be kind & uncork.

you never know what walking in someone else’s footsteps is like so be kind and smile.👣 they may need that smile as much as we do. 🙃

[Rep. Jared Huffman @RepHuffman]

Our parks belong to all of us.

These places should be protected for every generation, not sold off to Trump’s ultra-wealthy friends to profit off of.

I will fight this, both for Yosemite and for every treasured park that would be up for grabs if this domino falls.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump is literally selling parts of America off for scrap to his friends for them to profit from.

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

The Trump-Vance administration is pressuring the National Park Service to surrender land within Yosemite National Park to a private developer.

“If the deal goes through, the Trump administration would be breaking with 150 years of American precedent at the birthplace of the national park system. The federal government has historically strived to expand the crown-jewel national parks, not give up land within them.”

I don’t think you can sufficiently despise this administration. Every day there’s some new way that it is working to carve up and sell off pieces of this country while making life in it worse.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Looking for another reason to crawl bare ass naked across broken glass for miles to vote against every Republican up and down the ballot in November? Here you go.👇

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Well?

[Anonymous @OpDeathEaters]

Justice Department withheld thirty-seven pages of FBI notes from interviews with a South Carolina woman who told agents that Donald Trump orally raped her at 13 to 15. #opdeatheaters

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The Justice Department is withholding 37 pages of handwritten FBI notes from three 2019 interviews with a South Carolina woman who says Donald Trump raped her as a child.

Twenty-two of those pages went up on the document-sharing site Scribd on 6 March 2026, posted by a reporter for the conservative Washington Examiner. Nobody noticed for five months. The copies carried no redactions, and they carried the woman's real name, her family details and the names of the childhood friends she had given the FBI as people who could corroborate her account. The bureau had stamped her file PROTECT SOURCE.

Typed reports that agents wrote up from those notes, the forms known as FD-302s, were published in stages, the first in the department's original Epstein Files Transparency Act production and three more in March 2026. Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, has said the notes are duplicative of those summaries. The transparency act contains no exception for duplicative documents.

Serial 3501.045 and the withheld five

Serial 3501.045 is the file number the FBI gave to material on this witness. The bureau's disclosure index, produced to Ghislaine Maxwell's defence team under court order and later released in the transparency act production as EFTA00095751, lists 15 records under that serial totalling 53 pages. Ten have been published. Five have not, and three of the five are the interview notes.

Published under the serial are the FD-302 from the first interview on 24 July 2019, running to nine pages, three photographs, an FBI crisis intake form dated 31 July 2019, an electronic communication dated 29 October 2019 recording contact from her attorney, and a second electronic communication dated 19 July 2019 recording her provision of information.

Interview one is 3501.045-001 and its notes are 002. Interview two is 003 and its notes are 004. Interview three is 005 and its notes are 006. Interview four is 007 and has no notes. The three photographs are 008 to 010.

CNN reported on 24 February 2026 that dozens of FBI records were absent from the production, among them three of the four interviews with this witness. The department said two days later that it was investigating whether Epstein files concerning Trump had been wrongly withheld. Three further FD-302s covering the second, third and fourth interviews went online on 5 March 2026, after the department said documents had been improperly tagged during review. "There are no missing pages and the Department categorically rejects this media-created myth," the department said in April 2026, a month after publishing three of them.

Withheld are the notes for interviews one, two and three, a law enforcement report dated 10 July 2019 and a redacted licence dated 19 July 2019.

Fifteen pages of notes cover the first interview, 18 the second and four the third. Agents interviewed her on 24 July, 7 August, 20 August and 16 October 2019.

Hilton Head, the early 1980s

Her family lived on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, where her mother worked in real estate, and she was about 13 when the abuse she described to agents began. She placed her first contact with a man she knew only as "Jeff" through a babysitting listing. The Post and Courier reported from the interview records that her mother put her daughter's name into rental property fliers as an available babysitter, and that the man who called said he needed childcare, though no children were there when she arrived. Accounts drawn from the notes by the independent journalist Ellie Leonard have her distributing the fliers herself.

She called the FBI tip line on 10 July 2019, two days after Epstein's arrest.

NBC News, working from the released summaries, put the South Carolina abuse at about 1984. Leonard's reconstruction from the notes puts the family's arrival on the island in 1981, with her mother buying a house for $55,000. The Post and Courier placed the assaults in the 1980s at a Sea Pines Plantation villa without fixing a year.

He had a long face that reminded her of Lurch from the Addams Family. A snaggle tooth showed when he was angry. A lisp came out when he lost his temper. He wore penny loafers and traded them for new pairs. Shelves of books lined the rooms she was taken to, and classical music played. He wore a shirt made of Tyvek that she called a cardboard shirt, and a cologne she named as Grey Flannel.

Cocaine, alcohol and marijuana were offered to her, she told agents, and the episode felt to her like a dream, which she took to mean something had been put in her drink. Sexual abuse followed. The abuse ran over two or three years, sometimes with more than one man present. Two of the men on one occasion had southern accents, she said, and she became distressed when agents pressed her on who they were.

A drawer she opened held Polaroid photographs, some of them naked images of herself. Being nosy isn't good for you, she said the man told her when he caught her, before assaulting her violently.

Epstein later directed her to bring him what he called "fresh meat", according to the Post and Courier's reading of the records, and she approached girls on nearby beaches with the suggestion that they could go to his place to party.

A woman accompanied "Jeff" on occasion. She was neither black nor Caucasian, the witness said, and struck her as very cold. Researchers reading the files take the description to be Maxwell. No document in the released material makes that identification.

Agents recorded in the first 302 that she mentioned other men had been present at one encounter and would not name them. She "was concerned about implicating additional individuals, and specifically any that were well known, due to fear of retaliation", the report said.

The tall building

Epstein took her off the island when she was between 13 and 15, she told agents on 7 August 2019, and drove or flew her to New York or New Jersey. She was "introduced to someone with money, money... It was Donald Trump." Others were with them, in a very tall building with huge rooms. Eighteen pages of handwritten notes cover that interview. Its typed summary, filed under case number 31E-NY-3027571 and marked PROTECT SOURCE, went online in March 2026.

Trump did not like her, "from the get-go, he didn't like that I was a boy-girl", the 302 records her saying, a reference to her being a tomboy. She could not identify the others present. They all left when Trump asked everyone to leave the room.

He said something to the effect of "Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be." He unzipped his trousers and put her head, in the 302's phrasing, "down to his penis". She "bit the shit out of it". He struck her and said words to the effect of "get this little bitch the hell out of here." Agents returning to the incident in a later interview recorded her clarifying what the blow had been: he "pulled her hair and punched her on the side of her head".

She bit him because he disgusted her, she told agents. "He had money, it reeked off of him."

A blonde woman approached her later that day. "Let me give you a tip little girl about your breasts, wear a bra every night," the woman said. Those words stayed with her through the years, she told agents.

She thought jealousy ran between the two men, with Trump the jealous one at first, until at some point they ended up on a level playing field. Trump and Epstein used the words "fresh meat", "untainted" and "not jaded" about girls. She did not know what "not jaded" meant at the time and looked the word up afterwards.

Two additional interactions with Trump followed, she told agents, and then she asked that the interview move to a different subject for the time being. Agents did not return to it in the two remaining interviews.

Epstein talked about blackmailing people in front of her, and she was confident Trump knew, because she heard the two of them discussing it. Trump had illegal building permits, she said. She heard him talking about washing money through casinos. Six was his favourite number, and she was not sure how she knew that.

Epstein's blackmail of her mother "ruined my family", she told agents.

She asked the agents to keep her safe. "Throughout my life his people have found me, have kept tabs on me," the 302 records, with Epstein's name in the original.

Trump denies wrongdoing. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, has called the allegations "completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence" and has pointed to the woman's criminal record. The previous administration's Justice Department "knew about them for four years and did nothing with them", she said. A White House statement said earlier that if the claims had "a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponised against President Trump already". Trump said after the March release that he had nothing to hide and had been exonerated.

Offences described

Trump unzipped his trousers and put her head "down to his penis", in the 302's phrasing, and she bit him. The act is fellatio. Neither the notes nor the published summary records vaginal or anal contact during that encounter.

Eric Holder, then the attorney general, revised the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting definition of rape on 6 January 2012, and the bureau collected data under it from 2013. It reads: "The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim." Forced oral sex fell outside the definition the bureau had used since 1927, which reached only "carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will".

Forced oral sex on a child is rape in the first degree in New York today. Kathy Hochul signed the Rape Is Rape Act on 30 January 2024, extending section 130.35 of the penal law from vaginal contact alone to oral and anal contact. First degree applies where there is forcible compulsion, where the complainant is under 11 or where the complainant is under 13 and the defendant 18 or older. Prosecutors taking the age route need prove no force at all. Trump was born in 1946.

Section 130.50 of the New York penal law covered the same conduct in the 1980s, under the name sodomy in the first degree, a class B felony with a maximum of 25 years. Deviate sexual intercourse was defined to include contact between the mouth and the penis, and forcible compulsion was the aggravating element. The state's rape offence reached vaginal intercourse alone until the 2024 act.

New Jersey abolished the offence of rape in its 1979 criminal code. Fellatio is sexual penetration under section 2C:14-1 and an act of sexual penetration with a victim under 13 is aggravated sexual assault in the first degree under 2C:14-2. First degree crimes carried 10 to 20 years when the events she described took place. A mandatory term of 25 years to life for that offence was signed into law in 2014. Her age at that encounter is given in the 302 as a range of 13 to 15, and the child-specific provisions in both states turn on which end of that range applies.

Penetration is specified nowhere in the Hilton Head material. The Post and Courier reported that she gave agents graphic detail and recalled registering at the time that she was looking at a grown man's penis. Drugging is specified, and so is repeated abuse over two or three years with more than one man present on occasion.

South Carolina has charged these offences as criminal sexual conduct since 1977 and grades no offence under the name rape. Sexual battery covers "sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anal intercourse, or any intrusion, however slight" into the genital or anal openings of another person. Committed against a child of 13, it is criminal sexual conduct with a minor in the second degree, which carried up to 20 years under the code in force in the 1980s and carries 10 to 30 years since the 2012 amendment. First degree is reserved for a victim under 11 or for an offender with prior qualifying convictions.

South Carolina sets no limitation period on criminal prosecution at all, for felonies or misdemeanours. New York and New Jersey each opened a window for civil claims over childhood sexual abuse that would otherwise have been out of time, and both have closed, New York's under the Child Victims Act on 14 August 2021 after one extension and New Jersey's under S477 of 2019 on 30 November 2021. She sued Epstein's estate in 2019 and has brought no claim against Trump.

No charge has been brought over any of the conduct described in the notes, the FBI opened no investigation into the Trump allegation and Trump denies wrongdoing.

Third and fourth interviews

Threatening telephone calls came to her after Epstein's arrest, she told agents on 20 August 2019, and she connected them to Epstein or to Trump. She had been almost run off the road. Four pages of notes survive from that interview.

Her fourth interview, on 16 October 2019, produced no notes. Agents recorded that she "advised she was not comfortable" being audio recorded. No attorney was present. She asked, in the 302's wording, "what the point would be of providing the information at this point in her life when there was a strong possibility nothing could be done about it". She cut contact with the bureau afterwards.

A photograph she gave agents contained two men. She asked them to crop Trump out of it and to focus on Epstein.

What the notes hold that the summaries do not

A businessman she named to agents as a third assailant is identified in the handwritten notes. He employed her mother, on her account, and was her mother's lover. The notes record her saying he masturbated in front of her, tried to put his hand down her trousers and raped her once, according to Leonard's reading of the pages. None of that appears in the typed report of the same interview, where a long paragraph at that point in the narrative is redacted. She told agents her mother took money to buy back photographs he had taken of her. No charge has ever been brought over the allegation, no other source has tested it and this article does not name him.

Four young teenage girls said to have attended a pool party on Hilton Head are named in the handwritten notes. None of the names appears in the typed reports. The Marriott at Shipyard Plantation is named in the notes as the location, where the 302 said only "possibly at the Marriott Hotel" with the rest redacted. A high school friend she said she had confided in is named, as are other friends, with jottings on how she knew each of them.

The Post and Courier described cursive with the disorganised feel of a personal notebook, holding items that may only make sense to the writer, jotted down as conversations unfolded. More than one agent wrote on single sheets, which is what confused researchers trying to match handwriting when the copies first appeared.

Leonard, who transcribed the pages, wrote that the 302s are generally substantially similar to the notes and written in more complete sentences. The named third man and what he is alleged to have done, the named girls and the named hotel are in the notes and absent from the summaries.

How the notes reached the internet

Kaelan Deese, a reporter at the Washington Examiner, uploaded 22 of the 37 pages to a public Scribd account under the username "reportoftheday" on 6 March 2026. His article "What's still missing from the Epstein files" ran in the Examiner the next day. The pages sat there unread by any major outlet until August.

"For the last five months, anyone with internet access could view the notes, which had Jane Doe 4's real name all over them, as well as significant biographical details and the names of childhood friends and family members who she said could corroborate elements of her story, all of which she gave the FBI in confidence, and all of which the DOJ had redacted," the researcher Rye Howard-Stone wrote.

Deese had been given the files by a source within the Justice Department, he told a member of the public who found the Scribd posts and contacted him by text, according to Howard-Stone, who obtained screenshots of the exchange. Deese described the material as classified and later sent a third file directly to that person. He said he had trouble with the Scribd upload and eventually gave up on it. The files came down shortly after Howard-Stone contacted an editor at the Examiner.

Screenshots of the exchange could not be independently authenticated, Howard-Stone wrote. Deese was part of a small group the department decided could be trusted with unredacted files that Congress and the public could not, he wrote, a contention the department has not addressed.

Amy Gabrielle, a New York writer, found the archive first. Leonard published manually redacted copies after two people, one on Signal and one on Reddit, led her to the Scribd files. A separate set of 15 pages appeared on Reddit without redactions.

One of the women named in the notes as a high school friend told the Post and Courier she had never been contacted by the FBI, and learned she was in the file when reporters reached her.

The second Trump claim

A Justice Department presentation prepared in the summer of 2025, around the time Blanche interviewed Maxwell in prison, carries a second allegation involving Trump. Epstein introduced a 14-year-old girl to him at Mar-a-Lago in 1994 with the words "This is a good one, right?", to which Trump agreed, according to the slide. The claim carries immense credibility inside the department, Roger Sollenberger wrote, because the account came from a government witness at Maxwell's trial whose testimony helped convict her. Sollenberger, formerly of the Daily Beast, first reported the presentation.

Corroboration and its limits

Agents interviewed her four times and found her credible, a Justice Department source told the Miami Herald.

The FBI never opened an investigation into the Trump allegation. It was not raised during the 24 July 2019 interview and does not appear in the bureau's written communications on her case. Trump is not under criminal investigation over it.

The Post and Courier could not corroborate the Trump allegations from the 30 pages it reviewed. One friend identified in the notes and interviewed by the paper had no memory of anything untoward around the events described.

Public records support parts of the surrounding account. Her mother worked in Hilton Head real estate and was charged over an escrow theft, with a restitution order and probation violations on the record. She attended Hilton Head High School. The out-of-state businessman connection holds up in property records.

She sued Epstein's estate in 2019 and settled with it directly. "We were able to get money directly from the estate without" going further into litigation, her attorney said. She filed a claim with the separate victims compensation fund set up in 2020 and was not paid through it. The settlement figure has never been disclosed. Richard Kahn, Epstein's accountant, gave conflicting testimony to the House Oversight Committee about whether she had been compensated, and his attorney later wrote that neither of them had "a perfect recollection of every woman who has asserted a claim". Kahn attributed the confusion to more than one claimant using the pseudonym Jane Doe 4.

Her life after the events she described included multiple marriages, domestic abuse, drug dependency and criminal charges, the Post and Courier reported. She was prosecuted over taking cash from an elderly dying man. Her public defender recalled her saying she had been a victim in the Epstein case and that it had traumatised her.

Authenticity

Copies of the handwritten pages have not been authenticated by the FBI or by any court.

Gabrielle wrote that "authentication is out of my purview" and that she had left it to experts associated with the case. She has never asserted the documents are genuine. Identifier numbers used by the uploader are not the same as the numbers in the department's transparency act system, she wrote, and the fonts and letter spacing differ between the Scribd files and the set posted to Reddit. The discrepancy, she wrote, is enough to create doubt about the authenticity.

Leonard wrote that after 48 hours of checks she was almost certain the pages were genuine, matching serial numbers running from 3501.045-001 to 3501.045-010 against the four FD-302s.

Katie Phang, the journalist suing the attorney general over compliance with the transparency act, said authenticity "remains an open question" that could be readily answered if the FBI complied with the law. She has kept demanding the unredacted notes from the department rather than working from the leaked copies, and told Howard-Stone the timing of their discovery and release was "interesting".

"What these notes DO show is that they are not 'duplicative' of the FBI 302s as Blanche has asserted and they clearly contain allegations of sexual abuse and physical abuse committed by Donald Trump with a victim who was 13-15 years old at the time," Phang said. "So the Trump DOJ has no incentive to release them."

FD-302s are agents' summaries written up after the fact. They are not transcripts, not sworn statements and not findings. Handwritten notes are taken while a witness is speaking. The 302s were typed up afterwards, and in this case they carry less than the notes do.

The court order

Emmet Sullivan, the senior judge hearing Phang's case in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, ordered the Justice Department on 13 August 2026 to justify its redactions and to explain the withholding of the handwritten notes, and directed that the justifications be published in the Federal Register.

Andrew Block, for the department, told the court that many of the notes were substantially similar or duplicative and so did not require republication, and asked the court to extend the executive branch the presumption of regularity.

Sullivan said he would conduct a sealed review of the notes themselves and require a declaration from the department on its compliance. He asked Phang's team to submit a proposed order covering the notes and the redaction justifications, and left his original deadlines in place, among them a 25 August date for the unredacted notes to reach him.

"The public has a right to know what the hell is going on in this case," Sullivan said. He told the department that contempt proceedings were available to him. "That's not a threat, that's a promise," he said.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Last night, a local TV news station in Florida broke a story that just absolutely floored me. CBS News Miami obtained a sealed grand jury report…that detailed how Florida governor Ron Desantis’ administration allegedly diverted $10 million from a settlement that was supposed to give poor kids healthcare, and directed that money through a non profit affiliated with the governor’s wife, and then into political action committees aligned with Desantis himself, as well as to the Florida Republican Party, and then somehow a bunch of the people involved in making that happen, all wind up getting huge promotions from Governor Desantis.” 🙄

[👑 ♤ Lake Ontario  @LakeOntario16]

I was given my name by the Iroquois Nation many hundreds of years ago. By 1660 my name was printed on maps by the Europeans as they accepted the Native name which means Beautiful waters.
In 1867 the Canadian government decided to use my name for their providence.

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million meant for health insurance for low income children and steered it to political action committees. It also concluded that Ashley Moody, who was attorney general, was aware of this.
https://t.co/y8T72X74Uj

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨IMPEACHABLE: A massive report exposes that Trump purchased $100,000,000 in bonds tied to companies DIRECTLY impacted by his policies. That is slam dunk insider trading.

Trump has made more money trading than every person in Congress COMBINED.

#TrumpsCorruptionCostsUS

[Mia @MiaForTrump]

“Hello Melania Trump.

My name is Juliette Bryant — an Epstien survivor.
You want girls to testify under oath? Here I am. Everything I’ve said is TRUE.
Too bad so many of the girls who already testified ended up dead.
Maybe it’s time you and your husband testify under oath too.

What are you hiding?”

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

June 18: 🇺🇸Trump buys up to $500K in Boeing stock. Same day Boeing gets $880M US Navy contract.

June 24: 🇺🇸Trump buys up to $250K in Palantir stock. Same day Palantir gets $45.8M government contract.

In any functioning democracy, this would be called massive corruption and he would have faced at least 2 years in jail.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

And just like that, the most damning Epstein files completely VANISHED from the media.

A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

Lets make this viral again 👇

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

More of Trump’s golden age

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

WOAH! Doug Ford just tore Trump apart, calling him a "loser," and worse!

"There's a lot of people in the U.S. that are calling me saying 'way to go, keep going.' You know, your own people, President Trump, don't even like you. And they're going to speak loud and clear when it comes to the midterms. And if I was allowed to, I'd be down there door knocking. Do you think an insult from him hurts me? Well, bring it on, buddy. I'm ready. Bring it on. You know something? I've dealt with guys like you my whole life. And guess what? You all become losers because you're a loser."

[Tim Tompkins @TruismTim]

🚨 We might be headed for an economic D-Day in North America.

Canada could plunge parts of the U.S. into darkness, spike gas prices and drive up food costs if this turns into a full-blown trade war.

“We don’t need Canada” couldn’t be further from the truth.

Canada supplies:

63% of U.S. crude oil imports
81% of our imported electricity
79% of our imported potash for fertilizer

That means Canada can hit your lights, your gas tank and your grocery bill at the same time.

Ontario already threatened to cut power to 1.5 MILLION U.S. homes.

If this escalates, Americans are going to feel it fast.

[be kind & uncork. @BeKind912]

❤️❤️❤️

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Poetry at its highest level.😀

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

HOLY CRAP!

A conservative Washington Examiner reporter says she uncovered 37 pages of Trump/Epstein FBI files the DOJ had apparently missed or withheld. The documents detail a woman’s allegations of 2 years of sexual abuse by Trump and Epstein, include her unredacted name and potential corroborating witnesses, and reportedly show FBI investigators viewed the claims as credible before DOJ labeled the records “duplicative” and redacted them.