Right-wing Twitter provocateurs have posed outside the White House holding binders containing ‘the Epstein files’ given out by the attorney general.
However, the hotly-anticipated documents contained only 200 pages of his flight logs and contact lists – which have already been public for years.
Pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein took his own life in jail on August 10, 2019, awaiting trial for sex trafficking and other heinous crimes.
The well-connected financier kept a wide circle of friends from fellow billionaires to politicians like Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, and entertainment icons.
Epstein flew numerous well-heeled friends to his private Caribbean island, Little Saint James, where some of them sexually abused children.
Many Americans have been waiting for the lengthy FBI investigation files to be released publicly after Trump promised to do so before he was reelected.
Attorney-General Pam Bondi on Thursday released the 200 pages to a group of Twitter personalities friendly to Trump.
They included Jessica Reed Kraus, Rogan O’Handley, Liz Wheeler, Chaya Raichik, Mike Cernovich, Jack Pasobiec, Emily Austin, Savanah Hernandez, and Chad Prather.
Right-wing Twitter provocateurs Rogan O’Handley, also known as DC Draino, Chaya Raichik, who runs Libs of TikTok, Liz Wheeler, and Jack Posobiec at the White House
The posed outside the White House holding binders containing ‘the Epstein files’ given out by the attorney general
Various other social media personalities friendly to the Trump Administration also received the documents, which one said were only 15 total
Kraus claimed that only 15 of the white folders marked ‘The Epstein Files: Phase 1’ with ‘declassified’ stamped across the front, were printed.
The Justice Department is still waiting for the full tranche of documents to be sent over by the FBI.
The unorthodox move followed other Trump Administration efforts to empower fringe social media figures and highly partisan outlets that enthusiastically support him, at the expense of the more critical mainstream media.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt this week announced her office would pick the outlets in the rotating press pool, instead of the White House Correspondents Association.
Sure enough, fringe right-wing publications were almost immediately included in the outlets given the closest access to the president.
‘Today, at a briefing room in the White House, I was handed a binder with the first release of the Epstein files – by Attorney General Pam Bondi herself,’ Kraus wrote.
‘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.
Chad Prather, who found fame after his song ‘Unapologetically Southern’ went viral in 2015
‘Proof that a powerful shift is happening – Trump walked in and told us we are the most trusted media now. And that he counts our efforts as the reason he won.
‘Under his term, Independent journalism will be briefed the same as legacy outlets are. Our inclusion has officially broken their monopoly over White House access.
‘The era of controlled narratives is over. The truth belongs to the people. ‘Thank you Trump for recognizing our hard work and taking us in.’
Jessica Reed Kraus
Known as House in Habit on Twitter, Kraus began as a home improvement Instagram page and sold items on Etsy with her husband.
Her content evolved during the Britney Spears conservatorship case and she later attended the Ghislaine Maxwell and Harvey Weinstein trials by soliciting donations from her fans, and posted her reactions.
Kraus also posted about the Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard trail, heavily favoring Depp and airing gossip about her. She claimed to speak to and then meet Depp as a result of her posts.
She started supporting conspiracy theories during Covid lockdowns and backing Trump and particularly Robert F Kennedy Jr, and pitched herself to their campaign as being able to help win over women.
For her service, she was invited to Trump’s Super Bowl party and Mar-a-Lago.
‘They drink well, dress up, get loud, bedazzle the hell outta their accessories, love this country unapologetically, and believe that Donald Trump’s reign is a God-granted gift to save us from woke infestation and communism,’ she said of MAGA.
Rogan O’Handley
Better known as DC Draino, he is is a former entertainment lawyer who has an audience of over five million on Facebook and Instagram combined.
He switched to political commentating after Trump won the 2016 election, and named his account after Trump’s vow to ‘drain the swamp’ of DC.
O’Handley moved to South Florida and ramped up his far-right rhetoric, backing all Trump’s talking points. His content was criticized as being anti-LGBTQ.
‘People will be going to jail for what they’ve done,’ he claimed after being handed the binder, despite it containing zero new information.
Rogan O’Handley hold one of the white folders that were marked ‘The Epstein Files: Phase 1’ with ‘declassified’ stamped across the front
Liz Wheeler
Wheeler is a conspiracy theorist who made a name for herself hosting Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler on far-right cable channel One America News Network.
Her brand got a huge boost when she spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2016 and she published a book in 2019.
Wheeler, a devout Catholic, claimed Americans were ‘replacing God with government’, which was why she got into political punditry.
She has promoted conspiracy theories including that a California bill was going to ban bibles (it actually targeted gay ‘conversion therapy’) and called Black Lives Matter protesters ‘trained Marxists’.
Wheeler then falsely claimed on her podcast in May 2021 that a ‘peer reviewed, scientific study showed that the Covid vaccine causes two deaths for every three lives it saves’.
Then in March 2022 she falsely claimed the Hepatitis B vaccine for babies was unsafe and unnecessary, and in January 2023 that the Covid vaccine was causing ‘a “surge” in athlete deaths and injuries’.
Liz Wheeler is a conspiracy theorist who made a name for herself hosting Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler on far-right cable channel One America News Network
Chaya Raichik
Raichik anonymously ran the notorious Libs of TikTok Twitter and associated other accounts until she was unmasked in 2022.
The account posts far-right hate speech and began by resharing content by left-wing and LGBTQ people for the purpose of mocking them.
One of the biggest anti-LGBTQ social media accounts, it relentlessly targets transgender people with detailed attacks aimed at destroying their lives.
Many of the claims Raichik makes are false, including calling anyone who provides mental-health services to LGBT youth and LGBT sex education a ‘groomer’.
Raichik’s falsehoods frequently result in her targets receiving harassment and death threats, some even spilling over into the real world.
Twenty-one bomb threats are linked to her claims, the most prominent being Boston Children’s Hospital and the Children’s National Hospital, which she falsely claimed were providing gender-affirming hysterectomies to minors.
Libs of TikTok was almost permanently banned from Twitter over concerns it was inciting violence, until Elon Musk’s takeover in 2022.
Chaya Raichik anonymously ran the notorious Libs of TikTok Twitter and associated other accounts until she was unmasked in 2022
Mike Cernovich
Cernovich began as an anti-feminist blogger in the 2000s and became prominent among ‘men’s rights’ activists.
He claimed date rape was a ‘liberal fiction’ and was a heavy participant in the Gamergate harassment campaign against several women in the video game industry.
When Trump launched his 2016 campaign, he veered more into attacking Hillary Clinton with conspiracy theories.
‘if there’s a story that can hurt Hillary, I want it in the news cycle,’ he said at the time.
He was one of those promoting the ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy theory that falsely accused several high-profile Democrats of running a child-sex ring.
Cernovich makes frequent other false claims of active pedophile rings within Washington DC and Hollywood, always without evidence.
He grew disillusioned with Trump in 2018 and backed his primary opponent Ron DeSantis in 2024, but has since reconciled with him.
Mike Cernovich began as an anti-feminist blogger in the 2000s and became prominent among ‘men’s rights’ activists, before becoming more political
Jack Posobiec
A former United States Naval Reserve intelligence officer, Posobiec spouts racist hate speech and supports conspiracy theories on his social media channels.
He hosted a show on the far-right One America News Network cable channel until 2021 when he left for conservative youth organization Turning Point USA.
Posobiec uses white supremacist and anti-Semitic symbols and claims and promoted the ‘white genocide’ conspiracy theory. He has links to various hate groups.
He participated in other conspiracy theories including ‘Pizzagate’ and Stop the Steal, which claimed the Democrats stole the 2020 election from Trump.
Posobiec boosted so many conspiracy theories and posted so many falsehoods he was once referred to as the ‘King of Fake News‘.
One of his highest-profile attempts was planting a ‘Rape Melania’ sign at a 2016 anti-Trump protest to discredit the demonstrators.
He eventually amassed a following and political operative network so large that he was said to be ‘by far’ the most influential strategist in Trump’s 2024 campaign.
A former United States Naval Reserve intelligence officer, Jack Posobiec spouts racist hate speech and supports conspiracy theories on his social media channels
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