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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,498 posts)
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 02:15 PM 4 hrs ago

Trump's DOJ Busted Tracking Epstein Reporter on Day He Was Arrested

An investigative reporter who covered Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes has called out the Department of Justice after discovering her flight details from the day he was arrested appear in the Epstein files.

Journalist Julie K. Brown has been credited with reactivating the investigation into Epstein’s abuse of young women when the Miami Herald published her interviews with victims in November 2018, headlined "Perversion of Justice."

Brown spoke to around 80 alleged victims of Epstein, with her work earning her a George Polk Award in the category of Justice Reporting.

On Sunday, Brown posted a redacted document detailing flights she took on July 6, 2019, during Trump’s first administration.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-doj-busted-tracking-epstein-023925643.html

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Trump's DOJ Busted Tracking Epstein Reporter on Day He Was Arrested (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 4 hrs ago OP
K&R UTUSN 3 hrs ago #1
K&R spanone 3 hrs ago #2
Damn, that is really intimidating PatSeg 2 hrs ago #3
This needs much more coverage malaise 2 hrs ago #4
Nicole Wallace just opened with that and MTG's newest revelation about Trump's "friends" chowder66 2 hrs ago #6
Great malaise 1 hr ago #7
k&r bagimin 2 hrs ago #5
Bill Barr was US Attorney General in 2019. Kid Berwyn 1 hr ago #8
No. Barr was not Attorney General in 2007. Wiz Imp 1 hr ago #10
Thanks! My bad! Kid Berwyn 16 min ago #11
She the person most responsible for the public knowing as much as we do. Wiz Imp 1 hr ago #9
AI Headline? ProfessorGAC 4 min ago #12
The "he" refers to Epstein. W_HAMILTON 15 sec ago #13

chowder66

(11,781 posts)
6. Nicole Wallace just opened with that and MTG's newest revelation about Trump's "friends"
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 04:10 PM
2 hrs ago

They are talking about it now.

Kid Berwyn

(22,772 posts)
8. Bill Barr was US Attorney General in 2019.
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 04:49 PM
1 hr ago

Last edited Mon Dec 29, 2025, 06:23 PM - Edit history (1)

His ideological co-conspirator from the Feudalist Society Alberto Gonzalez was USAG in 2007:

Epstein had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show

Tampa Bay Times, October 20, 2025

Jeffrey Epstein had multiple appointments, phone calls and dinners with Matthew Menchel — the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office chief criminal prosecutor who spearheaded Epstein’s sweetheart deal in 2007, newly released documents show.

A tranche of over 8,500 pages of records from Epstein’s estate — released by the House Oversight Committee Friday — show that Epstein’s calendars and emails reflect that Menchel, who left the DOJ in 2007, had multiple meetings or dinners with Epstein in 2011, 2013 and 2017. Lawmakers also referred to a photograph of Menchel on a ski trip with Epstein sometime in the 2000s, but didn’t produce the photo.

Contacted on Friday, Menchel initially referred the Miami Herald to a 2020 statement he had previously sent the Herald in response to questions about whether he had a business relationship with Epstein.

“I had no business relationship with Mr. Epstein at any point, not before, during or after my tenure at the US Attorney’s Office.” He added that Epstein had tried to get his firm to handle some of the civil litigation associated with his case, but “we declined.”

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/epstein-had-dinners-with-a-top-florida-prosecutor-on-his-case-docs-show/ar-AA1OP7nv

Wiz Imp

(8,826 posts)
10. No. Barr was not Attorney General in 2007.
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 05:16 PM
1 hr ago

Alberto Gonzales was Attorney General through September 17, 2007. He was then replaced by Michael Mukasey.

Barr was first AG from November 26, 1991 through January 20, 1993. Then later from February 14, 2019 through December 23, 2020

Wiz Imp

(8,826 posts)
9. She the person most responsible for the public knowing as much as we do.
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 05:11 PM
1 hr ago

She is a true American hero. So naturally, Trump tried to take her down.

ProfessorGAC

(75,761 posts)
12. AI Headline?
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 06:32 PM
4 min ago
Trump's DOJ Busted Tracking Epstein Reporter on Day He Was Arrested

The reporter's name is Julie.
Julie is a "he"?
From the snip:
after discovering her flight details from the day he was arrested appear in the Epstein files.

"Her" flight details on the day "he" was arrested.
An AI editor, too?

W_HAMILTON

(10,022 posts)
13. The "he" refers to Epstein.
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 06:37 PM
15 sec ago

Could be AI, but AI is usually clearer and has better grammar.

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