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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatch 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?
choie
(6,386 posts)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)"EVERYONE HATES THE LEFT AND THIS IS GOING TO FAR EVEN FOR THEM!!!"
dem4decades
(13,390 posts)I know it could be dangerous and painful but something someone must know if Trump's involved, the victim of there is one.
Jilly_in_VA
(13,485 posts)Probably in a Congressional hearing, which will be very interesting indeed!
usonian
(22,371 posts)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.
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AZJonnie
(2,243 posts)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.
Klarkashton
(4,563 posts)Not denying it.
durablend
(8,757 posts)"THE LEFT HAS TDS!!!!!"
vapor2
(3,414 posts)dem4decades
(13,390 posts)11 Bravo
(24,244 posts)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)more power to anyone who could last longer.
I turned it off after the first mention of the " Democrat government shutdown."