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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Michael Jackson and Bill Clinton get cozy with Epstein as hot tub and swimming pool photos emerge in newly released files
Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Bill Clinton was seen frolicking in a swimming pool with Ghislaine Maxwell and partying with Michael Jackson in bombshell images from the latest Epstein files release on Friday.

The former president appeared numerous times in the tranche of documents on Friday, being seen taking a dip with convicted sex trafficker Maxwell and a woman whose face was redacted.

In another image, Clinton was pictured relaxing in a hot tub.

Michael Jackson was seen in one image smiling alongside Epstein, and another showed Clinton with actor Kevin Spacey.

In undated images from a dinner party attended by Epstein, rock legend Sir Mick Jagger was seen enjoying a meal with the pedophile, Maxwell and Clinton.

Inside Epstein's home, an infamous painting of Clinton wearing a blue dress was hung on the wall.

Clinton has since issued a blistering response, denying having any knowledge of Epstein's crimes and accusing the White House of attempting to 'shield themselves from what comes next, or from what they'll try and hide forever.'

The huge trove of documents shared on Friday did not include dates or context from where they were taken. Being named or pictured in the files is not necessarily an indication of wrongdoing with Epstein.

Related: See every shocking photo from Epstein files

Posted by: Skidmark || 12/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1835 views] Top|| File under:


#2  I am oh so certain that the redacted swimming woman's face was Hillary. Certain!






NOT.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 12/20/2025 4:55 Comments || Top||

#3  It’s great to see Michael Jackson back in the news. That always brings out the best in people.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/20/2025 6:59 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ As if we needed further verification of the Clinton's and Epstein debauchery.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/20/2025 8:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Like we need the Epstein files to implicate Slick Willy?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 12/20/2025 10:49 Comments || Top||

#6  I am oh so certain that the redacted swimming woman's face was Hillary.

Posted by: Skidmark || 12/20/2025 10:50 Comments || Top||

#7  I really don't want to see those picture.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/20/2025 12:42 Comments || Top||

#8  I'll take the Daily Mail's word for it. I might gag if I see them myself.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/20/2025 12:43 Comments || Top||

#9  I'm pretty sure nothing is going to be done, so Meh!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 12/20/2025 17:34 Comments || Top||

#10  I am oh so certain that the redacted swimming woman's face was Hillary

Certainly not:

Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/20/2025 19:45 Comments || Top||

#11  about a hundred victims whose image and whose where/when information should not be shown

a hundred to a thousand witnesses, maybe even more, whose image and where/when information should not be shown

Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/20/2025 21:21 Comments || Top||

#12  We’ve seen a handful of perpetrators. Seems like an elaborate honey trap to catch Michael Jackson. Not really cost effective.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/20/2025 22:54 Comments || Top||


Clinton FBI Investigations Curiously Seemed Unfounded Apparently
[JustTheNews] FBI memos detail a half dozen pay-to-play allegations involving Hillary Clinton and her foundation.

Internal investigative files show FBI agents and federal prosecutors attempted to investigate a wide range of activities involving the State Department under then-Secretary of State Clinton a decade ago, including whether foreign donations made to the Clinton Foundation were used as improper influence on U.S. foreign policy.

The FBI and DOJ inquiries were repeatedly shut down by FBI and DOJ leadership.

Just the News reported earlier this week about Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s release of a timeline written by federal investigators laying out the repeated political obstruction those agents faced from their own bureau bosses and the Justice Department during the 2016 election and beyond as they probed whether Hillary Clinton engaged in a pay-to-play corruption scheme involving her family foundation.

The documents turned over by FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi show that career agents and line prosecutors at the FBI and DOJ believed the Clinton Foundation saga may have been a criminal one, but orders from leaders such as then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe slow-walked and stonewalled the inquiry to the point where it was hobbled.

An internal investigative timeline stated that the FBI’s New York Field Office “initiated a Preliminary Investigation” on January 22, the Little Rock Field Office “initiated a Full Field Investigation” on January 27, and the Washington Field Office “initiated a Preliminary Investigation" on January 29, 2016.

Another internal timeline of the investigation said that the FBI’s Little Rock Field Office “submits case opening requesting full field investigation regarding Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, Uranium One, Uranium One Americas, Frank Giustra, Ian Telfer.”

No cases were brought against Clinton. Below are some of the episodes in which investigations were stymied.
Long. The section headings are:
  • The Uranium One sagaAbu Dhabi, an airport, and the Clinton Foundation

  • The 2018 "to-do" list

  • The Clinton/Chatwal relationship

  • Clinton - Giustra Enterprise Partnership

  • Nigerian billionaire later fined by DOJ was closely tied to Clinton Foundation (Gilbert Chagoury)

  • Pattern of investigations slow-walked or stalled: "No subpoenas"

  • Other possible foreign influence schemes also drew FBI attention

  • Benefit to Boeing eyed along with Saudi donations

  • The Haitian gold mine

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1782 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  I remember the DOJ setting up an investigation of the Clinton Foundation out of Utah under a guy named Huber that staffed up and basically ran a four corners offense for several years. Giant waste of money. It was, basically, a psyop.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/20/2025 6:53 Comments || Top||

#2  The temple spends a lot of money.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/20/2025 10:53 Comments || Top||

#3  FBI and DoJ were part of the Obama administration at that time. One must then wonder how much of the grift ended up in Obama's pocket?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/20/2025 12:46 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
MN: ‘I am not intimidated by him whatsoever': Sheriff pushes back after MN AG issues opinion on working with ICE
[AlphaNews] In a legal opinion issued late last week, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said local sheriffs do not have the authority to enter into 287(g) agreements with ICE on their own.

A local sheriff is pushing back after Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison published a formal legal opinion which says Minnesota sheriffs do not have unilateral authority to enter into 287(g) agreements with the federal government.

Under federal law, state and local law enforcement agencies are allowed to partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the purposes of immigration enforcement. These partnerships occur under something called a 287(g) agreement.

Among other things, the agreements can give local law enforcement the authority to assist with identifying aliens, sharing information with ICE, and executing administrative warrants on aliens in the custody of the local law enforcement agency.

Touting the program on its website, ICE says the 287(g) program “benefits state and local law enforcement agencies in several ways — but most notably, it helps you keep your community safe from potentially dangerous criminal aliens.”

However, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has declared that local sheriffs are limited when it comes to those agreements.

In a formal legal opinion issued late last week, Ellison said local sheriffs do not have the authority to enter into 287(g) agreements with ICE on their own. Instead, the DFLer said, such agreements must be approved by the county’s board of commissioners.

Ellison’s opinion also said state law bans local law enforcement from detaining or holding someone based solely on a civil immigration detainer issued by ICE. The attorney general said that ban exists regardless of whether a valid 287(g) agreement is in place.

This opinion updates a previous opinion Ellison issued in February which also said local law enforcement cannot hold someone based solely on an immigration detainer.

SHERIFF KYLE BURTON: ELLISON’S OPINION ‘DOES NOT CARRY INFLUENCE WITH ME’
In Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, Sheriff Kyle Burton maintains a 287(g) agreement with the federal government. However, this agreement was not approved by the county board and was entered into via a memorandum of agreement (MOA) between ICE and Burton.

Regarding Ellison’s opinion, Burton told Alpha News he disagrees with the DFL attorney general’s interpretation of the law and said “sheriffs have independent law enforcement authority separate from any action or authority possessed by the County Board.”

Burton said Ellison “points out in his letter that no specific statute authorizes sheriffs to enter into contracts with agencies of the federal government or to perform services on behalf of the federal government. Mr. Ellison is correct on this, but he must also accept the fact by taking this position it is also true that no statutes prohibit it either.”

Despite this, Burton mentioned that he spoke with his county commissioners about the possibility of a resolution of support for the 287(g) agreement. The Mille Lacs County sheriff said his commissioners “generally seemed supportive” of the idea.

“These 287(g) [agreements] are 100% voluntary, in other words, we don’t owe ICE anything and they don’t owe us,” said Burton. He continued, saying the agreement gives his office limited authority “to enforce certain immigration laws under certain circumstances under the supervision of ICE, if we choose to use it.”

SHERIFF BURTON: MY OFFICE IS PRIORITIZING THE WORST FIRST
Further, Burton said his office was already aware of the prohibition against law enforcement agencies holding people based solely on civil immigration detainers. Discussing how he is keeping his county safe, Burton said “my office is prioritizing the worst first.”

“If there are people in my county who are here illegally and committing crimes, I do not want them here and will absolutely partner with ICE to assist in removing them,” he said. “Since signing the MOA with ICE, we have had [two] incidents involving illegal aliens.”

Burton said the first incident involved an illegal alien who did not have a driver’s license, was driving a loaded trailer at more than 100 mph, and was booked on two misdemeanors.

“Through our partnership with ICE, we learned that individual had a final order of deportation signed by a federal judge and was supposed to have been deported in June of 2025,” said Burton. “ICE ERO came and promptly took custody of him before he was seen in local court on his State of Minnesota charges.”

Burton noted that two other illegal aliens were in the same vehicle, but those two aliens were released because they did not have warrants or final deportation orders. The sheriff said this position is consistent with the federal government’s position.

The second incident Burton mentioned was an assault that involved two people who each were removed twice to Mexico in the past.

“When you re-enter the United States after being deported, that is no longer a civil issue, it is a federal crime punishable by prison time,” said Burton. “Those individuals are at large at this point in time and ICE is working with the US Attorney’s Office to have federal warrants issued for their arrest.”

“If we determine those folks are still in Mille Lacs County, we will absolutely assist ICE in locating and arresting them on their warrants, again consistent with my stance on this issue and consistent with the law,” added the sheriff.

“Bottom line, when it comes to Keith Ellison’s opinion, it does not carry influence with me,” said Burton. “I am not intimidated by him whatsoever. He is nothing more than another partisan politician who cares more about pandering to politics than he does law and order and public safety.”

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1777 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I’m getting a spidey sense that the Minn AG may be corrupt.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/20/2025 6:55 Comments || Top||

#2  That literally is an illegal order. Cue Mark Kelly.
Posted by: Matt || 12/20/2025 8:09 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 12/20/2025 9:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Great. Arrest the AG for interfering with a federal investigation, federal enforcement, RICO with the special interest groups getting tax money and sedition. If found guilty, hang him in front of the courthouse.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/20/2025 10:58 Comments || Top||



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