The Other 98%

06/19/2026

06/19/2026

Ghislaine Maxwell is doing her twenty-year sentence at a minimum-security camp in Texas, where a whistleblower says she spends her afternoons playing with puppies. The same administration that buried the Epstein files is the one that quietly moved her there.

She also gets after-hours gym access, customized meals, bottled water, and private TV time, the whistleblower says, the standard amenities of a low-security camp, granted to a woman convicted of procuring girls for Jeffrey Epstein.

As reported by the Associated Press and confirmed by NBC News and Fortune, Maxwell was quietly transferred last August from a low-security federal prison in Florida to Federal Prison Camp Bryan, a facility so loosely secured that parts of it have no fence.

Bureau of Prisons policy generally bars anyone with a s*x offender designation from being held in a minimum-security camp. Maxwell is a convicted child s*x trafficker. The policy says she should not qualify. She was moved anyway.

The transfer happened days after Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal defense lawyer and now the number two official at the Justice Department, personally interviewed Maxwell for two days. Maxwell is seeking a commutation from Trump.

Her lawyer has said she would be "eager" to testify in exchange for clemency. Trump has publicly mused that he is allowed to pardon her. So the sequence is this: the man overseeing the Epstein files sat down with the one living person who knows the most about them, and right after, she got moved to a country club.

This week, staff from the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees visited the camp to investigate. Blanche's Bureau of Prisons refused to answer their basic questions.

Representatives Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia accused him directly of a continued cover-up of Maxwell's preferential treatment. The BOP put out a statement insisting no "preference, special treatment, or political influence played any role."

A whistleblower had already told Congress it was "concierge-style."

Think about who does not get this. The 11-year-old separated from his mother twice. The people doing decades in actual prisons for far less. The survivors Maxwell helped traffic, who shouted "tell the truth" at Pam Bondi on her way into her own testimony last month.

Maxwell knew Epstein's secrets. Now she gets the puppies.

That is not how justice works. That is how silence gets paid for.

06/19/2026

Trump's own Republicans spent all day calling his Iran deal a surrender. So before sunrise, the President of the United States got on his phone and called them jealous, bad, or stupid.

This is what losing the room looks like.

For days, Trump has been selling a 14-point agreement with Iran as the triumph of the century. The problem is that his own side read it. And what they saw was not a victory.

The revolt came from inside the house. Nikki Haley, his former UN ambassador, summed up the deal in four words: "If this is true, Iran wins."

Senator Bill Cassidy said "Reagan is rolling over in his grave" and called it "the worst foreign policy blunder in decades."

Even on Fox News, his friendliest possible audience, former Republican congressman Trey Gowdy looked at the deal and asked the question nobody on Trump's team could answer: "How are we better off? What did we get?"

These are not Democrats. These are Trump's own people, hawks and loyalists, telling him to his face that he got played.

So how did the self-proclaimed master dealmaker respond to the criticism? Not with an argument, not with a defense of the deal, but with a pre-dawn meltdown.

Before the sun was up, fresh off his red-eye home from the G7, Trump posted this:

"These fools, who think I haven't been tough enough on Iran, when the Stock Market Just Hit A RECORD HIGH, and Oil prices are 'tumbling' down, are either jealous, bad people, or stupid. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"

Comical.

His entire response to substantive criticism from his own party is to call them names and change the subject to the stock market. No answer on the sanctions relief. No answer on Iran rebuilding. No answer on what America actually gained.

Just "jealous, bad people, or stupid," typed out in the dark like a man who can't sleep because he knows they're right.

This is the tough guy. This is the closer who wrote the book on deals. The moment his own allies tell him the emperor has no clothes, he doesn't push back on the merits. He throws a tantrum at 4 in the morning.

Thirteen Americans came home in caskets from this war. Families have paid billions at the pump. Iran gets to rebuild. And the President's closing argument to the people pointing this out is essentially “they're just stupid.”

The dealmaker got out-dealt, and everyone on his own side can see it. The only one still pretending otherwise is the man rage-tweeting in the middle of the night.

06/19/2026

US voters support abolishing the Electoral College by a 2 to 1 margin.

Americans back abolishing the Electoral College by a 2 to 1 margin, the survey shows.