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struggle4progress

(124,247 posts) Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:24 AM Monday

Ghislaine hinted at Epstein's ties to Trump officials

Why wasn’t she pressed for names?

By Victoria Bekiempis
Sun 31 Aug 2025 08.00 EDT

... Blanche asked Maxwell whether people around Epstein – including the numerous high-profile and powerful men who had known him – were associating with him for the purpose of sexual encounters. In her reply Maxwell said that some of the “cast of characters” around Epstein were “in your cabinet, who you value as your co-workers”.

Despite the fact that Maxwell had just openly mentioned Epstein associates as being in Trump’s current cabinet, Blanche – a hardened lawyer not known for missing a trick in trial argument – did not pause to ask Maxwell to identify the cabinet members she was referring to ...

Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor who is the founder of West Coast Trial Lawyers, said: “Many of Blanche’s questions were surface-level and didn’t drill down the way lawyers, especially prosecutors, do when they want to catch inconsistencies.”

“She has zero credibility and I don’t believe for a second that she saw nothing and knows nothing,” Rahmani said. “Perhaps Blanche’s questions were more of the softball variety, but there was no world where Maxwell was going to implicate herself when she has her supreme court appeal pending or anyone in the administration when she is trying to get a presidential pardon” ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/31/ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-trump

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Ghislaine hinted at Epstein's ties to Trump officials (Original Post) struggle4progress Monday OP

Lawsuit threatens to blow the lid off the White House's Epstein secrets struggle4progress Monday #1

Odd fact about Karoline Leavit. PufPuf23 Monday #2

Wiki: Leavitt had baby in 2024, married January 2025 unc70 Monday #3

republicon pedophiles deserve justice BoRaGard Monday #4

"didn't drill down the way prosecutors do when they want to catch inconsistencies" tanyev Monday #5

Was contemplating the "cast of characters in your cabinet" list of possibilities. Many are allegorical oracle Monday #6

struggle4progress

(124,247 posts)

1. Lawsuit threatens to blow the lid off the White House's Epstein secrets

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:26 AM

Monday

MSNBC
Aug 9, 2025

As the Trump administration continues to play coy with the Jeffrey Epstein files they once promised to release to the public, Democracy Forward is suing for access to the internal communications within the Trump administration about the handling of the Epstein files. The lawsuit includes communications by press secretary Karoline Leavitt, which would likely provide a window on Donald Trump's participation in the matter as well. Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, and Barry Levine, who investigated Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell for his book, "The Spider," discuss with Jen Psaki.

PufPuf23

(9,551 posts)

2. Odd fact about Karoline Leavit.

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 1, 2025, 01:14 AM

Monday

Realized knew very little about Karoline Leavitt.

Looked at Karoline Leavitt's wiki page.

She married in 2023 and has since born a child with a man 32 years her senior.

Quirky fact in context of Trump and Epstein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoline_Leavitt

unc70

(6,463 posts)

3. Wiki: Leavitt had baby in 2024, married January 2025

Reply to PufPuf23 (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 1, 2025, 05:50 AM

Monday

I don't really care, but she got marriedimmediately before the Trump inauguration.

BoRaGard

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4. republicon pedophiles deserve justice

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:24 AM

Monday

lock them up

tanyev

(47,662 posts)

5. "didn't drill down the way prosecutors do when they want to catch inconsistencies"

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Sep 1, 2025, 08:09 AM

Monday

Or criminals. He didn’t drill down the way prosecutors do when they actually want to catch criminals.

😠

allegorical oracle

(5,649 posts)

6. Was contemplating the "cast of characters in your cabinet" list of possibilities. Many are

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Sep 1, 2025, 08:36 AM

Monday

too young or are females. One male is gay. Wonder if Maxwell's thinking more of his first cabinet -- and those who were hanging out at the WH. Participants likely would be closer to djt's age -- late 60s to 70s, now.

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