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‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company ~~~ $500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips WSJ

The Sordid Story of Trump, the Trump–Witkoff Family Business, and the UAE - Andrew McCarthy

The original reporting on this by the Miami Herald was posted yesterday here. It does always crack me up how long it takes news to matriculate to the RW blogosphere though.

But then in 2019, Trump said he had no idea what was going on, right? And this man who said Maxwell was Epstein’s operative (his word) and was “pure evil”, who said he ran out when he saw Epstein with teens, said in 2019 he had no idea if Maxwell had done anything wrong at all and wished her well. Why?

So about that, how did Trump know enough to inform the Sheriff that Maxwell was Epstein’s “operative”?

Go look at the document “Clandestine” is referring to, it says, “DONALD TRUMP told [redacted] that he threw EPSTEIN out of his club.” First of all it doesn’t say when this conversation happened with this supposed person Trump spoke with. Second, in typical Trump fashion he didn’t tell the Sheriff he threw Epstein out he says he told someone else he threw Epstein out. Third, there is zero basis for protecting the person Trump claims he told. Fourth, Maralago spa was sending girls out to Epstein’s home & Trump also specifically told the Sheriff he knew what Epstein had been doing.

A global sex trafficker & a Saudi leader emailed about sharing a snuff film.

Well for one thing Trump didn’t ban Epstein from anything but he certainly didn’t ban him from Maralago in 2005. He told Maxwell to stay out the spa, only, much later.

Rep. Massie has revealed the correspondent in the “Torture” email is Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem.

I feel like these people are facing such high stakes, between corruption, intelligence breaches, & the illegal detentions, that they know or really fear for either their future freedom or financial security or both, & they will do anything to stay in power. I really wish they would sever from the Republican / GOP naming, it’s really apostasy to Lincoln & Co. at this point.

>>> About the Letters Reporter Mica Rosenberg asked detainees whether their children would be willing to write letters or draw pictures about their experiences. One detainee gathered the letters and brought them out of the center when they were released from Dilley on Jan. 20. The detainee said the parents whose children participated were aware that the letters would be shared with a journalist with the intention of making them public. Afterward we reached out to the detainee who shared the letters and obtained, when possible, additional details like the locations where the families were living before they were detained. The length of time the children say they have been detained is as of mid-January, when they wrote the letters. Some of the letter writers have since been released; the status of others is unclear.<<<

>> “Hello, my name is Ariana V.V. im 14 years old and im from Honduras, ive been detained for 45 days and I have never felt so much fear to go to a place as I feel here everytime I remind myself that once I go back to Honduras a lot of dangerous things could happen to my mom and my younger siblings haven’t been able to see their mom in more than a month. They are very young and you need both of your parents when you are growing up. Since I got to this Center all you will feel is sadness and mostly depression. When people have their courts the longest they will last is 15 minutes, our rights are not being provided, arrest are happening when people don’t even have any type of order, arrests are happening illegally. Its sad to hear that peoples case are being denied and are getting send back to their country places where they are escaping from and are looking for protection and want to feel safe. Not a lot of people know what is happening in the Centers where immigrants are placed at. I haven’t been getting any school time. Every single person in here had their jobs they had their lifes, they aren’t any danger for this Country. Ive been in this country for almost 7 years and in those 7 years my mom and I found a home and made a bigger family. I have never been separated from my siblings and its honestly sad because they are little and they need their mom and sister, yeah they are with their dad but its still different for them and my mom and I. Since the day my mom and I get detained in Manhattan NY, my life was instanly paused, from my knowledge you can’t be under custody for more than 15 or 20 days, well here in Dilley Immigration Processing Center people have been in this place for 7 months, 5 months, 4-2 months, its not fair that the ICE officers are not following the laws. All kids are being damage mentally, they witness how the’ve been treated. They don’t have schools, doctor, all they have are nurses, if you need medical attention the longest you have to wait is 3 hours, but to get any medicine, pill, anything it takes a while, there are various viruses people are always sick. Serious situations happen and the officers can’t take them serious enough there are no consecuenses, they don’t care.”<<

I guess for Patel & Bondi that doesn’t count as “salacious.”

FYI. Also, note the date.

WSJ: Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk ~~~ Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment >>>An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, her lawyers said, a little less than a year after masked federal agents in plainclothes arrested her on a street near Tufts University where she was studying. The Department of Homeland Security couldn’t prove that Ozturk needed to be removed from the U.S., and an immigration court terminated those proceedings against her on Jan. 29, her lawyers said in a letter to a federal appeals court Monday. The government had claimed Ozturk, who was completing a doctorate on a student visa, engaged in activities in support of the militant group Hamas. “Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated,” the department said. Ozturk’s lawyers said she was detained in retaliation for a pro-Palestinian opinion piece she co-wrote for a student newspaper. Her arrest on a Massachusetts street in March 2025 drew national attention to the federal government’s escalating tactics against immigrants. The government held Ozturk, a children’s development researcher, for weeks. Federal authorities detained and attempted to deport Ozturk and a handful of other foreign-born students with links to pro-Palestinian activism. The Trump administration said it was cracking down on what it called antisemitism and extremist ideology on college campuses. For the most part, judges have sided with the students, who remain in the country and haven’t been charged with any crimes. “Today, I breathe a sigh of relief knowing that despite the justice system’s flaws, my case may give hope to those who have also been wronged by the U.S. government,” Ozturk said Monday. The government sent Ozturk last year from Massachusetts to New Hampshire, Vermont and then Louisiana, where she stayed in a detention center for weeks before a Vermont judge ordered her release. Homeland Security said Ozturk violated the Immigration and Nationality Act, which says the secretary of state can deem someone removable from the country if their presence or activities would have adverse foreign-policy consequences. The government didn’t specify how Ozturk or the other students’ presence jeopardized foreign policy. … <<<