The Epstein election: @mj_lee looks at how Jeffrey Epstein is looming large over some of the biggest races this election.

This WSJ story on John Fetterman is wild especially on him blowing off a meeting with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia who were concerned about Medicaid cards: “Behind closed doors, the first-term senator shows little interest in doing the job beyond cultivating relationships figures and advocating for Israel.” wsj.com/politics/polic…

Exclusive: Survivors say Jeffrey Epstein gave celebrity stylist Frédéric Fekkai’s salon "instructions" to make them look younger w/ @NickyGRobertson

When one woman told a hair stylist the cut she wanted, she was told: “Those aren’t the instructions I got.”

A second woman: “He had instructions and that’s all.”

They say this all happened at Frédéric Fekkai’s salon -- and Jeffrey Epstein sent them there cnn.com/2026/09/04/pol…

Kathy Ruemmler told lawmakers in her interview about Jeffrey Epstein that Virginia Giuffre "lacked inherent credibility."

On If she believed Giuffre was a victim of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Ruemmler said: “I don’t know.” @emsteck @AnnieGrayerCNN cnn.com/2026/07/29/pol…

Sky and Amanda Roberts said in a new statement about Ruemmler: "She should be ashamed of herself."

Roza's story shows how Jeffrey Epstein used the Florida Science Foundation -- a non-profit he created in 2007 shortly before he entered his guilty plea -- to continue abusing girls.

She thought she'd be answering the phones on the weekends to supplement her modeling income.

Then there is the modeling industry, and specifically, the agency that lured Roza to the US. She says MC2's former president, Jeff Fuller, has not responded to her recent outreach, and that what he recently told CNN -- that he never saw abuse -- breaks her heart even more.

Jeff Fuller, who is now with the Source Models, told me that he "did not know Roza was going to Mr. Epstein's home." He also said his knowledge of Epstein's 2008 conviction was "general at the time; I didn't follow it closely."

Exclusive: Roza Gilles was an 18-year-old model from Uzbekistan when Jeffrey Epstein abused her for the first time -- while he was wearing an ankle monitor and serving jail time.

“I never told any soul about this. I thought I’m going to die if I do.”

Roza's story offers a vivid window into Epstein’s controversial 2008 plea deal.
It allowed Epstein to continue abusing young women even as he was serving time -- at times, while a sheriff’s officer was in the next room, survivors say. w/ @NickyGRobertson
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Hard to overstate how terribly Epstein survivors and some of their lawyers felt their meeting with Todd Blanche went today.

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Jeffrey Epstein survivors just left DOJ after meeting with Todd Blanche looking stricken, and mostly didn't say anything to reporters.

One survivor told me afterwards the meeting "felt like a waste of time" and that they were deeply frustrated.

Survivors felt Blanche was repeatedly telling them, in effect, that they need to report their crimes again to FBI and provide corroboration.

Sky Roberts, Virginia Giuffre's brother, told reporters there's "a little ways to go here,” though he did not elaborate.

NEW: Todd Blanche has arrived on Capitol Hill for a possible meeting with Epstein survivors.

I'm told DOJ offered survivors a meeting w/ Alessandra Serano, the coordinator for child exploitation, and they rejected it, saying it must be with Blanche.

As they wait for confirmation, some Epstein survivors who had already left DC are debating whether to turn around.

Some have also called their lawyers to get advice (the lawyers are likely to join virtually if a Blanche meeting happens given many are not based in DC.)

Sen. Tillis just said Todd Blanche needs to meet with Epstein survivors before he can support Blanche's nomination: “I expect that meeting to occur before I'm willing to vote out of this committee."

A big deal for survivors who have been asking for such a meeting for months.

New: The House Oversight Committee has discussed with Jeffrey Epstein survivors the possibility of the women providing affidavits about longtime Epstein assistant Lesley Groff.

This comes on the heels of survivors telling CNN that Groff lied to the committee last month.

One Epstein survivor and two family members of another victim also told CNN that they were asked by the committee to comb through the transcript of Groff’s interview and alert the committee to anything that looks problematic.

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