February 18, 2026

Bill Clinton Watch

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LONDON — British police forces are working together to assess potential crimes revealed in documents from the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including allegations of wrongdoing by the former Prince Andrew.

The National Police Chiefs’ Council, which brings together police leaders from across the U.K., said on Wednesday that it had set up a national coordination group to support forces looking into issues arising from the more than 3 million pages of documents released late last month.

“It may take some time due to the volume of material and the complexity of international jurisdictions, but policing and its law enforcement partners are taking this matter extremely seriously, and will assess all information thoroughly,” the council said in a statement.

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PARIS — Paris prosecutors opened on Wednesday two new investigations into potential sex abuse crimes and financial wrongdoings linked to Jeffrey Epstein following the release of millions of files of the millionaire financier and convicted sex offender, and called on possible victims to come forward.

Paris prosecutor Laurence Beccuau said the investigations are seeking to use the files released by the U.S. administration, media reports and new complaints that are being filed.

“All that data … some will shed light on others to be able to get a well-informed, very broad, panoramic view,” Beccuau said on France Info news broadcaster.

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Juliette Bryant says she first met Jeffrey Epstein when she was a 20-year-old psychology and philosophy student in Cape Town, South Africa, who modeled part time.

Her first interaction with the late American sex offender came by chance, when she was approached on a night out by a girl who offered to introduce her to a man who she said was described to her as American royalty.

“She said she knew a man who was here who was the ‘King Of America,’ and he was here with Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker. She told me that his best friend Leslie Wexner owns Victoria’s Secret and it would be a very good idea for me to meet them because it could possibly help with my modeling career,” Bryant told CBS News on Sunday. “So we went along to the restaurant where they were having dinner down the road. And sure enough, there they were. Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, Jeffrey Epstein, and a few government officials from South Africa.”

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is calling on Casey Wasserman to resign from his leadership role with the LA28 Organizing Committee following backlash over past emails tied to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Bass said this week that while she does not have the authority to remove Wasserman from his post, she believes he should step aside for the good of the city and the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

“Ultimately, any decision on the LA28 leadership must be made by the LA28 Board,” Bass said to CNN. “As you know, they are a separate and independent nonprofit organization.”

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WikiLeaks published tens of thousands of leaked emails from the personal account of John Podesta, former President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, in late 2016.

The decentralized army of sleuths that subsequently combed over the leaked emails found not only damning insights into Hillary Clinton and her doomed presidential campaign but odd messages about pizza, hot dogs, ice cream, and other foods.

‘842 occurrences of the word pizza, which seems like a lot.’

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Officials have launched a sweeping new investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s remote New Mexico compound after new allegations emerged in files released by the Department of Justice that suggested murdered victims may have been buried on land surrounding the property.

The probe into Epstein’s Zorro Ranch could expose some of the darkest allegations yet tied to the disgraced financier’s criminal network.

For years, public attention focused on Epstein’s “Pedophile Island” in the Caribbean and his seven-story “House of Horrors” townhouse in New York.

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New evidence has emerged to reveal that convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein operated as a power broker for the World Economic Forum (WEF) to connect globalist elites and set up meetings.

Epstein publicly claimed to “hate” the WEF, but privately, he leveraged it, according to unsealed emails.

Newly released emails from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), along with a cache of Yahoo account messages obtained by Bloomberg, reveal that Epstein described himself as a “Davos concierge.”

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JB Prikzker, a prominent Democrat governor viewed as a potential 2028 presidential contender, is facing renewed political attention after his cousin abruptly stepped down from a major corporate leadership role, citing regret over past ties to convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein.

On Monday, Thomas J. Pritzker, 75, announced he would retire immediately as executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation.

He also confirmed that he would not seek reelection to the company’s board at its 2026 annual meeting.

In a company statement, Pritzker acknowledged that his past contact with Epstein and the pedophile’s child sex trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell reflected a serious lapse in judgment.

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A doctor who was present during Jeffrey Epstein’s post-mortem has blown the whistle and declared that the child predator did not die of “suicide” because he was “strangled.”

Dr. Michael Baden, the former New York City chief medical examiner who observed the autopsy on behalf of Epstein’s family, is renewing calls for a full investigation into the convicted sex offender’s death.

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Congressional lawmakers were given access to see the unredacted names in the Epstein files, and some have looked at the documents.

Shortly after that, Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (KY-4) said they found the names of six men whose names had been redacted, whom Massie said were “likely incriminated by their inclusion in these files.”

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Trump henchmen and MAGA orchestrator Steve Bannon has been exposed as not only being in the Epstein files, but as a close friend and ally who tried to rehabilitate the dead pedophile sex trafficker’s image while plotting to oust Pope Francis, who was too progressive in his Christian nationalist views.

All this happened in 2019, before Epstein was arrested in July of that year. In fact, Bannon was texting with Epstein the day he was arrested.

CNN reports that Bannon wanted to take down the Pope so he could promote his horrific religious views: “Will take down (Pope) Francis,” Bannon wrote to Epstein in June 2019. “The Clintons, Xi, Francis, EU – come on, brother.”

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After indirect fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files sparked a dramatic day of crisis that threatened to topple him, the U.K. prime minister was saved by a pugnacious fightback and hesitation among his rivals inside the governing Labour Party about the consequences of a leadership coup.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said Tuesday that Labour lawmakers had “looked over the precipice … and they didn’t like what they saw.”

“And they thought the right thing was to unite behind Keir,” Miliband told the BBC.

He might have added: For now.

Pam Bondi’s showdown with U.S. congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) highlights the growing GOP divide between those who think there’s something serious to the Epstein Files and those who don’t. President Trump’s disconnect from this issue appears to be leading his strongest supporters to want to follow the lead.

Thomas Massie isn’t the only congressmember pressing for a full disclose of the people involved in the “alleged” child sex trafficking and blackmailing for real political power ring, including Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Nancy Mace (R-SC), both of whom claim to have seen some of the unredacted names, names that are still powerful and well-known today.

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US lawmakers name powerful men ‘likely incriminated’ in Epstein files — RT World News

The Justice Department has been accused of improperly redacting the identities of the sex offender’s potential associates

A Democratic lawmaker publicly identified six men whose names were redacted from government documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, adding pressure on the Justice Department over transparency in the release of the files.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) read the names aloud on the House floor Tuesday after he and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) reviewed unredacted versions of the files at a Justice Department office earlier this week.

The six men named by Khanna are billionaire retail magnate Leslie “Les” Wexner; Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, the CEO of DP World; and four others identified as Nicola Caputo, Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze and Leonic Leonov.

None of the men have been charged with crimes in connection with Epstein, and Khanna acknowledged that inclusion in the files does not itself establish guilt, despite insisting that the context of the records “likely incriminated” them.


 

The decision to reveal the names on the House floor gives Khanna constitutional protection under the Speech and Debate Clause, which shields lawmakers from potential defamation lawsuits.

Khanna and Massie are co-sponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated the public release of the documents with only narrow redactions to protect victims. Khanna accused the Justice Department and the FBI of improperly redacting the identities of potential associates while, in some cases, failing to adequately protect the identities of Epstein’s victims.

“Why did it take Thomas Massie and me going to the Justice Department to get these six men’s identities to become public?” Khanna said during his floor speech. “If we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those three million files.”


 

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche pushed back against the lawmakers’ claims, accusing them of “grandstanding.” Blanche said some redactions were required to protect personally identifiable information, including email addresses, and insisted the Justice Department was “hiding nothing.” Following the criticism, the department unredacted several additional pages.

Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting a minor for prostitution and died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. His longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, was later convicted of aiding his abuse of underage girls. The Justice Department has not announced any new criminal investigations related to the newly unredacted names.

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from www.rt.com

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Prince William, who is currently on a diplomatic trip to Saudi Arabia, was asked by a reporter during a visit to a sports complex in Riyadh, “Sir, to what extent do you think the royal family has done enough around the Andrew and Epstein issue?” He did not respond.

On Monday, William and Kate Middleton released a statement hours before the prince landed in Saudi Arabia, saying they were “deeply concerned by the continuing revelations” and that “their thoughts remain focused on the victims.” It was the first comment from the royal couple regarding Mountbatten-Windsor’s involvement with the disgraced late financier.

Meanwhile, sources close to King Charles say that while Charles feels vindicated for stripping his brother of his titles, there is concern that more is yet to come.

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Thomas Massie, a US congressman, has said he knows the identity of six more men who are “likely incriminated” by their inclusion in the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files after he viewed an unredacted version of the documents relating to the disgraced late financier and sexual abuser.

The Kentucky Republican suggested he might reveal their names under congressional privilege if the justice department (DoJ) continued to conceal their identities in publicly available copies of the documents that are still redacted.

The six men, Massie told reporters after viewing the papers at DoJ headquarters in Washington on Monday, include at least one US citizen, an individual he said was “high up in a foreign government”, a foreigner, and “three or four others” whose nationalities were not readily apparent.

“What I saw that bothered me were the names of at least six men that have been redacted that are likely incriminated by their inclusion in these files,” said Massie, lead sponsor of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that forced Donald Trump’s administration to publish its vast trove of documents into the connections and activities of the president’s former friend.

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U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sought to distance himself on Tuesday from Jeffrey Epstein, alleging he “barely had anything to do with” the convicted sex offender amid calls for his resignation over new revelations about ties between them.

The U.S. Justice Department in January published millions of new files related to Epstein, including emails that show Lutnick apparently visited Epstein’s private island for lunch years after he claimed to have cut off ties. Lutnick is facing calls from both Democrats and some Republicans to resign.

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On the House floor today, congressman Ro Khanna named the six high profile men that are included in the unredacted version of the documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein.

Khanna named, US businessman Leslie Wexner of Victoria’s Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch and Bath & Body Works fame; Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem; and Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, and Nicola Caputo.

“If we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those three million files,” Khanna said. “Why are they protecting these rich and powerful men? People I call part of the ‘Epstein class’. Why are we in a country where there is no elite accountability for people who do the most heinous things?”

A reminder that this week, the California Democrat went to the Department of Justice with Thomas Massie, a Republican congressman who co-led the Epstein Files Transparency Act effort, to view the unredacted files. The justice department made their most recent release of documents available for members of Congress to view in-person. On Monday, Khanna and Massie the pair had to do “some digging” before finding the new names, they told reporters.

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Jail staff guarding Jeffrey Epstein allegedly deployed a decoy body to fool reporters gathered outside the prison following his death, newly unsealed files claim. An internal memo states a supervisor at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center told FBI agents that workers staged the deception amid a huge media presence after Epstein’s apparent suicide in 2019.

The documents allege officers arranged boxes and sheets to resemble a corpse before loading the dummy into a white van marked as belonging to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, prompting journalists to follow it while the real body was removed separately. The files claim Epstein’s body was instead placed into a black vehicle that left the facility “unnoticed”, allowing officers to move it in private after staff warned of the large crowd outside. Records also show investigators recovered a handwritten note from inside Epstein’s cell that the medical examiner did not classify as a suicide note. Described as “difficult to read”, it appeared to list grievances about jail conditions, including complaints about food, showers and insects.

Newly released records – part of a cache of three million documents – describe the response inside the prison as media gathered outside after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead.

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French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has demanded an investigation into diplomat Fabrice Aidan following the revelation that the foreign affairs secretary shared a long email correspondence with late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. French media reported that Aidan had resigned from his position at the United Nations in 2013 after having been caught visiting child sex abuse material websites.
from www.france24.com

Epstein court documents reveal President Trump was one of the first people to raise an alarm about Jeffrey Epstein. He did so in 2006 when he called the police to recommend they investigate Jeffrey Epstein AND Gislaine Maxwell, whom he called evil. The transcript of the phone call reveals Trump suspected Maxwell of being Epstein’s “operative.” He also called her “evil.” The call happened shortly after the Epstein investigation began.

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New Docs Reveal President Trump Was One of the FIRST To Blow the Whistle on Jeffrey Epstein – wltreport.com

New Epstein court documents have just been released.

Not only do these new files fully exonerate President Trump, but they prove that he actually helped police in their investigation of Epstein.

One of the files shows that President Trump called the Palm Beach police about Jeffrey Epstein back in 2006.

The document notes that President Trump was “one of the very first people to call” about Epstein’s disgusting crimes.

He also told police that they should “focus on” Ghislaine Maxwell, whom he called “evil.”

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An explosive detail has been discovered in the newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents that has been hailed as a “bombshell” finding that could “solve the mystery” surrounding the child predator.

Former State Department official Mike Benz is sounding the alarm after newly released Department of Justice (DOJ) records revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) appears to hold classified information about Epstein.

In the files are documents showing that the CIA responded to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request tied to Epstein.

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Former President Bill Clinton excoriated Republicans’ demands to have him and Hillary Clinton testify about Jeffrey Epstein and called for a public hearing instead.

Clinton wrote in an angry screed on social media Wednesday that Republican Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky asked them to appear at a closed-door hearing.

‘Who benefits from this arrangement? It’s not Epstein’s victims, who deserve justice. Not the public, who deserve the truth.’

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Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell abruptly shut down a congressional deposition Monday morning, invoking the Fifth Amendment less than an hour after questioning began.

On Monday morning, Maxwell appeared virtually to testify before the House Oversight Committee.

The closed-door interview is tied to lawmakers’ expanding investigation into the federal government’s handling of child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

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Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) has positioned himself as a firebrand when it comes to exposing the Epstein files, and he now has a chance to prove it’s not just partisan grandstanding.

Following the release of more information on Monday, his fellow party member, Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI), has been further implicated in the scandal. According to multiple emails, she used a pseudonym to solicit funding from Epstein for a “new voter file” that would help her win elections in the Virgin Islands.

Democratic congresswoman Stacey Plaskett (V.I.) beseeched Jeffrey Epstein for help funding a new “voter file” that would allow her to “completely outperform anyone in any race.”

Using the email handle “LeRoy Daughter,” Plaskett pitched Epstein on the idea in an email on May 5, 2017, according to documents released by the Department of Justice. In the pitch, Plaskett asked Epstein to fund a one-year project to “create a new voter file” of Virgin Islands voters.

The goal, according to Plaskett, was to compile data on Virgin Islanders who had voted in recent elections and update their phone numbers, email addresses, and home addresses to help Plaskett’s campaign and those of her allies in other races.

“This is the most important group to poll for messaging and later phone banking for support and get to the polls,” wrote Plaskett, adding that the list would help candidates decide what political positions to take and assist “messaging and campaign work.”

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CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said Monday that Ghislaine Maxwell may have weakened her own Fifth Amendment protection by previously speaking at length with federal officials.

Maxwell met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in late July and answered questions about her ties to Jeffrey Epstein and her alleged role in the trafficking network. During a discussion on “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” Honig said Maxwell’s decision to speak openly with Blanche may have weakened her ability to invoke the Fifth Amendment.

The fallout from the Epstein Files data dump, so far, has been far worse in the UK, where their Prime Minister faces growing calls to resign from his own party members, than in the U.S. where no major figures took serious hits.

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Massive trove of Epstein files released by DOJ, including 3 million documents and photos – cbsnews.com

In an email exchange between New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch and Jeffrey Epstein, the two men discussed multiple women, and Epstein sent details about their lives to the film producer-turned-NFL owner.

In one email from 2013, Tisch asked for details about a “Ukrainian Girl” who had lunch with him after meeting at Epstein’s house. He called her a “very sweet girl.”

Epstein replied that the woman had “a 10 ass” and is a “character,” adding he would get “all info” on her.

Tisch responded that he was “curious to know about” the woman, and asked Epstein if she is a “pro or civilian?” prompting Epstein to reply that he doesn’t “like records of these conversations.”

Regarding a different woman, Tisch asked Epstein, “Is she fun?”

Epstein replied that the woman is “a civilian, but russian, and rarely tells the full truth, but fun.”

In a separate email, after it appears Tisch met with a woman, Epstein told Tisch that a “report” was “just in” from their encounter, and he told the Giants owner that “you did very well… she is a little freaked by the age difference but go slow…”

In another email from the same year, Tisch appeared to be emailing with a woman that Epstein had introduced him to, writing to her, “Jeffrey Epstein is very excited about you and I meeting each other… I like that idea… do you?”

Epstein then appeared to give him tips about the woman’s life, suggesting she was still in college and could not travel during the week to meet Tisch.

“Never heard back from her,” Tisch wrote to Epstein in a reply. “Oh well…”

Other emails show Tisch inviting Epstein to a Giants football game and Epstein inviting Tisch to his private island.

Tisch said in a statement to CBS News: “We had a brief association where we exchanged emails about adult women, and in addition, we discussed movies, philanthropy, and investments. I did not take him up on any of his invitations and never went to his island. As we all know now, he was a terrible person and someone I deeply regret associating with.”

CBS News has reached out to the NFL and the Giants for comment.

from www.cbsnews.com

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Major Democrat donor Brad Karp stepped down Wednesday from his role as chairman of Paul Weiss after newly released emails revealed close ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

While the firm did not provide a reason for his departure, Karp said in a statement that “recent reporting has created a distraction and has placed a focus on me that is not in the best interests of the firm.”

“Leading Paul, Weiss for the past 18 years has been the honor of my professional life,” Karp stated.

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When Big Tech sugar daddy Reid Hoffman isn’t trying to explain his past adventures with the late-serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, he’s busy pumping cash into the campaign coffers of liberal hypocrites.

The LinkedIn co-founder over the past four years has written more than $1.8 million in checks to the Welcome PAC, a so-called “dark money” funding machine for Democrat candidates. And Hoffman’s generosity is feeding the campaigns of “moderate” Democrats like California’s Adam Gray, Michigan’s Kristen McDonald Rivet, and other left-leaning candidates facing tight midterm races.