Jeffrey Epstein associate and former child actor Brock Pierce was a guestat one ofDonald Trump’s Florida golf courses last week, helpingto unveila golden statueof the president.
Pierce was a business partner and friend to Epstein for nearly a decade, helping him invest in thecryptocurrency exchangeCoinbase while emailing him about women. In 2012 PiercetoldEpstein, “I had a great time with the girls. Hope they had fun too. Thanks.”
Also that year, Pierce sent Epstein dozens of pictures of a Ukrainian woman named Anastasia,writing that“Ukraine is now my favorite country,” after Epstein asked him to “take photos and find me a present.”
In 2018, PierceemailedEpstein about how he had “a boat in Antigua full of amazing Ukraine’s finest” waiting for him.
This is the man who was cutting the ribbon for the golden statue at the president’s resort last week.
Senator John Fetterman has aligned himself with one more MAGA talking point.
The Pennsylvania Democrat appeared on Bill Maher’sClub Randompodcast Monday, laughing alongside the “anti-woke” comedian as the pair mutually praised Donald Trump’s “honest” treatment of the press, including an instance in which the president called a female journalist a “piggy.”
“The things that he says aloud, the way he just voices his interior monologue—there is something not exactly psychologically normal about someone who just voices their interior monologue—but it gives him an authenticity that no one else can possibly match,” Mahersaid.
“I saw his interview with Norah O’Donnell after the shooting, the next day, and she quotes the assassin who called him a pedophile, Hitler, whatever he called him,” Maher continued, referring to the attack on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and taking a moment to suggest that Trump is not a pedophile. “But his reaction immediately was, to her, ‘You’re a terrible person.’ And he didn’t just think it—like any politician, that’s exactly what they’re thinking. He just says it.”\
“It’s at the same time horrifying and also kind of like, refreshing. It’s shockingly—the honesty, as someone who loves honesty and has made my career about it as much as I could, it is—there’s some level of it where you tip your hat and you go, ‘Wow, total honesty,’” said the longtime political satirist.
Amused, Fettermanresponded: “Yeah, the ultimate—‘Quiet, piggy.’ That’s the president of America.”
Bill Maher gushes over how “refreshing” Donald Trump’s “honesty” is with reporters and John Fetterman responds: “The ultimate: quiet piggy. Hahaha, yeah!”pic.twitter.com/cBrq3juuxg
Trump routinely insults reporters in order to evade their questions. ThemomentFetterman referred to took place in November, when Trump ended a line of questioning about the Epstein files by barking at a female Bloomberg News reporter, “Quiet! Quiet, piggy.”
Fetterman has displayed a penchant for Trumpian politics since he moved to Washington, despite the fact that he ran on the progressive ticket. Since Fetterman entered office in 2023, he has sided with Republicans dozens of times, frequently leveraging his position to advance Trump’s agenda.
He also voted to confirm several of Trump’s Cabinet selections, including Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin as well as the last Homeland Security chief, Kristi Noem, who was transferred to work in a relatively unknown section of the government in March following a string of embarrassing scandals.
