Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
Director, http://defendingdemocracytogether.org. Editor at large & Morning Shots co-author, http://thebulwark.com. Host, http://conversationswithbillkristol.org
“In a court memo filed on July 8, 2019, two days after his arrest, DOJ outlined some of the evidence they had seized. This included stacks of compact disks labeled “Young [Name] + [Name].” In short, Epstein kept a carefully curated library of videos…” thehill.com/opinion/white-…
“The fact that all this redirection is so blatant doesn’t mean it’s insignificant. It tells us a lot about Trump’s current mental state (clearly concerned about the Epstein saga) and how ludicrous our system of governance is with him sitting on top of it.” thebulwark.com/p/andry-is-fre…
“The CECOT experiment might have failed (for now) thanks in part to the legal and political pushback this administration received. But the fight against this barbarous immigration regime is only just beginning.” thebulwark.com/p/andry-is-fre…
“I wanted to just feel joy that he could go home…But I couldn’t. What I felt, instead, was rage over how outrageous it was...It seems the Germans should have invented a word in the ‘40s that sums up the feeling when a person survives fascist barbarity…” thebulwark.com/p/andry-is-fre…
NEW. The Trump-Epstein scandal isn’t going away. The crimes are awful, the coverup is real, and more will come out. youtube.com/watch?v=WaVreA…
Pathetic attempt at diversion by Donald Trump from the crimes that he (at the very least) winked at and the coverup he's now directing.
NEW. @SarahLongwell25 and I on Epstein’s past crimes and Trump’s present coverup, how scandals like this often progress and why coverups unravel, and what developments may lie ahead. youtube.com/live/WaVreAvCI…
Trump: “People don’t explain to me, I explain to them.” Now apply this to Pam Bondi. Pam Bondi didn’t explain the results on an investigation to Trump. Trump explained to Bondi the conclusion he wanted.
A crime & a coverup. Trump was at least adjacent to a massive, repulsive criminal enterprise. As president Trump is directing the coverup of this enterprise. Six months into his term, almost no one expected the Epstein case to pose a grave threat to his presidency. But it does.
“But there is a log of instances Donald Trump is mentioned in the files, there are video and PDF trainings instructing analysts to flag Trump, there were multiple instances of Trump appearing in the files…” muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstein-…
With more developments likely on the Trump-Epstein front, Trump will ramp up efforts at distraction, demagoguery, attacks on enemies (e.g. Gabbard’s fake revelation yesterday), and authoritarianism. Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country.
We sued to unseal the docs that revealed the extent of Epstein & Maxwell’s sex trafficking operation. The lawsuit by Trump opens the door to learning the extent of his friendship with Trump.
Ghislaine Maxwell sued Virginia Giuffre for defamation and it didn’t go so well for Maxwell — who is now serving 20 plus years in prison. All the incriminating discovery in that defamation case became public as a result of @MiamiHerald cnbc.com/2025/07/18/tru…
“Mar-a-Lago played a key role…Virginia Giuffre, a victim of Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring who said she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” as a teenager to rich and powerful predators, was recruited into Epstein’s employment at Mar-a-Lago.” nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/…
"He was happy to encourage the most reckless speculation about a pedophile conspiracy while he was running for office, but now that the worm has turned, he’s suddenly concerned about 'innocent' people being hurt." Since that *isn't* his concern - what is? thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-cau…
What an important point by @jkbjournalist back in February and ever more relevant. "Pam Bondi was Florida's attorney general 2011-2109... questions should be asked about why she didn't take up the [Epstein] case - or launch a probe - when she was attorney general in Florida."
It's interesting to note that Pam Bondi was Florida's attorney general 2011-2109 -- a period of time when Jeffrey Epstein's plane records became public, victims' lawsuits were filed and a lot of new evidence against Epstein surfaced. So questions should be asked about why she…
Bottom line: Did the Obama Administration manufacture false intelligence to implicate Russian interference in the 2016 election? No. The documents show a methodical, multi-agency process, all concluding Russia was behind the DNC hacks and intended to influence perceptions…
Maybe it’s just me, but I will say that I find the normal, Washington D.C. reportorial voice and attitude—worldly, knowing, ironic—off-putting when writing about a child rapist.