“Thanksgiving? I spent it with Trump”: Jeffrey Epstein wrote it in an email dated November 23, 2017, a Thanksgiving the tycoon spent at Mar-Lago, thus refuting the version of the president breaking off ties with the late pedophile financier around 2004.
Increasingly overwhelmed by the new revelations of the Epstein case, in Melania’s embarrassing silence, the tycoon is trying to get out of the corner. and turned it against the Democratic Party, ordering investigations into his former friend and associate’s ties to former President Bill Clinton, other party members, and prominent investment banks. “Now – he announced in Truth – that the Democrats are using Epstein’s hoax, involving the Democrats and not the Republicans, to try to divert attention from their disastrous cover-up and all their other failures, I will ask Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice, along with our great patriots in the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationships with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, JP Morgan, Chase and countless other people and institutions, to determine what is happening to them and him.” “This – he continued – is yet another ‘Russia, Russia, Russia scam,’ with all the arrows pointing towards the Democrats. The documents show that these people, and many others, spent much of their lives with Epstein and on his ‘Island’: referring to the tycoon’s luxury villa on Little Saint James (in the US Virgin Islands) where sexual abuse of groups of minors took place.
“Ask Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman and Larry Summers about Epstein, they know everything about him, don’t waste your time with Trump. I have a country to rule!”, he wrote shortly before, claiming that the financier “was a Democrat”. Such as Clinton (who frequently traveled on Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ jet), former Treasury Secretary Summers, and businessman Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and a major donor to the party. Meanwhile, the two banks mentioned were the banks used by Epstein, which they allegedly facilitated his illicit trade.
The tycoon also lashed out at “some weak Republicans who fell into the (dem)’s clutches because they were soft and ridiculous”.. It’s another push against a growing number of lawmakers in his party who appear intent on voting next week with Democrats in favor of a measure calling for the disclosure of all Justice Department documents related to Epstein. These contacts with Republicans have intensified since House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed not to do so under pressure from a bipartisan petition that reached a quorum of signatures. But voting against it carries the risk of being seen in the next by-election as protecting pedophiles. Especially from Maga’s base, which is increasingly frustrated with other Trump policies, from visas for foreign workers to interventionism abroad. The special treatment in prison of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s ex-girlfriend, was also upsetting, with the firing of several prison employees for disclosing emails to her lawyers in which she spoke of her intention to seek commutation of her sentence and detention privileges.
However, for Donald, the presidency could be at stake if the dossier uncovers embarrassing facts or dismantles the narrative: all it takes is lying to the American people to end up in trouble, as the Clinton-Lewinsky case shows. According to some observers, Trump may also want to cover other influential figures in his network. Some people wonder why the Democratic Party didn’t use any information compromising The Donald when they were in the White House and had access to the files, but we shouldn’t forget that Epstein’s network is also very widespread in the party, as shown by the tycoon’s latest move.
Meanwhile, the silence about Melania, who at that time was dating the Epstein-Maxwell couple and Donald, continued (for years): never a word, just threats of lawsuits against those who wrote that the financier (and not the model agency owner, Paolo Zampolli) introduced her to Trump.
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