The allegations against President Donald Trump made in the latest trove of Epstein files are ‘untrue and sensationalist,’ the Department of Justice has claimed.
Thousands of new files, including hundreds of videos or audio recordings, linked to Jeffrey Epstein‘s case were made public by the DOJ this morning.
Trump was named in several documents, some of which contained vile allegations that the DOJ said were probed by the FBI and determined to be ‘unfounded and false.’ The Daily Mail has approached the White House for comment.
The latest dump comes as Trump told reporters how he ‘hated’ seeing photos of Bill Clinton in the Epstein files, arguing how ‘everybody was friendly’ with Epstein before his crimes were unveiled.
Trump blasted ‘Democrats and a couple of bad Republicans’ for releasing the Epstein files, which heavily featured Clinton, and said it was ‘terrible’ seeing the former president in them.
He also acknowledged how photos of him had been included in the files, noting that there are likely ‘pictures being exposed of other people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago’.
To communicate, we often must ignore the truth or falsity of a statement, our own or someone else’s.
I believe it is an instinct to do this; that it is part of our instinct to communicate at all. Communication requires cooperation, an agreement to be agreeable enough to get the message through.
We might call ignoring truth or falsity in communication “truth elision” or “psychological elision.” Elision means to omit something. Psychological elision would mean omitting or not mentioning psychological truths.
We do a lot of truth elision to save time. In professional or group settings it is hard to communicate any other way because there is not enough time to be perfectly truthful and most people will not care. They just want to socialize and/or get the job done, not search for truth.
Most communication is like that. Most messages are not even superficially analyzed. Semiotics glide through our minds without any thought to their deep origins or interpretations. Truth and falsity are frequently elided.
Like all instincts, our instinct to cooperate by ignoring the truth or falsity of many statements can be misused to consciously deceive.
Indeed, we frequently deceive even ourselves by accepting our own statements as true when analysis would show they are not. One way we succeed in doing this to ourselves is by simply avoiding the analysis—analysis elision.
This is where a simple instinct starts to go bad. A basic need to cooperate on the signs and symbols of communication gets twisted into tricking people, deceiving them, even deceiving ourselves.
The way to see this most clearly and to stop doing it with at least one other person is FIML practice. One of my main goals for this website is to show how and why communication goes bad and how and why it harms us. At the same time, I present a practical way to fix the problem described—FIML.
_________________
I think the above sheds light on false confessions and pretty much all self-abnegating lying on the spectrum trending down from a false confession with legal consequences.
Abusers work these ill-defined and difficult to grasp areas to dominate, entrap, and manipulate others. Narcissists and other “strong” or “clever” dark personality types use our fundamental willingness to cooperate against us.
Gas lighting greatly relies on people’s willingness to ignore truths and accept falsities about themselves. If there is more than one gas lighter at work, victims may even accept blame for things they know with certainty are not true.
As with so much in this world, immoral people put time and energy into fooling those who have not put time or energy into the dark arts.
Mass mind-control preys on our mass susceptibility to believe the story that first comes out; the story that is approved by the ‘authorities’ and mass media; the story that is embraced and recited by our friends and family. Mind-control relies on our need to conform and our fear of being ostracized and criticized for straying from the mass instinct to be the same as others.
Buddhists all know about wise compassion. We also need wise understanding of the world and wise cautiousness about the full scope of human motivations.
Our tendencies to go along with falsity can be seen in every part of life, from small corners of our own lives to the great expanses of entire societies.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) briefly posted and then removed a 12-second video that appeared to show Jeffrey Epstein attempting to commit suicide in his Manhattan jail cell. The grainy footage showed a man in an orange jumpsuit, purportedly Epstein, on his knees beside his bunk, seemingly trying to choke himself, with a timestamp indicating 4:29 a.m. on August 10, 2019—about two hours before he was found dead.
However, the video was quickly identified as likely fake. Reports indicated it had circulated on 4chan and was not authentic surveillance footage. Analysis revealed inconsistencies such as mismatched cell doors and unnatural orange “puddles” resembling prison clothes, suggesting digital alteration. The video was not original to the DOJ; it had been sent to investigators in 2021 by an independent journalist who found it on the dark web, and it was included in the document release as an attachment to an email questioning its authenticity.
The DOJ uploaded the video as part of a large document dump released on December 19, 2025, ahead of an 11:59 p.m. deadline. It was removed shortly afterward amid growing public and media scrutiny over its legitimacy, with the incident sparking controversy about the handling and verification of materials in the release.
A priest involved with casting demons out of humans has shared the most common possession he has witnessed.
Reverend Chris Lee, the Anglican priest-in-charge at St. Saviour’s Church in England, recently spoke with UNILAD, pulling the curtain back on the reality of spiritual oppression, which he said is far more common than full demonic possession.
He described it as a subtle but persistent influence of evil that affects a person’s mind, emotions and spiritual well-being.
Unlike full possession, where a demon allegedly takes direct control of a person’s body, oppression is more about lingering negativity or interference.
It can show up as fear, anxiety, restlessness or a feeling of being spiritually burdened.
Lee compared it to residual grime from a puddle, as the person is not overtaken, but traces of harmful influence remain and can affect daily life.
For most cases, Lee emphasized, prayer, blessing and spiritual cleansing are the typical ways to alleviate oppression.
Despite the rarity of full possession, Lee said he has seen real demons cast out, describing the experiences as tangible and unmistakable.
‘I have seen exorcism, I’ve seen demons be cast out of people and heard them speak, and it is real,’ he said.
Ancestrally, physical violence from conspecifics was a recurrent adaptive problem. Did selection favor preferences for partners who are both strong (highly able) and willing to protect us from violence? Strength and willingness are interrelated, so dissociating their effects is necessary. Here we assessed both inferences and preferences. In 7 experiments (N = 4,508 U.S. adults recruited via MTurk), we systematically varied the willingness of a date or friend to physically protect you from an attack, compared to scenarios where you do not have this information. We also varied that person’s strength. Discovering that a person is willing to protect greatly increased their attractiveness as a romantic partner or friend, regardless of their strength. This held for both women and men raters, and when evaluating both opposite- and same-sex dates and friends. In fact, partners who were willing to protect were attractive even if they tried to do so but failed, and even if you were harmed because of their failure. Discovering that a partner is unwilling to protect decreased their attractiveness, and was a deal-breaker for women evaluating a male date. Unwillingness decreased attractiveness more when the rater was a woman, when the target was a man, and when the target was being evaluated as a date versus friend. Women placed some importance on a male date’s strength, but this was mostly due to inferences about his willingness to protect them. Surprisingly, we found only weak evidence that differences in strength, independent of willingness, increased the attractiveness of a partner.
Willingness to protect also signals good qualities in other spheres of thought and behavior. Physical bravery is a significant foundation for intellectual and spiritual bravery. My partner gets an A+ in these and related fields.
One reason Western civilization is suffering malaise and disunion is our ‘leaders’ have entirely failed to protect us, even acted against us. And that is a clear sign they are infiltrators and traitors, not real leaders.
Interpersonal emotions are fractal microcosms of our meso- and macro-sense of the well-being of our societies. ABN
I’ve never been a fan of Jones but have been OK with his doing what he does, until this — implying Candace Owens might be having a ‘mental-breakdown, psychosis’.
That is disgraceful, super-dishonest and dangerous to Owens, who is arguably the best journalist in the world today.
I don’t know how much Jones was paid to say this or if he is just a total POS. Either way, he went from sort of OK in my mind to total garbage, a backstabber.
Jones’ talk is classic mind-control preprogramming before someone is suicided, lobotomized, drugged into psychosis or murdered in public like Charlie Kirk.
It is chilling, horrible. No way, Jones doesn’t know what he’s doing
Candace Owens is pioneering crowd-sourced journalism in real-time.
The information she discovers herself and receives from others is provocative, relevant, significant and fascinating.
To say that I am happy with President Trump’s approach toward the use of White House emissaries to conduct official business around the capture mechanisms of the administrative state would be an understatement. I’m positively thrilled to watch this untraditional approach in action.
Are there approaches, strategies and general things I would prefer to see differently; sure, there are. However, I’m just an audience member without any need to keep gravity maintained while figuring out ways to satisfy billionaire donors, key interests and strategic partners. On this balancing act, President Trump is doing awesome work.
President Trump is ducking and weaving through some of the deepest Machiavellian constructs, while maintaining forward progress.
To put context to it, these creeps have had four years to strategize how to control Trump and manipulate policy with their retention of all sorts of government agencies in alignment with the status quo. Yet, remarkably President Trump is dancing through their deep state minefield while keeping dozens of plates spinning on sticks. The use of non-traditional emissaries is really making them angry.
Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin has long said publicly he does not consider America or the American people to be adversaries of Russia. Instead, Vladimir Putin views the CIA as his adversary; he is always clear to draw the distinction.
The Deep State does not like President Trump’s use of emissaries to conduct foreign policy. In fact, they oppose it strongly; they hate it.
That is exactly why this approach is needed, and it is very good to see it being done.
The “emissary” is the person who carries the word of President Trump to any person identified by President Trump. The emissary is very much like a tape recording of President Trump in human form. The emissary travels to a location, meets a particular person or group, and then recites the opinion of the President. The words spoken by the emissary, are the words of President Trump.
The IC cannot inject themselves into this dynamic; that is why it is so valuable.
The emissary then hears the response from the intended person or group, repeats it back to them to ensure he/she will return with clarity of intent as expressed, and then returns to the office of the presidency and repeats the reply for the President. The emissary recites back exactly what he was /is told.
This process is critical when you understand how thoroughly compromised the full Executive Branch is. More importantly, this process becomes even more critical when you accept the Intelligence Community will lie to the office of the President to retain their power and position.
It is important to keep this in mind. You never get everything you want in politics, but Trump is doing more than any other president in recent history, while the odds and forces against him are powerful and many. ABN
Note: This is a satirical xiangsheng (相聲/crosstalk) routine by Taiwanese comedian Huang Yihao (黃逸豪), performed recently and widely shared online. The humor relies on exaggeration, wordplay, and direct political mockery, highlighting contrasts in freedom of expression between Taiwan and mainland China. The poem at the end is a classic crosstalk punchline structure.
Chinese crosstalk comedy can be difficult to understand if you are not a native speaker, but some of the skits are understandable, and their humor readily accessible. I am posting this skit because it has become very popular, mainly for its political content, and also to introduce this Chinese comedic artform to readers who may be interested. ABN
Original Chinese Text (Transcription from the Performance)（逗哏：黃逸豪）現在的事，看今朝，在西方，有一東方大國。（捧哏：地理位置太亂了！）這國家亂的不只是地理位置！此人身高約莫一米七八，大背頭、小眼睛、短脖子、肉鼻頭、身形肥膩、貌似維尼。（觀眾大笑）上台之後，廢除任期，修憲連任，港版國安，香港不安，一國兩制，變成一國一制，動態清零，封城三年，經濟崩壞，民不聊生，房地產爆雷，地方債務高築，青年失業率高達20%，白紙革命，民怨沸騰，戰狼外交，四處樹敵，舉國之力堵悠悠之口，愚民排外成就千古一帝。這正是：治國猶如翻大餅， 麾下戰狼粉紅兵。 倒車油門總加速， 第一傻X習近平！（全場熱烈鼓掌，觀眾齊喊：第一傻X習近平！）
English Translation:
Things nowadays, look at the present: In the West, there is an Eastern power.(Straight man: The geography is too messed up!) This country’s chaos isn’t just in its geography! This person is about 1.78 meters tall, with a big slicked-back hairstyle, small eyes, short neck, fleshy nose, plump figure, resembling Winnie the Pooh. (Audience laughs) After coming to power, he abolished term limits, amended the constitution for lifelong rule; the Hong Kong National Security Law made Hong Kong insecure; “one country, two systems” became “one country, one system”; dynamic zero-COVID led to three years of lockdowns; the economy collapsed, people struggled to survive; real estate bubble burst, local debts skyrocketed; youth unemployment reached 20%; the White Paper Revolution with boiling public resentment; wolf warrior diplomacy creating enemies everywhere; using the power of the whole nation to silence public opinion, fooling the people and fostering xenophobia to achieve the status of an emperor for eternity. This is exactly: Governing the country is like flipping a big pancake, With wolf warriors and little pinks as soldiers under command. Always accelerating in reverse, The number one idiot Xi Jinping! (Audience applauds enthusiastically and shouts in unison: The number one idiot Xi Jinping!)
Taiwanese comedian Huang Yihao’s xiangsheng routine mocks Xi Jinping’s policies like COVID lockdowns, Hong Kong’s security law, and term-limit abolition, delivered in traditional crosstalk style with exaggerated gestures and props for comedic effect.
The skit, shared widely on X since December 21, 2025, highlights Taiwan’s press freedoms, contrasting mainland China’s 2023 crackdown on similar satire that fined a comedian’s firm $3.1 million for a military slogan joke.
Online reactions split along political lines: pro-independence users hail its boldness and superior humor to censored Chinese acts, while some critics decry the Taiwanese accent as disqualifying it from true xiangsheng tradition.
Chinese Crosstalk Tradition
Xiangsheng, commonly known as crosstalk, is a traditional Chinese comedic performing art that originated in the late Qing Dynasty, with roots potentially extending back to the Ming Dynasty. It is typically performed as a dialogue between two performers, though it can also be a monologue or a group act. The art form is characterized by rapid, bantering exchanges rich in puns, wordplay, and allusions, often delivered in the Tianjin dialect or with a strong northern Chinese accent. The term “xiangsheng” literally means “face and voice,” reflecting the interplay between the performers’ expressions and vocal delivery.
The performance relies on four core skills: speaking (shuō), which involves storytelling and joke-telling; imitating (xué), including accents, dialects, and sounds from traditional Chinese opera; teasing (dòu), considered the soul of the act; and singing (chàng), limited to specific lyrical forms like Taiping lyrics The lead performer is called the dougen (逗哏), while the supporting performer is the penggen (捧哏) Historically, xiangsheng began as street performance in teahouses and public spaces, particularly in regions like Beijing’s Tianqiao, Tianjin’s Quanyechang, and Nanjing’s Confucius Temple
Following up on my post about the Fort Wachuca secret meeting and Erika Kirk’s possible attendance. New information has surfaced that Rep. Mark Amodei staffer Annemarie Vogedes (Rural Representative in his Reno office) looks UNCANNILY similar to Erika Kirk – potentially explaining the eyewitness “Mitch’s” ID at the Fort Huachuca meeting.
Confirmed: Annemarie is real staff (listed on Amodei’s official site). She’s Nevada-based, former Miss Rodeo Nevada contestant – total local insider who could absolutely travel with a Nevada congressman to an Arizona base.
If Mitch mistook her for Erika due to the striking resemblance… that clears Erika but raises HUGE questions:
Why was Amodei’s “rural rep” at a ultra-secret early-morning meeting with lt. colonels the day before Charlie’s assassination?
Did she go with Amodei (whose alibi is still shaky)?
What was congressional staff doing there?
This isn’t debunking the meeting – it’s making the puzzle DEEPER.
Candace said they’re open to misidentification… but now we need answers from Amodei & Vogedes.
Truth seekers: Is this the innocent explanation… or convenient cover?
The hair color does not match. Vogedes’ hair is red, seen in these and other photos. Link above has more details. It’s possible Mitch IDed Erika incorrectly, but then the question arises why was Amodei’s staffer there that day? That would greatly strengthen that he was present at the secret meeting. ABN
American Buddhist Net 
