Senate passes symbolic resolution on Ghislaine Maxwell’s future



Todd Blanche is aiming to be the next attorney general of the United States. Standing in his way are the Epstein survivors who say he brushed them off, two senators with nothing left to lose, and a questionable connection to one of Epstein’s closest partners in crime.

On the second day of Blanche's confirmation hearing earlier this month, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said a meeting with survivors needed to happen before he would vote to confirm Blanche. Survivors weren't having a stand-in — they wanted Blanche and got him that same afternoon, pressing him on compensation, prosecutions, and unaddressed leads.

Blanche interviewed Maxwell and granted her immunity for her statements.

Blanche reportedly said only the FBI could open new investigations and that he couldn't make commitments that day.

Dani Bensky, who has been identified as one of Epstein’s victims, described a frustrating meeting with Blanche, telling CNN, “He danced around his wording, repeatedly interrupted us, and could not commit to anything that would demonstrate good faith or begin to restore trust.”

That's the survivors' side of Blanche's trouble.

The other side is a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund tied to Trump’s May settlement with the IRS, which Blanche has since declared dead — though concerns, raised chiefly by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Tillis, remain regarding the possibility of a revival of the fund.

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These threads have spelled trouble for Blanche — as has his connection to Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell. On Wednesday, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution declaring that Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker who aided Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of underage girls, should never receive a presidential pardon — though it carries no legal force.

Last year, as deputy attorney general, Blanche interviewed Maxwell and granted her immunity for her statements.

In her floor remarks, Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), who introduced the resolution earlier this year, cited a report that Blanche had floated the idea that Maxwell's attorney "might expect something in return for her candor."

Rosen said she was pushing for a vote now specifically because Senate Republicans are inching toward confirming Blanche as permanent attorney general.

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Trump, for his part, has floated another option entirely: pulling the nomination and resubmitting it after Cornyn's and Tillis' terms end in January, when neither will still be in the chamber to block it.

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DAMNING report at prestigious academy finds Jeffrey Epstein — and 46 other alleged abusers — molested students



A prestigious art academy in northern Michigan released an independent report that concluded there were 70 incidents of sexual conduct with their students by 47 abusers over many decades.

The harrowing 100-page report from the Interlochen Center for the Arts says one of the abusers was Jeffrey Epstein, who was a donor at the center and was later convicted of pedophilia.

The incidents were described as physical conduct of a sexual nature and involved adults who were given access to students and campers.

The report relied on 180 interviews of alums from the center, which is a boarding school and summer camp. They reported dozens of incidents both at the center and off campus.

Most of the alleged incidents occurred before 2000, and about a third of the accused abusers have since passed away.

The incidents were described as physical conduct of a sexual nature and involved adults who were given access to students and campers.

Two of the alums reported physical conduct of a sexual nature with Epstein. He was a donor to the center from 1990 until 2003 and had attended as a teen.

The center commissioned the investigation two years ago. Only five abusers' names were released, and they are all dead or previously accused of abuse. The school has provided all of the names to the Grand Traverse County Prosecutor's Office for review.

Trey Devey, the president of the center, released a statement along with the report.

"The abuse described in the report is heartbreaking and is contrary to everything Interlochen stands for," he wrote. "We are grateful to everyone who came forward to share their experiences, and we are deeply sorry for the harm experienced by members of our community. We also want to say clearly: Interlochen will not tolerate predators or those who enable them. Our campus exists to protect, educate, and empower every student."

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Board chair Barrett Rollins also released a statement.

"Student safety is a bedrock requirement and fundamental responsibility of this institution," Rollins wrote.

"We recognize that the steps we have taken cannot erase harm that occurred," he added, "but we hope they demonstrate our commitment to honoring those who came forward and to creating a safer future for all who are part of the Interlochen community."

A building that was donated to the center by Epstein was demolished in June.

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VIDEO: Actor Alan Ritchson loses his mind about 'f**king rapists' in crazed TDS rant



Actor Alan Ritchson unleashed an irrational tirade against people supposedly keeping the Epstein files hidden and even makes accusations against President Donald Trump.

The star of "Reacher" suggested the president and others are hiding damaging information from the Epstein files during an interview on the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast released Thursday.

'Move out of the way. Give me the f**king manila envelope. ... I will get you the Epstein files.'

"People, I think, are a little bit afraid of me because they’re like, 'He’s a loose cannon.' And I’m not. I’m just saying the s**t that everybody should say if they give a s**t about humanity," the actor said to Josh Horowitz.

He was especially incensed about the Epstein files.

"The Epstein files. The f**king Epstein files! Goddamn it! Where are they?! It’s a f**king law, bitch! Show it, you f**king pedophiles," Ritchson ranted.

He went on to say that he shouldn't drop F-bombs as a believing Christian — and then continued to drop F-bombs.

"I would f**king railroad these f**kers. I would get those Epstein files out in two seconds. Yeah dude, two seconds, f**king move out of the way. ... Give me the f***king manila envelope. I will get you the Epstein files," he added.

He finished up by referring to the president as a "bitch" and seemingly accused him of sexualizing young girls.

"Don’t you want to see what’s in there so that we can hold people accountable?! These f**king rapists! We’re just cool with it?” he added. "That bitch has the keys to the nuclear codes. He’s, like, all up into 13-year-olds. Like, dude, what? Go to jail. Go to jail."

Video of Ritchson's comments was circulated on social media. The entire episode can be viewed on YouTube.

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He went on to say that he would give a "backhand" to members of Congress who support the low minimum wage for a mother working at Waffle House.

Blaze News reached out to the Dept. of Justice and the White House for comment about the actor's accusations.

Ritchson was promoting his new movie, "Motor City," but he should probably not count on MAGA supporters watching after that rant.

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Talarico and Ossoff criticize 'Epstein class' while raking in cash from Epstein's ally



Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) have both spoken critically about the "Epstein class," yet they have proven more than willing not only to take money for their respective Senate campaigns from that supposed class but from one of the dead pedophile's deep-pocketed allies.

Talarico — a part-time Presbyterian seminarian who has attempted to use Scripture to justify abortion and fought to keep the Bible out of schools — stated last month, "The Epstein class has no place in Texas."

'Jeffrey has exquisite taste in people.'

The champion of keeping male athletes in women's sports evidently figures this is a clever line given he has repeatedly used it in interviews.

Ossoff, who is running for re-election this year, has flapped his gums about the "Epstein class" on multiple occasions as well.

While criticizing MAGA and the Trump administration at an Atlanta rally in February, Ossoff said, "This is the Epstein class ruling our country. They are the elites they pretend to hate."

Ossoff expounded on the meaning of the line in conversation with former late-night propagandist Stephen Colbert, stating, "This whole Epstein saga has exposed the lie at the very core of Donald Trump's political project."

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Ossoff, the Senate's youngest incumbent member, proceeded to complain that there is a "class of elites who pour billions into political campaigns, who are unaccountable, and who have captured our political system."

One of the many ultra-wealthy elites who has donated to both Ossoff's and Talarico's political campaigns is LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, a big-time Biden donor and anti-Trump activist who not only funded one of E. Jean Carroll's civil lawsuits against President Donald Trump but was involved with Jeffrey Epstein years after the pedophile's 2008 conviction for soliciting sex from minor girls.

Hoffman stated in February, "I only knew Jeffrey Epstein because of a fundraising relationship with MIT, which I very much regret. In 2019 I told Axios the last meeting I had with him was in 2015 but I was mistaken, as according to calendar entries I have become aware there were additional fundraising meetings in 2016 and 2018."

Hoffman, a billionaire who also confirmed that he had visited Epstein's island, wrote in a separate X post that month, "Interacting with Epstein post-conviction is something I deeply regret."

While Hoffman characterized his relationship with Epstein as limited to "fundraising," Bloomberg highlighted documents among those published by the Justice Department indicating that Hoffman actually had a "longer and more personal relationship" with the sex offender.

The documents revealed that the Democrat mega-donor not only exchanged gifts with Epstein but stayed at his townhouse in New York's Upper East Side; hosted the pedophile at a dinner with Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg; and advised Epstein on matters besides fundraising, including meetings with foreign officials and luxury purchases.

Hoffman also expressed some admiration for the convicted sex offender, apparently writing in a September 2014 email, "Jeffrey has exquisite taste in people (myself excepted)."

Hoffman has not been accused of wrongdoing with regard to his involvement with Epstein.

Federal Election Committee records show that on June 30, Hoffman donated $10 million to Lone Star Rising, the primary super PAC supporting Talarico, who is running against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate. Hoffman previously donated $1 million to the PAC on Feb. 23, and $500,000 to the PAC on Jan. 27.

JT Ennis, a spokesman for Talarico, told the Texas Tribune that the Democrat's campaign "has no control over contributions to any super PAC."

"The only way to get Big Money out of our politics is to reject politicians like Ken Paxton who want corporations and billionaires to decide our elections, not Texans," continued Ennis. "James will remain the only candidate in this race fighting to ban super PACs, ban corporate PACs, ban congressional stock trading, and tax billionaires so we can fix this broken, corrupt political system."

Hoffman is also one of the many out-of-state billionaires — a list that includes the transvestite formerly known as James Pritzker; his cousin Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker; leftist activist George Soros; heiress Amy Goldman Fowler; and personal injury law firm founder John Morgan — who have backed Ossoff's re-election campaign in Georgia, reported the Washington Free Beacon.

Ossoff, who whined in September 2025 about the "vast sums of corporate and billionaire money in our political system," received $7,000 — the legal maximum — in the 2025-2026 election cycle from Hoffman, FEC records show.

The Talarico and Ossoff campaigns did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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‘Fascinating’: JD Vance tells Joe Rogan the Trump administration ‘screwed up the comms’ with the Epstein files



For years, the Epstein files have fueled endless speculation, conspiracy theories, and demands for transparency — which have resulted in widespread disappointment among Americans demanding to know the truth.

Now, on the biggest podcast in the world, Vice President JD Vance is offering one of the administration’s most direct explanations yet for why the highly anticipated document release left so many Americans frustrated.

“The Epstein files were supposed to be released,” Joe Rogan said to Vance on “The Joe Rogan Experience.” “And there was a tremendous amount of resistance to those files being released. That concerned a lot of people because if you’re talking about very wealthy, powerful people that were engaged in crimes.”

“So you’re basically saying the fear is that whatever’s in the Epstein files was used to blackmail the administration into doing the Iran thing,” Vance replied.


“Or, at the very least, the people that were involved in the Epstein files that didn’t want them coming out had undue influence,” Rogan said.

“I say this with all candor, we absolutely screwed up the comms of the Epstein files. Like we just did. But do I think the reason we screwed up the comms is because we were trying to hide something? No,” Vance explained.

Instead, Vance believes the reason the administration “screwed up the comms” was that former Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed the client list was on her desk.

“So, what was the purpose of that performative display of the Epstein files, and she was saying there’s tens of thousands of hours of film?” Rogan asked.

“I don’t know what the purpose of it was, but I know that the effect of it was to make people mistrust the entire effort,” Vance answered, noting that he believes Bondi was “trying to respond to the political moment.”

Vance called himself one of the “OG Epstein conspiracy theorists” and admitted to going “down every single rabbit hole.”

“The original sin of the Epstein investigation, and obviously I’m biased here, but it was not what Donald Trump and the administration did in 2025. It was, you have to go back to 2007, 2008, the original Alex Acosta investigation of Jeffrey Epstein where he basically dropped the federal charges,” he explained.

“You go to the original warrant back in 2008, what was he looking for? What was he allowed to look for? What were they collecting? It was not looking at a broader conspiracy,” he added.

“That’s fascinating,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments.

“I don’t know if we’ll ever find out the truth,” he adds, “but that was fascinating.”

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Sabo returns to Denver — this time with Jeffrey Epstein hanging on the wall



Has Sabo gone mainstream?

Not exactly. But considering that the last time he came to Colorado it was to stand before a judge, an invitation to hang his work in downtown Denver counts as a career boost.

"It is nothing short of a miracle that a person like myself can show art in such a liberal city where so many people can see them."

On Friday, July 3, the public art provocateur will unveil his completed "American Tarot" series at the VFW Gallery in downtown Denver as part of the city's First Friday Art Walk.

In the cards

The series includes four tarot-card-style pieces depicting some of the darkest and most divisive episodes in modern American history:

  • "The Towers" — September 11;
  • "The Fool" — January 6;
  • "Death" — COVID-19; and
  • "The Hanged Man" — Jeffrey Epstein.

As Sabo tells Blaze Media, "Each card represents an event in our country's past that greatly affected the American story, the country's psyche, the soul of America."

The newest addition, "The Hanged Man," depicts the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suspended from the tarot card's traditional gallows.

For Sabo, the Epstein story is about far more than one depraved man.

"I believe the story of Jeffrey Epstein goes deep into how so many — from the entertainment industry to science, politics, finance, power — became influenced or compromised."

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Hidden influence

In Sabo's view, the affair helped fuel a growing distrust of elite institutions and raised uncomfortable questions about how influence is exercised among the world's most powerful people.

Through the decades, Sabo says, he assumed celebrities and artists simply leaned left politically. Now he wonders whether some cultural figures may have been manipulated into advocating these views in ways the public still doesn't fully understand.

"And then we saw how the music industry was influenced by the Diddy sex parties," he said. "How many in the music industry were also swayed to speak in a way that helped support the leftist narrative?"

The questions only became more urgent during COVID, he argues, when public trust in institutions suffered another profound blow.

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The former Marine has spent more than two decades producing some of America's most powerful political street art, skewering everyone from Hollywood celebrities to corporate media and progressive politicians.

That makes the location of Friday's exhibition all the more remarkable.

Sabo's relationship with Colorado's liberal-leaning authorities has been strained, to put it mildly. In October 2024, he appeared in a Denver courtroom after being charged for posting anti-illegal immigration artwork around Aurora, the Denver-adjacent city that had become a national symbol of the migrant crisis amid reports of violent Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment complexes.

The signs — which criticized unchecked illegal immigration and highlighted the plight of legal immigrants and struggling working-class communities — earned Sabo a fine and community service. Representing himself in court, the artist argued that his work was protected political speech and noted the irony that, while authorities struggled to contain far more serious crimes, they managed to find the time to prosecute a man for hanging posters.

Sabo admits he's still getting used to the life of a respectable artist: "In street art I hit and run; no one to have a conversation with. In a gallery I feel out of my element." But he's grateful for the opportunity.

"It is nothing short of a miracle that a person like myself can show art in such a liberal city where so many people can see them," Sabo says now.

Sabo's work is available for viewing or purchase on his website.

And if you're not a Sabo fan yet, check out our coverage of his previous missions here.

‘We Need Your Voice’: Abdul El-Sayed Urged Registered Sex Offender Debate Coach To Run for Office, Told Him ‘You Have Something Deep To Offer’

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D.), in a podcast interview with a sex offender convicted of soliciting an underage girl for sex, urged ex-cons to run for political office, saying their "voice" is needed in politics.

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JD Vance shuts down the ladies of ‘The View’ with simple facts



JD Vance proved once again that unlike the left, the right is not afraid to step into the lion’s den when he sat down with the panel of "The View" — who of course took the opportunity to claim President Trump was in cahoots with Jeffrey Epstein.

“They were best friends for about a decade,” host Ana Navarro claimed.

“And remember he signed that Transparency Act under duress when some Republican women, congresswomen like Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, did not give in to his pressure of not signing. He brought Lauren Boebert into the Situation Room to pressure her into caving on not voting for that bill,” she continued.

“Let me respond to that,” Vance replied. “So number one is yes, Donald Trump — he said this — he knew Jeffrey Epstein back in the 1980s. He also threw Jeffrey Epstein out of his club when he found out he was a creep and reported him to the police.”


“That’s something that the media often misses when it reports the story. They tell the fact that they knew each other in the '80s, which the president himself admits. They ignore the fact that he narced on him to the police and led ultimately to Jeffrey Epstein’s downfall," he calmly explained.

“It all tracks if you’re paying attention,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“‘They were best friends for a time period,’” she mocks, before pulling up a photo of Epstein and Bill Clinton posing together.

“They look thick as thieves here. Oh, oops. That’s the wrong best friend,” she jokes.

“They always forget that relationship,” she adds.

Gonzales also points out that Whoopi Goldberg was silent throughout the exchange.

“Whoopi didn’t have anything to say there, I guess, because remember she was in the Epstein files. She wanted to borrow Jeffrey Epstein’s jet for personal reasons. She needed a plane to get to Monaco,” Gonzales says.

However, while Whoopi was silent, Ana Navarro wasn’t giving up.

“Let’s just be truthful and transparent here,” she argued. “They didn’t just know each other; they were incredibly close friends.”

“He reported him to the police,” Vance responded. “That’s what I’m saying. That is objectively true.”

“‘They didn’t just know each other,’” Gonzales mocks again, joking that they were “to the level” where Trump could ask Epstein to “borrow his private plane.”

“Oh, wait. That’s your co-host sitting next to you,” she adds.

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Lawmakers Visit Minimum-Security Facility Where Ghislaine Maxwell Was Moved To

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Court Docs: Alleged UFC Terror Attack Planner Parroted Democrats’ Trump-Epstein Conspiracies

An individual allegedly involved in a thwarted terrorist attack aimed at Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House parroted Democrat conspiracy theories about President Trump protecting child predators connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to federal court documents. The revelation came on Tuesday, when Fox News reported on how the FBI and […]