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.
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.