“AOC says Trump is willing to ‘risk world war’ by using Iran attack as Epstein files distraction” (Independent, March 5, 2026):
New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has slammed President Donald Trump over the joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran, accusing him of “risking world war” to distract from the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
“And every time he’s [used the U.S. military], it has been consistent with a spike or a revelation in what is happening with the Epstein files. I don’t think that that coincidence is something to dismiss off the cuff. I think that he feels existentially tied to it.”
Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, who spearheaded the passage of the Act last year, posted on X Sunday afternoon: “PSA: Bombing a country on the other side of the globe won’t make the Epstein files go away, any more than the Dow going above 50,000 will.”
A Democrat from Oregon:
If bombing Iran distracted people from digging into the Epstein files, how does walking away and leaving the Islamic Republic of Iran with intact oil industry, electric power plants, and everything else it needs to rebuild its weapons factories and military help distract people from digging into the Emmanuel Goldstein-Trump connection?
Separately, I’ve lost track of how people explain that the Biden-Harris administration, with exclusive and complete access to all Epstein files for four years, wasn’t able to find anything regarding Donald Trump that was worth leaking to the press. Friends from and in Maskachusetts believe, as a matter of established and verified fact, that Donald Trump, as part of his association with Jeffrey Epstein, either (1) raped a 13-year-old girl, (2) killed a 12- or 13-year-old girl, or some combination of the two. Why wouldn’t the Democrat-run Biden administration have been motivated to release all of the evidence related to these kinds of crimes by a political opponent?
> wasn’t able to find anything regarding Donald Trump that was worth leaking to the press.
It’s pretty weird that the current admin made a big deal of and multiple promises to release them but vigorously song-and-danced their way to not do that. While AOC’s claim is kind of ridiculous, she couldn’t have made it if the files were released. As per Musk, we can’t really trust people’s claims of being in the files of Trump’s BBF.
Is anybody counting how many times Trump has won this (unfinished) war? (I think it’s been at least three.)
Speaking of using war as a political distraction, 39 dems and repubs just introduced the “dignidad” (spanish for “dignity”) act. It would allow: “refugee claimants” to remain in the USA while their claim is processed (essentially forever), permanent residency for “undocumented migrants” in USA for 5+ years, the return of everyone deported since 2017, forgive student loans for attorneys who represent refugee claimants, etc.
No dignidad for the tax payer.