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A tight review of the Trump Epstein crime syndicate. 📃

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Jeffrey Epstein, arrested July 6 for sex trafficking of minors, attended high-profile events and frequented showbiz and media social circles

In Plain Sight All This Occurred. Now, It Continues.

"After serving a 13-month sentence and a subsequent year of house arrest in Palm Beach, Florida, Epstein in late 2010 hosted a dinner party in honor of his friend Prince Andrew at his 71st Street mansion in New York. Among the 15 to 20 guests, the New York Post reported at the time, were Katie Couric, Charlie Rose, Woody Allen, Chelsea Handler and George Stephanopoulos. (A source close to Couric tells THR it was her first and last encounter with Epstein.) Lasagna was served, and Epstein led his guests on a tour of the house; he was wearing jeans and velvet Stubbs & Wootton slippers. Multiple sources say the event was organized by Siegal (Peggy Siegal, high-powered, movie and television publicist), who presented it as an opportunity to meet the prince at the largest single-family dwelling in New York City. Given that it was less than two months after Kate Middleton and Prince William’s engagement, interest in the royals was running high. Multiple guests who now decline to speak on the record noted the optics of attending such an event did not raise an eyebrow, in part because the invite came from Siegal. Siegal declined comment.

Even in the post-#MeToo era, Epstein, 66, frequently attended industry events, like the Gotham Awards in November 2017. Amid a climate where figures including Harvey Weinstein and CBS’ Leslie Moonves had instantly become persona non grata for alleged misconduct, Epstein had been convicted and still enjoyed film-world access."

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Hold them all accountable.

Charlotte Clymer at Charlotte's Web Thoughts:

This week has generated what is rapidly becoming a massive schism in the MAGA movement. There have been public calls for resignations, private shouting matches, and loud declarations of betrayal from some of Trump’s most prominent supporters. We haven’t seen anything like this from Trump’s base. The anger is real and visceral. If you’re unfamiliar with the salient details of the Jeffrey Epstein saga and predisposed to dismissing it all as conspiracy pablum, I don’t blame you. It’s been squarely at the center of the MAGA universe and QAnon and all the rest of the Way Too Online discourse that makes it all easy to wave off as extreme nuttiness. But I promise it’s not. Don’t let those unfortunate associations distract you from a simple and undeniable truth: this is one of the biggest criminal cover-ups in U.S. history, and every subsequent layer of it is somehow more horrifically chilling than the last.

Here’s a summary with a lot of important details removed for brevity: Jeffrey Epstein was a financier and notorious socialite who engaged in many years of sex trafficking children and young women. He had a lot of friends in high places, many of whom are alleged to have sexually abused these victims. His sex trafficking operation first came to the attention of law enforcement twenty years ago, and after a long undercover investigation by the Palm Beach Police Department, charges were recommended against Epstein that included sexual abuse of children. It should have been a straightforward case to prosecute. The evidence was overwhelming and horrifying: phone records, appointment books, message memos, photographs, and interviews with more than thirty teenage girls, most of them still in high school. It was a clear-cut sex trafficking operation with textbook grooming tactics.

But instead of directly filing charges, State Attorney Barry Krischer took the highly unusual step of convening a grand jury, which was typically only done for murder cases. Epstein’s legal defense team included Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr. This is where it starts to get really weird, and you can thank Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown and her colleagues for bringing this all to light years later in the award-winning series “Perversion of Justice.”

The grand jury was less than four hours, only two victims were called to offer their testimony (remember: this is out of more than 30 identified victims), the girls were aggressively questioned in a way that placed the blame on them—with the repeated warning that they may have committed a crime—and here’s the kicker: they were presented not as exploited minors (14 and 15 at the time) but as consenting, adult sex workers. The grand jury returned just one count of felony solicitation of prostitution, and understandably, Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter was so outraged by how this all went down that he reached out to the FBI for help.

The FBI launched “Operation Leap Year” in July, 2006. They collected more evidence—including child pornography and appointment logs—and interviewed witnesses and victims in Florida, New York, and New Mexico. About a year later, the U.S. Attorney’s Office prepared a 53-page indictment, which has never been released to the public.

Long story short on this part (leaving out A LOT of details): U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta reached a plea deal with Epstein—negotiated by Dershowitz—that got him only 18 months in prison on state charges, restitution to the victims, and registration as a sex offender.

[...] I do want to make something clear to any MAGA folks who are reading this: in the past, many of you have claimed Democrats don’t want the Epstein files released because they would implicate Bill Clinton or some other Democratic luminary. I don’t care if Clinton is in the Epstein files. I don’t care if any Democrats are on the client list. I don’t care if any progressives are on the client list. I don’t care if any trans people are on the client list. If Clinton or anyone else who aligns with my politics are implicated in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, I want them held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. I want the book thrown at them. I want them to pay. You know why? Because I’m not in a cult. Because whether or not someone should be held accountable for sex crimes should have no relationship to their political party or ideology or how they voted in the last election.

Ask yourselves why Trump is so clearly against transparency on Epstein. Ask yourselves if he’s telling you the truth. Ask yourselves why these people campaigned for your vote on a pledge to release the Epstein files and are now making you look like fools. Maybe you’ve been had. Maybe you got snookered. Maybe Trump really doesn’t respect you. Maybe Trump doesn’t actually give a shit about victims of sex trafficking. Maybe it’s time to wake up and realize this guy has something to hide.

Charlotte Clymer wrote a solid piece on the Epstein Files.

If any Democrats end up on the list, they should be held accountable to the fullest extent.

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I hope it’s very hot down there.

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Starr’s Whitewater investigation, which uncovered Clinton’s affair with Lewinsky, led to US president’s impeachment in 1998

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The right-wing lawyer was known for probing Bill Clinton’s affair, mishandling sexual assault cases at Baylor, and helping Jeffrey Epstein secure a sweetheart deal

Kenneth Starr, the lawyer known for investigating Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, mishandling sexual assault cases as president of Baylor University, and helping Jeffrey Epstein secure a sweetheart deal, died Tuesday, Sept. 13. He was 76.

Starr’s family confirmed his death, saying he died from complications from surgery at St. Luke’s Medical center in Houston, Texas.

Starr was a stalwart conservative foot soldier throughout his career. He started as a lawyer and was nominated by Ronald Reagan to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1983, a post he maintained for about six years before resigning. George H.W. Bush later appointed him solicitor general, and he was even briefly in the running to fill a Supreme Court vacancy later taken by David Souter.

Though always lurking around the right wing, Starr really started to rise to prominence in the mid-’90s, when he was tapped to investigate Bill and Hillary Clinton’s alleged involvement in an Arkansas real estate project. Neither Clinton was prosecuted, but Starr’s probe expanded to include an investigation into Paula Jones’ claims of sexual assault against bill Clinton, as well as Clinton’s affair with Lewinsky.

The “Starr Report,” released in Sept. 1998, claimed Clinton lied about about his affair with Lewinsky and cited obstruction of justice, perjury, abuse of power, and more as reasons for impeaching Clinton. The report led to Clinton’s impeachment in the House of Representatives, but he was acquitted on all counts in the Senate.

After making a name for himself investigating Clinton’s sexual impropriety, Starr returned to his career as a lawyer and found himself involved in a handful of prominent cases. He successfully represented the Juneau, Alaska, school board and principal that suspended a student for unfurling a “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” sign as the Olympic torch passed through the the city. He failed to secure constitutional immunity for the mercenary firm Blackwater after its contractors slaughtered four unarmed civilians in Fallujah. And he also failed to uphold Prop 8 in California, the ballot measure banning same-sex marriage that was later overturned in the courts.

Despite being busy defending opponents of same-sex marriage and private military contractors, Starr found plenty of ways to return to the world of sexual impropriety. With his plethora of connections to George W. Bush’s administration, Starr joined Jeffrey Epstein’s legal team and played a crucial part in pressuring the Justice Department to drop its sex-trafficking case against the billionaire. For his efforts, Starr helped his client secure the infamous sweetheart deal that landed him in prison for just 18 months and effectively ensured him immunity from future prosecution.

Epstein wasn’t the only alleged child molester Starr tried to help either. In 2013, he wrote a letter of support for Christopher Kloman, just before he was sentenced to 43 years in prison for molesting five girls while teaching at the elite Potomac School in the Sixties and Seventies.

Three years after that, Starr resigned as chancellor of Baylor University, and a professor at its law school, not long after being removed from his post as president. The reason? An investigation found that Starr and other administrators mishandled numerous accusations of sexual assault — including multiple rape allegations — against the school’s football players.

For his final act, the man who made a name for himself trying to take down one president tried to help another stave off the same fate. First as a TV talking head, he argued against impeaching Donald Trump over the Mueller report, claiming it would be “bad for the country.” Starr later joined Trump’s legal team when he was impeached (the first time) for abuse of power and obstruction of justice after he allegedly tried to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden.

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