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8 hours ago
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Epstein Expert Slams ‘Absurd' MAGA Effort to Make Ghislaine Maxwell a Victim: ‘She Was a Pedophile'
"Broken" podcast host Tara Palmeri additionally tells MSNBC that Trump's timeline of his falling out with the financier doesn't add up Independent journalist and Jeffrey Epstein expert Tara Palmeri told MSNBC's Nicole Wallace that Trump supporters let Epstein's partner-in-crime Ghislaine Maxwell off too easily. 'Any sort of idea that Ghislaine was some sort of victim as they are saying on NewsMax and other places is absurd,' Palmeri said on MSNBC's Deadline White House. 'She was a pedophile. She did the exact same thing.' More from TheWrap Epstein Expert Slams 'Absurd' MAGA Effort to Make Ghislaine Maxwell a Victim: 'She Was a Pedophile' | Video Shohei Ohtani Gambling Scandal Drama Nears Series Order at Starz 'Destination X' Boss Shares Just How Hard It Was to Keep Those Contestants in the Dark Disney Sued for Defamation by 'Say Nothing' Subject Marian Price Maxwell is currently serving currently a 20-year prison sentence for conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse minors. She was convicted in 2021 and sentenced in June 2022. Palmeri said that she was responsible for luring young girls to Epstein. She referenced several examples from victims she has spoken to on her podcast 'BROKEN: Jeffrey Epstein.' The podcaster said Maxwell called one victim Annie Farmer's mother to convince her it was okay for her daughter to join the couple at Zorro ranch because they would pay for her tuition. 'They preyed on children,' she said. She added that the houseman Juan Alessi, who worked for Epstein since the 1990s, told her that the couple's 'ritual' was to drive around south Florida to look for three girls per day to 'satisfy his needs.' Maxwell did not just groom the young girls and send them to Epstein to be sexually abused. Palmeri said that she participated in sexual acts with them, and that Trump supporters are ignoring that fact. 'Once she got them in the door, she was involved in the sexual acts,' she added. 'I don't think they want to hear this. They want to create the impression that she is somehow absolved from all of this.' Watch the exchange here: Virgina Giuffre, who was pursued by Maxwell and Epstein at Mar-a-Lago, told the podcaster that she met Trump through Epstein. Giuffre was a 'sex slave' to Epstein and his friends from the age of 16 to 18. The woman was only with Epstein from 2000 to 2002, Palmeri said, but Trump and Epstein remained friends at that time. The pair have several pictures together from after the president claims they had a friendship falling out. Tuesday the president said he and Epstein ended their friendship because Epstein 'stole people that worked for me' – including after he had warned Epstein not to do it again. He also acknowledged that one of those employees may have been Giuffre, one of Epstein's most outspoken accusers, who died by suicide earlier this year, but Trump did not specify that the employees were young women. However last week the White House said Trump barred Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club 'for being a creep.' 'This whole idea that President Trump was upset about it at the time is absurd,' Palmeri said. Those slightly different stories of the pair's falling out also differ from a 2019 Washington Post report that claimed the two men's friendship ended over a 2004 property dispute over a bankrupted oceanfront property called Maison de l'Amitié. Palmeri agreed with that timeline. The Wall Street Journal published a series of articles alleging Trump appeared in the Epstein files 'multiple times,' and that his Attorney General Pam Bondi warned him of this. The president sued the Wall Street Journal for $10 billion for defamation for publishing a suggestive birthday note that Trump wrote for Epstein's 50th. The post Epstein Expert Slams 'Absurd' MAGA Effort to Make Ghislaine Maxwell a Victim: 'She Was a Pedophile' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Politics
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How Trump's placement of the National Guard has pitted neighbors against neighbors in Los Angeles
Jacob Soboroff, NBC News Correspondent joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House live from the Metropolitan Detention center where the National Guard is stationed with an up close look at what today's protests look like and how Donald Trump's mobilization of the California National Guard as put troops face to face with protestors who happen to be their own neighbors.
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
‘War on the rule of law': Nicolle Wallace on the intentional chaos unleashed by Trump in Los Angeles
Jacob Soboroff, NBC News Correspondent joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House live from Los Angeles, California outside of the parking lot of Home Depot where ICE conducted yet another immigration raid, as protests continue to grow on the streets of the city, with President Trump threatening to continue to escalate the presence of national guard troops.
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- General
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Ex-Homeland Security official Taylor fights back against probe: Trump creating a ‘modern blacklist'
Miles Taylor, a former deputy chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security during the first Trump administration who wrote an op-ed criticizing President Trump, said the president is creating a 'modern blacklist.' 'I think he wants to create a modern blacklist and have that blacklist ruin people's lives,' Taylor responded when asked what he believes Trump's plan is during an interview on MSNBC's 'Deadline White House.' 'Because it's a lot of effort to go through with trying to pursue and prosecute hundreds of your enemies,' he continued. 'All you need to do is try to successfully do that to a couple, to send a message, and that's what some of his officials have said.' Taylor wrote an op-ed for the New York Times in 2018 and later a book under the pseudonym 'Anonymous' about how some officials were working to thwart Trump's impulses. In April, Trump signed a memorandum directing the Department of Justice to investigate Taylor, saying he was likely 'guilty of treason.' Taylor added that officials have said Trump put forward the orders to investigate him, as well as Chris Krebs, who was ousted from his post as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in 2020, 'to send a message,' adding that 'to a certain extent, it works.' 'I'm the sole income earner in my household. I had to leave my job,' Taylor said. 'My wife, who's stayed home with our daughter, had to return to work so that we can buy diapers, so we can buy formula, so we can pay the mortgage. 'We had to go launch a legal defense fund, because we don't think we can pay for the legal bills for this type of thing.' Taylor, during an interview with the Associated Press, said the investigation sets a 'really, really, really scary precedent' because the president 'can now sign an order investigating any private citizen he wants, any critic, any foe, anyone.' 'I didn't commit any crime, and that's what's extraordinary about this. I can't think of any case where someone knows they're being investigated but has absolutely no idea what crime they allegedly committed. And it's because I didn't.' Taylor emphasized that there were also threats to his and his family's security in the wake of Trump's investigation, even adding that someone advised his wife and him to 'go update your last will and testament to name a guardian for your daughter.' Despite others advising him to 'keep his head down' in the hopes that the situation will 'blow over,' Taylor said, 'We know this guy, we don't think this will blow over.' 'I'm a guy from a small town in Indiana, and you don't just watch something this wrong happen and not say something,' he added. 'And we know that that means we're going to have to take more punches if we're out there. But this is just wrong.' Taylor also noted his family's feelings of isolation, noting that he has had close friends call to tell him that they need to keep their distance. However, Taylor emphasized that him speaking out is 'not so that people play the violin for me,' but so he can show how easy it is for the president 'to order a revenge investigation against an American.' 'Right now, this could be happening to anyone, and that's why we've decided to step out.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Hill
04-06-2025
- General
- The Hill
Ex-Homeland Security official Taylor fights back against probe: Trump creating a ‘modern blacklist'
Miles Taylor, a former deputy chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security during the first Trump administration who wrote an op-ed criticizing President Trump, said the president is creating a 'modern blacklist.' 'I think he wants to create a modern blacklist and have that blacklist ruin people's lives,' Taylor responded when asked what he believes Trump's plan is during an interview on MSNBC's 'Deadline White House.' 'Because it's a lot of effort to go through with trying to pursue and prosecute hundreds of your enemies,' he continued. 'All you need to do is try to successfully do that to a couple, to send a message, and that's what some of his officials have said.' Taylor wrote an op-ed for the New York Times in 2018 and later a book under the pseudonym 'Anonymous' about how some officials were working to thwart Trump's impulses. In April, Trump signed a memorandum directing the Department of Justice to investigate Taylor, saying he was likely 'guilty of treason.' Taylor added that officials have said Trump put forward the orders to investigate him, as well as Chris Krebs, who was ousted from his post as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in 2020, 'to send a message,' adding that 'to a certain extent, it works.' 'I'm the sole income earner in my household. I had to leave my job,' Taylor said. 'My wife, who's stayed home with our daughter, had to return to work so that we can buy diapers, so we can buy formula, so we can pay the mortgage. 'We had to go launch a legal defense fund, because we don't think we can pay for the legal bills for this type of thing.' Taylor, during an interview with the Associated Press, said the investigation sets a 'really, really, really scary precedent' because the president 'can now sign an order investigating any private citizen he wants, any critic, any foe, anyone.' 'I didn't commit any crime, and that's what's extraordinary about this. I can't think of any case where someone knows they're being investigated but has absolutely no idea what crime they allegedly committed. And it's because I didn't.' Taylor emphasized that there were also threats to his and his family's security in the wake of Trump's investigation, even adding that someone advised his wife and him to 'go update your last will and testament to name a guardian for your daughter.' Despite others advising him to 'keep his head down' in the hopes that the situation will 'blow over,' Taylor said, 'We know this guy, we don't think this will blow over.' 'I'm a guy from a small town in Indiana, and you don't just watch something this wrong happen and not say something,' he added. 'And we know that that means we're going to have to take more punches if we're out there. But this is just wrong.' Taylor also noted his family's feelings of isolation, noting that he has had close friends call to tell him that they need to keep their distance. However, Taylor emphasized that him speaking out is 'not so that people play the violin for me,' but so he can show how easy it is for the president 'to order a revenge investigation against an American.' 'Right now, this could be happening to anyone, and that's why we've decided to step out.'
