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4 Republicans tasked with investigating the Trump assassination attempt didn't show up for a site visit

Just 3 GOP representatives were in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Monday for a visit to the site of the Trump assassination attempt, according to a report.

www.businessinsider.com

4 Republicans tasked with investigating the Trump assassination attempt didn't show up for a site visit​

Mia Jankowicz

Five Democratic Party and three GOP representatives showed up on Monday to tour the site of the attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, PA. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

• Four Republicans on a task force looking into the Trump assassination attempt skipped a site visit.
• The bipartisan group was formed to investigate potential failings on the day.
• It's unclear why some of the GOP members of the task force skipped the visit to Butler, PA.

Four Republicans on the task force investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump were no-shows for a site visit on Monday, according to The Washington Post.

The bipartisan task force was set up by a unanimous House vote in late July, two weeks after a would-be assassin fired at Trump during an outdoor rally, grazing his ear.

The 12-strong task force consists of seven Republicans and five Democrats and has full House investigatory powers, including subpoena powers.

But just three GOP representatives were in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Monday for the group's first visit to the site of the shooting, the Post reported.

Aside from Rep. Mark Kelly, the task force's ranking member, the only other Republicans present were David Joyce (Ohio) and Laurel Lee (Fla).

Reps. Mark Green (Tenn), Michael Waltz (Fla), Clay Higgins (La), and Pat Fallon (Tex) were absent from the group of lawmakers visiting the site, according to the Post. The reason for their absence was not explained at the press conference, the newspaper added.

Kelly said there was no substitute for being there.

"It's the difference between day and night," he said, according to The New York Times. "When you're actually here on this surface, when you're actually walking these grounds, when you're actually going to the building, when you're actually up on the roof."

The attempt on Trump's life led to a major public outcry and intense scrutiny of the Secret Service and its potential failings in allowing the shooter to get so close.

It was the closest assassination attempt of a US president or presidential candidate since President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.

The motives of the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper, remain unknown.

A video on Waltz's Facebook page suggested that, instead of attending the site visit, the congressman joined Trump at Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate the deaths of 13 servicemembers killed during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

A spokesperson for Waltz told Business Insider that the Congressman had "already committed" to the ceremony, which "meant a great deal" to him, ahead of the site visit.

"He hopes to receive all relevant briefings soon," the spokesperson added.

Waltz has previously expressed frustration at the pace of the task force's progress, telling the New York Post just last week that he is "frustrated at how slow and how little we've learned."

He has also questioned, without providing evidence, whether the shooter acted alone, the NY Post reported.

From their social media posts, it's unclear how Green, Higgins, and Fallon spent Monday. The lawmakers did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

Higgins already visited Butler on August 8 in an effort to devise a detailed "preliminary investigative report," which he presented to Kelly on August 12.

He is among 16 Republican figures who have been criticized for amplifying conspiracy theories alleging the FBI's involvement in the January 6 insurrection.

Alongside the bipartisan effort, MAGA-leaning GOP lawmakers have held their own hearing about the attempted assassination, inviting figures including Dan Bongino, a former Secret Servicemember, and Erik Prince, a businessman and former SEAL, to weigh in on the Secret Service's performance.

Speaking to the War Room podcast last week, Rep. Eli Crane, who is not on the task force, said that the bipartisan committee couldn't be trusted not to be "political" with its inquiry.

"We don't trust the federal government to actually do the job necessary," he added, according to the Times.

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[bnew]

Spoiler: full text & large images

1/11
@MadeInTheUSANJ
Just prior to Donald Trump’s first staged assassination attempt, the Jeffrey Epstein Grand Jury notes dropped.

They revealed that Trump and Epstein raped a 13-year-old girl at Epstein’s house.

Trump raped a child.

This is the cover-up they don’t want us discussing on Xhitter.

2/11
@RapinDonaldHQ
He did it FOUR times.

This clip features excerpts from all four encounters.

A 12 year old was also involved with one of them.

All four encounters were witnessed by a sex coach who was helping the young girl. She also testified under oath.

In this sick world Epstein supplied "coaches" to guide young girls on how to please his clients.

You can view the documentary here:
https://invidious.poast.org/watch?v=vpmGd8CDots&t=1602s



https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1849470340453298176/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/p2qhwjD1ga4d5xLZ.mp4

3/11
@tpotny
THIS IS WHY YOU KNOW THAT ATTEMPT WAS STAGED. It was a diversion.



4/11
@VickieP01953934
"BIG" STORY IN THE 90's Her Name Was Katie. She tried coming forward in 2016 But Got So Many Death Threats, She Dropped It.🥹



5/11
@crit_architect
False. Even the Washington post has reviewed this and said it was false.

Nice try, you guys have to cheat to win with lies like this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/11/trump-epstein-documents-ted-lieu/



6/11
@larkolars
/search?q=#TrumpPedoFiles



7/11
@larkolars
/search?q=#TrumpIsARapist



8/11
@garym21522
Read pages 4-5



9/11
@CraigDemers4570
🫵



10/11
@CraigDemers4570


[Quoted tweet]
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The paid shills and social media influencers are petrified of a #TrumpVictory.

Here’s proof.
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https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1849522188191199232/vid/avc1/1080x1920/ekxNsrzXv1ZiFQYu.mp4

11/11
@DeplorableTrain
This is bull shyt. Debunked when Trump ran the first time. Nothing about these false allegations are new.

To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA
Case No. 50-2019-CA-014681-AG
CA FLORIDA HOLDINGS, LLC,
Publisher of THE PALM BEACH POST,
Plaintiff,
vs.
JOSEPH ABRUZZO, as Clerk and Comptroller
of Palm Beach County, Florida,
Defendants.
ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION
OF THE TRIAL COURT'S FEBRUARY 29, 2024 ORDER
AND CANCELING JULY 8, 2024 HEARING
THIS CAUSE, having come before the Court on The Palm Beach Post's Motion for
Reconsideration of The Trial Court's February 29, 2024 Order, filed on June 12, 2024, and the

 

[the bossman]

Spoiler: full text & large images

1/11
@MadeInTheUSANJ
Just prior to Donald Trump’s first staged assassination attempt, the Jeffrey Epstein Grand Jury notes dropped.

They revealed that Trump and Epstein raped a 13-year-old girl at Epstein’s house.

Trump raped a child.

This is the cover-up they don’t want us discussing on Xhitter.

2/11
@RapinDonaldHQ
He did it FOUR times.

This clip features excerpts from all four encounters.

A 12 year old was also involved with one of them.

All four encounters were witnessed by a sex coach who was helping the young girl. She also testified under oath.

In this sick world Epstein supplied "coaches" to guide young girls on how to please his clients.

You can view the documentary here:
https://invidious.poast.org/watch?v=vpmGd8CDots&t=1602s



https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1849470340453298176/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/p2qhwjD1ga4d5xLZ.mp4

3/11
@tpotny
THIS IS WHY YOU KNOW THAT ATTEMPT WAS STAGED. It was a diversion.



4/11
@VickieP01953934
"BIG" STORY IN THE 90's Her Name Was Katie. She tried coming forward in 2016 But Got So Many Death Threats, She Dropped It.🥹



5/11
@crit_architect
False. Even the Washington post has reviewed this and said it was false.

Nice try, you guys have to cheat to win with lies like this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/11/trump-epstein-documents-ted-lieu/



6/11
@larkolars
/search?q=#TrumpPedoFiles



7/11
@larkolars
/search?q=#TrumpIsARapist



8/11
@garym21522
Read pages 4-5



9/11
@CraigDemers4570
🫵



10/11
@CraigDemers4570


[Quoted tweet]
-
The paid shills and social media influencers are petrified of a #TrumpVictory.

Here’s proof.
-


https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1849522188191199232/vid/avc1/1080x1920/ekxNsrzXv1ZiFQYu.mp4

11/11
@DeplorableTrain
This is bull shyt. Debunked when Trump ran the first time. Nothing about these false allegations are new.

To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196

I'm not seeing this reported anywhere else

 

[RickyDiBiase]

I'm not seeing this reported anywhere else

Cause it's bullshyt

 

[bnew]

I'm not seeing this reported anywhere else

Cause it's bullshyt

Florida prosecutors knew Epstein raped teenage girls 2 years before cutting deal, transcript shows

A Florida judge has released transcripts detailing 2006 grand jury testimony that accused the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein of sexually assaulting numerous underage teenage girls at his Palm Beach mansion.

www.ksat.com

Terry Spencer

Associated Press

Published: July 1, 2024 at 1:56 PM

Updated: July 1, 2024 at 5:53 PM

Tags: U.S. news

Florida prosecutors knew Epstein raped teenage girls 2 years before cutting deal, transcript shows​

FILE - This photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017. On Monday, July 1, 2024, Florida Circuit Judge Luis Delgado released the transcripts of a 2006 grand jury investigation that looked into sex trafficking and rape allegations made against Epstein. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File) (Uncredited, New York State Sex Offender Registry)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Florida prosecutors knew the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years before they cut a plea deal that has long been criticized as too lenient and a missed opportunity to imprison him a decade earlier, according to transcripts released Monday.

The 2006 grand jury investigation was the first of many by law enforcement over the past two decades into Epstein's rape and sex trafficking of teenagers — and how his ties to the rich and the powerful seem to have allowed him to avoid prison or a serious jail term for over a decade.

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The investigations uncovered Epstein's close ties to former President Bill Clinton and Britain's Prince Andrew, as well as his once friendly relationship with former President Donald Trump and numerous others of wealth and influence who have denied doing anything criminal or improper and not been charged.

Circuit Judge Luis Delgado's release of approximately 150 pages Monday came as a surprise, since there was scheduled hearing next week over unsealing the graphic testimony. Gov. Ron DeSantis had signed a bill in February allowing the release on Monday or any time thereafter that Delgado ordered. Florida grand jury transcripts are usually kept secret forever, but the bill created an exemption for cases like Epstein's.

The transcripts show that the grand jury heard testimony that Epstein, who was then in his 40s, had raped teenage girls as young as 14 at his Palm Beach mansion, often paying them so he could commit statutory rape or assault. The teenagers testified and told detectives they were also paid cash or rented cars if they found him more girls.

“The details in the record will be outrageous to decent people,” Delgado wrote in his order. “The testimony taken by the Grand Jury concerns activity ranging from grossly unacceptable to rape — all of the conduct at issue is sexually deviant, disgusting, and criminal.”

In 2008, Epstein cut a deal with South Florida federal prosecutors that allowed him to escape more severe federal charges and instead plead guilty to state charges of procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution. He was sentenced to 1.5 years in the Palm Beach County jail system, during which he was allowed to go to his office almost daily as part of a work-release program, followed by a year of house arrest. He was required to register as a sex offender.

Criticism of the deal resulted in the 2019 resignation of Trump's labor secretary, Alex Acosta, who was the U.S. attorney for South Florida in 2008 and signed off on the deal. A 2020 Justice Department investigation concluded that Acosta used “poor judgment” in his handling of the Epstein prosecution, but it didn't rise to the level of professional misconduct.

The chief prosecutor in the Epstein case, former Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer, did not immediately respond Monday to an email and a voicemail seeking comment about the transcripts’ release.

Current Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg, who was not involved in the investigation, said in a statement he is glad the records have been released. He said he has not yet read the transcripts, so could not comment on whether Krischer should have pursued a tougher prosecution of Epstein.

Brad Edwards, an attorney for many of the victims, said in a statement that the transcripts show that Krischer's office “took the case to the Grand Jury with an agenda — to return minimal, if any, criminal charges against Jeffrey Epstein.”

“A fraction of the evidence was presented, in a misleading way, and the Office portrayed the victims as criminals,” he said. “It is so sad, the number of victims Epstein was able to abuse because the State carried water for him when they had a chance to put him away.”

Epstein’s estate is paying $155 million in restitution to more than 125 victims.

According to the transcripts, Palm Beach Police Detective Joe Recarey testified in July 2006 that the initial investigation began when a woman reported in March 2005 that her stepdaughter who was in high school at the time said she received $300 in exchange for “sexual activity with a man in Palm Beach,” Recarey testified.

Another teenager, whose name was redacted in the transcript, told detectives that she was 17 years old when she was approached by a friend who said she could make $200 by providing a massage at Epstein’s home.

At the house, when Epstein tried touching her, she told him she was uncomfortable. He then told her that he would pay her $200 if she brought “girls” to the house. “And he told her, ‘The younger, the better,’” Recarey said.

Over time she brought six friends to Epstein's house, including a 14-year-old, and likened herself to Hollywood Madame Heidi Fleiss in October 2005 interviews, Recarey recounted.

When she brought over a 23-year-old friend, Epstein told her that the friend was too old.

“The more you did, the more money you made,” the detective said the teen told him. “She explained that there was going to be a massage or some possible touching, and you would have to provide the massage either topless or naked.”

Another teen testified she visited Epstein's house hundreds of times in the early 2000s, starting when she was 16. She testified that Epstein paid her $200 each time she gave him a massage while naked, rented her a car and gave her $1,000 the time he raped her.

A 2005 police search of Epstein's mansion found evidence supporting the girls' testimony. Also, Epstein’s houseman told detectives that the teenagers who came to the mansion were "very young. Too young to be a masseuse.”

Epstein in 2018 was charged with federal sex trafficking crimes in New York — where he also had a mansion that was a scene of abuse — after the Miami Herald published a series of articles that renewed public attention on the case, including interviews with some victims who had been pursuing civil lawsuits against him. Epstein was 66 when he killed himself in a New York City jail cell in August 2019, federal officials say.

Delgado in his order wrote that the transcripts show why Epstein was “the most infamous pedophile in American history."

“For almost 20 years, the story of how Jeffrey Epstein victimized some of Palm Beach County’s most vulnerable has been the subject of much anger and has at times diminished the public’s perception of the criminal justice system,” Delgado wrote.

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Associated Press reporters Mike Schneider in Orlando, Florida, Curt Anderson in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Stephany Matat in West Palm Beach, Florida, Kim Chandler in Montgomery, Alabama, and Sudhin Thanawala in Atlanta contributed to this report.

 

[Unbothered]

Cause it's bullshyt

It's fuk Trump forever for me but...

If Trump was found with evidence (video, transcripts, etc) to have raped a girl this shyt would've been on all the major news networks, I'm talking ABC, CBS, NBC, etc the works.

Ain't no way this would be underreported, considering he's a former president running for re-election. Nah, this would be making headlines everywhere possible and killed his chances of even making it this far into late October.

 

[LV Koopa]

last minute election stunts to stop Trump

 

[Yaboysix]

Aye....where are the parents of these lil Raped and abused girls? They're always parentless.... They just be having little herds of doped up blonde girls for adult parties ? Where do they go afterwards?

 

[Batsute]

Aye....where are the parents of these lil Raped and abused girls? They're always parentless.... They just be having little herds of doped up blonde girls for adult parties ? Where do they go afterwards?

You aint see the documentary Taken

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Aye....where are the parents of these lil Raped and abused girls? They're always parentless.... They just be having little herds of doped up blonde girls for adult parties ? Where do they go afterwards?

good question on the afterwards part, the 1st half usually its parents who have their kids who model or are trying to model but don't actually know shyt about the business so pervs take advantage of that with "opportunities" and the parents just send the kid off without a care.

 

[Yaboysix]

You aint see the documentary Taken

Hell nawll, breh. I got 4 kids...I don't need that type of content in my spirit.

good question on the afterwards part, the 1st half usually its parents who have their kids who model or are trying to model but don't actually know shyt about the business so pervs take advantage of that with "opportunities" and the parents just send the kid off without a care.

Damn!

I always got weird vibes from shyt like pageants

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Hell nawll, breh. I got 4 kids...I don't need that type of content in my spirit.


Damn!

I always got weird vibes from shyt like pageants

there's a documentary called Open Secret, its mostly about pedophilia in hollywood but they also touch on the model aspect too.

 

[skokiaan]

It's fuk Trump forever for me but...

If Trump was found with evidence (video, transcripts, etc) to have raped a girl this shyt would've been on all the major news networks, I'm talking ABC, CBS, NBC, etc the works.

Ain't no way this would be underreported, considering he's a former president running for re-election. Nah, this would be making headlines everywhere possible and killed his chances of even making it this far into late October.

america saving face..thats why they keep delaying his cases..to them its a bad look for a former president to go through all this. also remember its also part of cacology

 

[Gloxina]

Aye....where are the parents of these lil Raped and abused girls? They're always parentless.... They just be having little herds of doped up blonde girls for adult parties ? Where do they go afterwards?

Orphans, adopted kids, kids who are trafficked/sold by their parents, kids who aren’t supervised (rich and poor), kids who are runaways/on the street…

A lot of kids fall through the cracks and end up being abused by perverted adults.

 

[Goat poster]

It's fuk Trump forever for me but...

If Trump was found with evidence (video, transcripts, etc) to have raped a girl this shyt would've been on all the major news networks, I'm talking ABC, CBS, NBC, etc the works.

Ain't no way this would be underreported, considering he's a former president running for re-election. Nah, this would be making headlines everywhere possible and killed his chances of even making it this far into late October.

You realize Trump has over 30 rape allegations breh?