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Watergate/Epstein Files
Editor’s comment: In the 20th Century two reporters Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein reported on a cover-up by President Nixon of what was known as “The Watergate break in”. It was this cover up that brought the resignation of Richard Nixon as President of the United States. Today two reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan wrote in a forthcoming book about a coverup being orchestrated in The White House regarding the Epstein Files. Where the reporting by Haberman and Swan will lead is yet to be established. The future of the Epstein Files is yet to be determined. Below is a New York Times Exclusive of what has been taking place inside The White House.
On July 17, 2025, at around 6 o’clock in the evening, President Trump’s top officials filed into the White House Situation Room — the secure bunker where classified and high-stakes national security matters are discussed and decided. This was where President Barack Obama, along with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the president’s national security team, watched the raid that ended with the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011.
Now, however, Trump’s most senior advisers had gathered — without him — to figure out how to gain some measure of control over a very different kind of crisis threatening to engulf the presidency: the Epstein files.
Ten days earlier, the Justice Department and the F.B.I. had jointly released a memo that bluntly stated that their review had found no “client list” of powerful men for whom the notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had allegedly procured underage girls and young women. Intended to put to rest years of speculation and end the pressure campaign to release the voluminous material in the department’s possession, the memo instead had the opposite effect, setting off a backlash that was notably loud among the MAGA base.
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