Oh Boy It Never Ends: Jean Seberg and how FAIR has lied about her and continues to lie

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER is one of the worst film industry rags. It's right-wing and always has been. Which is how it serves up garbage like this:

Richard Linklater takes a look back at the French New Wave movement in the trailer for Netflix's forthcoming feature Nouvelle Vague.

The film is released theatrically in the U.S. on Oct. 31 before it hits Netflix on Nov. 14. Its cast includes Guillaume Marbeck as Jean-Luc Godard, Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg.

Nouvelle Vague centers on the filming of Godard's 1960 feature Breathless, which starred Belmondo as criminal Michel and Seberg as his girlfriend, Patricia. Taking its title from the French term for "New Wave," Nouvelle Vague was shot entirely in Paris with an exclusively French crew.

First off, Richard Linklater is not a good filmmaker. When your best film is SCHOOL OF ROCK, you're not a director. That films succeeds only due to the manic energy of Jack Black and Joan Cusack. The script is pedestrian and about the 100th rip off of SISTER ACT. I'm not joking. But Jack and Joan make it work with their energy.

Linklater is one of those who 'shows promise.' You know what? You can show promise on your first film and even your second. But when you've made over ten films and still just "show promise," you need to grasp that you're not a real filmmaker.

Jean Seberg? There should be millions of films about her. About her. The US government attacked her and caused the death of her child and drove her to suicide. Why? Because she was political and she supported the Black Panthers. Not only that but for decades in the US, the lie -- from outlets like FAIR -- was that a Hollywood gossip columnist did her in.

No. It was NEWSWEEK magazine. And it took C.I. hitting that note over and over for years before the reality finally began to register. Joyce Haber (?) was a gossip columnist. She ran a blind item in May. It did not effect Jean. NEWSWEEK -- WIKIPEDIA lies by the way -- did not run a blind item. They claimed to have interviewed Jean -- that was a lie and it's a detail that WIKIPEDIA leaves out -- and LIED that Jean told them things. She never spoke to them. And she certainly didn't tell them that she was carrying another man's baby.

C.I. was the one who called out NEWSWEEK and she has done so repeatedly over the years and she is right. Jean had a miscarriage after NEWSWEEK published their article in August. She and her husband sued. Not Joyce Harber for back in May, they sued NEWSWEEK and they won. It was a government operation against Jean.

In fact, let me pull from a roundtable at THIRD:

Jim: Example? Anyone? C.I.'s nodding so she'll speak in just a second. Ava's ready to take notes. C.I.?

C.I.: "In 1977, Carl Bernstein uncovered Operation Mockingbird, a secret collaboration between the CIA & US journalists to sell the American public on their Cold War agenda." Shut the f**k up, you stupid idiot. Glenneth Tweeted that. He's so damn stupid. RAMPARTS exposed the operation in 1967. The operation was furthered exposed and identified by name in the Congressional hearings held by the group known as The Church Committee. That would be 1975. That Congressional committee, chaired by Frank Church, was one of two Congressional committees exploring the abuses. The other was the Pike Committee. No one wants to talk about that. At any rate, Carl Bernstein, who I know, wrote a 1977 article for ROLLING STONE entitled "The CIA and the Media." Long before people made it available online, we were noting in constantly in the early days of THE COMMON ILLS. I know Carl, I know his report. Elaine and I were spied on and we requested our files so we also know who the people posing as friends were. At any rate, Carl's report was about the revelations of the CIA's relationship with the media. This was a bit beyond -- a very large bit -- beyond what Glenneth maintains. This wasn't just about selling cold war agendas. He's a damn fool. Can I expand on this topic?

Jim: I'm thrilled you're talking. Take as long as you want.

C.I.: Do we have any effect? That's something you wonder if you're an activist. It's a long road and it's easy to get depressed. You're up against a system that sells war and that sells lies and you've got people who don't know a damn thing and should honestly shut their damn mouths. One thing I like to point to if I'm feeling down is Jean Seberg. When we started online most knew the American actress famous for BREATHLESS and AIRPORT and JOAN OF ARC among other films had been targeted by the US government. But their understanding was completely wrong. And left outlets were part of that. They did not have the facts, they did not know what they were talking about. Joyce Harber was blamed for it by a bunch of idiots. Jean didn't blame Joyce, Jean's husband didn't blame Joyce. Joyce ran a blind item given to her by her editor at THE LOS ANGELS TIMES -- Bill Thomas. The blind item said that she was pregnant by a Black Panther. Joyce did not write a report about Jean. She ran blind item. Jean would probably have been the last guess for most Americans. Jean wasn't famous enough. Jane Fonda would have been the first guess -- actress, French husband and making a musical. It was 1969's PAINT YOUR WAGON that Jean was making. Jane was making the drama about dance marathons THEY SHOOT HORSES DON'T THEY that same year. In addition, the public was not as aware of shooting schedules and who was making what back then. E! did not exist. There was not even a half hour entertainment program like ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT, which didn't emerge until the 80s. Joyce got blamed for it. Joyce was scapegoated. And this matters because it's not true and it matters because it was a government operation against Jean and the government used handlers to clear their name and blame Joyce. Joyce was a gossip columnist. The FBI had tried to plant items on many people. Jane Fonda among them. Joyce turned down those items and would have turned down the Jean one had it not come from her editor who vouched for the source -- without disclosing it. Jean would miscarry as a result of press coverage. And they got that right. But they pinned it on Joyce. A few people have started to get the story right. It's taken forever. THE LOS ANGELES TIMES still lies about it because their editor was working with the US government -- Susan King most recently lied about it. Right before he died he was claiming not to remember who gave him the item he passed on to Joyce. Joyce ran her blind item in May. Jean miscarried in August. Jean miscarried due to the CIA. Jean was an American citizen the CIA targeted her and that's the need for the lie so that most Americans don't grasp how awful and evil the CIA is. NEWSWEEK was overrun with CIA. It was NEWSWEEK that published the 'news' that Jean was carrying a baby whose father was a Black Panther. This was not a blind item. This named Jean:

Can a small-town girl from Iowa find happiness in Paris? It seems so, despite the ups and downs of her marriage. "It's wonderful," smiled movie actress Jean Seberg, 31, when reporters looked in on her in a hospital in Majorca, where she was recuperating from complications in her pregnancy. "We are completely reconciled -- ironically just when our divorce papers are finally coming through." She and French author Romain Gary, 56, are reportedly about to remarry even though the baby Jean expects in October is by another man -- a black activist she met in California.

C.I. (Con't): The 'reporter' was Edward Behr, his editor was Kermit Lansner. In addition, the liar -- who worked for the CIA -- claimed to not know anything about how that sentence -- that he wrote -- ended up being published. And also to claim that he just included the detail and didn't mean for it to be printed. Liar, damn liar. He did it on purpose and he never spoke to Jean though he quoted her saying this and that. Repeating, he never spoke to Jean. The whole thing was a US government operation against Jean. The deflection onto Joyce was basically limited hangout. 'Yes, the government targeted Jean, but it was the FBI.' The NEWSWEEK operation was overseas. Jean was in Paris, Kermit was in Paris. It was a CIA operation and the CIA has repeatedly used their journalists and their journalist contacts over the year to try to keep their name unattached. And liars and whores help them with that. How so? By lying. Again, Joyce's blind item did not identify Jean, Jean actually laughed about it. And wasn't even sure that it was supposed to be her -- because she wasn't carrying a child by a Black Panther. Jean and Romain Gary did not sue Joyce or THE LOS ANGELES TIMES. When NEWSWEEK identified Jean, that's when she miscarried and it is NEWSWEEK that Romain and Jean sued. In France, this is known. In France, this has always been known. I remember being shocked to learn, in the '00s, that this lie was being repeated. And it is a lie and because of pushback you can now see NEWSWEEK included in the story -- even when most people want to avoid reality. It was a CIA operation. The US government did not like Jean Seberg's politics and they wanted to neutralize her. Spreading the lie that she was pregnant by a Black Panther was thought to be all it would take. Jane Fonda fought for and got an important scene in COMING HOME. Sally is married to Bob -- that's Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern. While he is in Vietnam, she ends up having an affair with veteran Luke played by Jon Voight. A really important thing happens in the movie and most people miss it. Luke and Sally are on the beach or at her place and the whole time military intelligence is following them. Why? Because Luke is anti-war activist. When Bob comes home from Vietnam, how does he learn of the affair? He's shown the photographs that were taken from the spying. All branches of the government were brought to bear on the anti-war movement. It's a point that people often miss. And it's overlooked that it was a CIA operation that successfully targeted Jean. The FBI attempt only resulted in a blind item. And they'd been working the Black Panther angle forever. J. Edgar Hoover had authorized his agents to lie to gossip columnists about Jane Fonda -- especially outrageous statements that she made (she didn't make them) that they hoped would turn the American people against her. Most of that never ended up in print because it was so outrageous. But on Jean, and I'm trying to wind down --

Jim: Don't. Take what you need. We've covered this before and our readers love it when you bring it up.

C.I.: Doubt they will this time, they're probably thinking, "We know this already." But we're comfortable with what was done that we know of. We're not calling out the FBI -- as a country -- for what they did to any of the people they tried to destroy for activism. We should be. And I don't regret calling out Janis Ian when Donald Trump was in the White House and she was suddenly an FBI fan. Janis F**king Ian. After what the FBI did to her family? Outrageous. But, with regards to sixties activists, we don't know half of what was done -- even if you made this your area of research and spent years on, you wouldn't know half of what was done. And we exempt the CIA at our own peril. It is not our friend. It has not been our friend historically. And they were the ones who targeted Jean successfully. They publicly humiliated her and this was a shocker. Jean with Romain but pregnant by a Black activist!!! Romain wasn't the father? Romain was the father of record. Kermit claimed that he didn't mean for it to be published. Lie. And it didn't need to be included on background because it shouldn't have been published. Even if it were true, it shouldn't have been published -- which is what the French court agreed to when they made NEWSWEEK pay damages. It's a different world today but back in the 60s, if a man and woman presented him as the father of the child, nothing else mattered and printing otherwise was libel. Edward lied at first that he put it in for background and wasn't supposed to be printed. Confronted with the fact that he was supposed to have known about this before it went into print, he then claimed he didn't know it was in the article and editor Kermit -- who damn well knew what libel was? He lied that he didn't know about it even though he was the editor. He had a fender bender, I believe on his scooter -- and missed out apparently on proof reading before forwarding the copy to the printing press. They were working for the CIA and that's reality. This is a period that's an ugly period of the United States -- although it's probably much more common than we know. And I'm not big on idiots lying and getting it wrong. Glenn doesn't grasp that some of the journalists exposed by Carl in that article were CIA. Not just linked, but they were CIA. NEWSWEEK was very good about giving covers for CIA agents overseas -- they'd be able to pose as journalists. ABC was another one. Now it's pretty much everyone, but in terms of the sheer numbers -- the periodical -- magazine -- of choice was NEWSWEEK and the network of choice was ABC -- the history of ABC is a story that should be told. It did not start out as the face of DISNEY. It was a reactionary government backed network. Various newspapers participated as well. There is supposed to be a strict wall between the US government and our news media.

That's C.I. addressing reality -- and read that paragraph from NEWSWEEK and grasp that Jean had never spoken to NEWSWEEK, they made up the entire thing.

Here's Steve Rendall lying at FAIR:

In an op-ed in today’s L.A. Times, former Times writer Allan M. Jalon tells the story of how the FBI used the Los Angeles Times to destroy politically active actress Jean Seberg. According to Jalon, J. Edgar Hoover planted the rumor with a Times gossip columnist that the father of the baby Seberg was pregnant with at the time was a Black Panther:

The item made clear that Miss A was the actress Jean Seberg, who starred as the heroine of Otto Preminger’s Saint Joan and became internationally known for her role in Jean-Luc Godard’s classic film Breathless. Haber’s item claimed that the father of the baby Seberg carried at the time was not her husband, French novelist-diplomat Romain Gary, but an official with the Black Panthers.

Documents from the time show that the smear had been concocted by then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and agents in his Los Angeles bureau to punish Seberg for her political views. Soon after the item appeared, Seberg lost the baby after a premature delivery. At the baby’s funeral, the 31-year-old actress had the casket opened to show the baby was white and the gossip started by the Times was false.

Liar. Does Steve Rendall work for the CIA? Why lie?

I already told you Jean lost the baby in August. I already told you Joyce Haber ran a blind item in May (that the editor of the paper gave her and vouched for -- and did not tell her was provided by the FBI). NEWSWEEK published in August. Jean immediately went into labor. The baby was premature and died. I already told you that Jean and her husband sued NEWSWEEK.

So why does Steve lie? Is he a CIA plant? Is FAIR? Do you realize that if C.I. hadn't beat the drums on this nonstop online, we wouldn't even know that NEWSWEEK was responsible. And yet NEWSWEEK was a CIA cut-out at the time.

FAIR needs to correct their mis-reporting. They can't continue to provide cover for the CIA and also claim to be about FAIRNESS and ACCURACY IN REPORTING.

Going out with C.I.'s "The Snapshot:"

Tuesday, September 9, 2025. Chump is exposed as a liar yet again, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL is vindicated, Mike Johnson insists Chump was a snitch to the feds and then walks it back, Senator Patty Murray calls for the HELP Committee to hold a hearing and call the Secretary of Health and Human Services to appear for questioning, and much more.

Starting with the litigious. Bad news for the Convicted Felon in the Oval Office, he now needs to sue the House of Representatives for defamation. Remember two months ago when THE WALL ST. JOURNAL reported on his birthday letter to pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein? Chump shrieked it was defamation and it was "false, malicious and defamatory." Also it was "FAKE" -- all caps.

The House Oversight Committee now has the book -- given to the Committee by the Epstein estate -- and Kevin Breuninger (CNBC) reported yesterday afternoon:

House Democrats on Monday released a screenshot of what appears to be a letter signed by President Donald Trump that was included in a collection of notes sent to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003.

The letter features a conversation between Trump and Epstein inside of an apparently hand-drawn outline of a woman's torso.

Trump's signature is located just below the thighs of the drawing.

"HERE IT IS: We got Trump's birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn't exist," the X account for the House Oversight Committee's Democratic minority wrote in a post revealing the letter.

In other words, Chump is a liar. He lied when he said it wasn't him. He lied when accused THE WALL STREET JOURNAL of defamation. Repeating, Chump exposed yet again as a liar.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL's reporting was 100% accurate. Chump wasted the court's time with a fake lawsuit. He lied to the American people. He is a cheap liar and this needs to register.

If THE WALL STREET JOURNAL was as litigious as Chump, they would sue him for lying and insulting their integrity publicly.

Michelle L. Price (AP) reminds, "Trump has said he did not write the letter or create the drawing of a curvaceous woman that surrounds the letter. He filed a $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal for a report on the alleged letter."

But he did.

Last night on THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O'DONNELL, Lawrence walked the country though what happened and what it meant while providing a document of his own that showed Chump's two signatures -- his formal one for the bank and his Donald with the last d extended out -- the way he signed Epstein's card -- for friendly correspondence.

After the segment above, US House Rep Ro Khanna came on the program to thank Lawrence and his staff. It was the work of Lawrence and his staff that led the Oversight Committee to the estate of Jeffrey Epstein and to the book with Donald's b-day wishes to his old pal Epstein.

At CNN this morning, Aaron Blake notes:

We got more Jeffrey Epstein documents from the House Oversight Committee late Monday. And unlike last week, these actually contained some real news.

The big news is that we finally are able to see the letter signed in now-President Donald Trump’s name for Epstein’s 50th birthday back in 2003, which the Wall Street Journal first reported back in July.

Despite Trump’s claim that the lewd letter is a fake – he’s suing the Journal over the matter – two new factors appear to lend legitimacy to it. For one, it was turned over by Epstein’s estate, meaning it had apparently been in Epstein’s possession. For another, it features a “Donald” signature that seems to match contemporaneous documents circulating online from that period.

But that’s not the only thing we learned from the documents themselves and the reactions.

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2. The other intriguing document

Another document in the “birthday book” section caught more than a few people’s attention and was highlighted by Democrats.

It’s a letter with a photo of Epstein holding an oversized, novelty $22,500 check made to look like a payment from Trump to Epstein.

“Jeffrey showing early talents with money + women!” the text reads. “Sells ‘fully depreciated’ [REDACTED] to Donald Trump for $22,500. … Even though I handled the deal I didn’t bet any of the money on the girl!”

The redacted portion appears to be a woman’s name.

We don’t know the full context of the photo – CNN has reached out to the White House and those identified related to the photo. It could just be a crude joke, and one Trump didn’t have anything to do with aside from being mentioned. But the letter reinforces how Trump’s name could appear in the documents in ways the White House would prefer not to have to address.

Andrew Beaujon (THE WASHINGTONIAN) provides this walk through:

The doodle abides: Here’s how the Wall Street Journal described a 2003 letter from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein in a bombshell report this past July:

It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly “Donald” below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.

The letter concludes: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”

The White House vehemently denied such a letter existed. Trump sued the Wall Street Journal. Vice President JD Vance said the article was “complete and utter bulls**t.” On Monday, the House Oversight Committee released an image of the letter provided by lawyers for Epstein’s estate, and it looks…exactly as described. (WSJ) The signature, typeface, lines, and word choices strongly resemble other content Trump has produced. (WSJ) Trump usually signs letters with his whole name, but has signed many notes, often personal ones, with only his first name. Have a look and compare them with the Epstein letter. (NYT) The White House nonetheless claimed the letter was fake. “No one is falling for this BS,” Vance posted. (NOTUS) The book, compiled by Epstein’s associate and now convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, contains tributes from famous people and others in Epstein’s circle, and there are “numerous references to Mr. Epstein’s sexual conquests and female genitalia.” (NYT) Have a look at more pages, including letters from Bill Clinton, Peter Mandelson, and Leon Black. (WSJ) Not completely unrelated: Trump claimed in a speech yesterday that crime had vanished in DC since his takeover of the city’s police force, but that “Things that take place in the home they call crime,” adding, “If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime scene.” (NYT)

In other news about the liar in the Oval Office, Colby Hall (MEDIAITE) reports:

Andrew Bates isn’t exactly a household name, at least outside the households of DC and NYC area political media obsessives. But an interaction he had with reporters has gone viral in a manner that could lead to him becoming more widely known, if not celebrated in some progressive circles.

The former deputy communications officer in the Biden White House was called before the House Oversight Committee this week to testify about what he knew of former President Joe Biden’s health and mental acuity. And to be clear, there are legitimate questions there. The president’s age, verbal slips, and visible stumbles have fueled growing concern. Republicans are eager to exploit any opportunity to keep that conversation alive, and perhaps distract from narratives less kind to President Donald Trump.

When Bates left the hearing, however, he declined to address any of it. Surrounded by reporters pressing him on Biden’s health, he ignored the questions and instead tossed out one of his own: Why was convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell quietly moved to a minimum-security prison?

“Do you have any updates about President Biden’s health? Did you know he had cancer when he was still in the White House? Were you aware of that?” a reporter shouted as he entered an elevator.

“I want to know why Ghislaine Maxwell is in a minimum security prison,” he calmly replied as the elevator doors closed for dramatic effect.

We all want to know that. We all want to know why the Convicted Felon gave Maxwell a sweetheart deal and moved her to Club Fed in Bryan, Texas when she belongs in a real prison. It's an issue Rachel Maddow raised last night on her program.

Rachel notes how Deputy AG Todd Blanche does everything but his job while chatting up Ghislaine Maxwell. Ghislaine tells him multiple members of Chump's cabinet were involved with Epstein. Rachel plays the tape. A real investigation requires Blanche to immediately ask for those names.

Does he?

No.

Rachel plays the tape. Maxwell says that multiple members of Chump's administration were close to the convicted pedophile and Blanche is silent before responding.

"Uhm . . . so . . . when's the last time you think you were with Mr. Epstein when he got a massage."

That's Todd Blanche's "Doh!" (Homer Simpson), his "How you doin'?" (Joey on FRIENDS), etc. It's his catch phrase.

"Uhm . . . so . . . when's the last time you think you were with Mr. Epstein when he got a massage."

We all need to remember it and we all need to share it.

Told that multiple members of Chump's administration were involved with Jeffrey Epstein, Blanche doesn't ask for names, he changes the subject with "Uhm . . . so . . . when's the last time you think you were with Mr. Epstein when he got a massage."

It's right up there with Martha Stewart's "I'm just going concentrate on my salad."

Chump does not protect children, he protects pedophiles. That's all he does and all he will ever do. Use your eyes if this confuses you. If you use your eyes and you're still confused, you're deluding yourself and no one can help someone who doesn't want to be helped.

Chump was attacking Tom Hanks yesterday and that was to feed his QAnon idiot base. They had spread ahead of during Chump's first term the lie that Tom was part of a global cabal of people preying on children. That's why Chump attacked Tom Hanks. To try to rally QAnon to his side because even they are starting to grasp that Chump's words and actions don't meet up.

He is not a protector of children. He never has been and he never will be. Let's drop back to July 30th when Senator Ron Wyden's office issued this:

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called for an immediate investigation of reports the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has drastically diverted resources away from investigations into serious crimes against children, including child sexual abuse and human trafficking, in order to devote more resources to rounding up immigrants.

“Instead of locking up rapists, child predators and other violent criminals, Trump appears to be diverting investigators to target cooks, farm workers and students. Congress and the American people will not tolerate the Trump administration ignoring the ongoing sexual abuse of vulnerable children,” wrote Wyden in the letter to DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari.

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) at DHS is responsible for investigating serious crimes, and is one of the leading agencies charged with investigating child sexual abuse materials online. The 7,000 HSI agents are supposed to focus on investigating drug smuggling, human trafficking, and child sex trafficking, among other crossborder criminal activities. According to DHS, HSI arrested over 3,000 individuals for crimes against children and rescued over 1,000 victims of child exploitation in 2020 alone.

Wyden’s letter cites a recent report published by the Atlantic, which stated that HSI “supervisors have waved agents off new cases so they have more time to make immigration-enforcement arrests,” and quoted one agent describing the impact: “No drug cases, no human trafficking, no child exploitation.”

Wyden has been a staunch advocate in the Senate for increasing resources for investigating sex trafficking and prosecuting predators to protect vulnerable children. In January 2024, Wyden introduced bipartisan legislation to protect children from online exploitation. In June 2024, he released information from his investigation into child abuse and neglect in youth residential treatment facilities across the United States. In September 2024, he urged existing authorities to protect and strengthen services for children susceptible to abuse enrolled in Medicaid in the child welfare program.

The full text of the letter is here.

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People who want to protect children do not divert resources away from needed investigations. Chump's a liar and is exposed as a liar.

A lot of news is coming out on Chump's now-deceased roll dog Jeffrey Epstein. Renuka Bangale (RETECHTIMES) reports:

JPMorgan Chase, one of America’s biggest banks, had a long and complicated relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious financier who was also a convicted sex offender. While most people remember Epstein for his crimes against young women, his financial dealings reveal another troubling story. Reports show that the bank not only handled Epstein’s money but also benefited financially from him.

During the years when Epstein was abusing teenage girls and young women, JPMorgan processed more than 4,700 transactions for him. These transactions totaled over $1.1 billion. Some payments went directly to his victims. The bank also sent money to Russian and Eastern European accounts that were connected to Epstein’s operations.

JPMorgan allowed Epstein to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars each month. These large withdrawals should have been a warning sign for suspicious activity. In some cases, the bank opened accounts for Epstein’s assistants and victims without proper checks. Experts say this could have helped Epstein move money easily and continue his crimes.

Bank employees noticed red flags early on. Some staff members raised concerns in 2006, after Epstein was arrested for soliciting a teenage girl. They highlighted unusual cash withdrawals and the risk to the bank’s reputation. Yet, despite these warnings, the bank continued to serve Epstein.

The banking records contain a lot of evidence. That's why Senator Ron Wyden has been calling for them to be turned over. We noted this press release last week but let's note it again:

Washington, D.C. – Expanding his three-year investigation into the financing of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., wrote to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday renewing his demand for the department to produce its extensive Epstein files to the Finance Committee. He also named several dozen individuals and entities with documented Epstein ties, seeking all files related to transactions with Epstein and any co-conspirators. Bessent twice this year has refused to provide these records to the Finance Committee, making him a willing participant in the Trump administration’s Epstein cover-up.

“Given the scale of Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, which victimized thousands of women and girls and reached around the globe, it is preposterous and unacceptable that only Epstein himself and Ghislaine Maxwell have faced prosecution. There is no doubt that the Trump administration’s ongoing coverup of the Epstein files is giving comfort to the pedophiles and accomplices who were a part of his sex trafficking ring,” Senator Wyden wrote. “The Treasury records shine a light on how high-profile individuals paid Epstein staggering sums of money, which was then used to move women around the world or engage in dubious transactions indicative of money laundering. They also show how U.S. financial institutions turned a blind eye to the financing of Epstein’s criminal network, simply waiving the payments through without properly reporting them to U.S. authorities in a timely fashion, as required by law. Financial institutions, attorneys and agents actively participated in Epstein’s illegal operations or were grossly negligent. They must all be held accountable.”

Senator Wyden’s letter, available in full here, sought “all Treasury Department documents, including suspicious activity reports, concerning transactions with Jeffrey Epstein and any of his co-conspirators (whether indicted or unindicted), including, but not limited to transactions between Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and any of the following individuals and entities:”

Jeffrey Epstein
Ghislaine Maxwell
Darren K. Indyke
Richard D. Kahn
Harry Beller
Erika Kellerhals
Southern Trust Company, Inc.
Southern Financial LLC
Haze Trust
Environmental Solutions Worldwide, Inc.
The 1953 Trust
Plan D, LLC
Great St. Jim, LLC
Nautilus, Inc.
Hyperion Air, LLC
Poplar, Inc.
J Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation Inc.
Gratitude America Ltd. (501c3 entity)
Butterfly Trust
La Hougue (trust in island of Jersey)
Scott Borgerson
Malcolm Grumbridge
J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (and subsidiaries)
Deutsche Bank (and subsidiaries)
Bank of America (and subsidiaries)
Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (and subsidiaries)
UBS Financial Services
Wells Fargo
Alfa Bank
Sberbank
Jes Staley
Leon D. Black
Debra R. Black
Black Family Partners, LP
Elysium Trust
Elysium Management, LLC
J Black Trust
Melanie Spinella
BV70, LLC
Les Wexner
Bella Wexner
Abigail Wexner
The Wexner Foundation
Arts Interests
Health and Science Interests
The Wexner Children’s Trust II
International Charitable Interests
L Brands (formerly Limited Brands)
Alan Dershowitz
Glenn Dubin
Christie’s
Sotheby’s
HB Multi-Strategy Holdings, Ltd
Highbridge Capital Corporation
AP Narrows Holding AP
LDB 2011 LLC
Elizabeth Johnson
Johnson & Johnson

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Let's also note Air's MSNBC segment on the topic of JPMorgan and the financials from yesterday.

The weirdest Epstein news of late? Speaker of the Closet Mike Johnson insisting that Chump was an informant for law enforcement and then taking it back.

Josh Partlow and Mariana Alfaro (WASHINGTON POST) report:

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) on Sunday backed off his claim that President Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

While Trump has said that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, his members-only club in Florida, he has also recently called the latest demands for the release of more information on the Epstein case a “Democrat hoax that never ends.”

Last week, Johnson told reporters on Capitol Hill that Trump cares deeply about the crimes Epstein committed and said that Trump “was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down.”

On Sunday, his office released a statement modifying that claim.

“The Speaker is reiterating what the victims’ attorney said, which is that Donald Trump — who kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago — was the only one more than a decade ago willing to help prosecutors expose Epstein for being a disgusting child predator,” the statement from Johnson’s office read.

Trump and Epstein were onetime friends who had a falling out, particularly after a fight between the two in 2004 over buying an oceanfront property in Palm Beach, Florida, which Trump went on to win.

Did Johnson not grasp that he was calling Chump a snitch? Or that a snitch is someone who's been caught in illegal activities and, to protect themselves, rolls over and snitches on someone else to save their own ass?

Ben covered this a day ago for MEIDASTOUCH NEWS.

Althea Legaspi and Asawin Suebsaeng (ROLLING STONE) report:

Trump administration officials are perplexed, as many people are, by House Speaker Mike Johnson's claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges he sexually abused and trafficked scores of underage girls. The president and Epstein had a well-documented friendship.

On Friday, Johnson made the confusing remarks about the president when a reporter asked him about Trump repeatedly referring to the Epstein scandal as "the Democrat Epstein Hoax."

"What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are using to try to attack him," Johnson said, claiming the president's feelings on the topic had been "misrepresented." "He is not saying what Epstein did is a hoax. It's a terrible, unspeakable evil, and he believes that himself. When he first heard the rumor, he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago."

Johnson then added the head-scratching claim that Trump "was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down."

It's bizarre. As David Edwards (RAW STORY) noted:

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) wondered why President Donald Trump had called the Jeffrey Epstein case a "hoax" even though House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) seemed to claim that the commander-in-chief had once been an FBI "informant" against the sex offender.

"Congressman Massie, let me begin with you and get your response to Speaker Johnson," ABC host George Stephanopoulos told the Republican in a Sunday interview. "He says you've been misled. He also suggested at one point this week seemed to suggest that Donald Trump, President Trump, was an informant to the FBI about Jeffrey Epstein."

"Now, I don't know if the speaker misspoke when he said that Donald Trump was an informant," Massie replied. "The lawyers for the victim said that Donald Trump had been helpful in 2009 in their case by giving them information."

So was Mike Johnson talking out of his ass as usual or does he actually know something? If Chump was dropping a dime on Epstein, that needs to be public knowledge. If he was dropping a dime on Epstein that manes the feds probably had something on Chump. It also means that Chump knew what Epstein was doing -- trafficking females. Johnson's claim raises a ton of questions.

Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:

ICYMI: On Senate Floor, Senator Murray Demands Immediate Firing of RFK Jr.: “This Man is Burning Down Our Public Health System from the Inside”

ICYMI: Senator Murray Calls for Immediate Firing of RFK Jr., Commends CDC Director Monarez’s Stand for Science and Public Health

Murray: “If Republicans refuse to allow our committee to exercise its oversight responsibilities, and instead just insist that we stand by and watch a conspiracy theorist burn our public health agencies to the ground, what are they even here for?”

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member and former chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement calling for HELP Chair Bill Cassidy (R-LA) to hold an oversight hearing with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr. calling on him to answer for his increasingly dangerous attacks on lifesaving vaccines and America’s public health infrastructure, and his recent forcing out of newly-confirmed Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez and other top experts who dared to stand up for basic science. The CDC Director is a Senate-confirmed position for the first time this year thanks to the bipartisan PREVENT Pandemics Act Senator Murray negotiated and passed into law as HELP Chair in 2022. Director Monarez was in the role for less than a month before being forced out by Secretary Kennedy.

“In light of RFK Jr.’s recent, unprecedented moves to fire the CDC Director and push out public health experts, and the bipartisan concern about whether science or politics is driving vaccine policy decisions at HHS—the time has come for the ‘radical transparency’ we were once promised. For the good of the American people, RFK Jr. must immediately be called in to testify publicly before the HELP Committee.

“The American people deserve answers about why the conspiracy theorist atop HHS is blocking them from getting the vaccines they need to stay safe, and how exactly decisions affecting their health are being made. They deserve answers about the exact sequence of events that led to RFK Jr. attempting to fire Susan Monarez—the first Senate-confirmed CDC Director—from her position, and whether he lied about it in front of Congress last week. They need to know why RFK Jr. threw promising vaccine research and potential cancer breakthroughs into the shredder by canceling research into the very technology that powered Operation Warp Speed.

“The HELP Committee must have the opportunity to not only question RFK Jr., but to also hear from Susan Monarez and other former CDC officials in a public setting as well—Americans deserve the truth. If Republicans refuse to allow our committee to exercise its oversight responsibilities, and instead just insist that we stand by and watch a conspiracy theorist burn our public health agencies to the ground, what are they even here for?”

Senator Murray, a longtime congressional leader on health care who has led hearings on addressing vaccine hesitancy, has been a leader in raising the alarm over RFK Jr.’s nomination since the beginning—speaking out on the Senate floor, holding numerous events, raising the alarm after meeting with him, and hammering the threat he poses to Americans’ health nonstop. She led the opposition to the Trump administration’s disastrous plan to dismantle HHS and fire tens of thousands of staff in critical positions across CDC, NIH, FDA, and other agencies, and spoke out forcefully against RFK Jr.’s ousting of the entire CDC vaccine advisory board, including one ACIP member from Washington state. Senator Murray has held countless events across Washington state and in Washington, D.C. with doctors, patients, and former HHS officials to lift up how Trump and Republicans’ attacks on health care will be devastating for families. Last week, Senator Murray took to the Senate floor again to reiterate her call for RFK Jr. to be fired immediately.