"what does "ran the federal government" mean?"

Within the context of the subject at hand? Epstein was under Executive Branch control, and the Executive Branch was headed by Donald J. Trump.

"this place declared"
What size is that broad brush, anyway?

Here's a MAGAt brain tickler.
Jeffrey Epstein was in federal custody when he, one way or the other, died.
Any idea who ran the federal government at that time?
You know, when Donald Trump's "former" friend died while in federal custody?
The envelope, please ...

Most MAGAts will be fine with whatever Trump says.
It's not like they're good critical thinkers with an insatiable independent streak.
Should he turn out to be a pedophile, they'll be good to go.

"Avaunt and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!" said Shakespeare's Macbeth to Banquo's unwelcome ghost.

Minus the eloquence, Trump faces his own haunting in the not-going-away spectre of ...

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Bon effin appetit, MAGAts.

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You might want to spend more time catching up. Or not.

Collins and Mukowski voted to deny this thug a lifetime appointment.
No other GOPer goober grabber grifters could go that far.

Another tidbit:

At 12:05:48 a.m., an unidentified individual passes through the SHU.

The inspector general's report says only two staff members entered the unit after midnight: one is a corrections officer, identified only as "CO3," and the other is described as the Morning Watch Operations Lieutenant. The presence of a third unidentified individual seen on the video is not addressed by the inspector general's report.

From the article:

The FBI claimed "anyone entering or attempting to enter the tier where Epstein's cell was located from the SHU common area would have been captured by this footage."

The video, cross-referenced with diagrams of the Epstein holding area, does not appear to support that finding. That becomes obvious in the first 10 minutes of the video. Epstein's cell was in the L Block, accessible via a staircase from the Special Housing Unit's common area. When Epstein appears on camera, he is seen walking toward the stairs leading to his cell, but since the staircase is almost entirely out of view from the camera, he is never seen ascending.

The entrance to Epstein's cell, as well as the primary entrance to the SHU, are off camera in the same direction, meaning there's no way to tell from the video if he went to his cell or exited the SHU.

Why are the goobers so insecure?

Didn't Bondi, who said she had Epstein's client list sitting on her desk until that claim became "inoperative," also claim she released the"full raw" video?

"Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"

"I never had the privilege of going to his island, and I did turn it down"

Oh, goody, another Trump denial.
Okay, let's play:
So when did he go?

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He's as fake as those ridiculous "gold" props in his "office."
Baker Act, paging Baker Act.

Well, we've got Trump's word for it, case closed.

Oh, wait ...
What's this?

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So, Satanic Church good to go?

Trump has opinions on everything and knows practically nothing.

That this oaf cannot play a game that involves whacking a ball from point A to point B without cheating says a lot.

There's that well regulated militia of random gunners in action again.

This is the part where we find out about how Miller in Repo Man was/is/will be dead-on accurate. So stick to the bus.

"I'm going to make a new deadline of about ... 10 or 12 days from today"

Are we taking Earth Days?

Well, the "safe" answer is: a combination of factors. (Box up my Nobel gong; I'll grab it on the way out.). Although the inbreeding angle sure seems, on the face of it, to merit looking into in a culture where family trees probably resemble Hopi kinship charts.

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It's not like he's being subtle about it.
As Tom Lehrer observed: "Sharks gotta swim, and bats gotta fly ... "
Trump thieves; it's what a gonif does.

Bove is exactly what a bum like Trump is looking for in a personal federal judge.
In fact, if he gets the nod he might well end up on the Supreme Court.

Would you believe this fat arsed, bloviating yapper actually has a fulltime job - other than grifting and golf?

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Agreed. I blame Trump for Trump's malignant behaviors, and I blame the people who voted for him for him being given the opportunity to inflict himself upon us. Sorry, rubes, no mulligans on this one.