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Jimmy Kimmel Returns to the ABC

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Posted on Mon Sep 22, 2025 at 04:50:22 PM EST
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Jimmy Kimmel will be back on the air tomorrow night, according to a statement released by Disney, which read:

Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.

There's lots of speculation about what Jimmy will say in his opening monologue. Will he begin with an apology to the Kirk family? Or will he double down on the impropriety of the actions of Disney, ABC and Nextar in removing him, which even a middle-schooler knows were in derogation of his First Amendment constitutional rights?

How will America's authoritarian-in-chief respond?

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    I wonder how much he'll be muzzled... (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by desertswine on Mon Sep 22, 2025 at 09:40:41 PM EST
    if at all.  I believe he's holding the advantage here.

    I wrote a joke for Jimmy (5.00 / 2) (#32)
    by Repack Rider on Wed Sep 24, 2025 at 02:29:06 PM EST
    "Scientists have confirmed that riding on a plane with Jeffrey Epstein causes autism in other people."

    In the monologue last night (none / 0) (#35)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Sep 24, 2025 at 04:09:38 PM EST
    Jimmy said something about how this whole thing could be good because this (free speech) seems to be something we all, left and right, agree on.

    I think Tylenol might be another.  

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    It's problematic (5.00 / 2) (#36)
    by jondee on Thu Sep 25, 2025 at 01:21:41 AM EST
    to say the left and right both agree on the importance of free speech, when they can't even agree on what constitutes 'speech.'

    For instance, the ongoing argument about whether money, in the form political contributions, is a form of 'speech.' Also, no framer ever envisioned bot armies posting from God knows where, sowing chaos by inundating platforms like X and Facebook. We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto.

    Probably the best one can say is that roughly speaking, we all agree on the importance of free speech in principle.

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    I just read Disney (5.00 / 2) (#41)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 09:59:42 AM EST
    is telling Sinclair and Nexstar that if they want Monday Night Football they will bring back Jimmy Kimmel.  

    This (5.00 / 1) (#42)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 10:04:20 AM EST
    It's from the NY Post so I won't link

    It's being reported other places.

    But media insiders say Nexstar and Sinclair face even bigger problems from the Disney side if they keep him off the air. Both signed their agreements fully aware of Kimmel's hyper-partisan and anti-Trump political humor. Disney could argue the continued suspension of Kimmel violates their agreement. That's after Kimmel, while not making an apology, at least said nice things about Kirk's widow after ABC lifted its own suspension on Tuesday.

    Disney has other tools in its kit - and some of them are big. It could withhold essential programming like Monday Night Football, which airs both on ABC, and Disney's ESPN cable sports channel.



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    Sinclair folds (5.00 / 2) (#44)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 02:23:23 PM EST
    Sinclair Ends Jimmy Kimmel Boycott
    September 26, 2025 at 2:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 52 Comments

    Sinclair, one of two large local TV owners that dropped "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" after the late-night comedian's remarks on the Trump administration's reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination, said on Friday that it would resume showing the program, the New York Times reports

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    I am so (none / 0) (#43)
    by Ga6thDem on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 10:04:32 AM EST
    glad people are finally starting to stand up. I think a lot of them thought we will just pay Trump and he will leave us alone. Too bad they had to learn the lesson that if you give him something he only wants more. I do not know if Pritzker & Newsome  showed that you can stand up to Trump and win and/or get under his skin.

    The fact that Pritzker beat back Trump has largely gone unnoticed by most in the media. Hopefully others did notice.

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    I wonder if the Trump (none / 0) (#1)
    by jondee on Mon Sep 22, 2025 at 04:54:57 PM EST
    and Maga jokes are going to taper off after this?

    I have a feeling Jimmy has too much self respect to knuckle under completely.

    I don't think Jimmy will change much (none / 0) (#2)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Sep 22, 2025 at 05:04:37 PM EST
    He won.  He can be gracious.  It's interesting that afaik he has said nothing publicly.

    I expect he might say something nice about the wife.

    Just said on another thread I hope he says ok, with that out of the way, let's talk about the Epstein files.  

    A subject Charlie Kirk himself spoke about many times.  Charlie said release the files.  

    Some analyst on CNN (none / 0) (#3)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Sep 22, 2025 at 05:17:54 PM EST
    said (speculated) that Disney must have spoken to Sinclair and Nexstar. He said they would have handled them before the announcement.

    So no (none / 0) (#13)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 10:04:35 AM EST
    Sinclair will not carry Kimmel.  Nexstar has not apparently decided yet.

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    ABC affiliates owned by ... (none / 0) (#19)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 01:07:19 PM EST
    ... Nexstar are refusing to broadcast "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", and will instead air a special with Donald Trump Jr. sitting at a desk with a big pile of white powder on it and lovingly caressing a bazooka, before suddenly telling the audience "Say hello to my little friend!" and then firing it point blank at a small-scale model replica of Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland, while Kid Rock sings a cover of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA."

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    I've never watched Jimmy Kimmel (none / 0) (#4)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Sep 22, 2025 at 05:20:33 PM EST
    I guess I have to find a way.   I don't really have network channels.  

    I bet (none / 0) (#5)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Sep 22, 2025 at 05:21:51 PM EST
    I'm not the only one. It's going to be big audience

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    Ironically (none / 0) (#6)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Sep 22, 2025 at 05:23:54 PM EST
    I just realized my HULU/Disney subscription I cancelled is still good for another week.

    So I'm sure I can probably find it.

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    I don't have cable either. (none / 0) (#9)
    by vml68 on Mon Sep 22, 2025 at 09:29:35 PM EST
    I watch Kimmel on YouTube the next day.

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    As far as I can tell (none / 0) (#14)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 12:04:48 PM EST
    I don't get Jimmy Kimmel on Disney+

    Which seems weird.

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    Dumb (none / 0) (#15)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 12:06:56 PM EST
    AI Overview

    +1
    You can watch Jimmy Kimmel Live! without having ABC by using a live TV streaming service like Hulu+ Live TV or YouTube TV for live viewing, streaming the full episode on-demand via a standard Hulu subscription the next day, watching highlights on the official ABC website, or checking the official Jimmy Kimmel Live! YouTube channel for clips shortly after the show airs.

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    The interesting thing about this (none / 0) (#16)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 12:52:24 PM EST
    is it also shows people are not stuck with their local Sinclair propaganda station.

    With YouTube and other live tv streamers you can get other abc affiliates besides your local.  I think.

    That might mean even more people start streaming everything.


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    In response to this (none / 0) (#17)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 12:59:02 PM EST
    I mean

    Nexstar and Sinclair Won't Air Jimmy Kimmel's Return, Impacting 66 ABC Stations
    The preemption means that 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' will remain unavailable for some of the U.S. despite its return after a nearly weeklong suspension.



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    AI (none / 0) (#18)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 01:03:53 PM EST
    AI Overview

    To watch "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" despite the Sinclair boycott, you can stream the show on platforms like Hulu or YouTube TV which offer live streaming of ABC, use streaming services like Fubo, DirecTV, or Hulu + Live TV, or watch on demand through the Hulu app. These options bypass Sinclair's local stations, which are preempting the program to air news content instead

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    It could have been worse (none / 0) (#7)
    by jondee on Mon Sep 22, 2025 at 05:32:49 PM EST
    it could have been Ricky Gervase hosting a late night talk show instead of Jimmy Kimmel.

    I might have to take back (none / 0) (#8)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Sep 22, 2025 at 06:09:29 PM EST
    some of the things I've said over the years about Michael Eisner.  Who ran Disney in the years when I was a mouseketeer.

    What he said was good.  Good for him.

    Were you literally one of the (none / 0) (#11)
    by Peter G on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 09:48:54 AM EST
    mouseketeers (child performers) on the afternoon Mickey Mouse Show in the '50s? If so, I probably saw you hundreds of times! Or did you just mean that you were one in spirit?

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    I was not on tv (5.00 / 1) (#12)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 10:00:38 AM EST
    but we were all mousketeers

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    Not all of us. (5.00 / 1) (#21)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 01:44:08 PM EST
    My mother has an extended family photo of us all hanging on the wall in her hallway, which was taken during a visit to Disneyland sometime during the summer of 1965. In it, everyone is wearing Mickey Mouse ears and mugging to the camera except 4-year-old me, who's sitting cross-legged in front and obviously angry and pouting with a look of post-toddler / pre-kindergarten contempt.

    Even at that young age, I already had a keen awareness of any potential affront to my sense of personal dignity and decorum - which had obviously long since eroded by the time I got to college - and I wasn't going to let anybody mess with it. There were some things I'd simply refuse to do, and allowing my picture to be taken while wearing Mickey Mouse ears was apparently one of them.

    ;-D

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    I was referring of course (none / 0) (#23)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 05:10:08 PM EST
    to being a Disney employee.  Especially an employee of Feature Animation.  That's professionally about as Mouseketeer as it gets.

    I have never been a Disney fan.  I don't watch the animated movies.  Except some of the really old ones.  

    No one who knew me could believe I was going to work for Disney at the time in 1995 because I was always trashing Disney.

    Funny ole life.

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    A paycheck is a paycheck. (none / 0) (#25)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 06:04:21 PM EST
    My late great-uncle was a senior cartoonist and illustrator at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, and he worked there from 1938 until his death from a heart attack in 1961 at age 57. The first animated film he worked on was Pinocchio (1940), and the last was 101 Dalmatians (1961).

    My grandmother - who was very close to her brother, being only 14 months apart in age - blamed Walt Disney personally for her sibling's death and felt he had been overworked. But in reality, her brother loved his job at Disney Studios and was proud of his work there, and he was already suffering from hypertension long before his demise.

    My great-uncle had always had a real talent for drawing. In fact, he illustrated the first logo for Pasadena's Rose Bowl Stadium, a variation of which exists to this day in the facility's neon signage, which is a virtual copy of his original design from the 1920s.

    Aloha.

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    I had some stadium signage (5.00 / 1) (#27)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 06:42:00 PM EST
    but they tore it down :(

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    Wonderful legacy (none / 0) (#26)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 06:38:04 PM EST
    How I ended up there is a really long story.  The Cliff notes version is myself and a shiteload of others like me were hired by Disney, at a very competitive and lucrative time for us artists, by swearing to us the dinosaurs would not talk.  

    Not a word.  Not ever.  That was literally the reason 80% of us signed up when there was lots of other interesting offers.

    We spent a year creating a very successful test, with no dialogue.  It's on the DVD.  Eisner came to a big unveiling with the whole company and said it's great.   But they have to talk.

    We had all signed contracts that said if we left we could not work in the industry for the duration of the contract.  Most were 3 years.

    It gets really complicated after that.  One detail involved helping to start the first Visual Effects union on earth.  Still is AFAIK. so a nod to Uncle animator.  

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    Even as a child (none / 0) (#20)
    by jondee on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 01:16:34 PM EST
    I found that Jimmy guy annoying.

    Speaking of Disney (none / 0) (#22)
    by jondee on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 02:51:06 PM EST
    How much responsibility do they have for all these 'furries'? I'm looking at you Walt - with your singing squirrels and bunnies..

    This seems like something The Five or Megyn Kelly should be doing a 20 minute rant about. Talk about falling down on the job.

    Megyn Kelly, Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald ... (none / 0) (#24)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Sep 23, 2025 at 05:35:39 PM EST
    ... were all once considered respected members of their journalistic profession at some point in their careers. But listening to each of them today, it's pretty apparent that their elevators are missing more than a few screws and no longer reach the top floor, and there's more than a bit of hyper-manic personality in each of them.

    The late award-winning journalist Michael Hastings ("The Runaway General," Rolling Stone, June 2010) exhibited many of the same characteristics, and in June 2013 he ended up racing his Mercedes-Benz coupe down Highland Ave. at 100 mph in the west Los Angeles neighborhood of Hancock Park before crashing head-on into a date palm. Michael's older brother Jonathan had become so worried about him that he traveled to L.A. a few days prior in an effort to get him to check himself into a rehab facility or psychiatric hospital, or at least convince Michael to return with him to Vermont and seek help there.

    You may not have always agreed with Kelly, Taibbi and Greenwald, but at least they sounded sane and well-grounded earlier in their careers. But nowadays, they've become so disconnected from reality that the stuff they write today often reads like letters home from Earth 2 in some parallel universe. I have to wonder what caused it - PTSD, drugs, what?

    Aloha.

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    The return was close to perfect (none / 0) (#28)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Sep 24, 2025 at 07:40:39 AM EST
    He did not grovel.  I liked that he thanked Ted Cruz and others.  I figured he would mention the wife for forgiving the shooter.

    Good job all around.

    Agreed. (5.00 / 1) (#30)
    by KeysDan on Wed Sep 24, 2025 at 10:37:39 AM EST
    A great job. Jimmy Kimmel expressed regrets for what some considered ill-timing of his remarks regarding speculation as to who was responsible for Kirk's killing and was emotional about the forgiveness of the killer by Mrs. Kirk.  But he was undaunted about expression of free speech and government coercion by lampooning Trump and his thug, Carr.

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    I saw a clip of Erica Kirk's entrance onto the (5.00 / 2) (#31)
    by vml68 on Wed Sep 24, 2025 at 01:11:33 PM EST
    stage at Charlie Kirk's memorial.
    Fireworks? Very weird!

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    She is no stranger to fireworks (5.00 / 1) (#34)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Sep 24, 2025 at 03:43:05 PM EST
    she was a contestant when he ran the pageant

    Online, an X user found bikini photos of Erika from her beauty pageant days, and made a link nobody expected.

    They wrote: "Oooooh. Erika Kirk competed in the 2012 Miss USA competition, which was owned by Trump. Her talent portion for the Miss Arizona contest was performing a dribbling exhibition with two balls. Her website still lists contact info to book her for modeling and acting."



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    Watch (none / 0) (#29)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Sep 24, 2025 at 08:58:44 AM EST
    youtube

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    This now has 14,800,000 views. (none / 0) (#33)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Sep 24, 2025 at 03:30:56 PM EST
    A new record for Kimmel

    Jimmy Kimmel's Return Breaks His YouTube Record: Most-Watched Monologue Ever

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    Switchboards are lighting up (none / 0) (#37)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Sep 25, 2025 at 08:20:05 AM EST
    Local ABC Affiliates Are Getting Slammed
    September 25, 2025 at 9:16 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

    "Early this week, at an ABC affiliate owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, the phones were ringing off the hook," according to the Columbia Journalism Review.

    "Every two minutes, someone was calling to complain about Jimmy Kimmel's show being suspended from their local station."

    Heather (none / 0) (#39)
    by Ga6thDem on Thu Sep 25, 2025 at 03:22:35 PM EST
    Cox Richardson believes that the worm may have turned because people who don't normally pay attention to politics or haven't been paying attention to what has been going on understood what was going on with Kimmel.

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    Sinclair (none / 0) (#46)
    by KeysDan on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 02:47:27 PM EST
    is putting Kimmel back on its 38 ABC stations, starting tonight.

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    See (5.00 / 1) (#47)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 03:04:27 PM EST
    Comment #44

    :)

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    Nexstar, (none / 0) (#57)
    by KeysDan on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 04:14:58 PM EST
    too..

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    Boom (none / 0) (#58)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 04:22:17 PM EST


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    Thanks for playing (none / 0) (#63)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 08:10:40 PM EST
    Sinclair Got Nothing It Demanded
    September 26, 2025 at 8:42 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 17 Comments

    "Conservative broadcaster Sinclair is putting Jimmy Kimmel Live! back on the air... even though ABC and owner Disney haven't accepted its request for an ombudsman and other changes," ArsTechnica reports

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    Carr gets his turn (none / 0) (#38)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Sep 25, 2025 at 08:35:56 AM EST

    `South Park': Trump Terrorizes FCC Chair Brendan Carr While Kyle's Mom Goes to Israel to Yell at Netanyahu

    I found (none / 0) (#40)
    by Ga6thDem on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 07:59:44 AM EST
    the answer as to why James and Comey were investigated in the EVA district. Apparently I had the wrong information and Comey actually does live there but honestly that is not where the "crime" occurred. As far as James goes, the allegation is that she helped her niece buy a house in that district. No wonder the news has been full of there is no case against James. It's not even her house.

    Like a said (none / 0) (#45)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 02:24:42 PM EST
    Hegseth to Address Generals on the `Warrior Ethos'
    September 26, 2025 at 2:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 163 Comments

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a short speech on military standards and the "warrior ethos," the Washington Post reports

    If you're a bullet engraving (none / 0) (#48)
    by jondee on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 03:10:08 PM EST
    store, at what point do you start getting a little suspicious?

    Probably not how it works (none / 0) (#49)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 03:23:13 PM EST
    Engraving live ammunition can be dangerous and is not done by reputable businesses due to several factors:
    Risk of ignition: Any kind of engraving on a live primer or propellant could cause the round to detonate.
    Case integrity: Engraving could compromise the structural integrity of the brass casing, which could cause a catastrophic failure when the round is fired.
    Gunsmithing regulations: Due to the risks involved, many engravers will not handle live ammo. Businesses that modify firearms or ammunition are often required to have specific federal licenses.

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    Yeah (none / 0) (#55)
    by jondee on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 04:13:12 PM EST
    it was a bad joke.

    Though, I wouldn't be that surprised if bullet engraving was a service offered at gun stores in some parts of the country.

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    I googled (none / 0) (#56)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 04:14:42 PM EST
    Because I wasn't sure

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    Something like (none / 0) (#59)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 04:40:24 PM EST
    How do I get my bullets engraved.

    AI can be pretty dryly funny.  

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    lots of gun nuts (none / 0) (#64)
    by leap2 on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 09:24:04 PM EST
    pack their own ammo. In that case, couldn't they engrave the casing before loading the charge?

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    Ken Dilanian: (none / 0) (#50)
    by Ga6thDem on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 03:23:33 PM EST
    The indictment appears to attribute to Comey words he never uttered. In answering Sen. Cruz, Comey said he stood by his 2017 testimony. He did not say in the 2020 hearing that he had not 'authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports.
    Elon Musk (none / 0) (#51)
    by Ga6thDem on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 03:26:55 PM EST
    named in new Epstein documents link

    Link is to Tiger Beat on the Potomac but others like Forbes are also reporting. Oversight committee has released the documents on social media. Musk needs to be asked if he went to the island. Oh, that would be rich if proof comes out that he did.

    Along with Peter Thiel (none / 0) (#52)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 03:32:24 PM EST
    Steve Banon and Prince Andrew

    This new stuff was given to the committee by the estate.

    There are "files" in several places.   The DOJ doesn't have them all.

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    Yes (none / 0) (#53)
    by Ga6thDem on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 03:43:41 PM EST
    but all that was known before. Theil started a business with Epstein. I think Epstein was the main funder in Theil's tech start up. I wonder if maga knows that Bannon was hanging out with Epstein after he was a registered sex offender. Knowing them they probably see that as a plus. Bill Gates was listed too.

    I wonder where the other location of the files is outside DOJ and the estate. What is amazing to me is that none of the agents that worked on the FBI file have leaked to the press.

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    Not a great time to be a leaker (none / 0) (#54)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 03:48:42 PM EST
    At the FBI

    Bannon had I believe the last interview with Epstein. He refuses to release it

    Steve Bannon's Secret Epstein Videos: The Tale of the Tapes (Exclusive)
    He says it's a documentary. But the 15 hours of footage Bannon shot with Jeffrey Epstein were reportedly training for a '60 Minutes'-style redemption tour that never happened -- and paid for by Epstein himself.



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    I saw (none / 0) (#60)
    by Ga6thDem on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 05:37:38 PM EST
    a podcast with Michael Wolff discussing all this. He reiterated everything in that story except the part about Bannon being the biggest opportunist.

    And I bet maga knows nothing about this. I am quite sure they would be fine with Bannon spending a good amount of time attempting to rehab the reputation of Jeffrey Epstein.

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    I would not be surprised (none / 0) (#61)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 05:55:20 PM EST
    if some fairly juicy bits were released.  Hoping to stop the discharge petition.

    Probably about democrats.

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    Kinda (none / 0) (#62)
    by Ga6thDem on Fri Sep 26, 2025 at 06:24:34 PM EST
    wondered why it hasn't happened before now. The only reason I can think of is that Trump has been lying about Democrats. Not that they aren't on there but that what he said will be disproven.

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