telescreens,” devices that combine the function of televisions with that of electronic surveillance devices, a disturbing anticipation of today’s various technologies (the extent to which our various monitors have become monitoring devices must be a subject for another essay).

"Central to this image bombardment is the figure of Goldstein, understood by all to be the traitorous figure behind every assault on every citizen’s well-being. In Goldstein, Orwell evokes not only the antisemitism of Hitler and the Nazis, but also that of Stalin’s regime in Soviet Russia. Still, the figures portrayed in the “Two-Minute Hate” go far beyond anti-Jewish tropes, embracing, from one day to the next, everything likely to stir fear and anger among the “everyman” audience." . . .

James H. McGee retired in 2018 after nearly four decades as a national security and counter-terrorism professional, working primarily in the nuclear security field. Since retiring, he’s begun a second career as a thriller writer. He’s just published his new novel, The Zebras from Minsk, the sequel to his well-received 2022 thriller, Letter of Reprisal. 

The One Thing Democrats Will Never Try To ‘Get’ Trump    . . . "In many ways, the monster that the left claims Trump to be is one of their own creation. 

"When he first ran for president, Trump had a long history of liberal positions on issues, and was more critical of Republicans than Democrats. He sided with the left on the Iraq war, praised Britain’s national health insurance, promised never to touch Social Security and Medicare, etc.

"But instead of seeing an opportunity, the left treated Trump with unrelenting hostility, and many high-profile establishment Republicans declared they’d never vote for him. But some conservatives made it clear that they were willing to work with Trump, make staffing recommendations, offer policy help, and so on." . . .

Epstein Cover-up in Disarray

 Ann Coulter 

. . . "Epstein’s pedophile ring was broken by the Palm Beach Police in 2005. It’s taken 20 years to be this close to getting the names of the participants and government accomplices. Something’s been blocking the release of this information.

"This week, President Trump’s uncanny political instincts resulted in a near-unanimous congressional resolution forcing his administration, against its collective will, to release the Epstein files.

"Thirty-six hours before his impending loss, Trump announced on social media: “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files.” One imagines Trump murmuring, Now I’ve got them right where they want me.

"Why doesn’t he just release them? This is like filing a lawsuit asking the court to rule against you.

"Big victory, but I’m already bracing for another Al Capone’s vault fiasco.

"Recall that, after Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in 2019 at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, the FBI searched his New York residence for 12 hours.  They found what most of us have: a buried safe in a fifth-floor dressing room. The agents sawed it open and discovered cash, diamonds, fake passports — and binders of CDs containing photos of naked girls, carefully labeled with the girls’ names as well as the names of “third parties.”

"Then they left, walking away from the biggest collection of incriminating evidence since Nuremberg.

"When Special Agent Kelly Maguire (”special” in every way) returned to the house days later — surprise! — the binders were gone. They had been carted off by Epstein’s accountant, Richard Kahn, who apparently had NO IDEA, NONE! that the FBI might be interested in a vast trove of photos stored in a pedophile’s safe.

"Maguire said she didn’t remove the photos the first time because the search warrant did not allow it. (Nor, apparently, did it allow her to secure the premises.) If this is true, the most titillating document in the Epstein files may be a search warrant that failed to mention “evidence of a crime.”

"It’s difficult to believe this was mere incompetence, even from a female law enforcement officer.*

"By now, the government has had a 20-year head start on “losing” evidence in the Epstein case. Our only consolation is that destroying evidence is a serious crime, aggressively prosecuted and punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Otherwise, everyone would do it." . . . 

"If you sexually molested an underage girl, you’re not a victim, you’re a perpetrator. Invading your privacy is not “unwarranted,” but “extremely warranted.' ”

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*Ann's words; not mine. TD