New Epstein Docs Drop — And the Swamp Starts Sweating

Fresh House files crack open the Epstein network again — and D.C.’s most powerful names are pretending not to know a thing.

Good Morning, it’s Sunday, October 19th, 2025.

Washington’s pretending not to hear it, but the House Oversight Committee just dropped a political bomb — hundreds of new Epstein documents, including testimony from Trump’s former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta. Suddenly, a lot of “untouchables” are sweating through their custom suits.

Meanwhile, 100,000 protesters in Times Square are screaming “No Kings,” Obamacare’s ghost enrollees are draining $35 billion in taxpayer cash, and California’s PR king Gavin Newsom is lying through his teeth again. Business as usual — except the mask is slipping.

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The Epstein Files Just Got Uglier

The House Oversight Committee just cracked open a new batch of Jeffrey Epstein documents — and Washington is squirming.

Among the hundreds of pages dropped late Friday: a full transcript of former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s September testimony. Acosta, who served under Trump during his first term, is still defending his 2008 plea deal that let Epstein dodge serious federal charges and serve just 13 months in a cushy Florida jail.

In the 172-page interview, Acosta told lawmakers that “a billionaire going to jail sends a strong signal,” adding that forcing Epstein to register as a sex offender “put the world on notice.” Democrats weren’t impressed. Oversight Committee Democrats accused him of “continuing to deny” the sweetheart deal that allowed Epstein to keep assaulting women for another decade.

The new files also include letters from former Attorneys General Eric Holder and Merrick Garland, as well as ex–FBI Director James Comey — all claiming they had no knowledge of the case. Convenient timing for three of Washington’s most powerful lawmen, each of whom served under Democratic administrations that never fully confronted Epstein’s network.

What’s more, the bipartisan duo of Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) are one signature away from forcing the Justice Department to release the rest of the files. That final signature would come from Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who’s waiting to be sworn in — a process delayed by Speaker Mike Johnson during the ongoing government shutdown. Johnson insists the holdup “has nothing to do” with the Epstein petition. Washington veterans know better: timing is never an accident.

Trump’s name, predictably, appears in the files — but so do Elon Musk and Prince Andrew. The difference? Trump cut ties years ago, saying Epstein acted like “a creep” at Mar-a-Lago. Funny how that quote never makes it into CNN’s coverage.

The broader picture here isn’t about one man’s crimes — it’s about a justice system that bent over backward to protect him. Epstein’s empire reached into the highest levels of business, media, and government. Yet every new “release” seems carefully managed to protect the same class that enabled him.

The left wants to make this a Trump-adjacent story. The real scandal is that every administration before and after him protected Epstein’s web of elites. Until the DOJ dumps the full archive, the swamp stays murky — and America keeps wondering who’s still hiding under the surface.

Bottom line: Epstein may be dead, but the cover-up is alive and well.

‘No Kings’ Floods NYC. The Message? ‘Disgusting.’

At least 100,000 anti-Trump protesters jammed Times Square on Saturday, chanting “No Kings” and waving signs comparing the president to fascists. Fox News Digital interviewed attendees on the ground; one man warned America is “halfway down the slope,” another said the administration is “abetted by a fascist media.” The march moved down 7th Avenue without major incident — heavy on theatrics, light on specifics.

The rhetoric was spicy. Placards read “No Führers,” others took aim at ICE. A woman battling cancer blamed Trump for her family’s looming insurance cancellation in 2026; another tourist feared her same-sex marriage “might not be valid anymore.” An Antifa sticker was slapped onto a street sign as the crowd passed — a neat visual for critics, given Trump’s 2025 designation of Antifa as a domestic terror organization.

The movement has spread nationwide since June and pulled in big-left names: Sen. Bernie Sanders rallied in D.C. while NYC organizers framed Trump as a monarch busting checks and balances. The White House didn’t blink. Asked about deployments or protests, spokesperson Abigail Jackson shrugged: “Who cares?”

Bottom line: Huge crowd, hotter slogans, same thesis — Trump as “king.” But beneath the viral footage, the case still rests on vibes, not violations.

Obamacare’s $35 Billion Ghost Scandal

Turns out Biden’s “affordable” health care boom is haunted.

A new Paragon Health Institute study finds that under Biden’s pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies, taxpayers shelled out $35 billion in 2024 for “patients” who never filed a single claim — no doctor visits, no prescriptions, no lab tests. Roughly 12 million people fit that category last year, including 6.4 million so far in 2025.

That’s not free health care — that’s government-sponsored ghost insurance.

The so-called temporary COVID sweeteners turned Obamacare into a taxpayer-funded ATM for insurers and shady enrollment intermediaries. The feds made coverage “zero premium” for millions, enrollment doubled, and oversight vanished. Analysts now suspect massive fraud: fake sign-ups, double enrollments, and even call-center scams churning out policies for people who don’t know they’re “covered.”

Even CMS, the federal agency running the exchanges, admits something stinks — finding 2.8 million Americans enrolled in overlapping programs like Medicaid and ACA plans at the same time.

Critics like Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) say Biden’s subsidies are “corporate welfare,” funneling billions to insurers under the guise of helping families. But Democrats are drawing a shutdown line in the sand — demanding another $350 billion over the next decade to keep the subsidies alive.

The left calls it compassion. The math calls it corruption.

Bottom line: Obamacare’s newest “success story” is a $35 billion ghost operation — proof that once Washington starts printing free benefits, it stops checking who’s actually cashing them.

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The Cover-Up That Outlived the Criminal

Epstein’s empire was supposed to die with him. It didn’t.

The House Oversight Committee’s new file dump exposes how every layer of the DOJ — from Holder to Garland — helped cushion Epstein’s fall. Even Comey’s FBI played the “we didn’t know” card.

Inside Ledger 021:

• The Holder memo proving DOJ softened Epstein’s case.

• The timeline of suppressed evidence.

• The bipartisan power play delaying the final file release.

They say the truth can’t be buried. Funny — it keeps ending up sealed in D.C. vaults.

Read Ledger 021: “The Epstein Files Just Got Uglier.”

All receipts. No ritual cleanups.

The Epstein files prove it yet again: America doesn’t have a justice system — it has a hierarchy. The rich get sealed documents, the rest get sealed indictments. But sunlight is coming, and it’s bipartisan this time.

The Left wants to make it about Trump; the Right wants to make it about hypocrisy. But the truth? It’s about power. Who has it, who hides it, and who’s finally willing to expose it.

If the DOJ keeps stalling, the public will do what D.C. won’t — drag this rot into daylight.

Because secrets don’t stay buried forever.

~ Scott 🇺🇸

P.S. Here’s my take: the Epstein scandal isn’t ancient history — it’s a live feed of how the elite protect their own. Trump cut ties when he saw what Epstein was. Others kept partying.

So, your turn — do you think we’ll ever see the full Epstein list, or will the swamp bury it for good? Hit reply and tell me where you stand.

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