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Well-known MAGA influencers who once championed the release of the files associated with the government’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein remained unusually quiet about the latest release of documents that included multiple mentions of Donald Trump.

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[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 171 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"multiple" = over 600 in just recent copy/paste trick. There will be more mentions. This is basically trumps pedophile sex trafficker ring, epstein was just the fall guy.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 111 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

No way Trump was running the show.

He's the guy who bankrupted two casinos and lost a billion trying to buy the Plaza Hotel.

Moreover, look at Trump's record. He hasn't got any long time associates besides Michael Cohen [who got arrested. ] Trump wouldn't have had any one at his side.

Trump was Epstien's client.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 65 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Trump ran his own trafficking ring. Trump Model Management.

Epstein ran a separate trafficking ring. MC2 Model Management. (in partnership with a French pedo named Jean-Luc Brunel, founded almost 6 years after Trump's agency.)

They then traded trafficked girls back and forth, while hosting sex parties that they invited rich and famous people to.

Epstein most likely collected blackmail for Israel, while Trump likely collected for Russia.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/welcome-to-trumps-teenybopper-model

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/6/1578544/-The-Untold-Story-of-Trump-Model-Management-A-Daily-Kos-Exclusive-Part-1

https://archive.is/An3VM#selection-719.76-719.115

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 47 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

His best client though. Probably the only time he ever paid for services received

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 22 points 21 hours ago

He paid by trading girls.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

maybe someone else was paying his way

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 21 points 21 hours ago

The hotel and casinos were almost for sure money laundering and skipping out on paying vendors/contractors etc

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago

Epstein was actually smart. Unfortunately he used his brains for worse things than just run of the mill financial gain. Trump just tries to associate with people who know what they’re doing, just preferentially chooses people good at shitty things.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 10 points 18 hours ago

you can be very successful financially in bankrupting businesses, especially ones that are very easy to get millions upon millions in dirty money and laundering rackets... like casinos.

[–] VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Although I understand your argument. Epstien got arrested and is currently dead.

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago

I am not sure why you use currently in this context. If you expect him to rise from the dead, he probably would have done so after 3 days, right?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 52 minutes ago

Also, Trump may have invested in Epstein's trafficking/extortion business.

He hasn’t got any long time associates besides Michael Cohen [who got arrested. ]

Allen Weisselberg was even longer-term and probably more essential to Trump Org operations and its various frauds.