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Leduc RCMP seek assistance to identify armed robbers

Leduc, Alberta ā Leduc RCMP are looking for assistance to identify two men who robbed the Liquor Depot in the City of Leduc on February 27 at approximately 9:30pm.
The suspects entered the liquor store stole several bottles of liquor while leaving the store one male bear sprayed the liquor store attendant. Ā The store attendant suffered minor injuries was transported to hospital and has since has been released.
First suspect is described as:
Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā First Nations male
Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā thin build
Wearing:
Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Black/dark running shoesĀ
Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā ball capĀ
Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā dark jeans
Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā dark hoodie
Second suspect is described as:
Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā First Nations male
Wearing:
Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Dark Shoes/sneakers
Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Blue jeans
Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Red hoodie
If you have information about this investigation, please call the Leduc RCMP at 780-980-7267, or call your local police detachment.Ā If you want to remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), by internet at www.tipsubmit.com, or by SMS.Ā Ā
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Trump supporters cry foul after DOJ memo buries the Epstein sex trafficking scandal

From LifeSiteNews
Attempts to squelch fallout from the DOJ/FBI memo comes after a tsunami of criticism online ā not from detractors on the left but from Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters.
The Department of Justice announcement that there is no Epstein āclient listā and that āno further disclosure is warrantedā has been met with an enormous backlash from the grassroots MAGA movement and conservative pundits.
The bombshell memo released by Attorney General Pam Bondi has given the appearance that the Trump administration āis attempting to sweep the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal under the rug,ā according to independent investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger in aĀ superb analysisĀ published on X.
Shellenberger pointed out that the memo contradicts what Bondi explicitly stated publicly earlier when she claimed that there were ātens of thousands of videosā providing the ability to identify the individuals involved in sex with minors and that anyone in the Epstein files who tries to keep their name private has āno legal basis to do so.ā
āThe DOJās sudden claim that no āclient listā exists after years of insinuating otherwise is a slap in the face to accountability,ā DOGEai noted in its response to the Shellenberger piece. āIf agencies canāt document basic facts about one of the most notorious criminal cases in modern history, thatās not a paperwork problem ā itās proof the system protects its own.ā
āEither release the full records or admit the systemās too corrupt to handle the truth.ā
Trump, Bondi deflect
In a White House Cabinet meeting earlier today, Trump vigorouslyĀ deflectedĀ a reporterās question to Bondi about the memo: āAre you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? the President interjected. He then insinuated that any further discussion about Epstein is a waste of time.
This is a really awful response.pic.twitter.com/i47vuH6CX4
— 9mmSMG (@9mm_smg) July 8, 2025
To outside observers, it looked like Trump and his top law enforcement official are now protecting the ādeep stateā within the federal government that he had vowed repeatedly to dismantle during his candidacy.
Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have for months been suspected of slow-walking the public release of evidence in the Epstein case. Now they have buried not only evidence, but any hope that Epsteinās elite friends would be charged for child sex trafficking.
Bondiās and Trumpās attempts to squelch fallout from theĀ DOJ/FBI memoĀ comes after a tsunami of criticism online, not from his detractors on the left but from his most ardent supporters.
āThis EPSTEIN AFFAIR is NOT going away!ā General Michael FlynnĀ declaredĀ on X. He explained:
And an early lesson learned for everyone regarding this affair, ELITES donāt give a sh!t about children, you, or anyone for that matter. There are two standards of justice in our country. One for the elites (I include the uniparty in this club) and another standard for everyone else. Today was another brutal and stark example of the two different standards we appear to adhere to in the United States.
āThis has to change and quickly,ā Flynn urged Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Glenn BeckĀ assertedĀ in a long X thread:
Our Institutions Are On Trial
This is bigger than Epstein.
Itās about media complicity.
Justice deferred.
Power protected.
Truth buried.
Until this case is fully revealed, every elite institution carries a stench they canāt wash off.
To dismiss this as āconspiracyā is to admit you no longer believe in accountability.
Truth about Epstein is not morbid curiosity.
Itās a civic test.
And every day we fail to demand answers, we normalize elite immunity.
If we donāt confront whatās in those files ā¦
Weāve declared that truth in America is now negotiable.
That justice is a luxury of the unimportant.
That power is a shield for the perverse.
The Epstein case isnāt over.
Itās the Rosetta Stone of public trust.
And if we donāt get to the bottom of it,
weāll never restore whatās already been lost.
āThe leadership needs to understand that and act accordingly,ā he added.
Rogan OāHandley said the memo is a āshameful chapter in our countryās history.
āThe justice department and the FBI are irredeemably compromised and corrupted,ā Judicial Watch president Tom FittonĀ averredĀ in a podcast discussion with former Trump confidant Steve Bannon.
āThis is a total fāāing disaster,ā a senior member of the Intelligence CommunityĀ toldĀ Shellenberger and his team.
āIf people think this is going to go away,ā the official added, āI donāt see how it can.ā
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Full Text of the U.S. Department of Justice & Federal Bureau of Investigation joint memo:
As part of our commitment to transparency, the Department of Justice and the FederalĀ Bureau of Investigation have conducted an exhaustive review of investigative holdings relating to Jeffrey Epstein. To ensure that the review was thorough, the FBI conducted digital searches of its databases, hard drives, and network drives as well as physical searches of squad areas, locked cabinets, desks, closets, and other areas where responsive material may have been stored. These searches uncovered a significant amount of material, including more than 300 gigabytes of dataĀ and physical evidence.
The files relating to Epstein include a large volume of images of Epstein, images and videos of victims who are either minors or appear to be minors, and over ten thousand downloaded videos and images of illegal child sex abuse material and other pornography. Teams of agents, analysts, attorneys, and privacy and civil liberties experts combed through the digital and documentary evidence with the aim of providing as much information as possible to the public while simultaneously protecting victims. Much of the material is subject to court-ordered sealing. Only a fraction of this material would have been aired publicly had Epstein gone to trial, as the seal served only to protect victims and did not expose any additional third-parties to allegations of illegal wrongdoing. Through this review, we found no basis to revisit the disclosure of those materials and will not permit the release of child pornography.
This systematic review revealed no incriminating āclient list.ā There was also no credibleĀ evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.
Consistent with prior disclosures, this review confirmed that Epstein harmed over oneĀ thousand victims. Each suffered unique trauma. Sensitive information relating to these victims is intertwined throughout the materials. This includes specific details such as victim names and likenesses, physical descriptions, places of birth, associates, and employment history.
One of our highest priorities is combatting child exploitation and bringing justice toĀ victims. Perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein serves neither of those ends.
To that end, while we have labored to provide the public with maximum informationĀ regarding Epstein and ensured examination of any evidence in the governmentās possession, it is the determination of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.
After a thorough investigation, FBI investigators concluded that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on August 10, 2019. This conclusion is consistent with previous findings, including the August 19, 2019 autopsy findings of the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the November 2019 position of the U.S. Attorneyās Office for the Southern District of New York in connection with the investigation of federal correctional officers responsible for guarding Epstein, and the June 2023 conclusions of DOJās Office of the Inspector General.
The conclusion that Epstein died by suicide is further supported by video footage from the common area of the Special Housing Unit (SHU) where Epstein was housed at the time of his death. As DOJās Inspector General explained in 2023, anyone entering or attempting to enter the tier where Epsteinās cell was located from the SHU common area would have been captured by this footage. The FBIās independent review of this footage confirmed that from the time Epstein was locked in his cell at around 10:40 pm on August 9, 2019, until around 6:30 am the next morning, nobody entered any of the tiers in the SHU.
During this review, the FBI enhanced the relevant footage by increasing its contrast,Ā balancing the color, and improving its sharpness for greater clarity and viewability.
Crime
āThis is a total fucking disasterā

Michael Shellenberger andĀ
Alex Gutentag
Congress must demand, and the Trump administration must provide, the Epstein Files and seek transparency and reform of the Intelligence Community
The idea that America is ruled by a secret government of deep state intelligence agencies like the CIA and FBI is a right-wing conspiracy theory, the media has said for the last decade. Journalists at outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and NPR have portrayed claims about a ādeep stateā as paranoid fabrications pushed by Donald Trump and his supporters to discredit legitimate government institutions. They insisted that accusations of political bias or covert influence by agencies like the CIA or FBI had no basis in fact and served only to inflame public distrust.
And yet over the same period, investigative reporting, including by the two of us, and official disclosures revealed that these agencies interfered in domestic politics in ways that aligned with that very narrative. The FBI launched a surveillance operation against the Trump campaign based on unverified opposition research. Dozens of former intelligence officials falsely claimed the Hunter Biden laptop story bore the āclassic earmarksā of Russian disinformation, just weeks before the 2020 election. The Department of Homeland Security, along with the FBI and other agencies, coordinated with social media platforms to suppress speech under the banner of combating āmisinformation.ā These actions, taken together, suggest not a shadowy cabal, but a real and expanding infrastructure of state-aligned influence aimed at shaping public perception and countering populist dissent, just as the so-called conspiracy theorists claimed.
The strongest argument against the existence of a secret government run by the deep state was the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024. If agencies like the CIA, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security truly exercised covert and unchecked control over American politics, it is difficult to explain how their most outspoken critic, and avowed enemy, returned to power. Trump did not merely criticize the intelligence community; he ran on a platform promising its reform. He vowed to purge partisan operatives, dismantle what he called politically weaponized agencies, and hold officials accountable for a pattern of lawless interference. And despite his direct confrontation with the national security establishment, Trump defeated Kamala Harris decisively, winning 312 electoral votes and a narrow popular vote majority.
But now the Trump administration is attempting to sweep the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal under the rug, with the Justice Department claiming that there is no client list and that no further disclosure is warranted, even though Attorney General Pam Bondi explicitly stated publicly that there were ātens of thousands of videosā which means the ability to identify the individuals involved in sex with minors, and that anyone in the Epstein files who tries to keep their name private has āno legal basis to do so.ā
On April 28, 2025, in a candid off-the-record exchange caught on video, Bondi told a bystander, āThere are tens of thousands of videos⦠and itās all with little kids.ā She later reiterated on May 7 that these were āvideos of Epstein with children or child porn.ā
Bondiās comments directly contradicted the official stance of the administration, which has dismissed calls for a client list and slowed efforts to release the full contents of the Epstein files. Despite Trumpās campaign promises to dismantle the deep state and hold elites accountable, his administration now appears to be protecting the same intelligence and law enforcement networks it once condemned.
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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi (L) and Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Kash Patel arrive for a press conference to announce the results of Operation Restore Justice on May 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. During the operation, 205 arrests were made nationwide in five days in a joint effort with federal, state, and local partners to arrest accused child sex abuse offenders and combat child exploitation. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Strong evidence suggests that Epstein was part of a sex blackmail operation tied to intelligence agencies. Visitor logs show that William Burns, who served as CIA Director under President Biden, visited Epsteinās New York townhouse multiple times. The Wall Street Journal reported those visits in 2023 based on Epsteinās private calendar. In 2017, Alex Acosta, the Justice Department official who gave Epstein his 2008 plea deal, told Trump transition officials that he was told to back off Epstein because he ābelonged to intelligence.ā The Justice Department later admitted that all eleven months of Acostaās emails from that period had disappeared.
This failure to follow through seriously undermines Trumpās explicit commitments to reform and shine light on the deep state. This is not just about Epstein. The Trump administration has not been particularly transparent about much else. The CIA, to its credit, released an internal evaluation last week admitting it had erred in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment by claiming that Russia āaspired toā help elect Trump. But it stood by the overall assessment, signaling the agencyās reluctance to admit fault, its continued defensiveness in the face of mounting evidence, and its impunity. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has disclosed a limited amount of information about intelligence community abuses during the pandemic, including the targeting of COVID vaccine dissenters as potential violent extremists. But beyond that, the Trump administration has released very little, even on issues where transparency would appear to be in its political interest. The administration has kept classified large volumes of material related to COVID origins, the FBIās role in Russiagate, the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, and unidentified anomalous phenomena.
It is thus hard not to conclude that the intelligence community continues to operate in violation of the constitutional system of checks and balances by evading meaningful congressional oversight. The Constitution grants Congress the power and responsibility to oversee the executive branch, including intelligence agencies, through budgetary control, public hearings, and access to classified information. And yet the intelligence community is withholding and heavily redacting documents, delaying responses to lawful inquiries, and using national security classifications to avoid scrutiny.
This persistent obstruction undermines the legislative branchās ability to hold agencies accountable and distorts the balance of power the framers designed. When unelected intelligence officials can withhold information not only from the public but from elected representatives, constitutional oversight becomes a formality rather than a functioning safeguard.
Few independent journalists have done more than we have to defend Donald Trump and the MAGA movement against the weaponization of the intelligence community and deep state agencies. Over the past two and a half years, we have published hundreds of investigative articles and testified before Congress about unconstitutional abuses of power by the CIA, FBI, DHS, and their proxies. We exposed efforts to censor Trump and his supporters through a sprawling Censorship Industrial Complex, documented the manipulation of the justice system to prosecute Trump on politicized grounds, and revealed how U.S. and foreign agencies coordinated mass surveillance of speech. We defended Trump from false and malicious claims, showed that his administration obeyed court orders, and disproved the narrative that he violated democratic norms more than Democrats. We were the first to report new evidence that President Obamaās CIA Director ordered spying on Trump campaign officials to justify surveillance and interfere in the 2016 election. After Trumpās reelection, we published investigations revealing abuses of power by USAID and the Department of Education. We editorialized in support of his lawful executive orders ending DEI and gender-affirming procedures for minors. We exposed the CIA and USAIDās role in supporting the 2019 impeachment effort and their connection to the Russia collusion hoax. In all this, we have consistently made the case that Trumpās victory was not just political, it was moral.
Given all we have done to expose the Censorship Industrial Complex and intelligence community abuses of power,Ā Publicās readers rightly expect us to follow through on these concerns, no matter who holds office. We did not spend years documenting unconstitutional secrecy, surveillance, and coercion only to remain silent when the administration we defended begins to mirror the behavior we condemned. Our commitment is not to any one leader or party, but to the Constitution, to civil liberties, and to the principle that no government, Democratic or Republican, should be allowed to rule through secrecy, coercion, or fear.
To prove it is not simply the latest custodian of the deep state, the Trump administration must release the Epstein videos and related evidence, fully expose the scope of the sex trafficking and apparent IC blackmail operation, and ensure that every perpetrator, regardless of power or position, is held accountable under the law. It must also release the long-withheld files on COVID origins, Russiagate, the Hunter Biden laptop, January 6, unidentified aerial phenomena, and other topics. Even if these files do not reveal any āsmoking guns,ā the public has a right to full transparency. Only through this transparency can the credibility of the intelligence community be restored.
Congress must step up as well. Legislative leaders must hold public hearings on each of these issues, issue subpoenas if necessary, and demand full executive branch compliance with oversight. The Constitution grants Congress, not the intelligence agencies, the power to check secrecy, correct abuse, and uphold the rule of law.
These are not matters of political convenience but constitutional obligation. The American people have the right to know what their government has done in their name and against their rights. If the Trump administration fails to act, it will confirm the fear that even the most populist and combative president can be captured or neutralized by the very system he vowed to dismantle. And it will lose much of the legitimacy it gained by surviving and overcoming the lawfare, censorship, and weaponization of the deep state against it.
Many within the Trump administration acknowledge this and note that this is hardly the end of the Epstein affair.
āThis is a total fucking disaster,ā someone within the Intelligence Community told us this afternoon, as we were going to press with this editorial.
After we pointed out that the Attorney General said one thing and now the Justice Department, FBI Director, and Deputy FBI Director are all saying the opposite, the person said, āI hope you ask these questions. These are the questions that need to be asked. Weāre in a time when information flows more freely. If people think that this is going to go away ā I donāt see how it can.ā
Nor, we would add, should it.
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