It was further proof visible to the whole world of the American president’s contempt for the democratic ideal of the separation of powers. And he was, again, on his social network, Truth, with a message, published this Friday, in which he said that he will ask the attorney general, Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, “along with the great patriots of the FBI”, to investigate the relationship of the billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein with “(former president) Bill Clinton, Larry Summers (former Harvard chancellor and member of Clinton’s cabinet), (LinkedIn co-founder) Reid Hoffman, (the bank) JP Morgan Chase and many other people and institutions, to determine what was happening.”
Trump justified this order, which breaks the rules of American institutional decorum, given that the figure of the attorney general should be independent from the White House, by claiming that the Democrats resurrected the Epstein case, “the Epstein hoax”, according to the president, to “cover up the disastrous CLOSURE OF THE ADMINISTRATION and other failures”.
The maneuver rather seems to pursue another purpose: to try to divert attention from the scandal due to his refusal to release the files in Bondi’s possession on the case of the pedophile, who died in 2019 in a maximum security cell in Manhattan (it was a suicide, according to the medical examiner, although believers in conspiracy theories think he was killed to avoid pulling the blanket).
It’s unclear whether Bondi will accept the chief’s job or how the investigation might materialize. Nor if, as often happens with Trump, the bombastic announcement leads to nothing. Much less, if he manages to achieve his goal: the publication this week of over 20,000 documents obtained by Congress from the family of the pedophile financier has once again resurrected a ghost that has haunted the president for years: the ghost of his long friendship with Epstein and the suspicion that Trump is determined not to release those materials, despite his parents promising him for years, he is hiding something.
The US president denies knowing anything about the crimes of the man who was his friend for 15 years until they broke up in 2004. Trump claims they separated when he kicked Epstein out of his club, Mar-a-Lago, for his “odd” behavior with some employees. In messages released this week, the billionaire pedophile denies this was the reason. There is also an email that appears to place Trump at a shared Thanksgiving feast in 2017, the new president’s first, although there is no certainty that this was the case.
There is no evidence that Trump even knew about Epstein’s misdeeds, much less that he participated in them, although in the series of emails released in recent days, he claims to have “spent hours with one of the victims” and that he “knew about the girls”, referring to the minors whom the financier abused with impunity for years, with the complicity and participation of his getter, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving 20 years in prison in a minimum prison. safety.
In his message on Friday, Trump refers to Clinton, one of the influential people who has been most often linked to Epstein (again, without evidence that he committed a crime) and the millionaire’s list of rich and famous, and who has also been the origin of numerous conspiracy theories.
There is evidence that the former Democratic president met Epstein through his daughter Chelsea and Maxwell, and that he boarded their private planes “at least 26 times” between 2002 and 2003, according to flight logs and as part of the Clinton Foundation’s duties. That is, even before the first trial against the pedophile.
This Friday, Trump also mentions in Truth JP Morgan, which was Epstein’s main bank for 15 years, a period in which the financier made money movements that raised the alarm of the entity’s anti-money laundering watchdogs, who never intervened on the matter with one of his favorite clients. The relationship went beyond the first trial. An investigation of The New York Times concluded last September that the First Bank of the United States facilitated the crimes of the sexual predator, who moved enormous amounts of money in order to maintain his small trafficking network.
in the book The Spider: Journey inside the criminal conspiracy of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Investigative journalist Barry Levine writes that two witnesses placed him twice in 2002 on the private island where the financier committed many of his abuses, although there is no documentary evidence of this and no victim has accused Clinton of any crime.. She categorically denied having traveled to the island or having a close relationship with Epstein and assured that she knew nothing of his crimes.
This week Summers was one of the most prominent protagonists of the latest declassification of documents (in two batches: the first, of three emails, was carried out by Democrats; the second, of more than 20,000, was carried out by Republicans). It was already known that Summers had had an affair with the financier (a relationship she would later publicly regret), but it was not known that she continued to maintain such regular contact with him between 2017 and 2019, years after Epstein’s first (soft) conviction for a prostitution-related crime, even after Epstein’s conviction. Miami Herald revived the case against him with a series of investigative reports.
In those exchanges they talk a lot about Summers’ relationship with a London woman about whom Epstein gives him advice. They also concern Trump. From these dozens of emails exchanged between the two it is not even possible to conclude that Summers knew anything about Epstein’s crimes.
As for Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder was in talks with the financier when he asked him for money for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In that context, he once traveled to the island for a fundraising event.
