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FightFight

(163 posts)
Sun Nov 3, 2024, 10:59 AM Nov 3

Listen To The Jeffrey Epstein Tapes: 'I Was Donald Trump's Closest Friend'

Source: thedailybeast

THE PREDATOR AND THE PRESIDENT
Explosive tapes recorded by author Michael Wolff show Epstein claiming Trump liked to “f---” his friends’ wives and first slept with Melania on the “Lolita Express.”

Jeffrey Epstein described himself as Donald Trump’s “closest friend” and claimed intimate knowledge of his proclivity for sex, including cuckolding his best friends, according to recordings obtained exclusively by the Daily Beast.

The convicted pedophile even boasted of his closeness to Trump and his now-wife Melania by claiming, “the first time he slept with her was on my plane,” which was dubbed the Lolita Express.


Epstein spoke at length about Trump with the author Michael Wolff in August 2017, two years before being found dead in his jail cell. Wolff was researching his bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury at the time.

The recordings cast more light on Trump’s long relationship with Epstein, and will add to debate over the character of the Republican candidate, especially his attitudes and conduct toward women, just days before the election.

The tapes tell Epstein’s version of the relationship between two former friends and their very different paths: One toward infamy, prison and suicide; the other toward power, the Oval Office and his own criminal conviction for paying hush money to a porn star.

Trump’s camp referred to the tapes’ release as “false smears” and “election interference.”

The tapes also offer unusual insight into the friendship of two wealthy, powerful men who frequently went out on the town together, prowling for women in New York and Atlantic City.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/listen-to-the-jeffrey-epstein-tapes-i-was-donald-trumps-closest-friend/?utm_medium=socialflow&via=twitter_page&utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb



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True Dough

(20,603 posts)
1. How is this not much bigger news???
Sun Nov 3, 2024, 11:03 AM
Nov 3

It should be playing on every TV station and radio station. Every online news outlet. Every newspaper headline.

There was so much more attention paid to Biden calling Trump's supporters garbage (when it was arguably in reference to the one trash comedian). It's bonkers!

wiggs

(8,040 posts)
2. Correct question. I've seen it reported in the Guardian and Daily Beast. No US mainstream outlets. Seems
Sun Nov 3, 2024, 11:10 AM
Nov 3

very important in two ways: the original story...PLUS...why US outlets aren't discussing it. Why?

Kid Berwyn

(18,182 posts)
16. US media - with one star exception - whitewashed Epstein story
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 09:58 AM
Nov 5
Jeffrey Epstein: how US media – with one star exception – whitewashed the story

The Miami Herald exposed a vast criminal network and a government cover-up – but why the silence elsewhere?


Ed Pilkington
The Guardian, July 19, 2019

EXCERPT...

Reiter warned Brown what would happen were she to continue digging: “Somebody’s going to call your publisher and the next thing you know you are going to be assigned to the obituaries department.”

Brown did not heed his warning. She flung herself at the investigation and eventually persuaded Reiter to go on record. Her resulting, award-winning three-part series last November exposed a vast operation in which 80 potential victims were identified, some as young as 13 and 14 at the time of the alleged abuse. She persuaded eight to tell their stories.

Brown also exposed a government cover-up in which Epstein got away with an exceptionally light sentence that saw him serve only 13 months in jail. She discovered that a “non-prosecution agreement” had been negotiated secretly in 2008 by the then top federal prosecutor in Miami, Alexander Acosta, that gave Epstein and his co-conspirators immunity from federal prosecution.

In 2017, Acosta was appointed by Donald Trump as labor secretary, a post that ironically is responsible for combating sex trafficking.

CONTINUES...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/13/jeffrey-epstein-alex-acosta-miami-herald-media

Kid Berwyn

(18,182 posts)
14. No wonder the FBI stayed away from Trump.
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 01:31 PM
Nov 4

The shit was attracting all manner of scum. All they had to do was remember to bring a camera.



Trump introduces Eric and Ivanka to the nice mens.

FakeNoose

(35,898 posts)
15. Some of those tapes have been leaked before, maybe Michael Wolff leaked them, I don't know
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 01:52 PM
Nov 4

I have difficulty understanding what Epstein says in a few of them, and the "closed captions" are pretty worthless. I guess I'll have to wait for Wolff's book to come out to find out what was on the tapes.

Epstein's death was very convenient for Chump, because it seems that if he had gone to trial, Epstein would have told a SHIT-TON of secrets about Chump. He had no reason to keep quiet anymore, and he had already decided to start revealing stuff for Wolff's next book.

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