"There are few spectacles these days in America more predictable than the reflexive absolution that MAGA world and most conservatives grant to Donald Trump. Accuse Trump of anything—fraud, corruption, or the mistreatment of women—and his defenders respond with speed and certainty. They insist the facts are irrelevant, the accusers are presumed liars, and the matter is settled before a single document has been read."
~ David Shuster
"Against this background of ignorance, Ellie Leonard’s recent Substack investigation into the Epstein files 'Jane Doe #4' stands out — precisely because it does the unfashionable and meticulous work of examining records instead of slogans."
Ellie Leonard writes:
"Even with very little information, the FBI had taken 'Jane Doe 4' seriously, interviewing her at least four times."
#Epstein #Trump #FBI #JaneDoe
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https://www.blueamp.co/p/13-year-old-jane-doe-4-and-the-missing
"Not only did the FBI take this woman seriously, but she was now represented by Lisa Bloom, daughter of Gloria Allred, and lawyer for one of the most significant cases in this entire investigation: Katie Johnson. ...
The FBI believed her enough to call her back three more times. The Bloom Firm believed her enough to represent her case.
And the DOJ believed her enough to hide 37 pages, detailing her abuse at the hands of the President of the United States."
"Less than a week after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead inside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, something was afoot inside an office where the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ After Action Team had set up a probe into what had happened to their most high-profile inmate. The FBI was told that there were people shredding documents. Bags of them."
~ Julie K. Brown and Claire Healy
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article315131144.html
"An inmate at the jail was ordered to take the bags of shredded material to MCC’s rear gate and throw them in a dumpster on Thursday, Aug. 15, and again on Friday, Aug. 16, days after Epstein’s Aug. 10 death, records show. The sheer volume of material seemed unusual, the inmate noted. 'They are shredding everything,' the inmate told one of the guards, adding that he was asked to give the officials, whom he did not recognize, a hand with the shredding."
"The inmate wasn’t the only one who found it out of the ordinary. A corrections officer at the detention facility called the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center that same night, a Friday, at 6:28 p.m. to report that he had 'never seen this amount of bags of shredded documents coming out to be put in the dumpster at the rear gate of MCC.'”
William Lindsey 
