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Jilly_in_VA

(13,485 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:18 PM 11 hrs ago

Watch live: White House press briefing amid Epstein email release

The White House is slated to hold a press briefing on Nov. 12 as President Donald Trump's administration navigates the near-end of the government shutdown and new allegations about his connection to Jeffrey Epstein.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is scheduled to speak with reporters live from the White House briefing room starting at 1 p.m. ET.

It comes hours before the House of Representatives is expected to vote on a funding measure that would end the longest government shutdown in history. Once passed, the bill will head to the president's desk to be signed into law.

The scheduled briefing will also occur on the heels of the release of new emails written by Epstein, the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker, which allege Trump "spent hours" with one of Epstein's victims.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/12/white-house-press-briefing-watch-livestream/87231904007/

See Karoline. See Karoline lie. Why does Karoline not spontaneously combust?

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Watch live: White House press briefing amid Epstein email release (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA 11 hrs ago OP
Wherein Karoline Leavitt choie 11 hrs ago #1
"JOE BIDEN DID IT" durablend 9 hrs ago #9
Why don't the victims speak out? Or at least sue? dem4decades 11 hrs ago #2
They will Jilly_in_VA 11 hrs ago #3
There have been two books already. It's damn dangerous business. usonian 11 hrs ago #6
Oh, they have sued AZJonnie 10 hrs ago #7
Downplaying it 'its a distraction" . Klarkashton 11 hrs ago #4
"BESTEST ECONOMY EVER!!!" durablend 9 hrs ago #10
Leavitt is so full of shit vapor2 11 hrs ago #5
If there were a god, god would smote her. dem4decades 8 hrs ago #12
Leavitt will announce that Joe Biden made Trump a kiddy-diddler, and ... 11 Bravo 9 hrs ago #8
I could only watch her about 20 seconds Mossfern 9 hrs ago #11

choie

(6,386 posts)
1. Wherein Karoline Leavitt
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:21 PM
11 hrs ago

curses all of the House Dems as undergoing a witchhunt and accuses them of trying to take down the most moral, bestest, wonderfulest, honestest and benevolent president EVER!

durablend

(8,757 posts)
9. "JOE BIDEN DID IT"
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:03 PM
9 hrs ago

"EVERYONE HATES THE LEFT AND THIS IS GOING TO FAR EVEN FOR THEM!!!"

dem4decades

(13,390 posts)
2. Why don't the victims speak out? Or at least sue?
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:23 PM
11 hrs ago

I know it could be dangerous and painful but something someone must know if Trump's involved, the victim of there is one.

usonian

(22,371 posts)
6. There have been two books already. It's damn dangerous business.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:27 PM
11 hrs ago

The entire U.S. government ready to finish you off "accidentally"

Like Ivana, Jeffrey ...

More likely that financial investigations will unearth the crime syndicate.

That's how they got Al Capone, back when the government was against crime, and not the criminal goons.

Please check out
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3563954
and follow links.

AZJonnie

(2,243 posts)
7. Oh, they have sued
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 03:00 PM
10 hrs ago

A victims group sued JP Morgan Chase in 2022 and settled for $290,000,000 (without going to trial).

The Epstein Estate paid out about $125,000,000 to victims. It was "voluntary", but the fact is there were dozens of lawsuits pending. Money was paid to about 150 people (not sure if all of them were first-person victims i.e. some may have asked for money as like a family group), with awards ranging from low-6 digits to low-7 digits depending on the severity of the claim.

The government of the USVI also settled lawsuits for $75,000,000 against JP Morgan Chase, and $135,000,000 from the Epstein estate. Neither of these went to trial either, they were settlements.

Giuffre sued at least 3 people we know of: Maxwell, Andrew, and Dershowitz (that one she dropped in 2022 and admitted she may have misidentified him with no money changing hands), and I believe threatened some others with suits. She is believed to have received low-single-digit millions from Maxwell and Andrew. Both had discovery phases, but no actual trials. I don't think she's the only individual victim who sued other individuals over their involvement, either.

So, the victims have most definitely sued and they have won over $400M, and the USVI won $210M. IOW, they have won. Big. Without ever having to actually take anyone to trial. Presumably that means their cases were, shall we say, quite compelling

The only actual trial however was the federal criminal one against Maxwell in 2022. The guilty verdict that got Maxwell 20 years was that she trafficked 15 y.o. Carolyn Andriano to Jeffery Epstein.

11 Bravo

(24,244 posts)
8. Leavitt will announce that Joe Biden made Trump a kiddy-diddler, and ...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:02 PM
9 hrs ago

that the famous picture of Trump with a huge brown stain down the back of his golf trousers was a result of Joe Biden shitting in Trump's pants.

Mossfern

(4,519 posts)
11. I could only watch her about 20 seconds
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:18 PM
9 hrs ago

more power to anyone who could last longer.
I turned it off after the first mention of the " Democrat government shutdown."

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