In short, Epstein may have been preparing to blow the whistle on Trump’s money laundering for the Russian mob. Trump got wind of this and tipped off the FBI about Epstein.
Epstein was trying to buy a South Florida estate. He brought Trump along to see it one time. A short time later Epstein found out that Trump had gone behind his back and placed a higher and ultimately successful bid on the property. He’d snatched it out from under him with a much higher bid. The problem was that Trump’s entire empire in 2004 was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. It made no sense where Trump was coming up with $41 million to buy this property. Epstein suspected that Trump was acting as a front for a Russian oligarch as a money-laundering scheme. And in fact Trump did purchase and flip the estate two years later to a Russian oligarch named Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million, or a profit over $50 million dollars.
Epstein was pissed for his own reasons (he wanted the estate). But he also suspected the money laundering scheme. So he threatened Trump that he would bring the whole thing out into the open through a series of lawsuits. Right about this same time authorities got a tip about Epstein’s activities which started the investigation that eventually led to his eventual 2008 plea deal.
Bullshit. He fucked kids.
I think you’re right.
Trump was laundering Russian money for a very long time, and the Feds appear to have given him a free pass to do so. My hypotesis is that this was because he was a confidential informant for the FBI and ratted out the Mafia back when Giuliani was a US attorney running SDNY. What’s documented is that attempted federal prosecutions of Trump after the mob was gone after would always stop before charges were made. So someone in the federal government was protecting him. An ongoing CI agreement would be the most likely explanation, consistent with FBI procedure.
So Trump wasn’t worried about money laundering charges. A fix was in to prevent those. That means it was something else. And what was the big something else that involved Epstein? Trafficking and rape of underaged girls. It’s unlikely that a hypothetical CI agreement would protect him from that kind of charges. Either material likely to emerge at one of Epstein’s trials would implicate Trump, or Epstein held (and probably sold or shared) compromising material on Trump. Maybe both.
I suspect that Trump was about to go down for abusing girls at Mir-a-Lago in the early 2000s and flipped on Epstein to get out of it. Now he’s been going out of his way to hire a bunch of the people that helped him (and Epstein too) in those days, like Bondi and Acosta who saw that Epstein got a sweet heart sentence and would never have to face federal charges. Trump wants them happy so no one learns that he too had such an agreement.
If this were true Trump wouldn’t be able to shut up about it. He’d spin it the same way Johnson did, that he “heard a rumor” and notified the FBI. But all of Trump’s behavior is about trying to suppress interest in the case, so there’s something very bad in there for him and it’s not money laundering. His base doesn’t give a shit about money laundering.
So either he actually did notify the FBI but there’s also direct evidence he participated in rape of underage girls and was somehow granted immunity, or this is just yet another trial balloon by his supporters to try to present him as some kind of avenging hero.
My bet is the latter.
My bet is the latter.
Yeah, it sounds like some Qanon bullshit. Just the kind of thing the MAGAts swallow whole.
Yeah I knew he was a big time pedophile and we were big pals and partied together all the time and I was fine with it. But then he tried to expose my money laundering scheme so I called my friends at the FBI.