Open records show an acquaintance between Epstein and Mr. Trump many years ago. That relationship ended when Mr. Trump reportedly banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago, long before becoming president. I have seen nothing that would suggest anything improper or even questionable by Mr. Trump.
It is clear from the evidence that Epstein committed suicide. What isn’t clear is whether he was assisted by jail personnel. That seems likely to me, based on the evidence of allegedly broken cameras, transfer of his cellmate and the absence of guards during relevant time periods.
I have absolutely no doubt that Epstein never worked for any intelligence agency. If he had, he would surely have told me and his other lawyers, who would have used that information to get him a better deal. (He wasn’t satisfied with the so-called sweetheart deal he got, which required him to spend 1½ years in a local jail and register as a sex offender.) My sources in Israel have confirmed to me that he had no connection to Israeli intelligence. That false story—recently peddled by Tucker Carlson—probably emanated from credible allegations that Robert Maxwell (1923-91), father of Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, worked with the Mossad.
Conspiracy stories attract readers, viewers and listeners. They are also fodder for political attacks. The Epstein case has generated more than its share of such theories, and there is nothing more annoying to gossip mongers than when stubborn facts (or the absence of facts) get in the way of a juicy theory. Sorry to disappoint you, but there is really nothing much to see here, beyond what has already been disclosed.
Epstein and Trump: Nothing to See Here
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Bill, I find myself believing Dershowitz. I do think, though, the Trump administration’s explanation and handling off all this fishy. But I’d wager whatever information our government has surrounding Epstein and his associates, while probably awful, is not nearly as lurid as some seem so adamant — and excited — about. Epstein was Mossad? Really? Apparently, an off-the-cuff remark from an intelligence officer several years ago and supposition from Ghislaine Maxwell’s father’s connections to the Israeli government apparently mean it’s a certainty.
After the hysteria with the “12-Day War” and now this, I’m beginning to think the paleocons and other assorted Buchananites and libertarians are more of a threat to MAGA and restoring the country now than the neocons supposedly co-opting MAGA are. Their tendencies toward conspiracy-theorizing, what really appears to be anti-Semitic scapegoating of Israel, and needing to constantly purify the right against those who would subvert it by beating the war-drums against anyone else in this big-tent movement under Trump who they feel undermine their ideological preferences dominating the administration’s agenda doesn’t bode well for the future. The term “woke right” has been bandied about this group. I don’t think that’s quite right. But there is certainly a habitual “hermeneutics of suspicion” about them, a paranoia interpreting, for example, any support for the strike on Iran as a betrayal of MAGA and actually is an underhanded attempt by “warmongering neocons and globalists” (Jewish) interests to undermine America-First, or that over-promising and under-delivering, i.e. demagoguing, on Epstein means that some shadowy cabal (Jewish) has infiltrated and compromised Trump’s administration, including up to the president himself. -
Ben,
No time to respond now, but add this to the mix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_dPa6C0G-g -
>Nothing to see here
In January 2024, Trump said on social media: “I was never on Epstein’s Plane …” Flight logs show Trump flew on it seven times in the 1990s.
Trump claimed in 2019 that he didn’t “know Prince Andrew” of Britain, despite a number of photos showing Trump with the Duke of York.
Very recently, Trump said he never wrote [sic] a picture, despite evidence that he “wrote” quite a number of pictures. -
Ben writes: >> But there is certainly a habitual “hermeneutics of suspicion” about them, a paranoia interpreting, for example, any support for the strike on Iran as a betrayal of MAGA and actually is an underhanded attempt by “warmongering neocons and globalists” (Jewish) interests to undermine America-First, or that over-promising and under-delivering, i.e. demagoguing, on Epstein means that some shadowy cabal (Jewish) has infiltrated and compromised Trump’s administration, including up to the president himself.<< I agree with you. There is a sort of 'hermeneutics of suspicion' on the Right as well as on the Left. Trump is not an ideologue married to a bunch of political dogmas. He's transactional, pragmatic, a deal-maker. You might say that he exemplifies good old Aristotelian phronesis.
America First ( a special case of nation first) does not require isolationism nor do it rule out judicious foreign interventions such as the recent B-2 attack on Iranian nuke facilities — which was good for the whole world and not just the Little Satan and the Big Satan.
What it rules out is nation-building in the neo-con style.
It is astonishing what this man has accomplished in just six months. He’s on the way to Mt Rushmore.
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