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Uncle Joe

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Wed Aug 20, 2025, 11:27 PM Aug 20

Ex-Trump Ally Couldn't Definitively Say He Isn't in Epstein Files

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee said that new testimony meant to exonerate Donald Trump did no such thing.

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Speaking on former Attorney General Bill Barr’s testimony before the Oversight Committee Tuesday, Garcia contradicted Oversight Chair James Comer, who claimed Barr said that “he had never seen anything that would implicate Trump in any of this.”

Instead, Garcia wrote in a statement, “Barr could not clear President Trump of wrongdoing.”

“Chairman Comer should release the entire unedited transcript of his interview to the public,” Garcia said.


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Since then, new reporting has pointed to several new ties between the pedophilic financier and the man sitting in the Oval Office, revealing that the pair had a remarkably close relationship. Some of those details include a salacious letter Trump penned to Epstein for the sex trafficker’s 50th birthday, and testimony from the former COO of Trump’s Atlantic City casino that placed Epstein and Trump with three underage girls in the late 1980s.

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https://newrepublic.com/post/199340/donald-trump-epstein-files-bill-barr-testimony
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