THE EPSTEIN RELEASE: President Trump signed the bill ordering release of investigative files on the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein but it has loopholes that would allow the Justice Department to still withhold material involving current investigations.

  The bill requires the Justice Department to release everything within 30 days … flight logs, witness interviews and immunity deals possibly revealing the names of men who had sex with underage girls.

  President Trump in a social media post sought credit for the bill that he had long opposed until last weekend. “As everyone knows, I asked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to pass this Bill in the House and Senate, respectively,” Trump wrote. “Because of this request, the votes were almost unanimous.”

   Trump was friends with Epstein for 15 years and claims he knew nothing about Epstein trafficking girls for sex. 

DIRTY DON: Emails written by Jeffrey Epstein released to the public reveal the disdain he had for Trump. “You see , i know how dirty Donald is,” Epstein wrote in a 2018 email to former Obama White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler.

  Other condemnations:

• “Donald is fking crazy”, he wrote in a 2017 email to a NY Times reporter  a week after Trump’s first inauguration. 
• “Borderline insane,” he described Trump in December 2018 to  former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. He also wrote that the assessment was “corroborated by some that are close”.
• “Evil beyond belief,” he wrote to a reporter  in March 2018 email to a reporter.  
• “Not one decent cell in his body,” he said in a 2017 email in which he said he had met many “very bad people”, but none as bad as Trump.

THE MIGHTY FALL: Former Secretary of the Treasury and Harvard President Larry Summers is on the path to cancellation and disgrace for maintaining a friendship with Jeffrey Epstein after he was a convicted sex offender. Yesterday it was announced that he will suspend teaching at Harvard while the university investigates.

  Summers has already jumped corporate ships before he is thrown overboard. This week he announced that he is resigning from the board of Open AI, the artificial intelligence company. He had already resigned from board positions at the Center for Global Development, where he was chair, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Budget Lab at Yale, and the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution. 

  The New York Times said that it will not renew Summers’ contract as a contributing writer for the Opinion section.

  The married Summers had a back-and-forth exchange with Epstein about attempting to have affairs with other women until the day before Epstein was arrested on federal charges.

  Summers is still teaching at Harvard and the University is investigating. A student recorded Summers telling a class, “Some of you will have seen my statement of regret expressing my shame with respect to what I did with Mr. Epstein, But I think it’s very important that I fulfill my teaching obligations.”

BLIND JUSTICE: Justice Department lawyers admitted to a federal judge yesterday that the full grand jury that indicted former FBI Director James Comey never saw the full indictment. Only the foreperson read it.

  The revelation came as judge Michael Nachmanoff questioned prosecutors about what appeared to be a missing portion of the grand jury transcript. The grand jury initially rejected a three-count indictment. Prosectors admitted that they revised the indictment to one count but did not present it to the full jury.

  Defense lawyer Michael Dreeben said that means “there is no indictment Mr. Comey is facing.” 

  Nachmanoff made no ruling. The hearing was held for the defense to argue that Comey is the subject of a vindictive prosecution ordered by President Trump. Comey is accused of obstructing Congress and making false statements during a 2020 Senate hearing in which he denied authorizing leaks to the news media.

THE REGIME:

— Senate Democrats this week introduced a bill to put limits and restrictions on private donations … and the donors … the Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom.

  The bill called “Stop Ballroom Bribery Act” introduced by Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts would prohibit the president from soliciting donations, ban display of donor names, require donors to be public, and impose a two-year period in which donors would be barred from lobbying the government.

  The bill would also prevent donations from businesses or people with business before the government, including those facing federal litigation or enforcement actions. 

  President Trump has claimed that building his $300 million dream party house with private money is a bonus, but money has been pouring in from rich people and companies with business before the government and favors to ask.

— The US trade deficit fell by nearly 24% in August as President Trump’s import tariffs discouraged American businesses from importing foreign goods. Nevertheless, the trade deficit overall has grown this year with American business buying more from overseas than they are selling.

THE OBIT PAGE: The German performing twins the Kessler sisters, Alice and Ellen, died together in Munich at age 89 through medically assisted suicide. The sisters performed with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Harry Belafonte, and Fred Astaire after fleeing what was then East Germany in 1955. They were singers, dancers, and actors. 

  The two beautiful blondes were inseparable. They  never married and asked to be buried in the same urn alongside their mother and beloved dog.

THE SPIN RACK: Billionaire hedge fund founder Tom Steyer announced he’s running for governor of California,  vowing to challenge corporate influence and build a million homes to fight the state’s affordability crises. He previously spent nearly $342 million on his 2020 presidential campaign, which ended after the South Carolina primary. 

BELOW THE FOLD: Wearing a sparkly orange floor-length gown, Miss Jamaica plummeted off the stage during the Miss Universe preliminaries in Thailand and was carried away on a stretcher. They say she’s okay so we can say she looked elegant even while falling.

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