Trump releases the JFK files — but are we getting the whole truth?



Eighty thousand documents — that’s what the Trump administration just dumped on the American people.

Yesterday, Donald Trump delivered on one of his campaign promises: to release the sealed government files relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. But let’s be real: Are we really supposed to believe that those who controlled the files will give us anything that will lead to any real answers? Or is this just another round of obfuscation, another carefully orchestrated release designed to bury the truth in an avalanche of paper and PDFs?

The CIA was actively shaping media narratives decades ago.

My team spent the last 24 hours combing through the first batch. Let’s break it down.

What’s new?

One of the biggest revelations from the JFK files concerns a 1967 memo, which references a CIA operative and former U.S. Army captain named John Garrett (“Gary”) Underhill. According to this document, Underhill fled Washington in a panic the day after JFK’s assassination, confiding in a friend that a “small clique within the U.S.” was responsible for Kennedy’s murder.

Six months later, Underhill was found dead. The official ruling — with little surprise — was suicide.

Another document reveals that the KGB closely monitored Lee Harvey Oswald while he was in the Soviet Union — and interestingly, the files suggest Oswald was a poor shot during target practice there. A Soviet man even contacted the British Embassy in 1963, claiming that Oswald had been planning to kill the president. This man said he warned American officials, but nothing was done.

If we take these documents at face value, the message is clear: Our government, at best, was stunningly incompetent.

Arguably, one of the most disturbing patterns to emerge from the JFK files is the CIA’s extensive domestic operations. One document details covert operations conducted from multiple U.S. cities, including wiretapping and media manipulation, indicating that the CIA was actively shaping media narratives decades ago.

What’s next?

My team is still sorting through this mountain of documents, and there will be more to come. But if the latest debacle with the released Epstein files is any indication, we won’t find the smoking gun — at least not immediately.

We’ll see more evidence of what we’ve suspected all along: The deep state will stop at nothing to cover its tracks, whether by suppressing confidential documents or dumping 80,000 documents that bury the truth.

Next week on my show, we’ll go even deeper into these findings. Until then, remember: Don’t just accept what the government hands you. Think. Question. And never stop searching for the truth.

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Liz Wheeler tells Glenn Beck about meat behind Epstein 'nothingburger,' fallout of White House embargo



BlazeTV's Liz Wheeler, host of "The Liz Wheeler Show," has faced an onslaught of criticism over her receipt and reporting on Attorney General Pam Bondi's so-called "Epstein Files: Phase 1." In conversation Friday with Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, Wheeler discussed the White House's hours-long reporting prohibition, known as an embargo, and events that primed the pump for a new wave of suspicion. She also addressed the apparent "open rebellion" under way at the FBI.

"What happens from here on out is actually the important part," said Wheeler. "We have now identified that there are people trying to subvert the president from within the FBI."

"What happens from this moment forward actually sets the course for the rest of the administration and signals to deep-staters in administrative agencies whether they can defy the president, and the attorney general, and the FBI director and get away with it or not," added Wheeler.

Background

Attorney General Pam Bondi advocated last year for the release of the client list of the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — something President Donald Trump told podcaster Lex Fridman he would do if elected.

Bondi heightened the public's anticipation last week with the suggestion that the list was on her desk and that its release was imminent.

Wheeler and 14 other prominent conservative media figures were invited to the White House on Thursday, given virtually no inkling as to the nature or reason for the visit. After meeting with various Cabinet officials, Wheeler and the others met with Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel and were each provided with a binder labeled "The Epstein Files: Phase 1."

Despite her initial excitement over the prospect that the binder contained new and consequential information, Wheeler soon realized what Bondi would later admit in a public statement: "The first phase of declassified files largely contains documents that have been previously leaked but never released in a formal capacity by the U.S. government."

In other words, barring the revelation that the FBI had apparently buried thousands of files and refused to turn them over to the Trump administration, phase one, as Bondi apparently put it, was a "nothingburger."

The disappointment Thursday over the contents of the binder was palpable online. However, rather than direct their ire at the source, critics in many cases took aim at the messengers.

FBI withholding the meat

Wheeler told Beck, "People were very mad about what happened yesterday. And honestly, I don't blame them for being mad. I am also very mad about what happened yesterday, because we all expected to get the dirtiest dirt that we have ever gotten."

'This, if true, is the scandal of the century.'

Bondi and Patel met with the conservative media figures at the White House Thursday, providing them with some sense of what was happening behind the scenes. Bondi then carted over a stack of white binders, which Wheeler indicated caused everyone's jaws to drop.

"This is going to be the juicy stuff," Wheeler recalled thinking. "This is what we were waiting for."

Wheeler said that Bondi quickly dashed the group's hopes, referring to her Feb. 27 letter to Patel. In the letter, Bondi indicated that she learned from a source Wednesday "that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein."

The AG noted further in her letter that this was at odds with the FBI's prior assurance that what ended up becoming the contents of the phase-one binder was all the bureau had.

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Wheeler stressed to Beck that "this, if true, is the scandal of the century" — that there are deep-staters in the FBI defying Trump, Bondi, and Patel "to save the swamp."

Beck suggested that such defiance would qualify as "open rebellion."

'We begged for the embargo to be lifted.'

The binder provides virtually no novel insights into Epstein or his possible accomplices but serves as primary evidence of the apparent efforts by elements of federal law enforcement to preclude the Trump administration and the American people, by extension, from knowing the full truth.

Maddening silence

Despite knowing that the phase-one binder was effectively a "nothingburger," Wheeler and the other conservative media figures were told on their way out of the White House grounds that they could not report on its contents until mid-afternoon.

The trouble with the embargo, Wheeler told Beck, was that the press had already snapped photos of them giddily exiting the White House with the binders in hand, Epstein's name emblazoned on the exterior for all to see.

"All of a sudden, we're in this situation where the press has gotten photos of us with these binders that appear to be real Epstein files. And yet, we knew that they were not. We begged for the embargo to be lifted," said Wheeler.

Not only was Wheeler unable to pour cold water on the growing excitement that the Epstein client list might finally be divulged in full, but she was precluded from breaking the story about how deep-staters have apparently worked to thwart the will of the president and hide information of interest to the American people.

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Wheeler indicated she is "pissed off" about the ordeal, given that she has worked diligently to earn the American public's trust with her reporting on COVID-19, the vaccines, the attempts on Trump's life, and the events surrounding Jan. 6, 2021.

"I'm an honest broker. They would know that I would never intentionally do this," said Wheeler. "That's why I'm just telling this story."

While able to vouch for the integrity of Trump, Patel, and incoming FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Beck noted, "The only player in this that I can't vouch for — and it's only because I don't personally know her; I've never had any interaction with her — is Pam Bondi."

Bondi requested the remainder of the documents from the FBI by 8 a.m. Friday morning. She has yet to announce the receipt of Epstein documents of any gravity.

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Trump DOJ: The FBI Is Withholding ‘Thousands Of Pages’ Of Epstein Files

The FBI is withholding “thousands of pages of documents” pertaining to the federal government’s investigation into deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi. In a Thursday letter addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel, Bondi said she initially “requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein” before Patel was sworn […]

Deep State braces for Kash Patel's possible Epstein files release ‘in the next 10 days’



Glenn Beck made a startling prediction on a recent episode of the "PBD Podcast," telling Patrick Bet-David that “in the next 10 days, you’re going to see the Epstein files released.”

“Day number one, Kash Patel walks in. By the end of the day, it will be released,” he added.

“That is certainly a bombshell,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” comments, adding, “Does Glenn know something that we don’t? What’s going on here?”

“Glenn doesn’t bluff,” Blaze News senior politics editor Christopher Bedford tells Savage and Matthew Peterson. “He says he knows something, like you see that twinkle in his eye, and that smile, you know him, I believe it.”


“He’s got some mischief up his sleeve and has been talking to people who are intent on this. Kash Patel, who’s obviously related to this, has been someone who has had access to these documents; he’s talked about these documents in the past, particularly regarding the JFK assassination.”

While confident that Patel will release the documents, Peterson notes that there are still hurdles to clear.

“One could argue that if you didn’t want the Epstein list out, which presumably some powerful people do not, this would further your antagonism towards the confirmation of Kash Patel, and you would work even harder to stop that,” Peterson says. “They’re still flinging mud at him.”

“Storms can absolutely sneak up on you,” Bedford agrees. “Democrats have pulled every trick in the book. They’ve used every single tool at their disposal, parliamentary procedure, to prolong this for as long as they’ve been capable of doing so and in the hopes in that time of being able to dig up enough dirt on him or cause enough trouble for him to get some Republicans to pull back.”

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Trump says he’ll RELEASE Epstein files: ‘A lot of big people went to that island’



Donald Trump sat down for an interview with famous podcaster Lex Fridman, when he made a suggestion that may have been a dangerous one.

That is, Trump hinted to Fridman that he would release the Epstein files and the client list if he wins the White House.

“What’s the one thing you could say as a presidential candidate that’s pretty much guaranteed that you’re dead,” Glenn Beck comments. “I am going to release the Epstein files and the client list.”

Trump explained to Fridman that he was “inclined to do the Epstein thing” and had “no problem with releasing that list.”

“A lot of big people went to that island. But fortunately, I was not one of them,” Trump continued.

“It’s just very strange for a lot of people that the list of clients that went to the island has not been made public,” Fridman responded, before Trump answered, “It’s very interesting, isn’t it?”

“Remember, Donald Trump is definitely not suicidal,” Glenn says. “But if they could put him in jail, he might become suicidal, and some cameras might go down.”

“It’s happened before,” Stu Burguiere jokes.

The Epstein list is currently with the FBI and overseen by one individual.

“What could possibly go wrong?” Glenn asks. “If it disappears, that would be unfortunate, wouldn’t it.”



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DeSantis to approve releasing secret Jeffrey Epstein grand jury documents, challenges Biden to release federal files



Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) declared that he would sign a bill into law that would release the secret grand jury material from the state's 2006 investigation into allegations of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual assaults of underage girls. DeSantis also challenged President Joe Biden to release the federal files relating to Epstein's alleged child sex crimes.

The bill, HB 117, was unanimously passed in the Florida Senate on Wednesday – six days after it passed with unanimous support in the House.

DeSantis proclaimed that he would sign the bill into law as soon as it hit the governor's desk.

"All files related to Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal activity should be made public," DeSantis said on Wednesday night. "While the federal government continues to stonewall accountability, I’m glad the Legislature has taken action to release the grand jury material from the Florida state case. I will sign the bill into law."

Once signed, HB 117 goes into effect on July 1.

DeSantis also challenged Biden to release the federal files regarding the investigation into Epstein and the child sex crimes allegations.

The Republican governor of Florida asked, "Why won’t Biden release the federal government’s Epstein files?"

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Florida Politics said of the bill, "It amends Florida Statutes, Section 905.27 by expanding a 'furthering of justice' exception to grand jury secrecy to include 'furthering a public interest.'"

"But it comes with several conditions that Epstein’s case uniquely meets, including that the subject of the grand jury inquiry must be dead, the inquiry must have involved crimes or sexual activity with a minor, and that the testimony must have been previously disclosed under a court order," the outlet reported.

A court could limit what is shared with the public and could redact documents and testimony.

The bill's sponsor, Highland Beach Republican Rep. Peggy Gossett-Seidman, still has questions regarding the Epstein case.

“Last year, two (of Epstein’s) victims committed suicide. Many other victims are suffering in my county and around the world,” Gossett-Seidman said last week. “Epstein could have been stopped right here in Florida. Instead, he was released to dehumanize girls for another 13 years. We need to know why.”

In 2005, police in Palm Beach began investigating Epstein over allegations of sexual assaults of minors after the parent of a 14-year-old reported child sex abuse accusations to law enforcement.

In a June 2016 deposition, a Palm Beach Police detective said he had spoken to approximately 30 females who had told him about "performing massage and work at Epstein's home." The detective noted that a majority of the females that he spoke to were under the age of 18.

Detective Joseph Recarey said, "Epstein would either attempt to fondle the girls or touch the girls inappropriately, and at which point he would masturbate. And when he was done, he would get up and go wash off while the girls would get dressed and go back downstairs and get paid."

Some of the minors said they were paid to recruit their friends to massage Epstein.

Epstein's lawyers secured a "sweetheart deal" for the alleged financier in 2008. He pleaded guilty to procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.

Epstein served just 13 months in a private prison wing and had extensive work release.

The Associated Press reported, "During that time, he was taken to his office, where he claimed to be running his financial consulting business and his foundation. By the time of his release, he was spending six days a week and 18 hours a day at his office. He was required to wear an ankle monitor and hire two deputies to oversee his whereabouts from the lobby, but they were not in his office with him."

In July 2019, Epstein was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, and he was charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy to traffic minors for sex.

The grand jury indictment alleged that "dozens" of underage girls were transported to Epstein's homes for the purpose of engaging in sexual encounters.

In August 2019, Epstein committed suicide by hanging in his Manhattan federal jail cell while he awaited trial, according to the New York City’s chief medical examiner.

Earlier this month, Epstein's brother shared photographs of the convicted pedophile's body. Mark Epstein is questioning the narrative that his brother killed himself in prison.

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