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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.
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
His best client though. Probably the only time he ever paid for services received
He paid by trading girls.
maybe someone else was paying his way
The hotel and casinos were almost for sure money laundering and skipping out on paying vendors/contractors etc
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.
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.
Although I understand your argument. Epstien got arrested and is currently dead.
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?
Also, Trump may have invested in Epstein's trafficking/extortion business.
Allen Weisselberg was even longer-term and probably more essential to Trump Org operations and its various frauds.