Hello, this is Michael Moss.

Heather Cox Richardson is traveling today, and her travel arrangements did not allow her time to read today's letter.

So I will be reading it in her place.

August 12, 2025.

Liberal commentator Jessica Tarloff nailed it this morning when she wrote,

He's doing everything except releasing the Epstein files.

Her comment was in reference to President Donald Trump's social media post of 7.30 this morning, when he chummed the water by suggesting that

the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, more commonly known as the Kennedy Center,

would soon be called the Trump Kennedy Center. He made the comment, as he said this year's

Kennedy Center honors recipients would be announced tomorrow.

Trump has been frantically trying to change the subject away from his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein since July 7th,

when Attorney General Pam Bondi stirred up fury from Trump's Maga base by saying the Department of Justice will not

release any more information from the Epstein investigation. On July 23rd, the Wall Street

Journal reported that Trump's name is in the Epstein files multiple times. But even Trump's attack on Washington, D.C. yesterday has not managed to distract

attention from the possibility that the President of the United States sexually assaulted children.

Epstein's associate, convicted sex trafficker Galane Maxwell, has been in the news because of the administration's

sudden transfer of her from a low-security prison in Florida to a minimum security prison camp in Texas.

In 2021, Maxwell was convicted of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abused children and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Alison Gill, who goes by the name Mueller, she wrote on social media, and who writes at The Breakdown,

reported yesterday on Galane Maxwell's electronic file from the Bureau of Prisons, to which she got exclusive access.

Sex offenders are not eligible to serve their sentences in minimum security prisons, but the

file shows that someone waived that status to permit her transfer. Gil's information also shows that the terms of her custody permit her to leave the minimum

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