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Todd Neikirk
Hill Reporter, May 19, 2019
During Attorney General, William Barrs confirmation hearing, he was mostly peppered with questions about how he would handle the Mueller Report. Senator Ben Sasses (R-NE) questioning, however, diverged from the pack. Sasse asked Barr about the lenient sentence given out to billionaire pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The future Attorney General told Sasse that he would look into the matter.
This, however, was not the first connection between Barr and his family and the disgraced pedophile. In 1973, Barrs father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattans Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.
While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a number of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New Yorks prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age.
Apparently, the hire was a successful one. The New Yorker wrote in a 2003 profile on Epstein, he was something of a Robin WilliamsinDead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs. Epsteins mathematical skills caught the eye of Bear Stearns chairman, Alan Ace Greenberg, whose son attended the Dalton School. Greenberg hired Epstein as an options trader and the former teacher was able to amass a fortune.
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https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-william-barr-donald-trump-34107
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Barr mustve seen something in that young man, otherwise theres no logical rationale for the hire.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,901 posts)Fox wont mention this story.
watoos
(7,142 posts)so far I have seen Ted Lieu call for Labor Secty. Acosta to resign.
Kid Berwyn
(14,901 posts)President Obama would be mentioned by the GOP.
Odd, the Silence.
gordianot
(15,237 posts)This s**thouse runs deep. It seems almost certain the orange menace resides there. Who else?
Kid Berwyn
(14,901 posts)From the Guardian in 2015:
Under the letter B alone are listed Tony Blair, Michael Bloomberg, and Richard Branson. Elsewhere there are multiple contacts typically at offices, homes, and via aides mobile phones for Bill Clinton, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Dustin Hoffman, Naomi Campbell, and dozens of other A-listers.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/10/jeffrey-epstein-decade-scandal-prince-andrew
NoMoreRepugs
(9,418 posts)in hearings, interviews and Presidential candidate question and answer sessions with the press. Exposure to the light of day will assist the country in reducing the plague of Conservatives infecting our country if the populace learns more.
I'm talking Independents and marginal Dem voters. The Deplorables are drunk on the koolaid and lost for generations.
Kid Berwyn
(14,901 posts)...until then, use every chance to spell out Trump-Epstein connections, including their Falling Out.
From Daily Kos:
Epstein, he writes, invited Trump to see a $36m Palm Beach mansion he planned to buy. According to Wolff, Trump went behind Epsteins back to buy the foreclosed property for around $40m, a sum Epstein had reason to believe Trump couldnt raise in his own right, through an entity called Trump Properties LLC, which was entirely financed by Deutsche Bank.
Epstein, Wolff writes, knew Trump had been loaning out his name in real estate deals for a fee and suspected that in his case Trump was fronting for the propertys real owners. Epstein threatened to expose the deal. As the dispute increased, he found himself under investigation by the Palm Beach police.
According to Wolff, Trump made only minor improvements and put the house on the market for $125m. It was purchased for $96m by Rybolovlev, part of a circle of government-aligned industrialists in Russia, thereby earning Trump $55m without risking any of his own money.
Source: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/10/1870826/-Epstein-can-t-be-isolated-from-the-story-of-Trump-needing-Russian-money
I also would welcome commentary from the leadership and candidates on this. You are spot-on regarding its impact on the electorate, NoMireRepugs.
Kid Berwyn
(14,901 posts)The rich are different, Donald.