It would probably be a whole lot better if people stopped treating the Epstein thing as a political football so that the victims could get justice
U.S. strikes ISIS targets in Syria, after killing of 2 soldiers and interpreter
The U.S. is conducting airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria in retaliation for the attack that killed two American soldiers and a U.S. interpreter on Saturday, officials said. Multiple sources told CBS News earlier Friday that the strikes were being conducted.
One of the officials said the U.S. began striking dozens of targets at multiple locations across central Syria using fighter aircraft, attack helicopters and artillery. More than 70 targets were struck, a U.S. official said.
F-15 fighter jets, A-10 Thunderbolts — known as “Warthogs” — and Apache attack helicopters were used to target ISIS positions in Syria on Friday, U.S. officials told CBS News. F-16 fighter jets from Jordan were also involved in the operation.
Good. But
US Epstein files release highlights Clinton, makes scant reference to Trump
The U.S. Justice Department released thousands of heavily redacted documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday that made scant reference to President Donald Trump but extensively featured Democratic former President Bill Clinton.
The absence of references to Trump was notable given that pictures and documents related to him have trickled out ?of previous Epstein releases for years. Trump’s name appeared in flight manifests listing passengers on Epstein’s private plane that were part of a first batch of Epstein material the Justice Department released in February, for instance.
Perhaps there really isn’t much on Trump. Did anyone consider that?
The partial release ?was intended to comply with a law overwhelmingly passed by Congress in November that mandated the disclosure of all Epstein files, despite the Republican president’s months-long effort to keep them sealed. The scandal surrounding Epstein has become a self-inflicted political wound for Trump, who for years had promoted conspiracy theories about Epstein to ?his supporters.
It was not immediately clear how substantive the new materials were, given that many Epstein-related documents have previously been made public since his 2019 death in jail, which was ruled a suicide. Many of the files were heavily redacted – several documents with 100 pages or more were entirely blacked out – and the Justice Department acknowledged it was still reviewing hundreds of thousands of additional pages for possible release.
Shortly after the release, the U.S. military launched airstrikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday in retaliation for an attack on U.S. personnel.
See? The airstrikes were deflections.
This whole “question the timing” thing is more of a Media Matters wonkers than something that should be in Reuters, but, the MSM have been infested with those early century Bush hating bloggers and those who worked for outlets like Think Progress, the Huffington Post, etc.
The Case for Christmas by Lee Strobel | Session 1 Full Episode – Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-case-for-christmas-by-lee-strobel.html
There sure are a lot of pictures of Bill Clinton in various stages of undress… with women who are not Hillary in them Epstein files.
We all know one thing: if there was anything in the Epstein files that was incriminating when it came to Donald Trump, it would have been released during Joe Biden’s four miserable years. The Democrats did everything they could to throw Mr Trump in prison and disqualify him for running for President again, and would never have stopped at releasing the Epstein files if there was anything in there that would have helped them do that.
If there had been a legal impediment, such information would have been leaked. We all know it; even Elwood P Dowd knows it, though he’ll never admit it.
Kamala Emhoff tried to explain away her master’s failure to release the Epstein files, by telling us that the Biden Administration maintained a strict separation between politics and the Justice Department, which is a lie so transparent that it should have embarrassed her, though I suppose one has to have a sense of shame to be embarrassed. The completely separated from politics Justice Department under Merrick Garland went tooth-and-nail against the Capitol kerfufflers, raided Mar-a-Lago without any probable cause, prosecuted former allies of Mr Trump, and even went after lawyers legally representing their client. There’s no way on God’s green earth that they would have hesitated to use anything they could find in the Epstein files to try to take down Mr Trump.
The increasingly shrill Dana wonders why President Biden didn’t release all the files. VP Harris said the Biden Administration maintained a strict separation between politics and the Justice Department, something that the abnormally dishonest Donnie Knauss and his accolytes couldn’t possbibly understand! Of course, Dana has -600% evidence to support this claim.
This is typical of those with Dana’s type “thought” processes. He and Donnie Knauss would have released the files if that would have harmed President Biden or VP Harris.
Further, the increasingy dishonest Dana repeats his lies about the violent Jan 6 mob, many of who should still be in prison, and the legal raid on Mar-a-Lardo. Mr Knauss should be in prison.
Why didn’t Donnie release the Epstein files to exonerate himself – he was president when Epstein supposedly killed himself?
Uh huh, sure!!!
LOLGF!
Rimjob is really, really reaching now.,
This is hilarious!
BWAHA!
Dana
Did you see the pic of the $21000 check Trump wrote to Epstein? On it was written “pain in full one fully depreciated girl”
That Trumpeter ! Such a joker
One big difference is that Clinton stopped associating with Epstein after he was convicted of sex crimes against children. Another is the GOP US Attorney General in FL who have Epstein the cushy plea deal of nights in Palm Beach jail with takeout?? Trump gave him the plum job of Sec of Labor. Also Epstein was a member of the Mar A Lago club for 2 YEARS AFTER his conviction.
I don’t think any Dem could have been elected with such a close relationship to Epstein. Trump was elected twice. GOP voters apparently can accept relationships with men convicted of sex crimes against children. Can you?