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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEpstein very likely, eventually gave Putin everything incriminating he had on Trump
...the Russian dictator completely owned the U.S. president, afterward.

Trump and Putin after their two-hour one-on-one (with translators only) meeting in Helsinki, Finland on July 16, 2018
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi https://politico.com/news/2025/11/1

In a June 24, 2018, email to former Norwegian prime minister and then-Council of Europe leader Thorbjørn Jagland, Epstein proposed meeting Lavrov.
I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on Trump talking to me, the email, which came nearly a month before Trump met Putin in Helsinki, read.
Epstein also referenced his prior discussions with the late Russian Ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, who died in 2017, that helped him gain insight into Trump.
Churkin was great, Epstein reportedly wrote. He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/epstein-tried-contacting-lavrov-to-discuss-trump-emails-reveal/ar-AA1Qnv1v
At the Helsinki summit in July 2018, Trump contradicted US intelligence and appeared to defend Russia over allegations of interference in the 2016 election.
Larry Summers, a former US Treasury secretary, emailed Epstein that day to ask whether the Russians have stuff on Trump, the newly-released documents show. He said today was appalling even by his standards.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jeffrey-epstein-kremlin-donald-trump-summit-b2864323.html
Phoenix61
(18,644 posts)Im starting to think the P stands for pedophile.
Coldwater
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Deuxcents
(24,875 posts)Jim__
(15,027 posts)marble falls
(69,556 posts)bigtree
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marble falls
(69,556 posts)bigtree
(93,258 posts)Pelosi explains what she was saying to Trump in viral photo: All roads lead to Putin
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/466304-pelosi-explains-what-she-was-saying-to-trump-in-viral-photo-all-roads-lead-to/
tazcat
(189 posts)AZJonnie
(2,365 posts)And he was pissed ever since because he overbid and outbid Epstein on a property he wanted to buy, using Russian money. One that Epstein showed him, that he'd found, and was asking his then-buddy Trump to check it out and give his opinion.
Same property Trump sold to a Russian oligarch in 2008 for double what he bought it for in 2002. Remember 2008?
Epstein wanted Trump busted for his dealings with the Russians.
Celerity
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