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🚨 HOLY CRAP! Scott Jennings has thrown Democrats into a fit of RAGE after he said the Epstein Files are really the "Clinton Files"
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 20, 2025
"This is the CLINTON FILES! This is the BLOWING UP in the face of the Democrats over this!" 🔥
"The reason that Bill Clinton's picture is in the… pic.twitter.com/YPrfgNfp6E
Ed: Gee, who could have seen this coming?
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Politico: The Trump administration has transformed the release of the Epstein files into the 2025 version of WikiLeaks: a slow-drip document dump that could threaten a long list of Washington power players.
And with each newly published tranche, a frenzied press corps will pore over every word for clues about the world leaders, corporate executives and Wall Street titans who helped late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein grow and maintain his influence.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed Friday that the documents would be released on a rolling basis through the holidays — and possibly beyond. And, in court papers filed shortly after Friday’s partial release, the Justice Department emphasized that more files are still undergoing a review and redaction process to protect victims and new Trump-ordered investigations before they can be released.
Ed: Part II of "Gee, who could have seen that coming?" is just as fun as part I. Just about anyone who gamed out the Democrats' demagoguery on these files. There's a reason that the Biden Regency didn't release these over the last four years, and now we're all about to see that reason. "Forcing" the Trump DoJ into this position may be the single dumbest decision this year by Democrats, and that includes the Schumer Shutdown.
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Anyone notice how quiet @HillaryClinton is right now?
— Katie Miller (@KatieMiller) December 20, 2025
Ed: Sometimes, silence speaks volumes. And sometimes, as we'll see next, it's a lot better than words.
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Daily Wire: Some of the photos show Clinton swimming in a pool with convicted Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and in a hot tub with at least one unidentified female whose face has been redacted, as reported by The Daily Wire. Notably, according to the DOJ, the only faces that would be redacted would be those of minors, alleged victims, and government officials.
Clinton chief of staff Angel Ureña responded in a statement posted to X on Friday evening, saying Clinton cut ties with Epstein after his “crimes came to light” and is being scapegoated by the Trump administration.
“There are two types of people here. The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light,” Ureña said. “The second group continued relationships with him after. We’re in the first. No amount of stalling by people in the second group will change that.”
Ed: Sorry, you don't get to keep that double standard. Democrats have been flogging pictures of Trump with Epstein taken years before Epstein's crimes came to light as evidence of guilt. In fact, they've used pictures taken in the 1990s that were entirely unrelated to Epstein to suggest that Trump took part in trafficking. Maybe Ureña should have a word with her fellow Democrats about sauce being for the goose as well as the gander.
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Where is the hypocrisy? Bill Clinton is all over the newly released Epstein files and the democrats are silent. Isn’t this the release they were begging for? Imagine if these photos were Donald Trump. Please share, like, comment, and pray . pic.twitter.com/hOoBolBJET
— Armstrong Williams 🇺🇸 (@Arightside) December 20, 2025
Ed: Emphasis on the "pray," please.
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Jonathan Turley: The question is who has standing to challenge the change. Are Kennedy family members injured in a concrete way to satisfy standing? Associational standing from historical preservation groups can be tricky. However, some may soon test those waters.
The most obvious way to address the issue is for Congress to be heard. It can either ratify the board decision or it could expressly declare the change to be invalid and clarify that “additional memorial” encompasses any name change. Either resolution may prove difficult with the heavily divided Congress. Soon a judge may join Romeo in his lament: “O teach me how I should forget to think!”
In any legal challenge, the advantage would likely rest with the challengers if they can meet the standing requirements. Otherwise, the name could remain by default … or until another Administration decides to make another change to the Center previously known as the Kennedy Center.
Ed: I suspect that only Congress has standing to challenge the name change. If Democrats get control of one chamber of Congress after the midterms, they could file suit to force the court into deciding the question Professor Turley cites as the key: did the statute forbid name changes by the board, or merely leave that question unanswered? However, as Turley notes, the next Democrat elected president will just remove Trump's name, so this will eventually be a moot point. And – let's face it – a useless one. Let's not name things after living politicians still in office. That applies to the porkers in Congress too, as well as elementary schools that rushed to change their names to Barack Obama Schools in 2009.
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Did not expect to find Xi Jinping in the Epstein files. pic.twitter.com/iKkm3ZJd5R
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) December 20, 2025
Ed: NO ONE EXPECTS THE JINPINGQUISITION!
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WSJ: The heavy U.S. strikes against Islamic State positions highlight the difficulty in fully suppressing a foe that was declared militarily defeated half a decade ago.
U.S. forces carried out attacks on more than 70 targets in Syria on Friday, as the Trump administration retaliated for an ambush that killed three Americans last week. Jordanian forces joined in the strikes, which targeted Islamic State infrastructure and weapons sites.
The wide-scale attack followed more than 80 operations the U.S. military says it has conducted along with its Kurdish-led militia partners in Syria in the last six months, including airstrikes as well as raids that have killed Islamic State leaders.
Ed: Unfortunately, this threat has risen again, although not to the levels of 2011-14 following the first US withdrawal from Iraq. The attack that killed three Americans last week put it back on the radar for US media, but this has become acute again after the collapse of the Assad regime. The Trump administration remains on top of this, it seems, but it's a real risk to our interests and operations in the region ... again.
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I’m bored af with the conservative influencer wars. We have a country to fix. Talking heads firing inside the tent ain’t it. Can we focus on solutions and the hard work needed to achieve them? Join up!
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@HarmeetKDhillon) December 20, 2025
Ed: I hear this sentiment from readers and commenters, too. Of course, it would be nice if some crapposters hadn't gone off the deep end in the first place, but maybe we can ignore them now and get back to work. Also, I love seeing Harmeet Dhillon use "af" in a tweet.
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The Free Press: Late Thursday night, police identified Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, a 48-year-old from Portugal, as the man who opened fire in the campus engineering building, killing two students, Ella Cook, 19, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, and injuring nine.
Valente, who dropped out of Brown in the early 2000s after two semesters as a physics graduate student, was found in a warehouse in Salem, New Hampshire, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Law enforcement believes he is also behind the Monday murder of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Today, we can all rest easier knowing that the killer has been found. But we must not ignore something vital: The response to the shooting was utterly abominable. It was a tale of confusion and missteps from start to finish, an institutional incompetence so great that an army of online social media accounts tried to do the work of the police themselves—and, for the most part, failed spectacularly.
Ed: It was so bad that it is almost impossible to attribute the failures to mere incompetence. Either the state government of Rhode Island or the Department of Justice need to do a very deep dive into how this got mishandled so badly for five full days.
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Hey media: stop looking in the Epstein Files for old pictures of Trump. Here's the scandal-
— Rich Weinstein (@phillyrich1) December 20, 2025
-Jeffrey Epstein was part of the original group that conceived of the Clinton Global Initiative.
-Maxwell was "very central" to the "ramp up," "startup". https://t.co/AO4JQIhRug
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