5/ Based on a review of the book in NYMag I discussed the Lownie book and some of what's contained in it here. The gist is that it makes Maxwell a much bigger player in the story as opposed to just JE's fmr gf and procurer. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/was-i...
Here's a bit more from the Lownie book – among other things, references the "longstanding ties" between Trump and Ghislaine's father, Robert Maxwell. bsky.app/profile/quin...
I’m astonished to read that you don’t think Epstein was using the thousands of hours of debauchery he filmed as leverage. It’s on the record with Bill Gates. You really think that was a one-off? Really?
it cld be true. but there's little to no evidence for any of it. so yes i'm generally skeptical. that's big news if you know of Gates admitting on the record that he was being blackmailed by JE
If memory serves, an email exchange came to light through litigation. www.wsj.com/finance/jeff...
Yes, Gates is absolutely on record!
All I can find is “people familiar with a matter.” www.wsj.com/finance/jeff...
Where?
1) Don't know about blackmail, but Trump raped the shit out of a bunch of kids. 2) the leftwing mealy-mouthed desire to talk around this & express a desire for some high standard of proof is a terrible weakness - the Republicans claim as bad or worse outright about Dems all the time with no evidence
Epstein could also be the kind of person who would suggest there was evidence and let consciousness of guilt do the heavy lifting.
Sorry, it was the Journal, not WaPo: www.cnn.com/videos/busin...
this is an example of what i mean. this has epstein knowing abt an affair Gates had and trying to leverage it. it's not abt any videotapes or underaged girls. I know yr not saying that. saying how the poster above conflates the two things, etc.
A couple minutes' searching has me thinking maybe *someone* rounded up a very young RU girl, taught her bridge b/c Gates et al are known to be avid players, set her up to seduce a rich guy so they could blackmail him. Speculation ≠ truth & has no place in journalism ... but man, these rabbit holes.
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I know Khadeeja Safdar reported on this for WaPo back in 2016, 17? If you have a connection, maybe ask her about it. IDR if Gates was on the record or if that was some 2nd or 3rd hand stuff.
I haven’t gotten a chance to read Lownie’s book yet, but based off of Julie K Brown’s reporting and what the victims have said I have been convinced for quite some time now that Maxwell was running the operation. She learned well from her daddy.
After seeing several interviews with Lownie over the past couple weeks, I became more convinced than I was before how central Maxwell is.
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Ghislaine learned it all from years at her father's side. Before he mysteriously croaked overboard in the Atlantic. Naked.
Ghislaine was her daddy’s Ivanka.
youtu.be/qgtK-6gjxT4?...
Did Robert #Maxwell really fawned over (or even lusted after) #Ghislaine the way #Trump coveted #Ivanka?
YES!!! He had Ghislaine be his plus one instead of his wife or any of their other, lots, of kids. She was the his other half. His flipping yacht is even named after her. There are lots of interviews/YT videos going over this, and it discusses it in the Ghislaine documentary Netflix did.
youtu.be/qgtK-6gjxT4?... I hadn’t watched this video because I’d read or seen @tarapalmeri.bsky.social’s reportage in other places, but I thought I’d watch this to see if it was something short & concise to share, as Palmeri’s work is. I don’t think I lasted a minute it’s so 🤮🤮🤮
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