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Beware ‘Ragebait Engagement Farming’
Cynical Publius, a poster on X, accurately describes for me the fantastical conspiratorial posts this week about Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Jeffrey Epstein records and death as “ragebait engagement farming.” I hate mobs and mob thinking, and I think Bondi has achieved a remarkable courtroom record against a tsunami of judicial insurrection.
For example, this week the Department of Justice, which she heads, just won its 13th Supreme Court victory in six months. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirms that the President is proud of her and considers the “continued fixation or sowing discord on [his] cabinet is baseless and unfounded in reality. On Saturday, the president reiterated his strong support for Bondi. I will endeavor to explain how absurd this furor is and why this (like the ludicrous Pizzagate-like fantasy before it) has so many dupes believing in unsubstantiated nonsense.
A very detailed portrait of Epstein’s background and operations can be found in a 2003 article in Vanity Fair, which reveals a shrewd operator who cultivated celebrities, business figures, politicians, scientists, and people of note to amass a considerable fortune. He was also a man with a perversion for sexual relations with underage young women.
There has long been a widely held belief that he maintained a list of notable people with details of their crimes. Bondi said she had the Epstein list “on her desk,” and indicated it would be released. This was a mistake, because if the belief was that there was a roster of prominent people engaged in pedophilia, there is no such list. (If there ever had been, he most likely scrubbed it long before any criminal investigation.)
Whether she was misled into thinking this is unknown, but she was responsible for carefully checking the reliability of the information handed to her, and apparently, she didn’t. Most likely, any list she had was no more than an unvetted sweep of all his contacts. (Possibly, as we show below, some names could not be released because of pending court orders sealing this information.)
It is also a widely held belief that Epstein was murdered while incarcerated, and there are many who disbelieve the claim that he committed suicide and were outraged when she said the evidence indicated he did commit suicide. If he was murdered, there is no concrete evidence of that.
Why the Epstein File will not Implicate Anyone not Already Implicated
Ted Frank makes a compelling argument in this regard:
Anyone hoping the Epstein files will implicate people not already implicated is going to be very disappointed. Boies Schiller represented a bunch of putative victims and left no stone unturned, suing everyone remotely involved with Epstein, including JP Morgan Chase, who was guilty solely of letting Epstein park his money there, and coughed up $290 million rather than face a New York jury and the New York press; and the FBI, whose culpability isn't even tertiary. And with dozens of clients and years of work, lawyers sued all of two celebrities: Alan Dershowitz, who they had to apologize to in a $0 settlement when the only person accusing him turned out to be unreliable and someone who the government couldn't dare call to the stand in trial; and Prince Andrew, who settled with exactly one putative victim lucky enough to get a photo with him, probably finding it cheaper than the reputation hit and inconvenience of being dragged to America and being in the headlines for months in a he-said she-said case where he was utterly unsympathetic, and perhaps at the command of the queen to make the case go away. Which makes sense: why would Epstein risk his freedom and fortune to find out if any of the rich friends he was sucking up to shared his weird predilections for underage teenagers? His emails with Bill Gates, long made public, showed how Epstein operated. He liked collecting celebrity exposure by offering his plane and his island retreat and other trappings of luxury to famous politicians and celebrities; rich people like hanging out with other rich people who treat them normally and don't ask them for anything other than reciprocal philanthropic donations; and universities are happy to send celebrity academics to meet with 7-digit donors, and the celebrity academics rely on the universities to do due diligence for them.
Why It’s Unlikely He Had Evidence of Prominent Pedophiles
According to Shipwreckedcrew:
Hundreds/thousands of pedophiles who filmed themselves and others have been prosecuted and convicted. The public does not know what videos Epstein possessed. There were certainly videos involving him -- that has been a matter of public record for a while. He is now dead. But there is no EVIDENCE that he had videos of other identified pedophiles who have not been prosecuted. Pedophiles collect child porn. Collecting child porn and creating child porn are two different things even though both result in videos. It has been reported by DOJ that Epstein had videos -- some made by him and others collected by him. But the public doesn't know what it doesn't know. You have no way of knowing how many videos there are of pedophiles who have not been prosecuted. Be careful making allegations of criminal activity in social media without proof. Your anonymity here is not assured.
Even more foolish is the notion that the Administration that has engaged in the largest round-up of pedophiles and has rescued thousands of trafficked kids is interested in protecting pedophiles.
It’s Unlikely That There Were Videos of Powerful People Engaged in Pedophilia
Chronicle’s Adam Mills asserts:
No one has ever seen a library of tapes or DVDs. Nor have we confirmed such videos ever existed. We’ve assumed the FBI struck gold but hid the evidence from the public.
But do we ever ask how the FBI would have acted if they found nothing with their raids? What if the reason Epstein got such a sweet deal the first time is because he meticulously scrubbed his house of all video evidence?
[snip]
To my knowledge, the government introduced no pictures of famous people having sex with children. There were no videos consistent with what we imagine Epstein kept in his blackmail archives. We all assume that somebody is hiding these videos and photos that we just know were used to blackmail famous people.
But what would it look like if there were no photos or videos in the Epstein compound when the FBI raided it? Aside from our strong suspicions that they must exist, how do we rule that out?
It is important to note that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But the question must be asked: Is it possible that Epstein exploited children for profit without retaining blackmail information on his clients? We’ve heard from his victims that he used cameras to record “private moments” and that Epstein had secret cameras positioned around his New York residence. But that doesn’t mean he actually made recordings of clients.
We know Epstein cultivated long relationships with powerful people. Wouldn’t Epstein need to soothe his clients’ fears of secret cameras and tabloid cover photos? If patrons of a fitness club discovered cameras in the locker rooms, many would stop going. Some of his clients probably had private security teams that would investigate the possibility that their protectee might be walking into a honeypot. If word got out that even one of his clients was exposed, his entire clientele list and all his schemes would collapse immediately.
We know Epstein sexually exploited children. But do we actually know he recorded famous people doing likewise?
One can imagine Epstein might have had reason to make people think he retained blackmail evidence, just as Saddam Hussein pretended to have chemical weapons -- to protect his position and to bluff his enemies. Epstein probably hinted at a secret cache that could only be reached with his cooperation.
During his press conference, Trump was asked about the Epstein files. He responded by mocking people for talking about the case instead of focusing on his accomplishments. But how else would one expect him to react upon discovering that his attorney general and FBI chief made horse’s asses of themselves by promising something they couldn’t deliver?
It’s the explanation that matches observation: The videos never existed in the first place. This explanation also tracks with the level of the caution one might expect of a criminal with a long career like Jeffrey Epstein.
As for records listing who flew on his plane or visited his compounds, there’s every reason to believe they were not engaged in pedophilia there. Releasing such lists without verification would tar perfectly innocent people, and the president has acknowledged that:
Bill O’Reilly said, “I talked to President Trump, man to man, eye to eye, on St. Patrick’s Day about this."
“He said, and I agree: There are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein’s conduct. They maybe had lunch with him or maybe had some correspondence for one thing or another.
“If that name gets out, those people are destroyed because there’s not going to be any context. The media doesn't care about context -- so you can’t do that.”
The president makes sense. However, people are out to get Bondi.
If Evidence is Being Suppressed, it’s not by the Attorney General
In fact, we have the word of one such innocent victim of an unvetted Epstein contact dragnet, Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, whose experience indicates that if anyone is protecting prominent Epstein wrongdoers, it’s the judiciary, not the Department of Justice.
Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz just now: " I know for a fact [Epstein] documents are being suppressed and they're being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals, I know why they're being suppressed. I know who's suppressing them, but I'm bound by confidentiality from a judge and cases, and I can't disclose what I know. But, hand to God, I know the names of people whose files are being suppressed in order to protect them, and that's wrong."
“Just out of curiosity, without names, are these politicians, business leaders…”
Dershowitz: “Both. Everything.”
In the same video from which this quote is taken, Dershowitz praises Bondi’s honesty and ability. If there is any evidence that people hoped Bondi had and would release, it’s most likely that the Department of Justice is bound by court orders from releasing it.
The bigger question, it seems to me, is why so many people are captured by unlikely hearsay and anonymously sourced tales of high-level criminal conspiracies rather than meaningful political issues. I think Peter Savodnik at the Free Press nails the answer.
Today’s conspiracy theorists... are not simply reacting to the appearance of official dishonesty but the reality of it: It’s not that hard to understand why so many Americans, following the innumerable lies they’ve been told about Russiagate and police brutality and the Covid lab leak and on and on (Andrew Sullivan compiled a list in 2021), might conclude that Jeffrey Epstein was the linchpin at the center of a sprawling blackmail scheme, that he didn’t just kill himself (even though he had good reason to do so), that he was actually being silenced by the powers that be to ensure that the powers that be would be never be unearthed.
And yet.
Two things can be true at once: We can be lied to about some things, but not all of them.
It is the case that countless Democrats and reporters told us the Kremlin secretly owned the president of the United States. But it’s not the case that everyone inside the party or the government (or even the legacy media) is untrustworthy.
Nor is it the case that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered.
Or, at least, there is no evidence that he was, and if you don’t believe me, then you should believe the OG conspiracy theorist -- the sitting president.
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Alas, it is very difficult to make people believe the Epstein plot is not a plot, because the whole sorry saga does reveal that some of the most powerful people on Earth are depraved and spineless, and they do sick things like sleep with 14-year-old girls. What’s more, it appears to confirm the original pedophile faux scandale, Pizzagate -- or, at least, it appears to confirm that the nutbags who insisted Democrats were trafficking in young women were not all wrong.
And yet: We should avoid conflating one immorality with others -- a lack of character with a much more ambitious plot to control the money supply or wage war or whatever else it is that some of the more outlandish Epstein conspiracy theories allege.
And: We should steer clear of the fallacy of composition -- the mistaken belief that, because one part is corrupt, the whole is corrupt.
The whole -- meaning the whole of our institutions, government, universities, major corporations -- is not owned by some invisible, demonic “Zionist entity,” as the pro-Hamas people like to say, or by a satanic pedophile ring, as the outermost fringes of MAGA prefer. It is not kneading, molding us into submission. (And no, I am not a cog in this multitentacled beast, denying a crime that I am actually a part of, although I recognize that my denial of my noncrime will only exacerbate the incredulity.)
But yes, there are terrible people across the globe who have ascended to the highest echelons of institutional power, and they are a disgrace, and they should be rooted out, and until they are, the distrust in those institutions will not abate.
One more thing. The claim that Patel and Bongino are warring with Bondi because she hasn’t released the list seems absurd on its face if we credit the word of her deputy, Todd Blanch, who said all the contents of the memo on the Epstein files and the conclusions were signed on to by Patel and Bongino. So, if you choose to adopt a rational analysis of the claimed dispute, you know which yapping “influencers” who base their claims on hearsay and anonymous sources to ignore.
Conservatives Must Stop Falling for the MSM’s Gaslighting, Turning Us Against Each Other
I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend that seems to be getting worse lately: MAGA attacking MAGA. It’s driven by the overwhelmingly left-leaning MSM (only 3% of journalists are Republicans), which lies, distorts, and omits the truth, deliberately to turn the right against each other. The resulting infighting is understandable, since even if you go out of your way to avoid the MSM, you can’t get away from it. Your friends and family watch it. News flashes bombard you on your computer, smartphone, and in emails, and unless you keep up with them, constantly turning them off, you can’t escape them.
The latest division the MSM is causing is over the Jeffrey Epstein files. The Democrats and their comrades in the MSM have cleverly figured out that since conservatives are so disturbed by pedophilia, they are easily convinced that even the Trump administration is hiding something by not releasing all the files publicly.
It’s so incredibly hypocritical to see the left concerned about pedophilia, since they’ve gaslit the right for years about those concerns. Plus, many prominent Democrats hung out with Jeffrey Epstein: Bill and Hillary Clinton, Larry Summers, Anthony Weiner (how appropriate), Bill Richardson, and George Mitchell. Both Clinton and Richardson have been accused of inappropriate behavior with minors.
Now, did the Trump administration botch the handling of the files? It sounds like there were some mishaps. If there were legitimate reasons not to release files, this should have been explained better. Trump is now saying that the Biden administration manufactured the Epstein files to make MAGA look bad. “Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration, who conned the World…” he said Saturday on TruthSocial. He probably should have said this earlier and expounded on it more.
It makes no sense that others who have never been involved with Epstein, like Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, would risk committing serious felonies to cover up even more serious felonies for others. They would resign before risking getting locked up! They’re already quite brave to serve in those positions, because once a Democrat becomes president again, there is a realistic possibility they will be prosecuted on bogus grounds.
I also don’t believe Trump is implicated. There is no way with all the exposés that have come out from the women who were abused, and all the attention, that he could have covered up something that heinous. Plus, he’s far too smart. He banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago in 2007.
While it seems plausible that someone murdered Epstein, it is also equally plausible that he killed himself.
I believe Elon Musk is helping to get to the bottom of it by posting about the discrepancies, such as questioning the missing video coverage from the jail, which is still being addressed. If anyone has credibility and can get something accomplished that major, it’s him. Dan Bongino, the second-in-command at the FBI, is also helping, reportedly threatening to resign if the files aren’t released.
I believe it’s too soon to make judgments on whether Trump or any of his associates were involved improperly with Epstein.
I’ve worked for several politicians, both on the campaign trail and in public office, and there is usually something going on behind the scenes with a rational explanation for a lot of their seemingly odd behavior. With RINOs, it’s almost always “follow the money” to explain their actions. But with MAGA, there is usually a legitimate explanation. As a local reporter, when I hear our MAGA officials in Arizona criticized for allegedly taking RINO positions, I go directly to the source and ask them for the back story. Repeatedly. It gets exhausting. I usually hear a legitimate explanation, and I’ll often write articles explaining the situation and defending them on social media. But it’s a lot of work, and there’s only so much time in the day — I could devote my whole career to just this one exercise because it’s so prevalent.
I believe that because officials are so harried and overworked, they don’t see the perception they’re creating by not going public and explaining themselves to low-information armchair warriors. Compounding the problem is that many of these attack dogs fail to research issues before criticizing them. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to correct people on X who claim that no one is ever prosecuted for election wrongdoing, for example. We’ve had two high-profile prosecutions recently in Arizona where people served time, here and here.
In the Epstein situation, anything not released could be due to the strict court orders sealing records. Now, could the Trump administration request to have parts of them unsealed, leaving out the victims’ names? Yes, and I suspect that will happen.
I think people are jumping the gun on this, but at the same time, people like Musk and Bongino putting pressure on the situation is helping get it resolved quicker.
Studies have shown that people on the right tend to have higher levels of paranoia than people on the left, and are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories. I believe this is due to our higher ethical standards, driven by Christians forming our base. We are far more concerned about wrongdoing, so we are more likely to suspect it when something seems amiss. The problem with this attitude is that people who have no idea what is going on make snap judgments from their armchairs.
The left is already doing a great job of bashing Trump and his appointees over the Epstein files. Why not take the high road and put polite pressure on Trump without resorting to foul language and making enemies? What if Trump releases everything and there is no smoking gun? After all, if there was anything on Trump, why didn’t the Biden administration release the files?
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President Trump Gives Lengthy Interview on Current State of Administration, Goals and Objectives
President Trump sits down with daughter-in-law Lara Trump on Fox News. President Trump talked about the deportation operation, trade, tariffs, Elon Musk & what comes now with the Big, Beautiful Bill signed into law. WATCH:
'Woke, Weak, and Out of Touch': New Poll Shows Democrats Losing Ground with Voters
A new poll reveals a sharp decline in support for the Democratic Party since the 2024 election, as frustrated voters say the party has drifted far from the concerns of everyday Americans. Instead of focusing on inflation, border security, or public safety, Democrats are increasingly seen as obsessed with destroying President Donald Trump's legacy, woke virtue signaling, and identity politics.
A poll conducted by Unite the Country, a Democratic super PAC, shows that many voters — especially white men, Hispanic men, and working-class Americans — see the Democratic Party as “woke,” “weak,” and disconnected from everyday realities. The party’s approval rating has dipped below 35 percent, raising serious concerns about its ability to rebound before the 2028 presidential race. Adding to the challenge, enthusiasm among the Democratic base has continued to decline following the 2024 election, signaling deep frustration within the party’s own ranks.
Democratic strategist Rodell Mollineau acknowledged that the Democratic Party is facing a serious perception problem. He said many Americans, beyond just the MAGA base, see the party negatively, and unless Democrats accept this reality, it will be difficult to make progress. He emphasized that this view isn’t limited to far-right critics but also includes voters who should naturally support the party.
"Democrats need to realize that in order to improve and get better to not only win in 2028 but to win in 2030 and 2032 and beyond,” Mollineau said.
A CNN/SSRS poll from earlier this year shows the Democratic Party facing historically low approval, with just 29 percent of Americans viewing the party favorably—the lowest level since CNN began tracking the data. Even Democratic-leaning voters are unhappy, with 58 percent saying the party needs significant changes or a total overhaul. Only 16 percent of voters say Democrats provide strong leadership, while 43 percent believe neither party offers effective leaders. The numbers reflect growing frustration, especially among young and independent voters, posing serious challenges for Democrats as they look ahead to the 2026 elections.
Minnesota Assassin Tears Big Hole in Media’s Portrayal of His Motive, Mentions Tim Walz Again
Vance Boelter, accused of murdering Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and injuring State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, denied political motives in a jailhouse interview, claiming more details about the events leading up to the heinous shootings will emerge if Governor Tim Walz allows their release.
Boelter’s cryptic statement will no doubt spark intense speculation about what information he might be alluding to. Still, one thing is sure, based on his comments - the assassin has an incredibly tenuous relationship with reality.
As RedState reported last month, Boelter went on a shooting spree on June 14th, and authorities launched an expansive manhunt to catch him. He would finally be apprehended later in the weekend.
As is often the case in tragic situations such as this, the media launched into their theories as to the shooter's motive. Naturally, they landed on broadly blaming Republicans, with some major outlets pointing a direct finger at President Donald Trump.
Democrats joined in on the narrative, with Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) calling Boelter a "hate-filled right winger," and former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-umber than a Stump) telling MSNBC that the President had "given the permission structure for this reality" of political violence.
That's right, the guy who stared down multiple assassination attempts due to unhinged rhetoric from the media and the resistance party is supposedly the guy who lit the fuse on political violence. *Eyeroll*
Boelter has now spoken to the New York Post from his jail cell, and insists neither Trump nor his pro-life views had anything to do with the assassinations. And he even hinted that Walz might try to keep details of his motives under wraps.
“You are fishing and I can’t talk about my case…I’ll say it didn’t involve either the Trump stuff or pro-life,” he told the outlet through the Sherburne County Jail messaging system.
“I am pro-life personaly [sic] but it wasn’t those,” Boelter continued. “I will just say there is a lot of information that will come out in future that people will look at and judge for themselves that goes back 24 months before the 14th. If the gov ever let’s [sic] it get out.”
Why would Walz want to keep the assassin's motivations under wraps?
As RedState reported, the media narrative on Trump's rhetoric being a motivating factor shriveled up pretty quickly after a letter written by Boelter had been recovered from his vehicle, where he made the wild claim that he had to kill specific individuals - including Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) - to clear a path for Walz to run for the United States Senate himself.
Boelter, it has been reported, was appointed to a government workforce board by Walz. There is minimal indication that their relationship extended beyond that fact.
“Certain details of that letter were leaked out that probably painted one kind of a picture, but a lot more important details that were in that letter were not leaked out,” Boelter claimed.
It seems relatively clear that the alleged assassin is toying with the media, seeking attention by hinting at a more nefarious plot behind the scenes. As RedState's Bonchie wrote regarding the letter, "Boelter is just an insane person."
That said, Bonchie added:
Walz obviously knew about what was in the letter from day one, given that it was found almost immediately in the car abandoned by Boelter. Yet, he and his Democrat colleagues still spent days insinuating the motive was related to right-wing rhetoric.
You know darn well that if the media and Democrats were able to continue smearing the right as being responsible for these assassinations and attempted murders, they'd be covering this story 24/7. Instead, you haven't heard much about Boelter since that letter and his strange hit list were found.
Boelter went on to claim that his "immune system is failing" because he's being held in inhumane conditions in jail. He also upped the crazy by citing a Biblical passage about loving thy neighbors when asked to remark on his victims.
Welcome to Florida: Leftist Nut Who Tried to Disrupt TPUSA Event Now Finds Himself Named and Charged
It’s with sadness that I report that a progressive zealot tried to disrupt the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit (SAS) event in Tampa, Florida Saturday but was met with overwhelming power and was forcibly detained.
Ok, I admit, I’m being sarcastic. In reality, this video footage is quite satisfying as an entitled wannabe tough guy gets what’s coming to him as he attempts to stop the flow of traffic and make what he probably hoped would become a viral scene, as RedState's Nick Arama initially reported.
It did go viral, but for all the wrong reasons for this fool:
He felt big in the moment, but then reality set in:
Unfortunately for this guy, he picked the wrong state to pull off his antics. This is Florida, not crime-happy California, and now he’s facing something called “consequences”:
Oops.
We’ve gotten so used to progressives thinking they can attack law enforcement, stop traffic and disrupt the normal flow of commerce and life without consequence. In places like California, Seattle, and Great Britain, that may be the norm, but not in the Sunshine State.
This guy found out.
It’s so easy to talk big and make a spectacle of yourself, but as Arama reported Sunday, there are actual legitimate enforcers out there, and they’re not playing around.
The video clip of this loser crashing to the ground is satisfying, but the ongoing leftist violence against law enforcement is anything but. As we know, on today’s one-year anniversary of the oh-so-close Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, creepy stories about weird deadbeats can go from chuckle-worthy to tragedy in a heartbeat. The left has been promoting political violence and domestic terrorism in this country for years now, and it’s anything but humorous.
I hope Trevor Smith enjoys his stay behind bars. He might want to reconsider his actions the next time he feels the need to pretend he’s a Hollywood action star.
refugee status to two Gazans outside UNRWA mandate
For the first time, a French tribunal awarded refugee status to a Gazan not recognized as one by the U.N. agency.
A French tribunal for asylum seekers on Friday approved the residency of a Gaza woman and her son based on their alleged displacement by Israel, setting a legal precedent that some fear would trigger mass immigration, but which others downplayed.
The significance of Friday’s ruling by the tribunal—the Cour nationale du droit d’asile (CNDA)—is that for the first time, refugee status was granted to a Gazan who was not under the protection of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Le Figaro reported.
Before the ruling, Palestinians fleeing Gaza who were not covered by UNRWA’s definitions—a segment that accounts for roughly 20% of Gaza’s population—were only eligible for subsidiary protection in France, not full refugee status, the newspaper reported. The court said the mother and son were persecuted “for their nationality” by Israel, and were therefore eligible for an asylum status created in 2003
The ruling provoked the ire of many opposed to immigration in general and from Muslim countries especially, who warned the ruling could open France up to some 200,000 Gazans who are not covered by UNRWA and may now claim asylum based on Friday’s precedent.
But others disputed this, including Pascal Markowicz, a French jurist who is also a member of the steering committee of the CRIF umbrella group of French-Jewish communities.
“The ruling doesn’t necessarily signify an opening for mass migration,” Markowicz told JNS, explaining tribunals assess applications on a per-case basis that takes into account the level of risk each individual applicant is exposed to, and that this mitigates judicial dependency on precedents.
Eric Zemmour, a French-Jewish right-wing politician, on Sunday warned in an op-ed in Le Figaro that the ruling meant “millions more Muslim whom no Muslim country wants” would be coming to France.
Many thousands of Palestinians reside in France. Throughout most of last year, Palestinians accounted for a small fraction of people who filed for asylum in France: Fewer than 200 out of 142,000 who applied in the first nine months of 2024, according to Le Monde, which cited data from the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA.)
https://www.jns.org/french-court-grants-refugee-status-to-two-gazans-outside-unrwa-mandate/
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