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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust hear me out, what if he's not just in the Epstein files
But actually a part of the trafficking ring. He ran the Rump Modeling Agency and owned the Miss Teen America Pagent.
That might explain why the Pharisee Speaker of the House is trying so hard to stop information from coming out.
And we all know hell do anything for a buck!
Irish_Dem
(76,598 posts)It is hard to imagine Trump watching Epstein rake in millions and millions of dollars
pimping out young girls, and Trump not wanting a piece of the action.
And yes of course. Trump had the endless supply of beautiful teenage girls.
Botany
(75,633 posts)His modeling try outs, beauty pageants, money laundering through his real estate properties, in
using his plane to fly the underage girls around, gathering kompromat, and blackmail were all part
of business and Don was smack in the middle of it. I wouldnt be surprised that Grindr Mike Johnson
had kompromat gathered on him too.
* lots of the girls for the sex trafficking came from Russia and Eastern Europe.
Putin is the richest man in the world, in part due to his large drug and sex trafficking operation. Epstein was a part of it. We know Trump was connected to both Epstein and Putin and watched them make fortunes.
Yes the money was laundered in various ways, including reputable banks. Blackmail, sex and drug trafficking. Huge "loans" to Trump and promises of political election rigging.
Oh yes, many of the members of Congress are on the list.
They are not protecting Trump.
They are protecting themselves.
Botany
(75,633 posts).. the world and Putin is the Godfather. Putin and Musk are buddies too.
Russia proposes 'Putin-Trump Tunnel' with Elon Musk's help to connect nations under Bering Strait
The plan calls for a 70-mile rail and cargo tunnel to be built by Elon Musks Boring Company within eight years at a projected cost of $8 billion. The project, Dmitriev said, would be funded by Moscow and "international partners."
"The dream of a U.S.Russia link via the Bering Strait reflects an enduring vision from the 1904 SiberiaAlaska railway to Russias 2007 plan," Dmitriev wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "RDIF has studied existing proposals, including the U.S.CanadaRussiaChina railroad, and will support the most viable."
The proposal came after President Donald Trump reportedly spoke by phone with Putin and agreed to meet in Budapest to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/russia-proposes-putin-trump-tunnel-elon-musks-help-connect-nations-bering-strait
RazorbackExpat
(675 posts)between Sakhalin Island and Japan's Hokkaido island, but Japan said, Thanks, but no thanks
yellow dahlia
(3,642 posts)The rewards they are all reaping is proof of their investment.
Who benefits? And how much?
Evolve Dammit
(21,287 posts)Irish_Dem
(76,598 posts)That is how humans are.
Avoiding painful reality.
A good portion of our elected leaders are sexual predators and deviants.
malaise
(290,404 posts)and for the record not just politicians - almost every institution and business.
Irish_Dem
(76,598 posts)They can get all the consensual sex they want.
They can hire the best hookers in the world.
But they want more.
They want to beat up and rape children.
For fun.
malaise
(290,404 posts)Precisely and they cover up for one another.
Irish_Dem
(76,598 posts)yellow dahlia
(3,642 posts)For those of us who consider connecting the dots one of our favorite hobbies, it is frustrating that others want to bury their heads in the sand.
Irish_Dem
(76,598 posts)From AI:
Pattern analysis or connecting dots is the process of identifying meaningful relationships between seemingly unrelated pieces of information to gain a deeper understanding or solve a problem.
It can be used in various contexts, from a detective solving a case by linking evidence to a scientist analyzing complex data to find patterns, or even in daily life when synthesizing information to make a conclusion. The phrase "connecting dots" is a metaphor for analytical thinking, problem-solving, and making sense of complex situations.
All of my hobbies involve pattern analysis. I love to solve mysteries and human puzzles.
Adoption searches, identification via DNA, genealogy, genetic geology, cold case reviews, etc etc.
yellow dahlia
(3,642 posts)BComplex
(9,652 posts)gawd knows where else that went unaccounted for. Putin knows trump like a book. There are people who own trump with what they know about him, and he owns them.
It's time to TRULY take out the trash, not just in this country, but in the world.
Irish_Dem
(76,598 posts)The rest got sold for other purposes.
I have actually had people argue with me that Trump made sure all the kids
got good homes. And the social workers were doing their best.
This is from liberal folks!
They cannot face what must have happened to those children.
Putin played Trump like a violin.
And pulled off the greatest crime of the 21st century.
The destruction of the oldest and greatest democracy in the history of the world.
And he didn't fire a shot.
Putin is an evil genius.
yellow dahlia
(3,642 posts)All one has to ask is:
Who benefits?
Irish_Dem
(76,598 posts)rurallib
(64,292 posts)because I think that is what is so important to Trump. Certainly would fit with him mode of operation - he always wants a piece of the action.
Danascot
(5,127 posts)There was John Casablancas, an American modeling agent and scout who founded Elite Model Management. Trump and Epstein knew that Casablancas was trafficking young women (girls) and sampling the merchandise.
I think there was another guy, a European, maybe French, who ran a similar operation. I can't recall his name at the moment.
I definitely think Trump saw other people doing it and decided he could do it too using his pageants and his modelling agency as intake.
tinrobot
(11,829 posts)It's already established that Epstein got Giuffre from Trump. The fact that he had modeling agencies and pageants filled with teen girls makes the possibility of a bigger pipeline pretty likely.
multigraincracker
(36,562 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(59,746 posts)mercuryblues
(15,931 posts)The 3 of them handled different aspects.
trump found them, Maxwell groomed them, Epstein sold them.
I also believe they had a boss, telling them who to target for blackmail purposes. If not, then they took "orders" from various big wigs wanting dirt on someone and the 3 Pedoteers made it happen. I also believe some of their victims never made it off the island alive.
2naSalit
(98,326 posts)Everything you said.
And I'll bet there's so much more.
Ocelot II
(127,895 posts)A lot of people seem to think he was regularly having sex with young girls, but I don't think that's why he's in the files. There might have been some of that on the very down-low, but aside from his hard-on for his daughter, Trump's itch always seems to have been attractive, young but adult women whom he can show off in public. Arm candy, crass but legal. The illegal involvement with Epstein is almost certainly the ill-gotten gains derived from trafficking girls from foreign countries to Pedo Island, and related money-laundering to hide the origins of the money. This will have been concealed in layers of businesses and real estate transactions, which would explain why the victims themselves haven't ratted on Trump. Most of them didn't even see him, and they certainly had no knowledge of the financial deals. Follow the money.
Wednesdays
(21,118 posts)Even more than for young women or girls.
JHB
(37,846 posts)There are several intelligence agencies in various countries that could benefit from having kompromat on rich people around the world.
allegorical oracle
(5,862 posts)he was mostly just enjoying the cashflow. Those inflatable costumes remind me of trump. Just a big, funny looking airbag.
TBF
(35,208 posts)he never did release his taxes, and I'm sure they've been buried somewhere on the golf course by now
FakeNoose
(39,106 posts)Let's not forget that Chump "inherited" a thriving family real estate business so he didn't need to be pimping on the side. His parents were still alive in the 80's and 90's and he wouldn't have been interested in human trafficking, not like Epstein was apparently doing.
On the other hand, Chump could very well have benefitted from Jeffrey's services in other ways, such as introducing a small number of interested male clients, etc. to Jeffrey. It was a case of one hand washes the other, (wink, wink) rather than a formal business relationship with Epstein.
The financial records of Jeffrey Epstein won't show money changing hands between them, but the emails, photos or other documents will show that Chump's and Jeffrey's interests were closely aligned for several years. That's my guess anyway.
BComplex
(9,652 posts)This is a family business.
uponit7771
(93,324 posts)Johnny2X2X
(23,519 posts)During Trump's first term, he got licensing for Trump brand escort services and Trump brand massage parlors in China.
His grandfather was a pimp in the Old West.
So yeah, I think it's safe to say Trump is very familiar with buying and selling girls for sex. I mean, Epstein introduced him to his own wife.
BattleRow
(1,950 posts)Johonny
(24,912 posts)He is a convicted felon already. We know of several clear crimes he got away with. Good knows throughout his life how many more shitty crimes he's done. Probably hundreds. He is a career criminal.
vapor2
(3,277 posts)FM123
(10,277 posts)I remember this Medium article from a few months ago, very eye opening.
Link: https://thegoodage.medium.com/modeling-was-the-machine-epstein-was-just-the-middleman-3b5f37e1e49f
Snips:
Forget Epstein. Forget even Maxwell. If you want to understand how elite sex trafficking truly operated not as a scandal but as a system you start with the modeling agencies.
In the late 20th century, John Casablancas (founder of Elite Model Management) built the original model: turn teenage girls into glamorized assets. Jean-Luc Brunel took it international, founding MC2 and receiving at least $1 million from Jeffrey Epstein to expand operations. Paolo Zampolli cornered the visa angle, using U.S. immigration loopholes to bring in young foreign models often from Eastern Europe and South America under false pretenses.
Then came Mister Donald Trump.
In 1999, Donald Trump launched Trump Model Management. His agency followed the exact same pattern: bring girls in on tourist or extraordinary talent visas, overcrowd them in overpriced apartments, charge them for every service, and send them to work illegally while racking up debt they could never repay. Former models from his agency say they were instructed to lie to customs and start working immediately upon arrival.
This wasnt theory. It was documented. The visas were real. The labor was real. THE FRAUD WAS REAL.
Jilly_in_VA
(13,333 posts)After all, Grandaddy Drumpf made his money on a string of brothels. Why would grandson be any different?
Escape
(310 posts)as already suggested....I'm sure he was knee deep in Epstein's blackmail business.
There has got to be a reason for so many Republicans to be so eager and willing to lie for him, cover for him, accept his insults and risk their careers and reputations for him.
Someday down the road, we may have to turn an entire Red State into a Republican Prison. I'm thinkin' ....Wyoming--the most Conservative state in the country..
BComplex
(9,652 posts)congregate.
Escape
(310 posts)It may take TWO full Red States to house all the Republican criminals.
Kablooie
(18,998 posts)He has no morals so trafficking in women would be no problem as long as someone else would take the fall if they were found out.
surfered
(9,915 posts)Wounded Bear
(63,272 posts)He won't do anything if he can't make money off of it, even sex.
BattleRow
(1,950 posts)Well,he is somewhat of a PRIMA Donna,after all,no?
Katcat
(500 posts)He was in on it
Scrivener7
(57,504 posts)alittlelark
(19,066 posts)About being groomed at Mierde Lago.
Trueblue Texan
(3,906 posts)usonian
(21,805 posts)He obviously "inherited" the Epstein blackmail business, and can't have it exposed.
It explains his cult power and hidden financial resources to bribe as well as blackmail.
He would lose the revenue stream and his enormous list of blackmail victims would be devastated, and that may extend to the

It will all come crashing down. Perhaps Putin too. Others can speculate on the connection or not.
SPREAD THE WORD.

FarPoint
(14,275 posts)Could be why we never saw his taxes.... lots of secrets with this one.
Warpy
(114,085 posts)I wouldn't be at all surprised. I doubt his fan club would be, either, and I doubt it would diminish his popularity with them as long s they think he's hurting the rest of us.
Joinfortmill
(19,275 posts)relayerbob
(7,297 posts)The Epstein files, as in just pedophilia, is the tip of the iceberg. Ive no doubt it gets far beyond that, far beyond just trafficking. This guy has been a mob boss for a lifetime, and owed his financial empire to Russia since 1986 or 7. Theres are no doubt disappeared enemies, providing US intel to foreign powers, and likely financial support for all sorts of underworld activities, likely including real terrorists. And, this is not a recent opinion, Ive felt this was the case since he announced his first run.
GopherGal
(2,657 posts)Both are more conceptual than concrete at this point, subject to the imaginative projections of one side or the other.
My least explosive imagining of the Epstein Files is flight manifests showing who has traveled to Epstein Island. That in itself doesn't prove anybody did anything illegal. I imagine it could supply potential witness lists, so it might be a stepping stone to getting some real admissible evidence of something.
But if the files contain Epstein's trove of blackmail material, such as recordings of sketchy bedroom activities or records of financial transactions involving trafficking and/or blackmailing at the behest of foreign governments, there might be something there that explains GOP foot-dragging on the matter.
relayerbob
(7,297 posts)of the very real Epstein files, at least some of them. It was enough to drive Nancy Mace to a panic attack. And that material was almost certainly watered down.
Comparing that to "antifa" is absolute nonsense.
The files I want released are Putin's blackmail material. They will make Epstein look like a choir boy.
GopherGal
(2,657 posts)but they're both semi-fictional bogeymen, concepts sort of abused by the respective political sides.
Antifa is the Repukes' name for a fictional organization to be their scapegoat for any resistance because they can't believe they're this unpopular with individual Americans. (Though, why they would assign it the name "Antifa", implicitly admitting that this makes THEM pro-fascist, I'll never quite digest.)
The Epstein Files have to have been real enough to be part of Maxwell's and Epstein's prosecutions, so there has to be some substance there. So, yeah, the "bogeyman" of the reality-based political party is much more real than their manufactured "Antifa" terrorist organization.
Baitball Blogger
(51,211 posts)It's going to be bad.
slightlv
(6,855 posts)I also think there's a lot more to these papers than just sex. I think there was a lot of money going into pockets on the sly, as well as money made by blackmail. That he's front and center in this situation is an absolute no brainer. I'm really interested in what National Secrets have been sold or given away. That, I'm not sure would be in those papers. They may be too old?
Dem4life1970
(992 posts)This whole time I thought maybe he was just hiding his disgusting , illegal, participation with underage girls, but I hadn't thought about himself providing a human pipeline to Epstein. If this evidence is in the files....wow. Thanks for posting.
usonian
(21,805 posts)Ass
eppur_se_muova
(40,382 posts)SomedayKindaLove
(1,160 posts)That Trump is trying to protect by not releasing the files.
eppur_se_muova
(40,382 posts)luvallpeeps
(1,255 posts)It would shock me if he didnt find a way to profit off this.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,441 posts)Javaman
(64,707 posts)there needs to be an investigation into the "miss teen America" contest. that whole thing is fucked up.
Mike Nelson
(10,804 posts)... it's taking so long. They can't just redact his name. That would leave traces... to "clean" those files, you have to go through every paragraph, every line, to match everything. People think just taking something out here and there is enough. Not when the removed item/name is a big part of the whole. It's even worse if the original files used numbers or letters - then everything has to be recounted/rewritten!
Mme. Defarge
(8,815 posts)of the blackout in New York City on the day Epstein died.
evolves
(5,657 posts)His "modeling agency" was a trafficking ring all along.
If epstein made his billions as a blackmailer, who's running the blackmail ring now? Guessing that it's someone whose name
begins with a "T."
panfluteman
(2,187 posts)Especially in Trump's case. Even Jeffrey Epstein told us that his best friend Trump has no scruples. Now, seriously - how could anyone ever suppose that he kept thos modeling agencies and beauty pageants squeaky clean and all above board and on the up and up? C'mon!
And that is why MAGA Mike Johnson is trying so darn hard to keep that government shut down. He knows that Adelita Grijalva holds the key to unlocking the floodgates, to opening this forbidden Pandora's box (forbidden by his Fuhrer Trump), so no effort or collateral damage is too great a price to pay.
LiberalArkie
(19,062 posts)usonian
(21,805 posts)Until his filthy scheme is uncovered.
Happy Hoosier
(9,171 posts)... I would have expected more action under Biden. My thoughts are that there are sme very damning images and entries in those files, but not enough to actually charge him and get a conviction. Just a thought.
PortTack
(35,797 posts)hadEnuf
(3,435 posts)it seems very likely that you are absolutely correct.
Greybnk48
(10,632 posts)And I would not be surprised to find that other well known people are involved world wide.
completely_bushed
(73 posts)He IS the files. Modeling ==> trafficking.
Bev54
(12,967 posts)Grins
(8,983 posts)Trump started his model agency and brought in HUNDREDS of young girls. At one point he had ~250 worker visa applications with the State Department.
Epstein, seeing how successful Trump was, started his own modeling agency and based his on Trumps.
A French friend of Epsteins did the same in Paris, New York, and Miami. The two shared girls between their multiple locations.
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,389 posts)Of course this is what occurred and is likely still
happening with all the war torn country's disappeared children.
WE ALL MUST SUFFER because tRUMP and his RICH asshole acquaintances RAPED CHILDREN!
Clouds Passing
(6,256 posts)Mijo has that pedo-face look.
Bread and Circuses
(1,286 posts)The CSA by the predators
lapfog_1
(31,343 posts)maybe Eyes Wide Shut wasn't so far off the mark... complete with rituals.
There might have been some underage girls that threatened to go public and things might have happened to them.
Drug overdose, falling out of a window ( or down a flight of stairs ), or possibly just disappeared.
If there was video of Trump violently raping an underage girl... or two... that might be enough to run the repukes into full cover up mode.
usonian
(21,805 posts)But likely that Putin has the eyes wide shut videos.
Bread and Circuses
(1,286 posts)I read that some girls didnt speak English. Most likely, they were kidnapped and trafficked .
Its horrific . All these people need to be arrested and bought to justice,
viva la
(4,349 posts)In fact, Trump had his 14-year old daughter contracted as a model with Elite, whose owners (one was John Casablancas) were repeatedly accused of abuse of the underaged models. Ivanka herself was photographed wearing a completely sheer blouse over her very young body.
Trump "judged a contest" == Elites Look of the Year competition== which consisted of teen girls dancing and strutting in front of middle-aged millionaires. After the contest, well, things could get abusive:
"The stories we have heard suggest that Casablancas, and some of the men in his orbit, used the contest to engage in sexual relationships with vulnerable young models. Some of these allegations amount to sexual harassment, abuse or exploitation of teenage girls; others are more accurately described as rape."
Ivanka Trump also (at 15!) modeled for Victoria's Secret.
" target="_blank">modeled for Victoria's Secret.
Remember who "recruited" for VS? Epstein. The founder of VS, Les Wexner, was the one who for who knows what reason, maybe just generosity, "sold" Epstein the largest house in Manhattan for $1.
No doubt you've all seen the picture of Trump with his pre-teen son and daughter at one of Epstein's parties.
Emile
(38,492 posts)usonian
(21,805 posts)Never drop this topic!
usonian
(21,805 posts)Soon
usonian
(21,805 posts)People need to think about this, and think about it RFN.