The Epstein redacters replaced “trump” with “trump{invisible extended ASCII character}”, so he would not readily turn up in searches.
That would come under “Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations…”
The incompetence of these Trump grifters is just over the top!
“SHIFTY” BEING THE KEY WORD HERE, Just like “shifty-eyes?” Or, personality, & that old weasel, “Don-tha-Con” his evil, ugly, thug-self best describes!!”
I see that the Trump circle of grifters are trying to ignore the unredactions; they think that magical thinking will see their way through the crisis. Those unredactions will continue to peel off Repubs from Trump whose cult constituency is steadily being deprogrammed by the unredacted facts inevitably getting through to them thanks to other former cult members whom they trust. Magical thinking did not work with stopping the Discharge Petition, and it won’t stop a bipartisan impeachment from happening this year.
Happy New Year’s!
In batch 8 of the Epstein documents released, the deposition of victim Sarah Ransome was taken on 2/17/2017 as a witness in the Virginia Guiffre v. Ghislane Maxell case.
I do not understand why Alan Dershowitz is not getting more heat for this depo testimony now public.
Ransome describes having 3 way sex with Alan Dershowitz and another girl named Nadia at Epstein’s NY mansion. She had to give him oral sex and did not want to.
Ransome was recruited to Epstein via Natalya Malyshev. Ransome was a young adult at the time. She testified that Epstein’s psychiatrist prescribed her Ritalin and lithium. Page 96 of the Depo and page 1111 of the doc dump.
On Page 172 of the depo transcript which is page 1187 of the doc dump in batch 8, she begins talking about Alan Dershowitz. Ransome was called to go to Epstein’s NY mansion where Epstein introduced her to Alan as an attorney who would be helping her on some private legal matter. Epstein was in the room at the time Ransome explained her legal matter to Alan. At another point Epstein, Alan and Ransome were at a nice restaurant for dinner, and she thought Alan was going to be her attorney,
…pick up again at page 182 (1197) Ransome was at Epstein’s NY mansion and a girl named Nadia took upstairs to a room where Nadia started to undress her, have sex with her and then Epstein came in and watched them while he masturbated with his hands down his pants and then Alan walks in, gets undressed and gets on the bed to have 3 way sex (Alan receives oral sex) with Ransome and Nadia. This was the last time she says she saw Alan Dershowitz.
Ransome has dual passports British and South African. She was born in 1984 and I believe her time with Epstein started about 2006. She is the victim that wanted to literally jump off Epstein’s island and swim away, but when they realized she was missing they came on ATV vehicles, and pulled her back before she could find a safe place to get in the water to get away. She wanted to get away from the constant sexual abuse.
Batch 8 starts with a long Maxwell depo testimony. Ransome’s depo starts on page 1016 of 1483 pages.
That was PART of the purpose of Venezuela -to distract (to also build a warchest for the midterms -see my musing (NOT fact!) here (link…)
This is an analogy for Trump’s shtick: when something fails him, he immediately jumps to another even more grandiose delusion -Trump Steaks…tariffs will reshore jobs and be making trillions for Americans…and now Venezuela. When that doesn’t work out, he will immediately charge off to the next even more delusional thing, to distract from the current obvious failure (nudging and winking to a small circle in on the grift to push it to cult members and rubes…) Most of the media normalizes the behavior to remain profitable. How’s PBS Newshour doing now that PBS will be shutting its doors? (but ironic that they couldn’t report on any Israeli involvement with Epstein…)
I would liken it to the actions of a desperate man jumping from stone to stone in a raging river.
Eventually the stones run out if you didn’t plan a path well -and it’s obvious he doesn’t! He just always counts on magical thinking and manipulation of the suckers to try and see his way through it…
I stumbled upon this netflix true crime documentary and the bigger Epstein story of money laundering/shady bank/arms dealing/spy cast of characters are really just more dots connected to The Octopus Murders!!! I highly recommend watching this.
IMO Trump is so sloppy about this scandal he could be tempting his own fate by those behind all this.
Well, Epstein is on record as having asked of a professional assassin how much it would cost to have Andrew AND Sarah killed by a long distance gunshot.
I am waiting for more murders to come out. Maxwell is on record for threatening a girl when she found out she was talking to a lawyer!
The natural way things work with money is that entities work to pry it away from you; through taxes, theft, etc. The people who have inordinate amounts of wealth are typically NOT Powerball winners; they are people who usually used violent means to hang on to their wealth.
They often arrange for fixers to retain killers -and they don’t want to know how it was later done. That would be an Epstein modus operandi, I should think.
But I can’t maintain that as fact; let’s see what the files reveal, shall we??
Offer the working class an improvement in their rights? Stop enabling Netanyahoo while taking Israeli donations??
Right Bernie: we need more of your speeches and less of an alliance of Independents? (although sarcasm aside, thanks for your work on the NYC Starbucks strike -but we need your help in keeping the Dems in Congress honest -and a vetted Independent alliance, as opposed to a herd of cats, balloted for the Fall could do that…)
Tara Palmieri: Trump’s Ex Fixer Cohen Said He Knew “Nothing” About Epstein (link…)
If one of the detectives he used had resorted to violence, he won’t want to “come clean” as Tara suggests because of criminal charges to being an accessory. Sometimes a detective might resort to just a threat (as Stephanie Clifford/Stormy Daniels had been subjected to in a parking lot in Vegas…); and other times, if given enough money, they resort to actual violence. This comports with my thesis that not all billionaires (or even most!) hold on to their wealth through ethical means.
For a number of billionaires, a detective is just a way to money-launder payments to perpetrate violence…
Ah! I see Cohen is now distancing himself from prior testimony he gave to NY State. He KNOWS something is coming in the files that is about him! He had previously made a bet that files incriminating him would never see the light of day because they implicated Trump, and surely the DOJ would not go along with releasing them…
Trump makes EMERGENCY FILING to BLOCK EPSTEIN LAW!! (link…)
FBI Whistleblowers TELL MEIDAS WHAT Trump IS HIDING (link…)
As I had surmised on another post: whistleblowers will inevitably start showing up…
today’s coverage of the new Epstein release was disappointing because it was clear TYT has not dug into some of these threads nearly enough.
There is more ‘there’ to the Epstein draft email to Bill Gates. There are past published stories to fill in the context. Bill Gates cheated on his wife with a Russian competitive Bridge (card game) player named Mila Antanova. see Jeffrey Epstein allegedly tried to extort Bill Gates over extramarital affair | Jeffrey Epstein | The Guardian
And Epstein had doctors prescribing medications to victims. I believe more than one victim has discussed or testified to this. One of the psychiatrists Henry Jarecki was in prior photo release where he was shirtless on the island.
Also the story about Dr Melanie Walker former Epstein ‘girlfriend’ back in 1992 and now wife of a Gates Microsoft Windows exec is not random. Melanie was a science advisor to Epstein while I believe he paid for her medical sch and then after moving to Seattle she introduced Gates science guy Boris Nikolic to Epstein. She is an Epstein enabler that needs to be interrogated. Neurosurgeon wife of Microsoft boss had close ties to Jeffrey Epstein AND Bill Gates | Daily Mail Online
Every time names are dropped they should be researching their connections because there are a lot of older stories about a lot of people involved.
It’s pretty clear that Maxwell testifying has to do with her not getting a pardon -but we may see a pardon yet!
Some people got killed in all this. The lawyer for Wexner, who appears to be an Israeli paymaster, died under suspicious circumstances. To keep this crap on the down-low for YEARS, I’m pretty sure they killed some people along the way. Maxwell was threatening some of the girls when they started talking to lawyers…
Whoomp** -there it is!**
Pod Save America: NEW Trump Info In Epstein Files Is EXTREMELY DISTURBING (link, jump cut…)
Coffeezilla/Voidzilla: the epstein files are getting worse (link…)
Lucia Osborne-Crowley: I was threatened, intimidated and hacked (link…)
Due Dissidence: MAGASphere REALLY STRUGGLING With New Epstein Files (link…)
Chris Hansen: Epstein Survivor Reveals SHOCKING Details About Human Trafficking Experience (link…)
As I had predicted: if they will not release files, whistleblowers will get them busted…
Meidas Touch: Epstein Files Tipster IDENTIFIES MISSING DOCS!!! (link…)