THE TRUMP AND EPSTEIN CONNECTION - PART 2

Here are some members of the Trump Administration who had connections to Jeffrey Epstein

Trump Administration

In PART 1, we looked into the history of the Italian & Jewish Mafia and saw how these two forces influenced Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. In this part, we will see how Trump’s Presidency from 2016 - 2020 included many appointments who were also connected to Jeffrey Epstein:

Alex Acosta

Secretary of Labor - 4/28/2017 - 7/19/2019

• In 2007, federal prosecutors prepared a 53-page indictment that could have put Jeffrey Epstein in prison for life for the sex trafficking of minors. Instead, Epstein served only thirteen months for solicitation—during which he was allowed to leave and work from his office for 12 hours a day, six days a week—thanks to a sweetheart plea deal brokered by Alex Acosta, then a federal prosecutor in Florida.

• In 2019, Acosta proposed cutting the funding of his department's International Labor Affairs Bureau from $68 million in 2018 to under $20 million in 2020. That agency combats human trafficking (including child sex trafficking), child labor and forced labor internationally.

Steve Bannon

White House Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor - 1/20/2017 - 8/18/2017

• Bannon persuaded Goldman Sachs to invest, in 2006, in a company known as Internet Gaming Entertainment. Following a lawsuit, the company rebranded as Affinity Media, and Bannon took over as CEO. From 2007 through 2011, Bannon was the chair and CEO of Affinity Media.

• Bannon served as vice president of the board of Cambridge Analytica, Bannon oversaw the collection of Facebook data which was used to target American voters. Wylie who helped with creation of the company referred to the company as a "psychological warfare tool".

• Bannon became interested in the gaming online community, describing its members as "rootless white males, who had monster power". Through Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos, whom Bannon recruited, Bannon realized that he could "activate that army" of gamers and Internet trolls, adding, "They came in through Gamergate or whatever and then get turned onto politics and Trump."

  • Is this the origins of Q, since Gamergate started on 4chan?

• Bannon was introduced to Jeffrey Epstein in 2017 and Epstein introduced Bannon to some of his friends. Bannon also worked with Ehud Barak and attorney Reid Weingarten to attempt to reform Epstein's public image - Source

• In August 2020, Bannon and three others were arrested on federal charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering in connection with the We Build the Wall fundraising campaign. According to the grand jury indictment, Bannon and the defendants promised that all contributions would go to building a U.S.–Mexico border wall, but instead enriched themselves. Bannon pleaded not guilty.

• On January 20, 2021, on his last day in office, Trump pardoned Bannon, sparing him from a federal trial.

William Barr

Attorney General - 2/14/2019 - 12/23/2020

• From 1971 to 1977, Barr was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, which was the same time period Roy Cohn, Trump’s mentor and lawyer for all 5 mafia families, was known to have CIA ties.

• Sometime in February 1974, former U.S. intelligence agent Donald Barr, father of William Barr, announces that he is leaving his position as headmaster at Dalton at the end of the school year. Later he hires Jeffrey Epstein to begin work the following September, teaching math and science.

• In the 1980s, Barr worked for the law firm Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, with one year's work in the White House of the Ronald Reagan administration dealing with legal policies.

• Under Barr's advice, President George H. W. Bush in 1992 pardoned six officials involved in the Iran–Contra affair.

Tom Barrack

Chairman of the Committee overseeing the 2017 Trump Inauguration

• Barrack was reportedly a friend of hedge fund billionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In his 2018 book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, journalist Michael Wolff referenced Barrack, together with Trump, as a "set of nightlife musketeers" with Epstein throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

• In 1985, Barrack first dealt with Donald Trump when he sold Trump a one-fifth stake in the Alexander's department stores.

• In 1988, Trump agreed to pay Barrack $410 million for total ownership of the Plaza Hotel. He later lost both properties in bankruptcy.

• In 2010, Barrack bought $70 million of Jared Kushner's debt on 666 Fifth Avenue. Kushner later avoided bankruptcy when Barrack agreed to reduce his obligations after a request by Trump.

• In 2010, Barrack partnered with the Qatar Investment authority to purchase Harvey Weinstein’s film production company Miramax for $660 million.

• In 2016, Jeffrey Epstein scheduled a lunch with Vitaly Churkin, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Barrack—who at the time, was an informal advisor and fundraiser for Trump and would later lead his inauguration committee—and invited Barrack to an open house at his Manhattan home in September that year, along with filmmaker Woody Allen - Source

• In October 2017, Barrack's Colony Capital agreed to invest in The Weinstein Company to keep it afloat in light of the sexual misconduct allegations against the company's co-founder, Harvey Weinstein.

• Barrack helped raise over $100 million during the 2017 Trump Inauguration.

• Barrack used Cayman Islands entities to invest pension fund money in distressed real estate and send money towards the Colony parent company, according to an organization chart that surfaced in the Paradise Papers documents leaked from the Appleby law firm - Source

• Barrack recommended that Trump hire Paul Manafort as his campaign manager.

• In 2021 and 2022, Barrack was indicted on nine charges stemming from his alleged lobbying for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as an unregistered foreign agent. In November 2022, he was found not guilty on all charges.

Gary Cohn

Director of the National Economic Council - 1/20/2017 - 4/2/218

• Cohn was hired by Goldman Sachs in 1990 and became a partner at the firm in 1994. Cohn was president and COO of Goldman Sachs, where he worked for more than 25 years.

• Cohn was the President of 20 Bermuda-incorporated companies affiliated with a fund managed by Goldman Sachs. He led the companies from 2002 - 2006 - when he was manager of Goldman Sach’s Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities division - Source

• Kathryn Ruemmler was employed as a partner at Latham and Watkins, Ruemmler met with Jeffrey Epstein on dozens of occasions including lunches and dinners from 2011-2020 between her time in the White House and her subsequent hiring at Goldman Sachs, according to Epstein’s schedule - Source

• In 2020, Kathryn Ruemmler joined Goldman Sachs as a partner. She currently serves as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel - Source

Alan Dershowitz

Member of Trump’s Defense Team in his First Impeachment Trial - 2020

• In 1976, Dershowitz handled the successful appeal of Harry Reems, who had been convicted of distribution of obscenity resulting from acting in the pornographic movie Deep Throat. Dershowitz argued against censorship of pornography on First Amendment grounds and maintained that consumption of pornography was not harmful.

• In 1995, Dershowitz served as the appellate adviser on the murder trial of O. J. Simpson, part of the legal "Dream Team", alongside Johnnie Cochran and F. Lee Bailey.

• Member of Jeffrey Epstein’s Defense Team and helped negotiate a 2006 non-prosecution agreement on Epstein’s behalf. Dershowitz had previously befriended Epstein through their mutual acquaintance Lynn Forester de Rothschild.

• In 2011, Dershowitz served as a consultant for Julian Assange's legal team while Assange was facing the prospect of charges from the U.S. government for distributing classified documents through WikiLeaks.

• In a December 30, 2014, Florida court filing, Virginia Giuffre alleged she was sexually trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein, who lent her to people for sex, including Dershowitz and Prince Andrew.

• Member of Harvey Weinstein’s Defense Team in 2018

Betsy Devos

Secretary of Education - 2/7/2017 - 1/8/2021

• With a commitment of $100 million, Betsy DeVos's family was one of the largest investors—and losers—in blood-testing company Theranos.

• Attorney David Boies was a lawyer in the Theranos, Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein cases. Boies was also a member of the Theranos board.

• In 2019, she said that a movement to boycott Israel has become a “pernicious threat” on college campuses and is fueled by bias against Jews.

Rudy Giulliani

Member of Donald Trump’s Personal Legal Team - 2018

• In 1981, Giuliani was named associate attorney general in the Reagan administration, the third-highest position in the Department of Justice.

• In the Mafia Commission Trial, which ran from February 25, 1985, through November 19, 1986, Giuliani indicted eleven organized crime figures, including the heads of New York City's so-called "Five Families", under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) on charges including extortion, labor racketeering, and murder for hire.

• Is it just a coincidence the ‘Five Family’ RICO trials began right when Roy Cohn was dying from AIDS. It was only the Italian Families that were charged and none of the Jewish Families that had connections to Maxwell/Cohn/Trump.

• Mayor of New York City from 1994-2001 and was mayor during the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks. Giuliani was the most visible cross-dressing New York politician since Lord Cornbury. These included a bit in which he flirts with real estate mogul Donald Trump, then slaps Trump for trying to get too "familiar" with him.

Carl Icahn

Special Advisor to the President on Regulatory Reform - 1/20/2017 - 8/18/2017

• Insider published an never-before-seen address book from 1997 that likely belonged to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The book contains more than 200 names that do not appear in Epstein's original "little black book" from the early 2000s. Among the new names are New York billionaires Carl Icahn and John Catsimatidis.

• Icahn was a Director for 11 years of Scientia Health Group Ltd. a Bermuda-incorporated biotechnology investment company. The company was formed in 2001 by Samuel Waksal, an immunologist who founded the controversial biotech company ImClone.

• Scientia’s shareholders included Harvey Weinstein and Martha Stewart. Waksal and Stewart went to prison in 2003 - 2004, for crimes related to insider trading in ImClone shares - Source

• Upon becoming the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Trump announced that he would nominate Icahn for United States Secretary of the Treasury. However, he instead nominated Steven Mnuchin.

• In February 2016, Icahn Enterprises purchased Trump Entertainment Resorts, which owned the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City. The company sold the casino to the owners of Hard Rock Cafe for $50 million in May 2017 - which represented a recuperation of just 4 cents on the dollar.

• Also in October 2016, Icahn closed the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, citing a $350 million loss over several years as well as failure to reach a deal with striking union workers.

• In February 2018, Icahn avoided a $6 million loss by selling some of his holdings in a steel-price sensitive stock just days before the Trump administration announced a 25% tariff on steel imports.

Jared Kushner

Senior Advisor to the President - 1/20/2017 - 1/20/2021

• Robert Maxwell and Donald Trump shared the same U.S. publicist, Howard Rubenstein, who's also friends with the Kushner family. Robert Maxwell’s daughter, Ghislaine Maxwell was partners with Jeffrey Epstein.

• Jared’s father, Charles Kushner met personally with Harvard's president, and in 1998 donated $2.5 million to Harvard. Jared Kushner was admitted to the Harvard freshman class of 1999. At Harvard, Kushner was elected into the Fly Club, supported the campus Chabad house led by Hirschy Zarchi.

• In 2005, Charles Kushner was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, which he served in the Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery. As a convicted felon, he was also disbarred in three states. He later received a federal pardon issued by his son's father-in-law Donald Trump on December 23, 2020.

• Kushner Companies purchased the office building at 666 Fifth Avenue in 2007, for a then-record price of $1.8 billion, most of it borrowed.

• In 2014, Kushner, with his brother Joshua and Ryan Williams, co-founded Cadre, an online real-estate investment platform. His business partners included Goldman Sachs and billionaire George Soros, a top Democratic Party donor. In early 2015, Soros Fund Management financed the startup with a $250 million credit line.

• The Kushner and Trump family have been family friends with Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton for decades and attended several dinners with them.

• Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump are Modern Orthodox Jews, keep a kosher home, and observe the Jewish Shabbat.

Jim Mattis

Secretary of Defense - 1/20/2017 - 1/1/2019

• From 2013 to January 2017, Mattis was a board member of Theranos, a health technology company that claimed to have devised revolutionary blood tests using very small amounts of blood, which was later determined to be a fraudulent claim by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

• Attorney David Boies was a lawyer in the Theranos, Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein cases. Boies was also a member of the Theranos board.

• Previously, in mid-2012, a Department of Defense official evaluating Theranos's blood-testing technology for the military initiated a formal inquiry with the Food and Drug Administration about the company's intent to distribute its tests without FDA clearance.

• In August 2012, Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes asked Mattis, who had expressed interest in testing Theranos's technology in combat areas, to help. Within hours, Mattis forwarded his email exchange with Holmes to military officials, asking "how do we overcome this new obstacle".

• In July 2013, the Department of Defense gave Mattis permission to join Theranos's board provided he did not represent Theranos with regard to the blood-testing device and its potential acquisition by the Departments of the Navy or Defense.

Steven Mnuchin

Secretary of the Treasury - 2/13/2017 - 1/20/2021

• At Yale, Mnuchin was publisher of the Yale Daily News, and was also initiated into Skull and Bones in 1985.

• In 1985, Mnuchin joined the investment bank Goldman Sachs where his father, Robert Mnuchin, was a general partner. Mnuchin worked at Goldman Sachs for 17 years, eventually becoming its chief information officer.

• In 2019, Steven’s father, Robert, set a record for the most money paid for a work by a living artist by bidding $80 million for Jeff Koons' Rabbit. Jeff Koons has collaborated with satanist Marina Abromovich many times.

  

• The Broad Institute was founded by Eli Broad who was also on the MOCA (LA Museum of Contemporary Art) Board with:

  • Heather Podesta ( ex of Tony Podesta)

  • Jeffrey Soros, president, nephew of George Soros

  • Eric Garcetti, mayor 

  • Victor Pinchuk (Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Ukraine) 

  • Steve Mnuchin, donor

• Jeffrey Epstein had meetings at the Broad Institute in 2012.

• After Jeffrey Epstein got out of jail in 2010, Peggy Siegal set up an exclusive party for him that included: Rudy Giuliani, Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross.

• In 2011, Siegal threw a dinner party at Epstein’s townhouse for Prince Andrew that also included Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos and Chelsea Handler.

Mike Pompeo

Director of the CIA - 1/23/2017 - 4/26/2018

Secretary of State - 4/26/2018 - 1/20/2021

• During the Trump Administration, CIA director Mike Pompeo and Attorney General Jeff Sessions stepped up pursuit of Assange. 

• In March 2017, WikiLeaks began releasing the largest leak of CIA documents in history, codenamed Vault 7. The documents included details of the CIA's hacking capabilities and software tools used to break into smartphones, computers and other Internet-connected devices.

• According to former intelligence officials, in the wake of the Vault 7 leaks, the CIA talked about kidnapping Assange from Ecuador's London embassy, and some senior officials discussed his potential assassination.

• On 23 May 2019, a US grand jury added 17 espionage charges also related to his involvement with Chelsea Manning, making a total of 18 federal charges against Assange in the US.

Peter Thiel

Executive Committee of the President-elect’s Transition Team - 11/8/2016 - 1/20/2017

• A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. As of June 2023, Thiel had an estimated net worth of $9.7 billion and was ranked 213th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

• Thiel is part of the PayPal Mafia. Other members include:

  • Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, Neuralink)

  • Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn)

• Palantir was co-founded in 2003 by Thiel and some initial funding came from In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency

• In 2010, forward-deployed engineers at Palantir pitched the software to Michael Flynn, who responded, Chafkin writes, by:

  “making an urgent request to the Department of Defense to buy enough Palantir licenses for the entire force in Afghanistan.” - Source

• Palantir came up with a plan to crush Wikileaks in 2011. The plan was leaked by the hacker group Anonymous, and Palantir then apologized - Source

• In September 2014 Mr. Thiel was scheduled to meet with Jeffrey Epstein on at least three occasions, either in one-on-one meetings or with others over lunch or dinner. Two other times, Mr. Thiel was listed among more than a dozen other well-known people Mr. Epstein should try to see while at his New York mansion.

• This was obtained through the records of a public records request to the attorney general for the U.S. Virgin Islands, which had sued Mr. Epstein’s estate.

• In 2015. the LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman invited Jeffrey Epstein to a dinner attended by, among others, the Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk; the Facebook chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg; and Mr. Thiel - Source

• Not long after Epstein’s arrest, and his relationships and finances came under scrutiny, it was revealed that the Israeli company Carbyne911 had received substantial funding from Jeffrey Epstein as well as Epstein’s close associate and former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist and prominent Trump backer Peter Thiel. 

• The original Board of Directors of Carbyne911 also included Nicole Junkermann, who flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s Lolitta Express 3 times. She is an ex-model whose name appeared in the Panama Papers from the Mossack Fonseca leaks and who became embroiled in a FIFA corruption scandal with Sepp Blatter and his family - Source

  

• Trae Stephens, another Palantir alum, serves on Carbyne’s advisory board. Stephens was also chair of Trump’s Department of Defense transition team. Eliot Tawil, a real-estate developer and a major Trump donor also advises the company despite having no background this space - Source

• On 15 October 2016, Thiel announced a $1.25 million donation in support of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

• The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) renewed and expanded its one-year contract for its COVID-19 vaccine distribution platform Tiberius from nearly $17 million to $31 million, tech company Palantir announced Monday. HHS had Palantir develop Tiberius in mid-2020 as part of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed, which has since been rebranded as the Countermeasure Acceleration Group. - Source

Wilbur Ross

Secretary of Commerce - 2/28/2017 - 1/20/2021

• Ran the bankruptcy restructuring practice at N M Rothschild & Sons in New York beginning in the late 1970’s.

• In the 1980s, Donald Trump's three casinos in Atlantic City were under threat of foreclosure from lenders. Ross, who was then the senior managing director of Rothschild & Co, represented investors in the casino.

• In the 1990’s he was appointed by US President Bill Clinton to the board of The US Russia Investment Fund

• Also in the 1990s, New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani appointed Ross as his privatization advisor.

• Listed in the Paradise Papers, a set of over 13.4 million confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investments.

• Spencer Kuvin, an attorney for three of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims in the case where Epstein pleaded guilty to sexual activity with minors, stated that "he and his team 'pursued every possible angle' to find out Epstein's net worth but found that much of his wealth is offshore".

• An investigation by the Miami Herald of the Swiss Leaks documents indicated that Epstein had multiple financial accounts with millions of dollars in offshore tax havens. In the Paradise Papers, records showed that Epstein in February 1997, became a client of Appleby, a Bermuda-based law firm which specialized in the creation of offshore companies and investment vehicles for the ultra-wealthy.

• After Jeffrey Epstein got out of jail in 2010, Peggy Siegal set up an exclusive party for him that included: Rudy Giuliani, Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross. In 2011, Siegal threw a dinner party at Epstein’s townhouse for Prince Andrew that also included Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos and Chelsea Handler.

Continued in PART 3…