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Bumbles

(472 posts) Mon May 11, 2026, 10:10 AM 4 hrs ago

A quick update from Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez about all things Epstein. I think this is new news. It's hard to keep up.

"While an abundance of questions remain surrounding the 2019 death of indicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, famed journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez believes she’s discovered at least one answer to the puzzling incident – namely, who was responsible for creating the conditions that allowed one of the world’s most notorious sex offenders to die while in federal custody."

“I believe [President] Donald Trump needed Jeffrey Epstein dead,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote in a recent report on her Substack. “I believe William Barr’s [Department of Justice] made it possible.”

https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2676876595/

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A quick update from Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez about all things Epstein. I think this is new news. It's hard to keep up. (Original Post) Bumbles 4 hrs ago OP

Epstein-Barr connected from waaaay back. Kid Berwyn 4 hrs ago #1

I've known about the Barr connection. It just seems that the noose is tightening. One can hope. Bumbles 4 hrs ago #3

Great article, it's a must read. Link to Substack report by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez: sop 4 hrs ago #2

Alisa has done an amazing job of ferreting out and writing about this atrocious, ,god awful, sorry, abominable mess. Bumbles 3 hrs ago #5

Hi, sop. I try to repeat this warning when necessary. Remove the tracking info in the URL. erronis 1 hr ago #6

Roll the tapes Whip-poor-will 4 hrs ago #4

Kid Berwyn

(24,979 posts)

1. Epstein-Barr connected from waaaay back.

Reply to Bumbles (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2026, 10:18 AM

4 hrs ago

From OP article:

Excerpt…

Barr’s former law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, had represented Epstein during negotiations over his controversial 2008 plea deal, a deal that provided him and potential co-conspirators broad immunity, and one that was offered by Trump’s former labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, who reportedly said he offered the generous deal because he was told Epstein “belonged to intelligence.”

Barr’s father, Donald Barr, was also the headmaster of the elite Dalton School in New York in the 1970s when he reportedly hired Epstein as a teacher, despite Epstein having no college degree.

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Bingo!

Bumbles

(472 posts)

3. I've known about the Barr connection. It just seems that the noose is tightening. One can hope.

Reply to Kid Berwyn (Reply #1)

Mon May 11, 2026, 10:22 AM

4 hrs ago

It may have been Rawstory's framing that got me.

sop

(19,190 posts)

2. Great article, it's a must read. Link to Substack report by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez:

Reply to Bumbles (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2026, 10:21 AM

4 hrs ago

https://open.substack.com/pub/alisav/p/the-handler-karyna-shuliak-jeffrey?r=r38w4&utm_medium=ios

Bumbles

(472 posts)

5. Alisa has done an amazing job of ferreting out and writing about this atrocious, ,god awful, sorry, abominable mess.

Reply to sop (Reply #2)

Mon May 11, 2026, 11:41 AM

3 hrs ago

erronis

(24,425 posts)

6. Hi, sop. I try to repeat this warning when necessary. Remove the tracking info in the URL.

Reply to sop (Reply #2)

Mon May 11, 2026, 01:18 PM

1 hr ago

Substack will take the information after the first "?" in any link and use it to personally identify you.

In this case the attribute is the "r=xxxxx". When substack pulls up the link it will show your name. In your case it is just a first name (I guess) but sometimes it may be more than people want to share.

Edited to say: Usually links will work fine with all information after the "?" removed. Some sites (major news, financial, etc.) may not. It doesn't hurt to test the truncated link in your browser before.

Whip-poor-will

(475 posts)

4. Roll the tapes

Reply to Bumbles (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2026, 10:55 AM

4 hrs ago

...but donald's best friend lives on in the tapes forever, along with some other fine upstanding public and private manly men.

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