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Glenn Eychaner's avatar

What I find darkly amusing about the whole thing is that Qanon was ‘right’ about the pedophile ring, but it wasn’t operating out of a pizza parlor, it was operating in the halls of governments around the world for three decades.

Jennifer Anderson's avatar

If they hadn't gone off the rails with the adrenochrome a lot more of us would have been more interested, but yeah it's wild they were actually on the right track. It might sound nuts, but a big part of me thinks Trump or someone in his orbit is Q. Every accusation is a confession.

Lisa Borland's avatar

I'm sure I read somewhere on Substack that Mike Flynn was Q.

Glenn Eychaner's avatar

Probably someone close to both Trump and Epstein, and everyone and anyone who circulated in their company for the last few decades should be in jail. Including Bill Clinton.

I can only hope that my name isn’t inserted into the ‘Epstein files’ due to the attention I’m bringing to myself here.

laparque's avatar

The analysis rings true because Ghislaine Maxwell has successfully employed the same playbook once her high visibility rendered her impossible to "be suicided."

Erin's avatar

Would explain his love of Prince Bone Saw. Two thugs in a pod.

Sally Gordon-Mark's avatar

Excellent piece with which I fully agree.

Robert Ritchie's avatar

I concur generally. However, for clarity: there's no need to argue that President Trump engineered the death. It's entirely possible, indeed plausible, that Epstein's death was arranged/threatened by his own and Trump's handlers/sponsors, without Trump himself ever hearing anything about it - including any attempt to negotiate. It's not the sort of thing that his handlers would want Trump to hear about, if only out of fear he'd mess it all up by midnight tweets etc.

Mike Brock's avatar

I'm sure a full release of the files will sort out all these questions!

Robert Ritchie's avatar

Indeed. But, perhaps, "would" rather than "will"! ;)

Frederica Huxley's avatar

“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” Henry II and Trump are both known for keeping their hands clean.

Robert Ritchie's avatar

Quite so! But it didn't work for Henry II - he was forced on pilgrimage complete with sackcloth etc. It might or might not work for Trump. But since the Bay of Pigs fiasco the so-called deep state has been careful to keep its mouth shut about such operations: because, if a President decides to go non-conformist (like JFK) and figures it out, he just might deep-six it or otherwise interfere in matters that are none of their business.;)

ABossy's avatar

Had the exact same thought.

Pete Lincoln's avatar

That letter is too convenient. Its purpose seems to be to sell the narrative Epstein “suicided” under cover of exposing whats already know. Unlike the photo, there is no way this accidentally slips through. Would be interesting to compare this handwriting to anything known to have been written by Epstein

Cathy's avatar

Adding to this: Is there known correspondence to Larry Nassar in the past? Seems a dubious connection to share a truth as important as taking one's own life to a mere acquaintance. Also did Epstein generally sign off in that manner, as well the posthumous mailing date (though more easily explained) the tampered with prison video recording at just the right moment, the disappearing derelict in their duty guards, the sudden malfunction of everything that night seems too suspicious to me. Finally I'm not convinced that someone as used to landing on his feet as Epstein would take the plunge doing the dirty work himself. Still too much there, there for me.

LM's avatar

Very well reasoned, Mike. Something rotten is wafting through this public coverup.

I think the postmark date could line up with any procedures the BoP has for reading and processing mail from one inmate to another. If anything, I’m somewhat surprised the letter got postmarked and delivered.

James Gillen's avatar

There are only two kinds of people: Trump worshipers, and people who live in reality. And there is only one thing they agree on: Epstein didn't kill himself.

Ken Rose's avatar

Jeffrey Epstein was a serial child predator. It wouldn’t take an order from the Commander in Chief to off him. Maybe a show of hands from the building’s lifers.

You have to understand who Epstein was and what he did for a living. He was a Crook among Crooks. He stole from law breakers, laundered money for thieves, billionaires, countries and agencies alike.

Epstein was taken under the wing of Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi billionaire playboy whose father had been cook to the King. Khashoggi was the executioner of the Iran/Contra affair. His accomplice, ROBERT MAXWELL. His bookkeeper, JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Ken Rose's avatar

Khashoggi dropped out of college in the US in the 1960s when he found he could hook up wealthy people in the West to the vast booming pool of Saudi Oil money to get them whatever they desired. In return, he procured on the black market arms the western powers couldn’t sell to the KSA above board. He had contributed to both Nixon campaigns and built up a relationship with the CIA. He became the go-to guy to arrange IRAN CONTRA.

After Watergate, the CIA became reluctant to doing the overt work they had done in the 1950s and 60s. They needed private individuals to contract this work out to.

Robert Maxwell was a Jewish refugee from then Czechoslovakia. (His birthplace is now in Ukraine.) He fled to the UK and fought bravely for the Czech resistance, earning the admiration of both MI6 and the KGB. Post war, he became a publishing tycoon. His magazines featured interviews with heads of state and powerful figures in foreign governments, giving Maxwell a Rolodex that any foreign intelligence agency would envy. He worked with Mossad during Israeli independence.

The Iran Contra affair was exposed when a jet from Southern Air crashed over Nicaragua carrying arms to the Contras that Congress explicitly forbade.

One of Epstein’s tasks in the wake of Iran Contra was to dump Southern Air which he sold to Les Wexner, the owner of apparel companies the Limited and Victoria’s Secret. Wexner is still the only billionaire client named by Epstein.

In order to pull off Iran Contra, the Israelis were arming Iran, who were enemies of the Saudis. And they were arming the Contras who were fighting the Soviet client state, the Sandinistas. That meant BILLIONS in CIA money added to the Saudi pile and Mossad money to grease all the wheels to make the deal go down. That meant millions that probably got squirreled away by everyone involved.

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Parrhizzia's avatar

Just one question: why Larry Nasser to say this to?

Why not the NYT? Or WaPo? Or CNN?

Further, did he have a pre-existing relationship with Nasser? Not that I know of … do you?

Maybe … this is one of many postcards?

I’m worried that this is a George W. Bush “The Killian documents” ploy to delegitimize the entire Epstein scandal.

Matt Winter's avatar

Seeing reports this postcard is not legit?

Matt Winter's avatar

apparently an official statement from FBI that it is fake. Nuts either way. Either the postcard is real or this is an outright falsehood by the FBI. ... Mike, any idea?

Alexis Ludwig's avatar

What we also know is this is a criminal president who’s escaped justice time and again by the skin of his teeth and great cunning. Outside assistance too? I appreciate the careful way you couch your tentative conclusion and have a hard time not sharing it.

Celia Abbott's avatar

I could see it as a possibility. Another possibility is that the president was one of a group pulling the strings to make this happen.

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

This is the rare kind of speculation that actually shows its work. You’re not asking anyone to swallow a theory. You’re asking why the people with the power to clarify keep choosing secrecy instead. At some point “coincidence” becomes a faith position, and not a very convincing one.

Stephen Strum, MD, FACP's avatar

My harsh remarks:

▶︎ Of course, this file presented by Mike is not validated. It's authenticity thus remains unknown.

▶︎ But here's what I do not get about this mess with the Epstein issue; (one of a hundred under Trump)

• Why did the Democrats under Biden not act with transparency on the Epstein matter, ignoring the letter sent to the FBI back in 1996-- that's 29 fucking years ago! Same question for Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump in 2017.

Personally, I do not think we will see the US have a POTUS who is a Democrat for many years, and I don't think it is likely we will have midterms. Trump will either find a way to postpone the midterms by declaring a war or some other national emergency, or he will deplete the Democratic voting population by mass deportations, incarcerations of citizens, and/or corrupt the election as he does everything. Trump has the Midas-Midas touch-- everything he does turns to gold and to shit. Trump, our president, is a scumbag, I pray he drops dead ASAP, but that won't solve the problem with JD Vance along with the rest of the goons that Trump appointed, and our Senators approved.

• Why can't the Epstein family, who I assume has a full set of files, make them available to the Public?

• Along with the above, the young women (children-teens) and now adults who were criminally abused would need to make decisions for themselves about how much redaction. I know it is easy for me to say, but if I were one, and let's say Prince Whatever raped me when I was 13, I would go public. Same with any notable person, be they president of the US or the president of the local bowling club. I know these women are traumatized and fear for their lives. But there is a time when one speaks out and stands up. For the youngsters growing up in our country, for the yet unborn, this is the time to worry not solely about the economy but about what kind of world do you want to live in.

• Most of the world in their disgust with the exploitation of Epstein is missing what a very few have touched on, and that issue is Sutton's Law. It equates with "go where the money is." I will wager a serious bet that Epstein was a prime money laundering outfit, just as Wayne Barrett pointed out that Trump selling apartment units in Trump Towers in NY was a vehicle for Russian oligarchs, Italian and Jewish Mafia to launder their dirty money.

• Unless there is a revolt of the overwhelming majority of people in the US, this administration will continue on its rampage and ruination of America and heighten the probabilities of a global war and a slaughter of Nature. Trump is a sick, fucked up person who is clearly off-the-rails. I am surprised that my colleagues in psychiatry have not made a blanket statement of this man's paranoid, sociopathic, megalomaniacal malignant narcissism. Our Donald Demento is the most powerful person in the world. Trump and his morally ptomained buffet of cabinet secretaries is an Orwellian novel on steroids. Who wrote this insane novel? I say it's a logical expression of failed education and a legacy of racism/bigotry. But after a prior term of office, America voted him in again. WTF x 10 to the tenth.

▶︎ ▶︎ Isn't this one sick joke, on us, on the world?

I love the Bee Gees but somehow, this ghoulish nightmare of Trump's Daily Horror Show plays in my head as the song: "I Started a Joke." Perhaps if someone told Trump he has a beautiful voice, like no other president before, he might sing this song as one of his press conferences.

I Started a Joke

Maurice, Robin, and Barry Gibb.

The Bee Gees (1968) Album: Idea

I started a joke which started the whole world crying

But I didn't see that the joke was on me, oh no

I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing

Oh, If I'd only seen that the joke was on me

I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes

And I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I said

'Till I finally died, which started the whole world living

Oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was on me

I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes

And I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I said

'Till I finally died, which started the whole world living

Oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was on me

Oh no, that the joke was on me.

I do not know about the rest of you, but I fully agree with the 7th line from the bottom. When Trump is dead and buried under the Trump-Lincoln Memorial, the world will breathe a sigh of relief. How ironic for me to spend my entire existence trying to extend life, and here one instance where I would feel blessed, that God has answered my dreams and those of hundreds of millions in the US and around the world, to know this thing- this planetary existential threat is out of our lives. What a Better World It Would Be if we were without this ghoul uttering and mumbling his verbal diarrhea each day, and fostering death and destruction wherever he goes. Yes, if there was ever an anti-Christ, you've met him with Donald J. Trump.