Staff Reports
A crude, provocative statue of President Trump and the late Jeffrey Epstein that appeared on the National Mall this week was quietly removed in the pre-dawn hours — a stunt that should have been laughed off but instead became another front in the left’s relentless campaign to smear conservatives. The 12-foot “Best Friends Forever” sculpture, installed by an anonymous collective calling itself The Secret Handshake, was taken down by National Park Service personnel who said it didn’t comply with permit terms.
The artist collective says it had a valid permit through Sunday and that Park Service crews toppled and broke the figures without the 24-hour notice they were owed, which reeks of selective enforcement and political theater. Whether you cheer or groan at the imagery, the federal government’s midnight destruction of a permitted display raises real First Amendment concerns when activists on the left are treated as performance artists while conservatives face censorship.
Even more explosive than the statue circus was a hidden-camera clip released by James O’Keefe’s team in which a former DOJ official, identified as Glenn Prager, dropped incendiary lines about Jeffrey Epstein — claiming, among other things, that Epstein was treated as an asset by intelligence services and suggesting powerful people were being shielded. The clip immediately went viral and forced a public reckoning about who in government controls the narrative and whose lives get protected by institutional insiders.
The Justice Department rushed to distance itself from Prager, calling him a program analyst who left more than 15 years ago and warning that his off-the-cuff remarks should not be taken as authoritative. That statement is notable, but it shouldn’t end the conversation: a quick official denial is not the same as transparent answers for the American people, and DOJ’s reflexive dismissal feels convenient to anyone who still remembers Epstein’s baffling prior treatment.
Conservatives have every right to be skeptical when establishment institutions like the DOJ, intelligence agencies, and big media move in lockstep to bury inconvenient threads while unleashing spectacle art aimed at destroying reputations. House investigators and watchdogs have been pushing to make more Epstein-related files public precisely because trust in the process has evaporated; the American people deserve the full unredacted truth, not curated narratives or midnight removals of public exhibits.
This episode should be a wake-up call for hardworking Americans who value free speech and honest government: demand the release of every document, hold career bureaucrats accountable, and stop letting political elites decide which allegations get amplified and which get buried. Law and order means transparency for all — not secrecy for the well-connected and show trials for those the left wants to crucify. The voters will remember who stood for truth and who stood with the spectacle.
