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  Which Side Is DOJ on: The Epstein Files Joyce Vance Dec 24 With apologies for writing about such a serious topic as we enter the Christmas holidays, these developments seemed too important to ignore. Many thanks to all of you for being part of the Civil Discourse community. I cherish our ability to fight for democracy together. Early today—on Christmas Eve Day—there was   reporting  that the White House has taken over DOJ's X account in order to handle the increasing controversy about Donald Trump’s inclusion in the Epstein files. Axios reports that “The account is also taking on a sharper tone that has more of a rapid-response campaign edge and less of the stodgy just-the-facts tone associated with the department.” No other person whose name surfaces in a criminal case gets this sort of boost on the official Justice Department account, and it’s an outrage (and another marker of authoritarianism) that this president does. The Justice Department doesn’t represent the ...

  Watch now   Maxwell's prosecutors flagged Trump-Epstein flights, emails show Former federal sex trafficking prosecutor Mitchell Epner said that the message demolishes Trump's "fallback lie." Adam Klasfeld and Mitchell Epner Dec 24   Months before the indictment of  Ghislaine Maxwell , federal prosecutors flagged emails showing that   Donald Trump   shared a private jet with  Jeffrey Epstein  “many more times than previously have been reported,” recently released emails show. “In particular, [Trump] is listed as a passenger in at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including at least four flights on which Maxwell was also present,” the unidentified prosecutor wrote in a redacted email dated Jan. 7, 2020. The email dated Jan. 7, 2020 Maxwell would be charged with sex trafficking months later in July, and prosecutors exchanged the emails in advance of the indictment to avoid a “surprise down the road.” Trump shared flights with a t...