Humiliating questions just kept coming.

We have been reporting here on TGP on the fact that former Bill Clinton’s top aide Doug Band was vastly featured in the DOJ’s ‘Jeffrey Epstein Files’, and later gave a closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee.

Band was reportedly the creator of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), an entity which both Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have, in court documents, alleged to help conceive and fund.

We also reported that Band’s testimony did carry substantial danger for Clinton. Back in 2020, Band aired his grievances against the Clinton family in a long Vanity Fair interview.

From the 2020 Vanity Fair article:

“Band told me he had been trying to push Epstein out of Clinton’s orbit ever since their much-discussed 2002 trip to Africa aboard Epstein’s private 727, dubbed the ‘Lolita Express’. Band recalled that Epstein had made a bunch of ridiculous claims on the trip, like boasting that he invented the derivatives market. Band said he had no idea about Epstein’s sex crimes back then but got enough bad vibes that he advised Clinton to end the relationship. But Clinton continued to socialize with Epstein and take his money. In 2006 Epstein donated $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Clinton made more than two dozen trips on Epstein’s jet around this time, Epstein’s flight logs show.”

And here we have the kicker:

“In January 2003, according to Band, Clinton visited Epstein’s private Caribbean Island, Little St. James. Band said it was one of the few trips he declined to go on in his time with Clinton. A Clinton spokesperson said the president had never been to the island and provided detailed travelogue entries of the period in question that did not contain a visit.”

So, there we have it, Band saying Clinton went to Pedophile Island.

Today, a month after his closed-door appearance before Congress, reports are arising on the contents of this humiliating day.

Band was reportedly forced to address the size of his penis, in ‘humiliating grilling before Congress about his once flirtatious friendship with Jeffrey Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell’.

TRANSCRIPTS: @GOPoversight released the transcript from Leon Black’s and Doug Band’s transcribed interview as part of the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Doug Band was a special assistant to President Clinton and later deputy assistant to the President… pic.twitter.com/uBfVykNgqK

— Marisela Ramirez (@mariselapenny) July 17, 2026

Daily Mail reported:

“Doug Band, who appeared for a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee last month, was peppered with questions about the ’embarrassing’ trove of emails he exchanged with Maxwell during the 2000s – including one where she described him being ‘hung like a horse.’

In other emails read out by members of the panel, Maxwell described herself as Band’s ‘pimp’ and ‘lover’.

Band reportedly admitted flirting with Maxwell, but denied ever having an affair with her.

“In another email read out by the committee, Maxwell offered to arrange ‘the s****y Spanish girl’ next time Band was in New York, along with a ‘cool poised Swedish type’.

‘Let me know when you next go to Europe as I do have some interesting and fun friends that you could hook up with,’ Maxwell told Band, according to the email.”

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace pressured Band over why would Maxwell say he was ‘hung like a horse’ if they didn’t have a sexual relationship.

“In his testimony, Band denied ever seeing Clinton doing anything compromising with Epstein or any of his victims.

On the trips on Epstein’s plane where Clinton was present, the former president would go to the back and meet with the pedophile privately in his office, according to Band.“

He also didn’t confirm that Clinton went to Little St. James Island, walking back his earlier claim.

New: A longtime aide to Bill Clinton walked back a prior claim that the former president visited Jeffrey Epstein’s island, according to two sources familiar with closed-door testimony on Capitol Hill.https://t.co/knW11COrkx

— Annie Grayer (@AnnieGrayerCNN) June 30, 2026

CNN reported:

“In 2020, Band told Vanity Fair that Clinton visited Epstein’s private island in 2003. In February, however, Clinton testified that he was never on Epstein’s island — and on Tuesday, Band amended his previous assertion during his own interview with the panel, the sources said.

‘He turned out to clearly not know the difference between the truth and a lie’, Mace told CNN. ‘He contradicted his Vanity Fair interview from a couple of years ago. He testified today that he had no knowledge of Clinton going to Epstein island, but he used some very vague language in how he did it. It was all very obtuse and obstructive language when he did answer’.

Band stated he had no evidence that Clinton went to Epstein’s island, and he doesn’t remember why he told Vanity Fair that he did, one of the sources told CNN.

‘He was the worst witness we’ve ever had’, Mace told CNN. ‘He just said, ‘I do not recall’ on damn near every answer and he contradicted himself multiple times’.”

Read more:

Why Doug Band’s Upcoming Testimony to House Oversight on the Epstein Investigation Is So Dangerous to Bill Clinton

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A grieving mother in Spain is now using her late daughter’s secret journal to launch a desperate search for the men, widely reported to have been North African migrants, who gang-raped her years ago.

Yolanda Ramos received the diary from her 25-year-old daughter, Noelia Castillo Ramos, on the day she died by euthanasia in a Barcelona hospital in March.

The journal contains details about the horrific gang rape that Noelia was subjected to when she was 21 in the town of Salou in Tarragona province, along with accounts of other sexual assaults she suffered.

Before her death, Noelia had publicly spoken about surviving multiple sexual assaults in television interviews, including a gang rape at a nightclub and other attacks.

She never named the perpetrators, and Spanish authorities have never identified any suspects.

After reading the diary, her mother said she finally understood many things about what her daughter had endured and decided to take action by filing formal complaints to pursue justice.

The New York Post reports that the diary “recounted meeting a waiter in the town of Salou in Tarragona, being drugged, plied with alcohol, and raped by three men.

“Noelia spoke about the rapes on television, and on the very day she died, she gave me her diary. When I read it, I understood many things,” Yolanda Ramos said in a video about her criminal complaints.

WATCH:

@abc.es «Mi hija no tenía ninguna enfermedad terminal, tenía enfermedades mentales», así comienza el vídeo que ha publicado Yolanda, madre de Noelia Castillo, más de un mes después de que la joven de 25 años recibiese la eutanasia en un centro sanitario de Sant Pere de Ribes, el Sant Camil, donde permanecía, en la comarca del Garraf (Barcelona). Una grabación, que ha publicado en una red social, y en la que se dirige al líder de la oposición, el popular Alberto Nuñez Feijóo para que haga «desaparecer» la ley de la muerte asistida. Más información, en ABC.es #NoeliaCastillo #Eutanasia #MuerteAsistida #España #Vida ♬ Sad song by piano and violin(886018) – NOVA

Spain’s euthanasia law permits assisted suicide for adults experiencing serious, chronic, and disabling conditions that cause unbearable suffering.

Noelia had become paraplegic in 2022 after jumping from a fifth-floor building in a suicide attempt triggered by the trauma of the gang rape.

Her father fought for over a year and a half in Spanish courts and even appealed to the European Court of Human Rights to stop the euthanasia, arguing her capacity was compromised by borderline personality disorder and the effects of the assaults.

Courts ultimately ruled that Noelia had the mental capacity to make the decision.

In an interview three days before her suicide, Noelia said, “I simply want to go in peace and stop suffering.”

“The happiness of a father, a mother, or a sister cannot take precedence over the happiness of a daughter.”

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In the latest anti-American move made by American academic institutions, Campus Reform is reporting “Georgetown University has spent the last decade building one of the nation’s most prominent China-focused academic pipelines while receiving tens of millions of dollars in Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked funding and nearly $1.5 billion in foreign gifts and contracts since 1992.”

This is outrageous and dangerous in light of President Trump’s address Thursday night to the nation and the revelations of what the CCP engaged in.

President Trump has argued that China interfered in our elections.

The CCP or Chinese Communist Party has sought to undermine America from within at every turn.

Georgetown has raked in billions from foreign governments. Georgetown increased tuition prices for hard-working American families. This fall, undergraduate tuition will cost American students $74,520 before room, board, and fees are factored in, more than doubling since 2006.”

This is outrageous and unacceptable.

“The university has also helped create opportunities for Chinese state-linked institutions and CCP-tied organizations to gain access to the next generation of U.S. policymakers in Washington, D.C.”

If this seems like a recipe for disaster its because it is.

“The university’s Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues was launched in 2016 with a $10 million “gift” from the Hong Kong-based Spring Breeze Foundation. A 2020 Department of Education Section 117 report stated that Spring Breeze was financed by CP Group and noted the company’s extensive commercial relationships with the CCP. ”

According to this student writing at Campus Reform, this is not a typical exchange program but rather a subversive CCP initiative.

“By 2019, the initiative had launched five research groups, supported 43 student fellows, organized 16 U.S.-China workshops, produced 23 podcasts, funded graduate study tours in China, and hosted 35 public events. ”

“Georgetown has charged families premium prices for access to elite civic and policy leadership opportunities while simultaneously building channels for CCP-linked institutions to reach the students most likely to enter American government, diplomacy, law, and national security work.”

This is ominous; there should be exactly 0 cooperative programs that give the CCP any access or benefit from our universities, as they clearly cannot be trusted.

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As the woman exited her car, danger blasted from above.

Summer storms in Florida are all the rage, and bolts from the sky are hardly rare.

On average, around 270 people are struck by lightning in the US every year.

Unsurprisingly, subtropical Florida leads the country in both strikes and casualties.

The Sunshine State averages about seven fatal lightning strikes per year, with an additional 20 to 30 injuries.

Insane doorbell footage that’s gone viral shows how a Florida woman narrowly escaped being part of these statistics.

She is seen running for cover as a massive lightning bolt hits a yard right behind her, instantly sparking a fire.

ALERT: Florida mom narrowly missed as a massive lightning bolt strikes the ground right behind her and catches the yard on fire.

Jessika Gonzalez was unpacking her car while her kids waited in the garage when lightning struck the neighbor’s yard directly behind her.

“I felt… pic.twitter.com/0vYxY95H7q

— E X X ➠A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) July 17, 2026

The New York Post reported:

“Jessika Gonzalez was seen in her Ring doorbell footage unloading her car when several bright flashes lit up the sky on June 27.

As she slams her door and runs into her house, a fire quickly spreads in the grass behind her.”

Gonzalez ran for cover as fast as she could.

“’I felt like a firecracker was lit next to me and the sparks were hitting me’, Gonzalez told Storyful.

‘I ran into the garage, shocked, and all the kids were screaming’.”

She was not injured, escaping the great lightning lottery of Florida.

Read more:

INSANE VIDEOS: Japanese Food Truck Owner Drives Burning Vehicle Across City Streets Towards Fire Station

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The State Department and a handful of other government agencies are going to start cracking down on colleges and universities that take money from foreign entities that are on government watch lists.

This is something we should have been doing for years, but better late than never.

Higher education is always looking for new forms of revenue and will take cash from pretty much anywhere. It’s a significant threat to national security.

CBS News reports:

Universities receive millions in funding from foreign entities on U.S. government watch lists, records show

Major U.S. universities have received millions of dollars in funding from foreign entities that are on U.S. government watch lists, according to a CBS News review of university funding records submitted to the Department of Education.

State Department and Education Department officials say the disclosure forms, which have not been previously reported, show a combined $27.6 million received in roughly the second half of last year by dozens of top American research institutions that originated from entities appearing on at least one federal government watch list. There are 10 cautionary and restricted watch lists overseen by the departments of Treasury, Commerce, Homeland Security, Defense and State, which flag companies and organizations that should be subject to extra scrutiny due to their ties to foreign government interests.

The two agencies are working together to crack down on academic partnerships with foreign companies and organizations that the Trump administration says could threaten national security.

In one example from the disclosure forms, a company in China that develops state-of-the-art aeronautics for the People’s Liberation Army gave more than $7 million total to three American universities considered top-tier research institutions. In another instance, the largest amount in the documents, disclosed in 2020, was $22.6 million for a 50-year contract from the Beijing Institute of Technology to Bryant University in Rhode Island.

On Wednesday, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah B. Rogers sent a letter to the governing boards of major research universities alerting them that future grant-making agencies will be checking if institutions take money from foreign entities on U.S. watch lists — and could pull federal funding for those that do.

At the end of Trump’s first term, Senate Republicans were aggressively pursuing action against China and the huge influence they wield on American college campuses.

It’s good to see the second Trump administration revisiting the topic with an even broader view.

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