Epstein: Files in the Ointment
One of my associates, after reviewing the link to my last OP, laughed and said, “What the fuck? How did the maga cult become so stupid that they really believed in a satanic group of Democratic Party big-wigs, raping and cooking children, and that (the felon) was the only man brave enough to secretly oppose them?” I said, “Oh, that's easy. Let's start from back in 1988, when Bush the Elder was running for president.....” Before I could continue, he suggested I write it down and post it on DU, and send him the link.
In 1988, when Bush the Elder began his campaign for the presidency, the felon let Lee Atwater know he was “available” to be the vice president. Bush found this “strange and unbelievable.” So much for the incorrect concept that the felon did not long desire to obtain political power. (While I shall not footnote everything here, those interested should see page 326 of Jon Meacham's biography of Bush Sr.)
Next, we go to the years 2006 to 2008. Epstein is charged in a 53-page indictment, that suggests the identity of three co-offenders. The federal prosecutor Alexander Acosta accepts a plea agreement offered by Alan Dershowitz, which allows Epstein to leave his cell days to “work,” and closes the door on further investigations. Why did Alex do this? The Attorney General told him Epstein was “intelligence” and to “back off.” Acosta would, of course, serve as the felon's labor secretary.
In 2007, the beginning of what was known as the Tea Party took place. Republican leaders were aware that Ron Paul was getting support for a presidential run. The Tea Party would, they believed, keep right-wingers in the control of the party – including those normally to the right of the corporate republicans in Congress. In 2008, when Senator Obama became the Democratic Party's nominee for president, it caught on, attracting openly racist citizens. In the 2010 mid-terms, their numbers would win elections that created the Tea Party Caucus in Congress.
Thus, in 2011, the felon did two things: begin to demand President Obama'a birth certificate, and say he might run for president. The birth certificate bit was a call to racists that caught on. His campaign for the presidency fizzled out. Likewise, the Tea Party was no longer on the margins of the republican party, which would no longer support anyone of the manner of a Mitt Romney after his 2012 defeat.
The felon was elected president in 2016.
Those who orchestrated what in 2017 was known as Q-anon – the right-wing nest of retired FBI agents loyal to Rudy Guiliani – began a series of lies to program republican voters. Most, if not all, of the Q-anon information, if repeated by an individual, would be evidence that they were delusional. But it became thousands, then millions, that bought into the delusions. We all remember John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s being at the felon's events in Dealey Plaza.
More titilating, of course, was Q-anan's story of the satanic group – led by the Clintons – of child sex abusing world leaders. This included pointing out that Bill Clinton had known Jeffery Epstein. Before going on, I should note that though Clinton was a good president, he was an imperfect man, in the same way that men like JFK, King, and other great leaders were. But I can say with zero chance of error that Bill Clinton had nothing to do with Epstein's sex ring. It was business that brought the two together, for Epstein had financial juice on the international level.
In 2019, Epstein was again arrested. Among the items found in his NYC home's safe was an Austrian passport. Epstein had traveled to England, France, Spain, and Saudi Arabia using this passport in the past. Also found was evidence of sex trafficking, including files with under aged girls' names and the name of the men connected to them. (USA Today, July 10, 2019)
Jeffery died unexpectedly while incarcerated in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. This seemed odd, considering he was housed on the MCC's most secure wing. Rather than my going into depth on the MCC, Nic Tartaglione, and how many guards work for the Russian mob in NYC, I will suggest going to “Crime Wave,” the pod cast by Declan Hill, based on research he and his classes at the University of New Haven's studies of criminal justice and forensic sciences did.
Of course, the maga republican bowel movement changed hard facts into soft shit, and used these events to place even greater delusions into the cult's misunderstanding of the country they lived in. “Release the Epstein files!” became their war cry in 2024's presidential election. This, of course, answers my associate's question of how the members of the maga cult were led astray. But a funny (not humorous) thing happened. The felon was again elected. They learned that the actual Epstein files are the exact opposite of the nonsense they had told the cult. If released, they do no harm to Democrats, with the exception of the late Bill Richardson. (I hate even mentioning that, as I always respected him.
The most important thing that we need to do now is to actively support Rep. Jamie Raskin's call for A.G. Bondi to release two things: the Epstein files, and part two of Jack Smith's report on the classified documents the felon stole. I think Rep. Raskin is among the most intelligent and honest elected representatives in our country's history. The fact that he spoke about the two things in a recent press conference suggests that there may be a connection among the files he stole.
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Thanks for the thread H2O Man.
Asking for a friend. Siri. 
Fascinating.
It's always been of interest to me that 6-7 months after old Poppy Bush croaked, Bill Barr (as Trump's AG and a former Bush deputy AG and family fixer) decides to arrest Epstein and confiscate all his files.
Hmm. Maybe the only person the cabal's been blackmailing is Trump himself. 
He also lied about his relationship with Epstein, a guy with jets that he could fly anywhere on the planet. Epstein’s brother said Trump and Melanie first consummated their love on one of Jeff’s jet. Jeff himself said he introduced the happy couple. Something else that needs to be remembered: Both Trump and Epstein were friends with Roger Stone and Roy Cohn, this guy:
The Final Lesson Donald Trump Never Learned From Roy Cohn
The unrepentant political hitman who taught a younger Trump how to flout the rules didn’t get away with it forever.
By MICHAEL KRUSE
Politico, September 19, 2019
One of Donald Trump’s most important mentors, one of the most reviled men in American political history, is about to have another moment.
Roy Cohn, who has been described by people who knew him as “a snake,” “a scoundrel” and “a new strain of son of a bitch,” is the subject of a new documentary out this week from producer and director Matt Tyrnauer. It’s an occasion to once again look at Cohn and ask how much of him and his “savage,” “abrasive” and “amoral” behavior is visible in the behavior of the current president. Trump, as has been well-established, learned so much from the truculent, unrepentant Cohn about how to get what he wants, and he pines for Cohn and his notorious capabilities still. Trump, after all, reportedly has said so himself, and it’s now the name of this film: “Where’s My Roy Cohn?”
What Cohn could, and did, get away with was the very engine of his existence. The infamous chief counsel for the red-baiting, Joseph McCarthy-chaired Senate subcommittee in the 1950s, Cohn was indicted four times from the mid-’60s to the early ’70s—for stock-swindling and obstructing justice and perjury and bribery and conspiracy and extortion and blackmail and filing false reports. And three times he was acquitted—the fourth ended in a mistrial—giving him a kind of sneering, sinister sheen of invulnerability. Cohn, Tyrnauer’s work reaffirms, took his sanction-skirting capers and twisted them into a sort of suit of armor.
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“I decided long ago,” Cohn once told Penthouse, “to make my own rules.”
He was acquitted in ’64, and he was acquitted in ’69, and he was acquitted in ’71, all the while thumbing his nose at the feds, but Cohn’s screw-you stance was a lifelong philosophy, entitlement plus boldness.
He was “an incredibly spoiled princeling of an only child,” Cohn cousin David Lloyd Marcus told me. “He always got his way,” recalled his favorite aunt. As an adult, the resting expression on his face, which was marred by a scar that ran like a scrape down the middle of his nose, was a mixture of “arrogant disdain” and a “whipped-dog look,” people observed, “caught somewhere between a pout and a challenging glare.”
Continues...
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/19/roy-cohn-donald-trump-documentary-228144
An important picture that ties things from commie-hunting Joe McCarthy era to Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump via Roger Stone and Associates and the late Jeffrey Epstein:
The Ghost of Roy Cohn
BY TERRY MELANSON · AUGUST 24, 2014
EXCERPT...
In an interview with former NYPD detective James Rothstein, this author discovered that such operations do exist and go far back into America’s secret history. Rothstein is no conspiracy theorist. He is a legend in American law enforcement and speaks from experience. Furthermore, he gave me two notable examples from his time as a detective. Rothstein had an opportunity to have a sit-down with infamous McCarthy committee counsel Roy Cohn. During this sit-down, Cohn admitted to Rothstein that he was part of a rather elaborate sexual blackmail operation that compromised politicians with child prostitutes (Rothstein, no pagination). Cohn told Rothstein that this operation was being carried out as part of the anticommunist crusade of the time (no pagination).
Rothstein also had an opportunity to speak to infamous Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis. During this conversation, Sturgis revealed one of the reasons for breaking into the Watergate. According to Sturgis, there was a “Pedophile Book” hidden away at the Democratic National Committee headquarters (no pagination). The book was supposed to have a list of pedophiles on the American political scene (no pagination). One can only imagine the power G. Gordon Liddy would have held over the government if he had such a book in his possession.
I asked Rothstein if Roy Cohn was a real anticommunist or just using the fear of communism to justify his sex ring. It seemed like a fair question. After all, Cohn had argued against homosexuals being schoolteachers when he himself was a homosexual. Perhaps Cohn’s hypocrisy extended to his anticommunism. Rothstein made it clear that Cohn was a genuine anticommunist (no pagination). Anticommunist sentiments aside, evidence suggests that the sex ring operation started by Cohn was used for more than fighting the threat of domestic communists. Fugitive ex-CIA officer Frank Terpil has claimed that sexual blackmailing operations directed by the CIA were intensive in Washington during the Watergate era (DeCamp 179). Terpil also asserts that his former partner, Ed Wilson, was coordinating one of these sexual blackmail operations (179). In a letter to author Jim Hougan, Terpil revealed Wilson’s modus operandi:
“Historically, one of Wilson’s Agency jobs was to subvert members of both houses [of Congress] by any means necessary…. Certain people could be easily coerced by living out their sexual fantasies in the flesh…. A remembrance of these occasions [was] permanently recorded via selected cameras…. The technicians in charge of filming… were TSD [Technical Services Division of the CIA]. The unwitting porno stars advanced in their political careers, some of [whom] may still be in office.” (Qtd. in DeCamp 179)
According to John DeCamp, a former Nebraska Senator and Vietnam War hero, Wilson’s operation was merely a continuation of the one set up by Cohn (179). When I asked James Rothstein if Palfrey’s outfit was a continuation of the sexual blackmail rings that began with Cohn, he answered in the affirmative (Rothstein, pagination). The NYPD veteran made it clear that Palfrey’s outfit could not exist in Washington unless it was a tool for the power elite and sinister factions of the intelligence community (no pagination). Somewhere in a Queens cemetery, the corpse of a high-powered attorney is smiling in his grave.
SOURCE:
https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/2014/08/24/the-ghost-of-roy-cohn/
The same Roy Cohn who taught Donald Drumpf also schooled Roger Stone and Jeffrey Epstein...
... Who knew what when? In Palo Alto, after Epstein’s conviction, he was a guest at a dinner for the MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden that was hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. At the same dinner Elon Musk introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. Is money so powerful that it tramples all other considerations? As James Baldwin put it, “I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
One of the most remarkable moments in Tyrnauer’s documentary comes near the end, when it’s no longer possible to pretend that Cohn isn’t a liar and a fraud, when it’s no longer possible to deny that he lacks both shame and conscience. When Cohn was about to be disbarred in 1986 for defrauding his clients and for taking advantage of a dying and incompetent man, character witnesses began to emerge. There were letters to the court from William F. Buckley Jr., Barbara Walters, William Safire, and, of course, Trump, who wrote that Cohn “has been extremely loyal and extremely honest.” Were Cohn’s parties—was his protection—really that good?...
Source: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a29130905/roy-cohn-documentary-wheres-my-roy-cohn/
It’s conceivable Matt Gaetz got some learnin’, too.
Link to tweet
Steve Bannon also was pals with Epstein, even coaching him for interviews on tee vee.
Epstein: Files in the Ointment
One of my associates, after reviewing the link to my last OP, laughed and said, “What the fuck? How did the maga cult become so stupid that they really believed in a satanic group of Democratic Party big-wigs, raping and cooking children, and that (the felon) was the only man brave enough to secretly oppose them?” I said, “Oh, that's easy. Let's start from back in 1988, when Bush the Elder was running for president.....” Before I could continue, he suggested I write it down and post it on DU, and send him the link.
In 1988, when Bush the Elder began his campaign for the presidency, the felon let Lee Atwater know he was “available” to be the vice president. Bush found this “strange and unbelievable.” So much for the incorrect concept that the felon did not long desire to obtain political power. (While I shall not footnote everything here, those interested should see page 326 of Jon Meacham's biography of Bush Sr.)
Next, we go to the years 2006 to 2008. Epstein is charged in a 53-page indictment, that suggests the identity of three co-offenders. The federal prosecutor Alexander Acosta accepts a plea agreement offered by Alan Dershowitz, which allows Epstein to leave his cell days to “work,” and closes the door on further investigations. Why did Alex do this? The Attorney General told him Epstein was “intelligence” and to “back off.” Acosta would, of course, serve as the felon's labor secretary.
In 2007, the beginning of what was known as the Tea Party took place. Republican leaders were aware that Ron Paul was getting support for a presidential run. The Tea Party would, they believed, keep right-wingers in the control of the party – including those normally to the right of the corporate republicans in Congress. In 2008, when Senator Obama became the Democratic Party's nominee for president, it caught on, attracting openly racist citizens. In the 2010 mid-terms, their numbers would win elections that created the Tea Party Caucus in Congress.
Thus, in 2011, the felon did two things: begin to demand President Obama'a birth certificate, and say he might run for president. The birth certificate bit was a call to racists that caught on. His campaign for the presidency fizzled out. Likewise, the Tea Party was no longer on the margins of the republican party, which would no longer support anyone of the manner of a Mitt Romney after his 2012 defeat.
The felon was elected president in 2016.
Those who orchestrated what in 2017 was known as Q-anon – the right-wing nest of retired FBI agents loyal to Rudy Guiliani – began a series of lies to program republican voters. Most, if not all, of the Q-anon information, if repeated by an individual, would be evidence that they were delusional. But it became thousands, then millions, that bought into the delusions. We all remember John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s being at the felon's events in Dealey Plaza.
More titilating, of course, was Q-anan's story of the satanic group – led by the Clintons – of child sex abusing world leaders. This included pointing out that Bill Clinton had known Jeffery Epstein. Before going on, I should note that though Clinton was a good president, he was an imperfect man, in the same way that men like JFK, King, and other great leaders were. But I can say with zero chance of error that Bill Clinton had nothing to do with Epstein's sex ring. It was business that brought the two together, for Epstein had financial juice on the international level.
In 2019, Epstein was again arrested. Among the items found in his NYC home's safe was an Austrian passport. Epstein had traveled to England, France, Spain, and Saudi Arabia using this passport in the past. Also found was evidence of sex trafficking, including files with under aged girls' names and the name of the men connected to them. (USA Today, July 10, 2019)
Jeffery died unexpectedly while incarcerated in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. This seemed odd, considering he was housed on the MCC's most secure wing. Rather than my going into depth on the MCC, Nic Tartaglione, and how many guards work for the Russian mob in NYC, I will suggest going to “Crime Wave,” the pod cast by Declan Hill, based on research he and his classes at the University of New Haven's studies of criminal justice and forensic sciences did.
Of course, the maga republican bowel movement changed hard facts into soft shit, and used these events to place even greater delusions into the cult's misunderstanding of the country they lived in. “Release the Epstein files!” became their war cry in 2024's presidential election. This, of course, answers my associate's question of how the members of the maga cult were led astray. But a funny (not humorous) thing happened. The felon was again elected. They learned that the actual Epstein files are the exact opposite of the nonsense they had told the cult. If released, they do no harm to Democrats, with the exception of the late Bill Richardson. (I hate even mentioning that, as I always respected him.
The most important thing that we need to do now is to actively support Rep. Jamie Raskin's call for A.G. Bondi to release two things: the Epstein files, and part two of Jack Smith's report on the classified documents the felon stole. I think Rep. Raskin is among the most intelligent and honest elected representatives in our country's history. The fact that he spoke about the two things in a recent press conference suggests that there may be a connection among the files he stole.