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- James Comer Teases Bill Clinton Deposition Comment on Trump-Epstein Ties
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) took a break from Friday’s Epstein deposition to update the press on comments former President Bill Clinton made about Donald Trump. Comer has said the full depositions of Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be released to the public, and it was unusual for Comer to get ahead of the process by quoting the witness. Regardless, Comer offered this teaser to the media gathered outside the Chappaqua, NY, Performing Arts Center. “I know there is a lot of obsession about President Trump from the media,” Comer began. “A lot of curiosity about President Trump from the media, and I wanted to make a statement because they probably won’t mention this,” Comer said, referring to the Democrats questioning Clinton. “Ranking Member [Robert] Garcia asked President Clinton, quote, ‘Should President Trump be called to answer questions for this committee?’ And President Clinton said, ‘That is for you to decide.'” Comer continued, “And the president went on to say, ‘The president — Trump — has never said anything to me to make me think he was involved.’ And he meant with Epstein,” Comer said. “So, just, I know there’s a lot of curiosity about President Trump and I thought it was an interesting point that President Clinton said.” Comer said the deposition was about to enter its third hour, which he believed to be the halfway point for the former President’s testimony. Earlier Friday, Comer said video of Hillary Clinton’s deposition from Thursday was being expedited for the public. “We will get the video out as quickly as we can get it uploaded with sound and everything from yesterday. So, this is — for all practical purposes — this is a public deposition,” Comer said. “The American people will see it. I have heard that C-SPAN is going to air it wire-to-wire.” Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.The post James Comer Teases Bill Clinton Deposition Comment on Trump-Epstein Ties first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.57 mins ago - Trump’s ‘Fully Exonerated’ Epstein Defense Isn’t Legal. It’s a Con.
On the White House lawn Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump again repeated a declaration he’s made maybe a dozen times that he has been “fully exonerated” in connection with Jeffrey Epstein. The line is no longer offhand. It is a ritual. It arrives polished, declarative, and absolute. The striking thing is not simply that the word is imprecise. It is that he is trying in vain to redefine it in real time. Under its traditional meaning, exoneration follows accusation and adjudication. It is conferred by a court or investigative authority after a formal process. In Trump’s case, there has been no prosecution tied to Epstein. No indictment. No trial. No judicial finding clearing him of wrongdoing. By the conventional definition, there was nothing to exonerate. But in a fragmented, post-institutional media environment, repetition can outpace definition. If “fully exonerated” is said often enough, forcefully enough, and without sustained correction that carries equal reach, the public meaning of the term begins to shift. It drifts from a legal outcome to a political assertion. From something granted to something claimed. That is not defensive rhetoric. It is offensive. It is an attempt to colonize language. A con, after all, is short for confidence — the art of making someone believe something is settled before they think to ask whether it is.” Trump is not merely arguing that he was never charged. He is compressing “not indicted,” “not prosecuted,” and “not proven guilty” into a single, blunt phrase that implies formal vindication. The word does the work of an institution. It creates the impression of a resolved case where no case formally existed. The terrain makes that strategy viable. The Epstein story is murky for most Americans. They know it involves grotesque crimes, powerful associates, sealed documents, and unanswered questions. What they do not know in granular detail is what Trump’s documented relationship with Epstein consisted of, where it began, where it ended, and what it did or did not entail. The factual landscape is uneven and thinly understood. Ambiguity is opportunity. When public knowledge is shallow, the first declarative frame can harden quickly. “Fully exonerated” rushes into that vacuum and plants a flag. It supplies clarity where facts remain diffuse. It offers closure in place of complexity. And because the underlying record is not widely mastered by voters, the phrase can float above specifics. The media dynamic amplifies the effect. The… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘Embarrassing’: Elie Honig Says DOJ is Getting ‘Lapped’ by Congress and ...
Credit: (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) and CNN CNN’s Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig said that the Department of Justice is getting “lapped” by both the British authorities and Congress in their subsequent investigations into those affiliated with Jeffrey Epstein, calling the disparity “embarrassing” in a Friday Intelligencer column. Honig, a former state and federal prosecutor, wrote that the DOJ, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi, “is getting lapped by both Congress and the British authorities on follow-up investigations around the Epstein files,” adding bluntly, “There’s no excuse for either.” Honig pointed to developments overseas, where British officials have moved quickly on leads drawn from the same Epstein files released by U.S. authorities. “In a matter of weeks,” he wrote, U.K. investigators “have investigated and arrested a former prince [Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor] … and a lord [Peter Mandelson],” carried out searches, and conducted extensive questioning. By contrast, Honig said, “It’s not even clear the DoJ is doing anything at all.” He wrote about what he characterized as a dismissive tone from top U.S. officials, highlighting Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s remark that “the American people need to understand that it isn’t a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.” “The DoJ has dutifully adopted [President Donald] Trump’s recommended approach,” Honig wrote, describing it as “myopia blended with dissembling and a pinch of proactive excuse-making.” Honig argued Congress has at least attempted to push forward. The House Oversight Committee, he noted, has issued “a series of aggressive subpoenas,” putting figures like billionaire Les Wexner under oath for hours of questioning — even if the effort is “largely for political show.” Still, he stressed, Congress is “putting powerful people on the spot,” something the DOJ has yet to do, noting the absence of “search warrants, no subpoenas, no interviews with key players, no arrests.” “Meanwhile, the British authorities and Congress forge ahead,” he concluded. “It’s an embarrassing moment for our Justice Department’s leadership and a telling indictment of its own stubborn — and perhaps purposeful — indifference.”The post ‘Embarrassing’: Elie Honig Says DOJ is Getting ‘Lapped’ by Congress and Brits on Epstein Investigations first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - RFK Jr Confronts Rogan About Trump ICE Criticism: ‘I Know That’s Something T...Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confronted podcaster Joe Rogan about his criticism of ICE and immigration enforcement tactics under President Donald Trump. Kennedy joined Rogan for Friday’s edition of The Joe Rogan Experience and when asked at one point what topics he’d like to get to, Kennedy said he wanted to chat about ICE and noted Rogan’s recent criticism. “I know that’s something that’s disturbed you,” Kennedy told Rogan. Rogan has criticized ICE and federal immigration agents, arguing they should be focusing all of their efforts on illegal immigrants who are violent criminals. After Minneapolis resident and American citizen Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent, Rogan said on his podcast that the shooting “looked horrific.” “You don’t want militarized people in the streets just roaming around, snatching up people — many of which turn out to be U.S. citizens that just don’t have their papers on them. Are we really gonna be the Gestapo? ‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?” he said. Kennedy argued that agents are “not just randomly searching restaurants,” but instead are going after “particular people who they’ve gotten their names from local law enforcement and others.” Kennedy added that most caught by federal agents have “criminal records,” but many have skipped out on convictions because they have skipped bail and they’re wanted on warrants. Rogan offered some defenses of ICE and immigration agents, saying they’re dealing with an unprecedented situation after an “open” border let millions into the country. Rogan said the “violent interactions” caught on video are disturbing people, but he also slammed anti-ICE protests as non-organic. He said: I think what disturbs people is, again, obviously these violent interactions. What should disturb them is that these are not organic protests, so these protests are organized and paid for, and that’s crazy. When you find that out and you find out that people can actually be paid to protest and that they provide them with signs, they tell them what they do, it’s organized, they have signal chats. There’s been a lot of people online talking about being paid to protest in certain places and that’s kind of insane that’s even legal that you can organize a mob and pay them to go and make a bunch of noise. Masked officers also “disturb” people, he added. “Then there’s the natural thing that people… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Trump Nemesis Massie Rips Fox Host in Fiery Clap-Back: ‘Covering Up for Rich M...Trump nemesis Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) hammered Fox News host Brian Kilmeade in a fiery clap-back accusing him of “covering up for rich men who raped girls” while responding to a segment in which Kilmeade blasted Massie as an “embarrassment.” Massie is the leader of a group of Republicans who joined Democrats to force the vote that eventually resulted in the release of the Epstein files after President Donald Trump and his administration spent months fighting the effort. On Friday, Massie lashed out at Kilmeade over a segment that was highlighted by Mediaite from that morning’s episode of Fox & Friends,in which Kilmeade and co-host Lawrence Jones name-checked him. Singling out Kilmeade, Massie wrote “Imagine being as dedicated as @kilmeade is to the cause of covering up for rich men who raped girls.” He then took on the “lies” from that segment: Rebutting his lies in this segment: 1) I’ve never said the Epstein files are about Trump, or even Clinton, it’s about Justice. 2) I took my wife to SOTU. In the Fox segment in question, Jones made a crack about State of the Union guests and Kilmeade piled on to Massie: JONES: I understand what Massie and — what’s his name? Ro Khanna — in all of this. But they’re inviting people to the State of the Union. There is a part of this that wasn’t even a victim as his guest. So we’ll see what happens. BRIAN KILMEADE: Thomas Massie is just an embarrassment. He’s got a problem with the president. The president’s got a problem with him. So now, this guy who was a libertarian is going all in on the most leftist in the other party. So he’s not even serving the people that put him into office. But the Epstein files is interesting because they want to go for Donald Trump. They are desperate to get Donald Trump. Watch above via Fox & Friends.The post Trump Nemesis Massie Rips Fox Host in Fiery Clap-Back: ‘Covering Up for Rich Men Who Raped Girls’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- ‘I Have Been Fully Exonerated’: Trump Claims Not to Know ‘Anything’ Abou...In a Friday appearance before the press on the White House lawn, President Donald Trump claimed that he has “been fully exonerated” from scrutiny surrounding his many appearances in the Jeffrey Epstein files, adding that he doesn’t know “anything.” While the reporter’s question couldn’t be heard fully in the Fox broadcast, the words “Epstein files” were clearly mentioned, referring to the FBI files on the convicted sex trafficker in which The New York Times found 5,300 documents mentioning Trump. “I don’t know anything about the Epstein files,” said Trump to reporters. “You know, I’ve been fully exonerated.” He then quickly moved on to the next question. According to reporting this week from NPR, the Department of Justice has withheld at least 53 pages from its latest files release, some of which involve allegations against the president. The DOJ did not explain the discrepancy, declining to comment and then emphasizing through a spokesperson that any unpublished documents are confidential by law, duplicates, or related to an ongoing federal investigation. Following the report, the House Oversight Committee’s ranking member, Representative Robert Garcia (D-CA), released a statement, writing, “Yesterday, I reviewed unredacted evidence logs at the Department of Justice. Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes.” On Friday, CNN chief political analyst David Axelrod responded to Trump’s allegation that he’s been “exonerated,” writing on X, “By whom? Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, who is begging him for a commutation? His DOJ?? Meaningless. For not the first time, what he’s saying just ain’t so.” This is the new mantra from @POTUS: "I've been fully exonerated" on Epstein.By whom? Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislane Maxwell, who is begging him for a commutation?His DOJ?? Meaningless.For not the first time, what he's saying just ain't so. https://t.co/0OmJpYMAHV — David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) February 27, 2026 Representative Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) also took to X on Friday, responding to the president’s claim on the White House lawn that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is “a very innocent guy” amidst criticism of his ties to Epstein, writing, “It’s a massive White House cover-up.” It’s a massive White House cover up. https://t.co/c3bo2IxPzX — Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari (@RepYassAnsari) February 27, 2026 Watch the clip above via Fox.The post ‘I Have Been Fully Exonerated’: Trump Claims Not to Know… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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