Three shocking words. Surely the guy abusing teenage girls might do some awful things, but not lie? Not Jeffrey.
Today, a bunch of woke left (and woke right) accounts began doing a search for (keyword:Trump) and began hyping this email which appeared to suggest that Trump had met with Jeffrey Epstein during his first term in office.
While some accusations are hard to disprove, being president means that everyone where you are at any given time. Especially a national holiday.
And certainly everyone knew where the president was for Thanksgiving 2017. And it wasn’t with Jeffrey Epstein. (Even if Epstein hadn’t been badly tainted, the idea that the president would take Thanksgiving off and hang out with some guy is absurd.) Trump was doing the usual combo of military stuff and family dinners for Thanksgiving in 2017.
So why did Epstein imply otherwise? Maybe Epstein meant some other Trump, but let’s face it if you’re gonna mention Trump, in 2017 of all times, whose name isn’t Donald, you’re gonna specify a first name.
So Epstein was lying.
And it’s not the only time.
As people parse the documents, taking Epstein at his word would be foolish. Jeffrey Epstein, apart from being a world class sleaze, was even more of a world class con artist, a Talented Mr. Ripley type, able to seduce powerful men with the promise not only (as many people seem to think) sex, but access. Epstein was able to convince Bill Gates, one of the wealthiest men around, that he was a conduit for big investments. His black book of names showed how he used namedropping as a commodity. And he was willing to brag about his ties to Trump to anyone dumb enough to fall for it.
In text messages sent in 2017, disgraced financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appears to position himself as a middleman between president Donald Trump’s administration and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, even seemingly representing himself as passing on information directly from Trump to Gates through an intermediary.
Epstein goes on to imply that he is in close communication with Trump and in a position to pass on messages from the president to Gates. “donald also thinks bill wants not to help america first , he should use his own money, and even that is wrong as it was made here. just transmitting.”
In that same strand of messages though, Epstein dismisses Kushner, because presumably he can’t get to him, and suggests Tom Barrack, the guy responsible for Al Qaeda coming to the White House, who’s pretty long hanging fruit.
Was Epstein actually chatting with Trump when he couldn’t even get to Kushner and had to settle for suggesting Barrack? Not likely. Epstein’s line about Trump sounds like it came from a guy whose knowledge of Trump was coming from cable news.
The best evidence of Epstein’s lack of access is ‘the dog that wouldn’t bark’. It’s what isn’t there. No messages from real White House insiders. Certainly nothing from Trump’s actual inner circle. Instead Epstein, a master con artist, is stringing along Bill Gates, while getting inside knowledge on what Gates is doing to show off to others, while suggesting he has access to Trump that he doesn’t.
In short, TLDR: Epstein lied. Why anyone would think he didn’t is naïve. Everything about Epstein was a facade. A guy much more important and powerful than he was. His real superpower was knowing that the ‘Masters of the Universe’ he dealt with, guys like Gates, were actually not all that bright, lacked a good deal of common sense, and were easy to manipulate by someone who seemed like he could give them what they wanted. A long con that ended with his death.
