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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"... evidence that Thiel and Bannon had scheduled meetings with Epstein... a pending trip by Elon Musk to Epstein's island"
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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T16:14:17.371Z
demmiblue
(39,944 posts)It should be clear to every American that Jeffrey Epstein was friends with some of the most powerful and wealthiest men in the world. Every new document produced provides new information as we work to bring justice for the survivors and victims. Oversight Democrats will not stop until we identify everyone complicit in Epsteins heinous crimes. Its past time for Attorney General Bondi to release all the files now, said Oversight Spokesperson Sara Guerrero.
Within documents of Epsteins schedule, there is evidence that Thiel and Bannon had scheduled meetings with Epstein, as well as evidence of a pending trip by Elon Musk to Epsteins island. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epsteins aircraft, with financial disclosures providing possible evidence of payments from Epstein to masseuses on behalf of an individual identified as Andrew. Extensive redactions have been made to protect victims as Committee investigators continue to analyze the new documents. This is a rolling production, and the Committee expects to receive more documents in response to these and other requests.
In the third batch, the Oversight Committee received 8,544 documents responsive to the Committees subpoena from August. The following was received:
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-democrats-release-third-batch-documents-jeffrey-epstein-estate
RockRaven
(19,755 posts)And very specifically, AFTER Epstein's conviction. He wasn't even trying to hide the fact.
Volaris
(11,796 posts)barbtries
(31,353 posts)it's my understanding that thiel is gay and married to a man. has he been a closet straight man?
my feeling is that their associations probably had more to do with laundering big money and the like. you know, financial crimes.
LiberalArkie
(19,919 posts)barbtries
(31,353 posts)I searched and found one male who alleged abuse by epstein, but the trafficking seemed to be only girls and young women.
LiberalArkie
(19,919 posts)I think mainly because they are never believed. "You could have just left as a 14 year old" Yea...sure.
RockRaven
(19,755 posts)Does that make his association with Epstein any less morally repugnant and hypocritical? It was only about money, not sex, therefore what?
time to follow the money too.
but the first thought is everyone visiting there is doing it to do repugnant things to vulnerable, trafficked females. I mean for me it was. I mean the man was truly depraved.
Sneederbunk
(17,642 posts)Haggard Celine
(17,911 posts)ended up with greasy hands!
barbtries
(31,353 posts)yakking in the restroom.
ew
Wiz Imp
(10,433 posts)I doubt he had any connection to the sex trafficking but very well could have been discussing something else illegal with Epstein.
Kingofalldems
(40,368 posts)Wiz Imp
(10,433 posts)Steve Bannons Secret Epstein Videos: The Tale of the Tapes (Exclusive)
He says its a documentary. But the 15 hours of footage Bannon shot with Jeffrey Epstein were reportedly training for a '60 Minutes'-style redemption tour that never happened and paid for by Epstein himself.
The setup looked like a documentary shoot a small crew, professional lighting, with Bannon lobbing tough, prosecutorial questions from off-camera. They were a kind of debate-prep, seemingly designed to get Epstein ready for an image-changing sit-down interview with a news outlet like 60 Minutes, with Bannon playing the part of Mike Wallace. But Epstein, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, may have footed the bill for it all, throwing ownership of the footage into question.
The interview never took place some PR rehabs are just too daunting but for months now, Bannon has been publicly promoting that footage of his erstwhile friend 12 to 15 hours, by his own count as the foundation of a planned docuseries, working title The Monster. Hes been pitching it as journalism, a raw look inside Epsteins pathology. In fact, though, those tapings seem to have been far from journalistic.
According to author Michael Wolff, who was there for the first taping and reviewed transcripts of others and who first revealed the existence of these tapes in his 2021 book Too Famous the point wasnt exposure. It was spin. Theres no question the tapes were media training, he tells THR. And theres no possible way Epstein would have signed off on them being used in a documentary.
leftstreet
(41,257 posts)Be interesting to find out how much money he made gathering so much blackmail, and how many people he was selling it to
appleannie1
(5,478 posts)Those poor girls. One rarely bathes, another is like a slug. Have no idea about Thiel.
1WorldHope
(2,158 posts)In the streets people!
barbtries
(31,353 posts)the whole pedophile ring thing was merely an absurd bit of propaganda made up by russia to help krasnov win. but, now....
i mean every accusation they come up with is basically a confession of what they're up to. this is looking more credible all the time.
tongue only partially in cheek. republicans are an ugly lot.
mr715
(4,171 posts)Do a dig into political pedophiles and you'll see a pretty strong Republican bias.
Botany
(77,864 posts)
always thought that it was all part on the largest criminal enterprise in American history we
need to get power back and hold all these people for their actions then and now. Trumps actions
in being part of an international child sex trafficking operation along with Epstein and Putin is just,
the tip of the iceberg.
My thoughts: Botany =
Btw Harris won but Theil, Musk, and other were into the data to the point that they were deleting
or flipping Harris votes and the cover story that she lost because she didnt get the turn was a well
crafted lie.
Btw part 2 not one part of the Steele Dossier has been disproven.
BTW part 3 Trump is cleaning out the U.S. Treasury.
BTW part 4 Trump is gonna start a war on Venezuela ASAP to try to change the subject.
BTW part 5 The budget of ICE is > than that of Russias Military.
Attilatheblond
(9,249 posts)And he needs LOTS of power to save his own ass, along with trying to satisfy his hunger to hurt people who he blames for his problems. He never has, nor never will, do the self examination to see he is the author of his own misfortunes.
Botany
(77,864 posts)
brutalizing a younger boy so much the kid went to the hospital that would have put him in
a juvenile detention facility but daddy stepped in and he got to go to military school instead,
he flunked out of Fordham after which his dad bought him a degree from the University of
Pennsylvania, and his dad bought him a doctor that said he had bone spurs so no Vietnam
for him. And for the past ? # of years rich and powerful people and interests have supported
and protected him from his multiple crimes because he helps them out with their sick plans
for America and the world. And if that means letting the fossil fuel industries cook the planet
and the blue whale going extinct so be it.
twodogsbarking
(19,353 posts)Kingofalldems
(40,368 posts)SheltieLover
(81,725 posts)Now add in fleaon!
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