Slovakia PM's national security adviser resigns over Epstein links

[muriel_volestrangler]

The national security adviser to Slovakia's prime minister has resigned after documents released by the US showed he exchanged messages about girls and diplomacy with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Robert Fico announced he had accepted Miroslav Lajčák's departure in a video message on Saturday, describing the adviser as "an incredible source of experience in diplomacy and foreign policy".
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In a text exchange, external from October 2018 - when Lajčák was serving as Slovakia's foreign minister - Lajčák and Epstein could be seen lightheartedly discussing women and a forthcoming meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

After Epstein sent an image, which cannot be seen in the record, Lajčák replies: "Why don't you invite me for these games? I would take the 'MI' girl".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvgljj1dygo

I can't help noticing that non-Americans associated with Epstein tend to resign, get sacked, stripped of titles etc., while Americans go on to be CBS news commentators, Secretary of Labor, the world's richest man, US president etc.

[Lovie777]

1. Oh snap................

[sop]

2. Government officials in the U.S. once had a sense of shame.

No more. Absolute shamelessness is now a requirement for those in public life.

[PatSeg]

17. That is true

Plus they know that there are no repercussions these days. Of course, it helps that their leader is shameless and never apologizes.

[malaise]

3. THIS

I can't help noticing that non-Americans associated with Epstein tend to resign, get sacked, stripped of titles etc., while Americans go on to be CBS news commentators, Secretary of Labor, the world's richest man, US president etc.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. ... direct hagiographies designed to enrich the president's third wife ...

Melania director Brett Ratner pictured cuddling woman in Epstein files



The director of the new documentary on US First Lady Melania Trump has appeared embracing a young woman in images released by the US Department of Justice on Friday.
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When the images were taken remains unclear, though they appear to have been taken in the same location as photos of Ratner and Epstein alongside the late French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel that were released in December.
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Brunel, who co-founded French modelling agency Karin Models in 1977 and MC2 Model Management in the US with funding from Epstein, was found hanged in his Paris prison cell in 2022 in an apparent suicide.

He had been under investigation on suspicion of the rape of minors and trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation. Prosecutors suspected him of transporting young women for Epstein.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mk3v2k3r0o

You can, of course, add "dead in a prison cell" for the fates of the non-American Epstein friends. Or "live, in a low-security prison", for his British co-criminal.

[malaise]

6. Oops

BBC is all Epstein this morning

[bucolic_frolic]

4. This seems to reach into business and diplomatic circles very widely

Was it being used by some as part of spycraft? Is that part of the lukewarm documents release, everyone in the business of covering it up?

[malaise]

7. Ask the recently recalled British Ambassador to the US

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Good Lord. He could talk the shoes off your feet while you're standing beside him.

Nuanced everything, an expert at talking at length without making waves.

[malaise]

15. A first rate bullshitter

They are well trained parrots of bullshit and they speak so well 😂

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Epstein sent $75,000 to accounts linked to Mandelson, files suggest

Jeffrey Epstein made $75,000 (£55,000) of payments to accounts connected to Lord Mandelson, bank statements released by the US Department of Justice suggest.

Between 2003 and 2004, Epstein appears to have sent three separate $25,000 payments referencing Lord Mandelson.
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Lord Mandelson said he had no record or recollection of receiving the sums and did not know whether the documents were authentic.
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Images of the former UK ambassador to the US in his underwear have also been uncovered in the latest tranche of Epstein files.

In a redacted pictures, he is seen standing next to a female, whose face is not visible.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn82elvzpz7o

[txwhitedove]

14. Most of us peons would DEFINITELY notice an extra $25,000 in the bank account!

[malaise]

16. Shameless scumbags

Rec

[muriel_volestrangler]

47. Mandelson resigns from Labour to avoid causing it 'further embarrassment'

Peter Mandelson has said he has resigned his membership of the Labour party to avoid causing it “further embarrassment” after more revelations about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

In a statement given to PA Media, he said he had written this evening to the general secretary of the Labour party, Hollie Ridley.

His letter said: “I have been further linked this weekend to the understandable furore surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and I feel regretful and sorry about this.
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Pressure is mounting on Keir Starmer to take action to block any return of Mandelson to the Lords as a Labour peer, after the emails released on Friday also appear to show the then business secretary assuring Epstein in December 2009 that he was “trying hard” to change government policy on bankers’ bonuses at his request.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/01/mandelson-should-testify-before-us-congress-about-his-links-to-epstein-uk-minister-says

[mopinko]

43. this is where the rubber will meet the road. follow the money.

c’mon sen wyden. start putting it out.

[PatSeg]

19. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that was the case

I think it is likely that Putin was involved in some way.

[paleotn]

28. Like Epstein's clientele, it's probably a who's who of intel services.

Epstein played one hell of a dangerous game and now he's dead because of it.

[PatSeg]

34. If it was a movie,

it would be considered too farfetched to be taken seriously. I'd probably walk out after 15 minutes.

If so many prominent men got away with this for so long, what else have they been doing?

[paleotn]

35. You can't make up such a thing as that. I dare you to even try.

Tom Ed Bell in No Country for Old Men said it best.

[PatSeg]

36. I have a vivid imagination

and I couldn't come up with stuff like this. That said, anyone who COULD come up with such perversions probably is capable of committing them.

[paleotn]

27. Without question.

There's no question in my mind that Epstein was working with or for nation state intel services. Too much opportunity to gather unbelievably rich intel from a veritable who's who globally. There's no way that wasn't the case.

The implications globally if this thing really unraveled are mind boggling. And that's why Epstein is dead, Maxwell apparently has one hell of a "dead woman" switch, and no one wanted to properly prosecute this. Not even Dem DoJs'. Not foreign law enforcement services. No one. It's an intel gold mine and the implications for a wide range of rich and powerful people are staggering.

Time to blow it up. Let the implications fall where they may. If anyone is left who gives a damn about justice and rule of law, this has got to be prosecuted to the full extent and I don't give a shit who ends up going to jail or getting crushed because of it.

[travelingthrulife]

42. It's how Trump controls everyone.

[malaise]

8. Adding this

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/31/epstein-files-what-have-we-learned-prince-andrew-peter-mandelson-elon-musk-donald-trump

[bucolic_frolic]

10. So the Amb.'s husband received a monetary gift from J. Epstein.

Amazing these upper crust folks can't fund their own osteopathy course. I mean, really.

[malaise]

11. What I love about all of them is when they show up

At the established church pulpits on special occasions to tell us peons how to live and how great they art.
Fuck the collective pack

[niyad]

25. Thank you for the link. I really didn't need breakfast anyway (or lunch,

or dinner). I had thought "Fergie" was a decent person. Looks like I was wrong.

[malaise]

26. I detest all royals and always assume the worst

so they and their spouses will never disappoint me.

[niyad]

29. A much more sensible attitude. I think my view had to do with her

cookbook. .it looked like she was actually trying to do something.

[malaise]

31. I didn't even know about her cookbook

😀

[niyad]

32. That was pretty much the only thing I knew about her.

[malaise]

37. I just looked it up

😀

But look what I found. - they pulped her children’s book

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/19/sarah-ferguson-new-childrens-book-pulped-jeffrey-epstein-links

Thousands of copies of Sarah Ferguson’s new children’s book have reportedly been withdrawn from sale and “pulped” in the wake of the renewed scrutiny over her links to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The book had been due for publication on 9 October, but was postponed until 20 November. It has now been removed entirely from publication schedules, and publishing sources have claimed that printed copies are being sent for recycling.

“It’s not been delayed, it’s being pulped,” one publishing insider told the Daily Mail. “It’s an acknowledgment of the inevitable. No one is going to want to buy it.”

The news follows a period of scandal for Ferguson, 66, who earlier this month lost the title Sarah, Duchess of York after King Charles stripped Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of his remaining titles. She is also expected to lose her long-term home at Royal Lodge in Windsor, where she has lived for decades with her former husband, despite their separation.

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All scum

[OldBaldy1701E]

12. And yet, we still cannot seem to figure out why this is so.

Because we refuse to accept that it is our society which has been, and is still being, set up to be this way.

We can change this. However, the rich people who will lose their position in our society will not allow it, and have been tweaking our society for decades to ensure that they will not lose their position by any 'changes'. As well as fighting any attempt to alter the means of correcting this crap.

So, here we are.

[malaise]

18. Yep

Rec

[barbtries]

20. yeah.

it tells me that elsewhere in the world there is still some kind of normalcy and accountability, which have been shitcanned here in the USA. republicans and the maga cult have simply destroyed us. In Slovakia a man can still feel shame for his depravity.

after it's all over, will it have been worth it? I don't think so.

[Joinfortmill]

21. Learning some of the new info from Epstein files. Horrific

THIS IS NOT GOING AWAY.

[malaise]

23. Far from it

The dam is about to break

[erronis]

22. Good point about Americans having no shame. I wish the crooks and bastards would all fall on their swords.

The most honorable thing they could do.

(Of course, in the US it would involve a gun.)

[yardwork]

24. Imagine a country where people resign in disgrace.

We had that once.

[FakeNoose]

30. Wow, the BBC and the Guardian are all over these new Epstein documents

It's a huge undertaking, going through all this stuff. I don't know. It seems like our own US media are sitting back and letting the Brit journalists do all the work.

What's CBS doing these days? They aren't wasting their time investigating, that's for sure.

[thinkingagain]

33. So why if the E files have international ties

They can’t be sent to the international Crimial Court
And be released rom there ?
I bet there is more than one copy and or the victims can go there and tell their stories and be released that way

[malaise]

38. US is not a member n/t

[thinkingagain]

39. Thanks for answering - But other countries that are

Have citizens that are involved. So unless American citizens can’t be mentioned because of that fact it would work.
Geez it must be nice to commit crimes but not be held accountable by the world because you’re not part of the group. Seems like there should not be an opt out feature on international crimes and crimes against humanity

[malaise]

40. I am a huge supporter of the ICJ

But the US doesn’t give a damn

[thinkingagain]

41. I agree

and thank you again!

[muriel_volestrangler]

44. The ICC is for specific crimes (which are war/mass violence-related), not general

Genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes which are grave breaches of the Geneva conventions, and the crime of aggression (use of armed force).

https://www.icc-cpi.int/about/how-the-court-works

[thinkingagain]

46. Thank you for the info

🙂

[Wonder Why]

45. "an incredible source of experience in diplomacy and foreign policy" and a digusting human being.

[muriel_volestrangler]

48. Norway's crown princess had years of contact with Epstein, files suggest

Norway’s crown princess has become embroiled in another scandal after newly unsealed files appeared to show her years of extensive contact with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The latest tranche of Epstein files, released on Friday by the US justice department, appear to include nearly 1,000 mentions of the crown princess, Mette-Marit.

The files include scores of emails traded between the two, suggesting they were in contact from 2011 to 2014, the Norwegian daily VG reported. Mette-Marit married the future king of Norway in 2001.

The revelations come at a sensitive time for the royal family. The trial of Mette-Marit’s son, Marius Borg Høiby for rape is due to begin on Tuesday. He was born from a relationship before she married Crown Prince Haakon

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/01/norway-crown-princess-contact-epstein-files-appear-to-show