Watch now   NEWS: Donald Trump Privately is Feeling "Cornered" Over Epstein Files as he Enters Lame-Duck Era Donald Trump is privately feeling "cornered" and is "freaking out" due to the fallout of the Epstein files, and I have received an exclusive letter from the survivors demanding action. Aaron Parnas Nov 16 Good evening, everyone. Tonight, the atmosphere inside the White House is one of genuine alarm. Donald Trump is growing increasingly panicked and cornered by the fallout from the Epstein files. While that chaos unfolds behind closed doors, I’ve received an exclusive letter from Epstein survivors addressed directly to Marjorie Taylor Greene—powerful, emotional, and impossible for her to ignore. And as I continue combing through the thousands of emails and documents, I’ve uncovered even more critical files that the public deserves to see. Meanwhile, the pushback online has intensified. Allies of the administration—some inside the White House—are furious at my reporting. They’ve told me to stop, accused me of lying, and tried to intimidate me into silence. Let me be perfectly clear: I will not stop. The truth is too important, and the stakes are too high. If you value this work—if you want reporting that refuses to bow to pressure—subscribe and support my continued investigation. I will keep exposing what the White House is working overtime to keep hidden. Here’s what you missed: Michael Wolff says Trump is “completely freaking out” and visibly cornered over the release of thousands of newly exposed Jeffrey Epstein emails, with the White House in chaos, unsure how to manage revelations including Epstein’s claims that Trump “knew about the girls” and that he could “take Trump down.” This comes as Trump has become a lame-duck President with Republicans on Capitol Hill increasingly likely to rebuke him, both privately and publicly. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s receiving safety warnings and threats after President Trump publicly attacked her, withdrew his endorsement, and suggested backing a primary challenger—escalating a rift fueled by her recent criticisms of his agenda and her push to release Epstein-related files. Several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein release new letter directed at Marjorie Taylor Greene, expressing their support for her as Donald Trump and those around him publicly attack her. On Christmas 2016, just weeks before Trump’s inauguration, Epstein wrote that he was “in Palm with all the Trump boys … fun.” A 2017 Epstein travel note shows him coordinating plans with Larry Summers and two unnamed individuals, simply remarking that “Trump is in town that week.” In February 2018, Epstein told Emirati businessman Sultan Bin Sulayem he had become friends with Steve Bannon and claimed reports that Trump disliked him were untrue. The Justice Department quietly replaced several Nov. 7 pardons after observers noticed they featured identical copies of Trump’s signature, prompting questions about autopen use; officials blamed a “technical error,” insisted Trump personally signed all pardons, and defended their validity amid renewed political clashes over presidential signatures and clemency practices. A detailed report from the Atlantic describes how Trump’s attempt to project strength backfired after two Oval Office moments went viral: he stood apart and appeared disengaged as officials rushed to help a person who fainted, and earlier was seen repeatedly nodding off for nearly 20 minutes during remarks—imagery that critics say reinforces growing concerns about his energy, attentiveness, and overall presidential command. A ProPublica investigation reveals that a heavily televised, militarized Chicago immigration raid—ordered by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem as the flagship of “Operation Midway Blitz,” complete with a Black Hawk helicopter, flash-bang grenades, and 300 armed agents—resulted in zero criminal charges, despite DHS touting it as a major bust of Venezuelan “terrorists”; instead, terrified families, children, and even U.S. citizens were zip-tied, injured, or dragged from their homes After high-level briefings and a major U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean, Trump signaled he has “sort of” made a decision on potential military action in Venezuela—reviewing options ranging from airstrikes to targeting drug routes as the USS Gerald R. Ford and 15,000 U.S. troops deploy—while Maduro warns intervention could ignite a Vietnam- or Gaza-like conflict and experts caution Trump risks a long, politically costly war. Border Patrol launched arrest operations across Charlotte, prompting widespread fear as agents detained people in multiple neighborhoods, while local leaders emphasized that city police are not participating; migrant advocates distributed legal-rights cards, business owners reported families being separated, and officials warned the federal crackdown mirrors previous controversial raids in other U.S. cities. Although food stamps resumed after the shutdown, millions are poised to lose SNAP permanently under the GOP’s new tax-and-spending law, which imposes stricter work requirements, shifts costs to states, and cuts eligibility for many legal immigrants—including refugees—creating the largest safety-net rollback in decades as food banks warn they cannot absorb the surge in need. Sen. John Fetterman returned home and said he’s fully recovered after a fall caused by a dangerous cardiac episode, receiving 20 stitches for facial injuries; doctors say his pacemaker-defibrillator detected the issue but couldn’t prevent the split-second fall. A New Yorker documentary reveals that Trump’s immediate shutdown and dismantling of USAID—ordered on Day 1 of his second term and enforced by Secretary Rubio and Elon Musk—has already caused an estimated 600,000 deaths, mostly children, by abruptly halting global health programs that once prevented HIV, TB, malaria, and childhood malnutrition deaths; with monitoring systems dismantled and supplies frozen, countries like Kenya are seeing soaring child mortality and collapsed health services, a stark example of what experts call “public man-made death,” whose full toll may not be known until UN data is released years from now. Trump issued new pardons for two additional January 6 defendants — militia member Dan Wilson, whose Kentucky firearms convictions were not covered by his January mass pardon, and Suzanne Kaye, who threatened to shoot FBI agents — framing both actions as correcting “weaponization” by Biden’s DOJ, even as courts had ruled Wilson’s original pardon did not apply to his gun charges. See you in the morning. — Aaron COMMENTS:  He demolished the East Wing; he's ordered the murder of a large number of folk in boats traveling in international waters; he's unleashed his gestapo on countless American CITIZENS; he's .... Fact is, he'll 'burn it all down' as the saying goes, unless he's stopped by those with the AUTHORITY to do it peacefully and legally. The only question is will they, before it's too late. We don't have long to wait. Yes this is when he will pull out the most ballsy moves, trying to escape. He's done it his whole career. I just really pray we get to watch his final take down and it's gloriously vindicating. Just cloaked in so many lawsuits and crimes and all the institutions he tried to corrupt come back with vengeance. Lord, hear my prayer. God, that would be the easiest way to get rid of the pedo protecter. He is ruining his country’s reputation, not to mention he killing us at home. Wtf do MAGATS not get?! I fear they are among the most uneducated people in this country. They don’t care about fact checking because they don’t want to hear the truth. Bunch of redneck idiots! MTG..came to this reckoning late and I don't trust her intentions, however I do believe she is in danger. As always, Trump resorts to the most vile of behaviors or actions to get his way. MTG, should've done more emotionally intelligent research on who she decided to do business with, because the devil in Trump is dangerous. She had no problem with him doing it to others, but she FA (faaqed around)and now she's FO (finding out). There's something karmic about Greene being threatened. Threats against those on the left never bothered her, but now she's in the crosshairs and is howling. What goes around comes around. Serves her right. If anything happens to MTG now, I think that will become a focal point for suspicion and rage against D J T. I'm not a fan of hers, nor do I think she's got the best interests of the entire country at heart, but I'll give this to her 💯 - she's standing ten toes down on an important issue for all women and children against the powerful. I'm glad she's taking her safety seriously. Here’s my letter to her: Dear Representative Greene, Before I speak to you as a citizen, I want you to understand the mind and the life behind these words. I’ve always been a systems thinker. When I was eleven, my standardized tests already showed post high school abilities in mathematics and complex reasoning. I didn’t know the word “neurodivergent” yet, but I understood the world through patterns, relationships, and consequences long before I understood language. Life only sharpened that lens. I survived cancer. I survived burns so severe they took my thumb. I survived multiple brain surgeries. I survived extremism in my own family. I survived the psychological effects of a house fire that nearly killed my mother. I don’t study radicalization from a distance. I lived it. I watched it tear through the people I loved. That’s why I’m writing to you now. Not as someone who hates you. Not as someone shouting from outside your world. But as someone who knows exactly what it feels like to be blindsided by the very movement you once trusted. I’ve felt what you’re feeling. After Charlie Kirk died, I was blindsided too. I had my second brain surgery in June at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix. Barely three months later, I watched members of my MAGA family publicly post things like, “It’s time to burn down the lib-tards.” I watched my cousin Ian respond, asking when the “meeting” was because he wanted to “participate.” Hours after that argument, he took his own life. It happened two days after Charlie Kirk’s death. He was only 40. He had children. And it shattered me in ways I’ll never fully recover from in this lifetime. That’s the thing about violent rhetoric: It never stays rhetorical. It always finds a body. Sometimes it finds the very people you love. So when you say you’re afraid, that you’re seeing the dark side of the man you helped elevate, I believe you. You’re tasting the same poison that killed the people in my life and nearly killed the woman who raised me. You’re just seeing it later than the rest of us. You’re realizing that the man-child you defended is the same man-child who devours anyone who stops being useful. You’re realizing that loyalty means nothing in a movement that rewards obedience and punishes independence. You’re realizing that you’re not exempt from the system you helped build. This is what authoritarianism does. It turns on its own. It always comes home. I watched my uncle’s mind break the same way. He was loving. Funny. Loyal. And then the propaganda machine got ahold of him. By the end, he poured gasoline all over my mother’s home and lit the match right in front of her. She survived because she’s the strongest person I know. She refused to testify against him because she still loved him, because she understood that propaganda attacked his mind before he ever attacked her. I want you to understand something important: This fear you’re feeling is not shameful. It’s human. But what you do with it matters. Look closely at the difference between people like Elon Musk and people like me. We’re both systemic thinkers. We both see patterns before others see smoke. But the difference is what we do with our glass shards. I fused mine into something that scatters more light, because broken glass refracts more beautifully than whole panes. People like him sharpen their shards into weapons. Empathy versus ego. Healing versus domination. Humanity versus spectacle. The fear you’re feeling can become your turning point or your downfall. It depends on whether you let the discomfort reshape you. So here’s what I hope for you: I hope you use this moment to finally see the system from the outside and the inside at the same time. I hope you choose honesty over loyalty. I hope you choose responsibility over performance. I hope you choose humanity over power. And I hope you choose empathy without mistaking it for weakness. Because once you understand what propaganda does up close, there’s no going back. I learned that through fire, through grief, and through the loss of a cousin I loved. You’re learning it now through fear and betrayal. And if you let this moment soften you instead of harden you, you could actually be part of the healing instead of part of the damage. Sincerely, XXXXXXXXXX A woman who has lived the consequences you’re only beginning to name. @Aaron Parnas: Once again borrowing your own words: "This is a fight I have refused to let fade into the background. For months, while much of the mainstream media turned away, I have kept the spotlight on this story because it matters. The truth about the Epstein files and the survivors whose voices were silenced for far too long deserves to be heard. Now we are breaking through, reaching millions, sharing the truth, and demanding accountability." The ACTUAL truth is, for months in the Comments your readers have been repeatedly imploring you to highlight this depraved cover-up conspiracy daily with a count of how long this has dragged on at the direction of the highest levels of this vile administration - 299 days and counting. 299 days the Epstein Files cover-up conspiracy has been orchestrated to protect the powerful and wealthy, to the detriment of victims of pedophilia, sex trafficking and the entire world that deserves to know the full truth about the so-called leaders of the United States and those adjacent to those leaders. It's not too late for you to stop patting yourself on the back shamelessly promoting yourself and live up to the promise of your words - Institute a daily count of how many days the truth has been held hostage by an administration that lies 24/7 to protect itself and those with power and money who are insistent that their criminal misdeeds never be made public. What could possibly be more important? We continue to wait. CRAIG UNGER wrote a series of books (some of which have been criticized) that included investigations into MAXWELL (Ghislaine's father) who owned a publishing empire & his connections to INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITIES. MAXWELL made a comment perceived as a threat & met with an untimely questionable death. CRAIG UNGER's books are out of print, but if you still have a library, they should have copies available. At the time I read those books, little information was available - not as much as we have now, but it makes one wonder if EPSTEIN & GHISLAINE built on MAXWELL's foundation. (That's apparently where Ghislaine'S $$$ originated.) I recommend reading CRAIG UNGER's books. We still have too many unanswered questions. This is information that originated from DROP SITE NEWS that you might consider subscribing to & supporting. There is information coming from the Middle East that's not being reported elsewhere - along with LEV PARNAS. COMMON DREAMS offered the article below about EPSTEIN's connections to MOSSAD & EHUD BARAK that's worth consideration & being ignored (there's a video on the link worth watching): Series of Reports Ignored by Media Show Jeffrey Epstein's Extensive Work With Israeli Intelligence "It looked like Mossad was working for Epstein instead of Epstein working for Mossad,” said Drop Site News reporter Murtaza Hussain. By Stephen Prager • Nov 12, 2025 As the US House of Representatives appears poised to vote for a resolution demanding the release of files relating to the late sex criminal and financier Jeffrey Epstein, a new series of investigations is digging into an area of the disgraced financier’s life that has largely evaded scrutiny: his extensive ties with Israeli intelligence. Epstein’s relationship with the Israeli government has long been the subject of speculation and conspiracy theorizing. But the extent of the connections has long been difficult to prove. That is, until October 2024, when the Palestinian group Handala released a tranche of more than 100,000 hacked emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who led the country from 1999 to 2001. The emails span the years 2013-16, beginning just before Barak concluded his nearly six-year tenure as Israel’s minister of defense. Barak is known to have been one of Epstein’s closest associates, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that he visited the financier’s estates in Florida and New York more than 30 times between 2013 and 2017, years after Epstein had been convicted for soliciting a minor for prostitution. Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent victims, who died earlier this year, alleged in her posthumous memoir that a figure, described only as “the Prime Minister,” but widely believed to be Barak, violently raped her on Epstein’s private Caribbean island when she was 18. In past court filings, Giuffre accused Barak of sexually assaulting her. Barak has categorically denied those allegations and said he was unaware of Epstein’s activities with minors during the time of their friendship. Emails between Barak and Epstein have served as the basis for the ongoing investigative series published since late September by the independent outlet Drop Site News, which used them to unearth Epstein’s extensive role in brokering intelligence deals between Israel and other nations. The emails reveal that between 2013 and 2016, the pair had “intimate, oftentimes daily correspondence,” during which they discussed “political and business strategy as Epstein coordinated meetings for Barak with other members of his elite circles.” The investigation comes as President Donald Trump’s extensive ties to Epstein face renewed scrutiny in Congress. On Wednesday, just a day after Drop Site published the fourth part of its series, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a new trove of documents from Epstein’s private estate. Among them were emails sent in 2011 from Epstein to his partner and co-conspirator Ghislane Maxwell, in which he said the then private-citizen Trump “spent hours at my house” with one of his sex trafficking victims, referring to Trump as a “dog that hasn’t barked.” Murtaza Hussain, one of the Drop Site reporters who has dug into Epstein’s Israel connections, told Democracy Now! on Wednesday that the focus on Trump, while important, has diverted attention from other key tendrils of Epstein’s influence. “There’s been a lot of justifiable focus on Epstein’s very grave crimes and facilitation of the crimes of others related to sex trafficking and sex abuse,” Hussain said. “But one critical aspect of the story that has not been covered is Epstein’s own relations to foreign governments, the US government, and particularly foreign intelligence agencies.” The first report shows that Epstein was instrumental in helping Barak develop a formal security agreement between Israel and Mongolia, recruiting powerful friends like Larry Summers, who served as an economist to former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, to serve on a Presidential Advisory Board for the Central Asian nation’s economy. Epstein helped to facilitate an agreement for Mongolia to purchase Israeli military equipment and surveillance technology from companies with which the men had financial ties. Another report shows how Epstein helped Israel to establish a covert backchannel with the Russian government at the height of the Syrian Civil War, during which they attempted to persuade the Kremlin to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a major national security priority for Israel, which had become substantially involved in the conflict. This process was coordinated with Israeli intelligence and resulted in Barak securing a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In one message, Barak explicitly thanked Epstein for “setting the whole thing together.” Epstein also worked alongside Barak to sell Israeli surveillance tech, which had previously been used extensively in occupied Palestine, to the West African nation of Côte d’Ivoire. In 2014, the pair architected a deal by which the nation’s government, led by President Alassane Ouattara, purchased technology used to listen in on phone calls and radio transmissions and monitor points of interest like cybercafes. In the decade since, the report says, “Ouattara has tightened his grip on power, banning public demonstrations and arresting peaceful protestors,” while “his Israeli-backed police state has squashed civic organizations and silenced critics.” On Tuesday, just before the House Oversight Committee dropped its latest batch of documents, the series’ latest report revealed that an Israeli spy, Yoni Koren, stayed at Epstein’s New York apartment for weeks at a time on three separate occasions between 2013 and 2015. Koren served as an intermediary between the American and Israeli governments, helping Barak organize meetings with top intelligence officials, including former CIA Director Leon Panetta. Drop Site’s reporting has fueled speculation of the longstanding theory that Epstein may have worked as an agent of Mossad, Israel’s central intelligence agency. Hussain said that the evidence points to the idea that Epstein was not a formal Mossad agent, but was working as an asset to advance its most hawkish foreign policy goals. He marveled at the fact that throughout each of these stories, “it’s not Epstein chasing Barak—it’s Barak chasing Epstein,” and that at times, “it looked like Mossad was working for Epstein instead of Epstein working for Mossad.” In a foreword to their latest report, Hussain and co-author Ryan Grim expressed bewilderment at the lack of media attention paid to the publicly available files revealing Epstein’s role as a semi-official node in Israel’s intelligence apparatus. While Epstein’s relationship with Trump has routinely been front-page news for many outlets, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal have not published a story focused on Epstein’s role in Israeli intelligence. “We’re left wondering why the rest of the media, which has demonstrated no lack of excitement when it comes to the saga of Jeffrey Epstein, has all of a sudden lost its reporting capacity, in the face of reams of publicly available newsworthy documents,” the reporters asked. “A question for editors reading this newsletter: What are you doing?” In the interview, Hussain said he and Grim “are going to continue drilling down on this and not shying away from the political implications of his activities.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/epstein-israeli-intelligence-investigation?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=87c887ad78-Week+in+Review%3A+Sat.+11%2F15%2F25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-ac94523b20-600713157