Sometimes a news story will take on a life of its own. Watergate was like that. In today’s ultra corrupt society something as mundane as a break-in to the Democratic National Headquarters would merely be yawn inducing and end up on Page Six or further back. But back in the day it was quite the compelling saga and it ended with Richard Nixon leaving the White House lawn in Air Force One, while Gerald Ford took over. Quite the amazing day in history.
We don’t know what will happen when Epstein is said and done. For the moment I give you the best synopsis of the key factors isolated by Meidas Touch.
… The latest batch of Epstein documents released by Democrats on House Oversight show how he weaved an intricate web of rich and powerful people around the globe to compromise them and use them for his own dark purposes. They also show that Donald Trump was an instrumental part in his schemes. Here are some key parts from some of the emails:
- April 2011, Epstein to Maxwell: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.”
- Referring to Trump: (Redacted victim’s name) “spent hours at my house with him, (but) he has never once been mentioned.” Maxwell: “I have been thinking about that.”
- Dec. 15, 2015, the night of the Republican primary debate, Michael Wolff to Epstein: (CNN is) “planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you — either on air or in scrum afterwards.” Epstein: “If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?” Wolff: “I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable P.R. and political currency.” Wolff told Epstein he could use that later to “hang him” or “save him, generating a debt.”
- 2019 email from Epstein to Wolff on Trump’s claim that he forced him to resign his membership at Mar-a-Lago: “Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
- Epstein in 2018: “i know how dirty donald is.”
- Epstein to a friend: “would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen.”
- Epstein on Trump’s business practices: “He has no money when he buys the house. His biz model is putting his name on a real estate development and gets a fee for using his name. The hotel biz is just that. Trump put his name on it, and get a 2% fee and maybe a piece of the profit if any on sale. He touts the project as ‘his’… just as in his current financial statements on file as president he lists his ‘income’ as the GROSS receipts of the clubs, with no expenses, not his personal revenue ie the doral golf club loses money every year. It pays out more than it takes in, but he lists the revenue as his income. AMAZING.”
- Responding to an email from someone who called Trump “so gross”. Epstein: “Worse in real life and upclose.”
- Epstein talking about Trump to another person in 2017: “your world does not understand how dumb he really is. he will blame everyone around him. for bad results.”
- Epstein got this email from an unidentified person in 2018: “It will all blow over! They’re really just trying to take down Trump and doing whatever they can to do that…!” Epstein responded: “yes thx. its wild. because i am the one able to take him down.”
- When a woman asked Epstein who he was spending his Thanksgiving with in Palm Beach in 2017, he responded: “david fizel. hanson. trump.”
- NYT reporter Landon Thomas, Jr. sent in an email to Epstein in 2015 that people are “coming to me thinking I have juicy info on you and Trump.” Epstein responded: “have them ask my houseman about donad almost walking through the door leaving his nose print on the glass as young women were swimming in the pool and he was so focused he walked straight into the door.”
… Politico: “Nearly a month before Trump met Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top diplomat: If you want to understand Trump, talk to me. “I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” Epstein wrote in a June 24, 2018, email to Thorbjorn Jagland, a former PM of Norway who was leading the Council of Europe at the time of the exchange. Lavrov was an apparent reference to Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s longtime foreign minister.”
… “In the email exchange, one of hundreds released by congressional investigators, Epstein indicated he had previously talked about Trump with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s forceful ambassador to the UN, before Churkin died in 2017. ‘Churkin was great,’ Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, wrote. ‘He understood Trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.’”
… Epstein would later opine about Trump’s fateful meeting with Putin, which was panned around the world for his apparent capitulations to the Russian dictator. “Do the Russians have stuff on Trump? Today was appalling even by his standards,” wrote Larry Summers, the former Clinton admin Treasury secretary and Obama admin economic adviser, in an email to Epstein on July 16, 2018, the day of the Helsinki summit with Putin.”
… Epstein replied: “My email is full with similar comments. wow. Im sure his view is that it went super well. he thinks he has charmed his adversary. Admittedly he has no idea of the symbolism. He has no idea of most things.”
… Dep. AG Todd Blanche didn’t ask Maxwell a single question about any of these emails when he met with her for two days in a Florida prison. Then he moved her to Club Fed where she is served individual meals and has a puppy and numerous other special privileges while she prepares her clemency petition. I wonder why?
… George Conway: “An important side note about today’s Epstein/Trump revelations.
They show that Blanche’s questioning of Maxwell was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump. Either way, he is not fit to serve as Dep AG of the US.”
… Blanche responded: “George, you’ve never been confused for a trial lawyer, and these kinds of posts explain why. When I interviewed Maxwell, law enforcement didn’t have the materials Epstein’s estate hid for years and only just provided to Congress. Stop talking. It’s unbecoming.”
… Conway: “Dude, you didn’t even come close to asking a decent follow-up question of Maxwell. And I saw you at your boss’s criminal trial, you know, the one where he was convicted on 34 felony counts: You couldn’t cross-examine your way out of a paper bag.”
… House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin: “DOJ didn’t release any of these emails that mention Trump’s name and identify his role in all these activities. Those came from the estate of Epstein instead. So this is a demonstration that the govt is very deliberately withholding the information that everybody is actually looking for, and anything that could be damaging to Trump.”
… Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) on CNN: Q – “Do you still have a question about whether Trump knew about the sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein? Sessions: Well, I’ve not gone through all of the documents.”
… Jason Kander: “Best case: The President of the United States knew about a pedophilia ring and did nothing to stop it. Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators. Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.”
Two parts to the Epstein emails as I see it:
- Trump was involved in the shenanigans described. That’s clear;
- Epstein’s comments about Trump’s state of mind, the way he lied on his finances, substituting a revenue figure as an income figure, show the absolute depth of his corruption.
In a sane world Trump would not remain in the Oval Office. We do not live in a sane world. So it will certainly be interesting to see what does happen. Karoline Leavitt of course is spinning all this as a distraction. This makes Watergate look like a watermelon but Leavitt pooh poohs it all as smoke and mirrors.
What a world we live in now. But I do see hope in Trump’s wildly underwater rating due to the Epstein revelation. We have to take hope where we can find it and be grateful that at least things have gotten this far.
No-one would mistake Mr Blanche as having competency in anything.