SECOND TERM ONLY // JAN 2025 – OCT 2026
promises vs the record
Israel pressure + Epstein flip
not first-term embassy / Golan
>ISRAEL
>said electing him ends the Gaza war fast
>war ran through 2025
>fall 2025 ceasefire got living hostages back
>Oct 2026: Hamas still armed, IDF still in Gaza, strikes ongoing
>early 2025: US "takes over" Gaza, Riviera, jobs, move people to Jordan/Egypt land
>none of that happened. both refused
>Accords expansion + Saudi normalization promised
>Kazakhstan is the new name. Saudi still out. price is a path to a Palestinian state
>20-point plan: disarm Hamas, staged pullout, no annexation
>hostages home. disarmament and full withdrawal not done
>2026: Netanyahu rejected parts of the follow-on roadmap
>told Time annexation costs Israel "all" US support
>he "gave his word to the Arab countries"
>Iran strikes sold as ending nukes and missiles
>Israeli critics said both survived
>June 2026 ceasefire read in Israel as leaving the regime intact
>he publicly blamed Netanyahu's judgment
>late Sept 2026: rejected Iranian pause, new strikes after US midterms
>NOT reversed: embassy, Golan, Iran strikes, pardon ask for Netanyahu
>EPSTEIN
>2024: would declassify / "no problem" / Vance: "release the Epstein list"
>Feb 2025 Bondi hyped a client list. binders were mostly already public
>July 7 2025 DOJ/FBI: no incriminating client list, no new charges, suicide, stop releasing
>he called it a hoax, said supporters were duped, move on
>later attacked Republicans who kept pushing, including Greene
>signed the files law only after a near-unanimous House vote, Nov 2025
>Dec 2025 + Jan 2026 drops, heavy redactions
>Blanche: last major release
>survivors and bill authors: holdings still withheld
>NPR: Trump-related FBI summaries miscoded out, partly released March 2026
>files: old social tie, flights, parties, emails, unverified tips
>no charge. he says ties cut years before 2019, banned from Mar-a-Lago
