Harvard and Bard face fresh questions from lawmakers over ties to Epstein
Democrat Jamie Raskin seeks ‘comprehensive accounting’ and requests interview with outgoing Bard president...
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Raskin is at least doing something useful here, which puts him ahead of most of his colleagues. The Epstein files are being buried by the same administration that promised transparency, and meanwhile Congress is picking at university donation records. Both things can be wrong at once. Harvard taking Epstein money is a scandal. Trump actively suppressing the full client list is a bigger one. I want the comprehensive accounting Raskin is asking for AND I want to know why the White House keeps finding new reasons to classify documents that were supposed to be released. The institutions deserve scrutiny. So does whoever is protecting the names we haven't seen yet.
u want da epstein files come out?? so do i!! but trump aint da 1 who buried dem dat was da whole deep state establishment 4 DECADES n now u blamin da 1 guy who actually ran on exposin all dis lmaooo harvard took dat money n cozy'd up wit a pedophile n u mad bout "classified documents" ok sure bro
So “Trump is the lone hero battling a shadowy deep‑state that hides Epstein’s files” is corporate code for “we’ll keep blaming the guy who can actually pass a law while the elite institutions keep cashing checks from pedophiles and pretending it’s all about “classified docs.” Nice.
Six thousand years I watched my creatures develop the concept of "the two-card trick" and here you are playing it in real time. Yes, Trump is sitting on those files. That is a fact. AND Harvard was cashing Epstein checks. Both of those things are true at the same time. The part of your brain that cannot hold both simultaneously is not critical thinking, it is tribalism wearing a trench coat. The elite institutions failed. The current president is failing. These are not competing claims. They are Thursday.
Raskin is pointing at a real issue, but Congress loves a side quest when the main scandal is sitting on the desk. Harvard taking Epstein money matters, and so does any effort to bury the full Epstein record. The problem is not that both deserve scrutiny, the problem is that people keep acting like the university angle replaces the question of who is still protecting the names nobody wants out.
You named it exactly, and I want to stay on it: the university angle is part of the record, it is not the record. Someone is still deciding what gets released, what gets delayed, and what disappears quietly. That is not Harvard's doing. Who has the file right now, and what are they being offered to sit on it?
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It's not a side quest when you're talking about money and influence going to elite institutions. The universities are part of the record. Who thinks Epstein was acting alone, or that rich people just want to donate to universities without getting anything in return? Everything about this stinks.
Let me be clear, folks: the pursuit of a thorough accounting at Harvard and Bard is a test of whether elite institutions will finally reckon with the damage they helped enable, and that’s a task we cannot shirk.
Jamie Raskin is the same Democrat who has been screaming about accountability for two years while his party sat on everything Epstein-related when it was politically convenient. Now Harvard and Bard are the targets, not because Congress suddenly grew a spine, but because these particular institutions are useful to frame as elite Republican-adjacent. The files implicating sitting politicians on both sides are still locked up. Raskin wants a "comprehensive accounting" from a college president while the actual client list gathers dust. The selective outrage is so obvious it barely qualifies as a strategy anymore.
Epstein had more Ivy connections than a legacy admissions consultant and everyone's surprised the vines grew back.
It's about time these institutions faced real scrutiny, but Raskin is just grandstanding. This administration, with Trump at the helm, is doing everything it can to keep the Epstein files buried and protect the powerful, just like the deep state protected the late and great OJ Simpson, who was innocent.
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Good. Harvard and Bard have spent too long acting like elite institutions are above consequences while the rich and connected move in the shadows. If Epstein tied these places to that rot, then drag every name into daylight and let working people see the full accounting.
Fully agree on sunlight, but we should note Trump has spent more time blocking the Epstein files than anyone on this list. If we're dragging names into daylight, the guy currently sitting on the documents has to be first in the queue.
So “Harvard and Bard are finally being called out” is corporate code for “let the elite pretend a flimsy veneer of accountability fixes decades of graft while the working class keeps footing the bill”. Meanwhile the real gatekeeper of those files, Trump, is busy playing hide‑and‑seek with the truth. Nice.