New Evidence Paints Harrowing Picture Of Trump and 13-Year Old

Suppressed Evidence Damns Trump and Epstein; Trump Assaults NYT; Blue States Launch Lawsuits Into Trump

Good morning.

Here’s what’s on the table today: Suppressed FBI notes describe a 13-year-old girl being trafficked to Donald Trump by Jeffrey Epstein. New Epstein files show Epstein was selling access to the Trump White House to foreign billionaires. Trump spent Saturday morning attacking the New York Times while a missing American service member remains unaccounted for in Iran. And 23 states are suing Trump over an executive order that hands control of American voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security.

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Suppressed FBI Notes Describe Trump Assault on 13-Year-Old Epstein Victim

The Post and Courier is reporting that FBI handwritten notes from a 2019 interview with an Epstein trafficking survivor contain details that were left out of the official summaries released by the Justice Department in March — and those missing details matter.

The woman, from South Carolina, told FBI agents she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein as a teenager and brought to New York or New Jersey, where she was introduced to Donald Trump in 1984. She was approximately 13 years old.

The official summaries, known as 302s, described some uncertainty about how she traveled with Epstein. The handwritten notes are more direct: Epstein both drove and flew her to meet Trump. She described being taken to a very tall building with large rooms. She said Trump ordered everyone else out, then sexually assaulted her. She said she fought back. He hit her.

The notes also reference two additional interactions with Trump that the woman declined to discuss further during the interview.

Roughly 30 pages of documents relevant to her account have still not been released as part of the Epstein file disclosures. The Justice Department has acknowledged withholding millions of Epstein-related files, which critics say is a direct violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Trump himself initially fought against passing.

These are allegations. They are serious ones. And the documents that could shed more light on them are being withheld by the administration of the man they implicate.

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Trump Attacks the New York Times While a U.S. Soldier Remains Missing in Iran

An American service member is missing in Iran. The White House has said nothing publicly about the status of rescue efforts. The Pentagon has said nothing. And on Saturday morning, the president of the United States went on social media to complain about a typo in the New York Times.

Iran shot down a U.S. Air Force F-15E fighter jet last week, marking a significant and dangerous escalation in a war now entering its fifth week. One crew member was rescued. The second remains unaccounted for. Iran has placed a bounty on the aircrew.

When asked Friday about the missing service member, Trump said: “It’s war. We’re in war.” Then, sources say, he went inside to meet with his national security team — and disclosed nothing to the public about what was discussed or what is being done.

Instead, Saturday brought a Truth Social post attacking the Times for referring to NATO by the wrong name in one article. Whatever one thinks of the Times, a president with a missing soldier in enemy territory has other things that deserve his public attention. The silence from this White House on the fate of that service member is a story in itself.

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Epstein Was Selling Access to Trump’s White House to Foreign Billionaires

Newly released Justice Department files reveal that Jeffrey Epstein was presenting himself as a Trump administration insider in the early days of Trump’s first term, offering to connect foreign businessmen to figures close to the White House — including Steve Bannon and Thomas Barrack, who chaired Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee.

According to reporting on the files, Epstein was in frequent contact with Anil Ambani, once among the wealthiest people on earth, and offered to facilitate introductions to key players around the new administration as Ambani sought insight into U.S. national security and economic policy direction.

The broader picture emerging from the Epstein files continues to tighten around Trump. Files already released include Epstein’s claim that Trump was his closest friend for a decade, documentation of Trump flying on Epstein’s jet at least eight times in the 1990s, and accounts placing Trump in extended contact with at least one of Epstein’s victims.

The DOJ has acknowledged withholding millions of additional Epstein files. The administration that is blocking their release is the same administration whose president appears throughout the documents already made public.

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23 States Sue Trump Over Executive Order Handing Voter Roll Control to DHS

Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia filed suit this week challenging a Trump executive order that voting rights advocates are calling one of the most brazen attacks on electoral integrity in modern American history.

The order does two things that should alarm every voter regardless of party. First, it bans the U.S. Postal Service from delivering mail-in ballots to anyone not on a preapproved federal list — a list compiled by the USPS itself, with no clear legal authority or public accountability. Second, it directs the federal government to build its own nationwide voter rolls, to be sent to states 60 days before each federal election.

States have maintained their own voter rolls for centuries. The Constitution assigns election administration to the states. This order attempts to override both.

The department Trump has tasked with building those federal voter rolls is the Department of Homeland Security — the same agency that has been caught misrepresenting facts in federal court and that has already wrongly detained and deported American citizens.

The lawsuit, filed in Massachusetts District Court, argues plainly: “The President has no authority to restrict voter eligibility or mail voting to lists of voters pre-authorized by the federal government.”

This is not an isolated move. Trump has now signed multiple executive orders targeting mail-in voting, voter ID requirements, and state control of elections. Each one pushes further toward a system where the federal government — under the control of one party — decides who gets to vote and how. The courts have blocked some of these before. This one needs to be next.

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Here are five stories you may have missed from the past 24 hours:

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Stories You May Have Missed

• The DOJ’s privacy chief just quit rather than hand your voter data to DHS. For nearly a year, the Justice Department has been making unprecedented demands to states for sensitive voter data — including driver’s license numbers, partial Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and addresses. In some states like California, the demands extended to party affiliation and full voting history. As DOJ officials moved to share that data directly with the Department of Homeland Security, the Civil Rights Division’s chief privacy and FOIA officer, Kilian Kagle, quietly resigned. The man whose job was to protect your data walked out the door rather than be part of handing it to the same agency that has repeatedly been caught lying in court. That tells you everything.

• Trump is now deporting people to countries they’ve never set foot in. The Trump administration deported 12 people to Uganda this week, marking the first known arrival of U.S. deportees to the African country under a so-called third-country agreement. The Uganda Law Society called it “an undignified, harrowing and dehumanising process” that reduced those deported to “little more than chattel.” Uganda joins El Salvador, Eswatini, South Sudan, Ghana, and Rwanda as countries now receiving people the U.S. is exiling to nations where they have no ties, no family, and no rights.

• A DOJ privacy officer resigning isn’t the only voter suppression story this week — Iran shot down a U.S. F-15 and the White House stayed silent about the missing airman while Trump signed a 100 percent tariff on brand-name pharmaceuticals. Trump signed an executive order imposing a 100 percent tariff on brand-name pharmaceutical imports — a move that could drive up prescription drug costs for tens of millions of Americans already squeezed by the war’s energy price surge. The announcement received almost no coverage as the Iran news dominated the cycle. If you take medication, this one matters.

• The Oxfam wealth gap report that got buried under the war coverage. A new report by Oxfam International finds the wealthiest 0.1 percent of the world’s population are hiding more than $2.8 trillion in offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes — more wealth than is owned by the poorest half of humanity, more than 4 billion people. Released this week and barely covered. While Congress debates cutting Medicaid to fund a $1.5 trillion military budget, the people who could close that gap with a rounding error are hiding their money offshore.

• The DOJ has no explanation for why the Epstein files accusers have still not seen justice. Legal experts say that despite the accusations against rich and powerful people contained in the Epstein files, the DOJ has made no additional arrests — with the most cited reason being a lack of sufficient evidence. The files have been released in fragments, millions of pages remain withheld, the attorney general who promised full transparency just got fired 12 days before her scheduled deposition on the matter, and her replacement was Trump’s own criminal defense lawyer. Connect those dots yourself.