A gaggle of 15 pro-Trump social media personalities visited the White House for briefings with Trump administration officers and bought a drop-in go to from the president.
Some of the political commentators posed exterior the White House with white binders labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1.” Attorney General Pam Bondi has promised to launch extra authorities recordsdata concerning the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, though specialists have cautioned in opposition to expectations of any explosive revelations.
Jessica Reed Kraus, a Substack e-newsletter author, who was one of many invited friends, wrote on Instagram that “only 15 binders were printed, given to 15 independent journalists now included in a growing press pool, where influencers like myself will be granted equal access to the president and the White House.”
The notion that the briefing concerned “independent journalists” was undermined by the truth that a number of members walked out of the White House with Trump-branded hats.
The attendees additionally included Michael Cernovich, Liz Wheeler and Jack Posobiec, all three of whom have promoted pro-Trump conspiracy theories for years, and thus have on-line fan bases on the precise.
Cernovich wrote on X that Bondi “released what she had in her possession for the sake of transparency,” beneath embargo till later within the day.
Another one of many influencers in attendance, Emily Austin, posted a video exterior the White House holding up the binder and saying “Let’s make America safe again.”
But Julie Okay. Brown, the acclaimed Miami Herald reporter who investigated Epstein for years, stated the fabric believed to be within the binders “has been public since 2015. All one has to do is Google it.”
Brown additionally expressed concern concerning the triumphant means the web content material creators held up the binders exterior the White House.
“The sexual abuse of children is not funny – or cause to hold up files containing their agony as if it was some celebration,” she wrote on X.