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Botany

(74,783 posts)
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 08:09 AM 9 hrs ago

Sen. Ron Wyden, The Senate Finance Committee one of Epstein's Bank Accounts got $1.1 billion

So much for a scam or a hoax this was organized crime.

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Treasury’s Epstein file details 4,725 wire transfers adding up to nearly $1.1 billion flowing in and out of just ONE of Epstein’s bank accounts. If you ask me, that’s 4,725 potential lines of investigation right there.

Hundreds of millions more flowed through other accounts -- that’s even more to investigate.

The file shows Epstein used multiple Russian banks, which are now under sanctions, to process payments related to sex trafficking. A lot of the women and girls he targeted came from Russia, Belarus, Turkey and Turkmenistan. You shudder to think about the kinds of people who must have been involved in trafficking these women and girls out of those countries and into Epstein’s web of abuse.

Again, these are all potential leads the Department of Justice ought to be digging into. This is about years and years of international sex trafficking. None of this is a hoax. None of it is a scam. It’s insulting to the intelligence of the American people when Trump and Bondi say there’s nothing here to investigate.

https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/as-trump-downplays-epstein-wyden-unveils-details-of-treasurys-undisclosed-epstein-file

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Botany

(74,783 posts)
3. That might be true but what about Hillary's emails & the price of eggs?
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 08:16 AM
9 hrs ago

Putin and what used to be the KGB have been working Trump for 40 years. Krasnov was an
easy mark. Vain, not too bright, corrupt, and in debt to Russia. The Steele Dossier was correct.

Irish_Dem

(72,505 posts)
4. Exactly correct. Putin has won the war he wages against the US.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 08:19 AM
9 hrs ago

Putin has been waging war on the US for decades.
And he has been quite successful.

Destroyed the US govt, democracy and US constitution.

Got one major political party the GOP to be his puppets and fight the war for him.

Botany

(74,783 posts)
5. And he has used outlets such as Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, the NRA, and social media to spread ....
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 08:27 AM
9 hrs ago

…. Russian misinformation which is now done by Storm 15-16. Cause divisions to weaken
America from within by inventing made up problems such as transgender issues, men hood
is under attack, vaccines are the real problem, the dangers of immigrants, and so on.

Hugin

(36,632 posts)
2. Hmm... Russia, Belarus, Turkey, and now the US.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 08:13 AM
9 hrs ago

I ask you, what do those places have in common?

sop

(15,238 posts)
6. "These are all potential leads the Department of Justice ought to be digging into."
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 08:48 AM
9 hrs ago

I'm sure Pam and Kash are digging in right now, eager to rip the lid off this Epstein horror show.

Kid Berwyn

(21,365 posts)
10. Evidence of a Protection Racket
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:27 AM
8 hrs ago

All the millionaires and billionaires running away…and the still-poor politicians who have nowhere to go…Big Business money, and “allowed” to operate by Uncle Sam, Uncle Ivan, Uncle Moshe, and Johnny Bull because their countries share from the take Epstein’s operation produced.

“Tradition.”

RoeVWade

(566 posts)
11. I tried to shame my congress rep "You don't even want to know! You can't even do that much?"
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:48 AM
8 hrs ago

Too many (R)s won't cross Trump even to know anything.

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