Desk Notes | From Epstein Leaks to AI Freaks

Democrats' desperate distraction dissected—Wolff's schemes, Summers' chumminess, media misleads, no real Groyper takeover, dead loved ones digitized, and teeing up Tuesday's file vote showdown.

Heads up, folks—this edition of Desk Notes is a monster, and honestly, I had to rein myself in from piling on even more. I have this bad habit when I’m writing: I go to verify one little fact, stumble on another juicy crumb, and bam! Sudden novel.

Staying focused and concise? Not my strong suit. But hey, you wouldn’t be subscribed if you didn’t love a good deep dive in long-form glory.

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We’re talking dead center, so picture mattress-lifting feats of strength at 2 a.m., followed by crashing back to sleep just to drag myself up at 5 for the gym.

That’s why this one’s hitting your inbox a day late. Point is, bed’s calling.

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P.S. I’ve got some Thanksgiving fun brewing for next week.

In Desk Notes

Feature:

The Perfectly Timed Epstein Email Drop - Democrats cherry-picked three emails from 20,000 pages to create maximum Trump damage right as they faced shutdown blowback. But the redactions, omissions, and buried bombshells tell a very different story about who’s actually being protected. From Stacey Plaskett texting with Epstein during Cohen’s testimony to Obama’s White House Counsel staying friendly with a convicted predator, here’s everything the legacy media doesn’t want you to see.

Also Featuring:

• Epstein Emails: How to Spin a Narrative in Under 3 Minutes - A USA Today correspondent demonstrates every propaganda technique I outlined in my Epstein breakdown, complete with mysteriously time-traveling emails and ominous implications hanging in the air. It’s a masterclass in truth arranged to deceive.

• Does The GOP Really Have a Groyper Issue? - Legacy media desperately wants the right to have a Nazi problem. The New York Times spent a week building the narrative. But Emily Jashinsky actually picked up the phone and called people. Turns out the gap between “30-40% are antisemitic Groypers” and “their most offensive trait is liking Creed” is... substantial.

• When Your Grandma’s Avatar Asks How You’re Doing—And She’s Been Dead for 30 Years - A Disney Channel star just launched an AI app that lets you create digital avatars of dead relatives, and the ad is exactly as dystopian as you’re imagining. We’re living in a Black Mirror episode, except the company thinks it’s a feature, not a cautionary tale.

Ok let’s get into it!

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From the Archives

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The Perfectly Timed Epstein Email Drop

If you turned on MSNBC or CNN yesterday, you’d think the walls were closing in on Trump (again). Three “bombshell” emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s archive, carefully selected and released by House Democrats right as they were facing blowback for caving on the government shutdown and in the end getting nothing. Must distract, drop some emails.

Let me walk you through the sequence of events, and more importantly, what was left out.

What Actually Happened This Week

The House Oversight Committee obtained about 20,000 pages of documents from the Epstein estate via subpoena. Before the full release, Democrats on the committee, led by Rep. Robert Garcia, cherry-picked three emails to leak to The NY Times.

The players in the NYT emails:

• Jeffrey Epstein - convicted sex trafficker, dead since 2019

• Ghislaine Maxwell - currently serving 20 years in federal prison

• Michael Wolff - Trump obsessed author of dubious credibility who’s now a TikTok anti-Trump influencer

• And Trump, as the subject of their conversations

The emails span from 2011 to 2019, all written YEARS after Trump and Epstein’s relationship had ended. But if you just read the headlines, you’d miss that crucial detail.

The Redaction That Gives Away the Game

In the 2011 email from Epstein to Maxwell, Democrats redacted the name of the victim Epstein mentioned. The one where he wrote: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned.”

The Daily Mail and House Republicans immediately identified the redacted “VICTIM”: Virginia Giuffre.

Now, why would Democrats hide her name? Allow me to explain:

• First, Virginia Giuffre has been incredibly public about her experience. She wrote a memoir. She gave depositions. She did interviews. There’s zero privacy reason to redact her name—she’s not an anonymous victim.

• Second, and this is the big one: Giuffre consistently exonerated Trump. In a 2016 deposition, she explicitly said she never saw Trump participate in any sexual abuse. In her memoir “Nobody’s Girl,” she said Trump “couldn’t have been friendlier” when she worked at Mar-a-Lago and that he wasn’t involved in any wrongdoing.

  

  

• Third, Giuffre tragically died by suicide earlier this year. She’s not here to defend these characterizations or correct the record.

So Democrats redacted the name of a deceased victim who repeatedly cleared Trump of wrongdoing, because they know it would have undermined their narrative. It was not about the victims, or exposing the truth. It was all about controlling the narrative and the legacy media was all too happy to be led by the nose.

Here’s What You Need to Know About Trump and Epstein

Let’s establish the actual timeline, because context matters: