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Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s private island

Elon Musk had more extensive – and more friendly – communications with the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein than previously publicly known, according to documents released on Friday by the Department of Justice. Emails in the files appear to show the two cordially messaging each other to make plans for Musk to visit Epstein’s island.

The documents include Musk and Epstein emailing in December 2013 to determine when Musk should make the trip to Little St James.

Musk has been harshly critical of those linked to Epstein, but the newly released emails appear to contradict his own longstanding denial of any ties of his own. The Tesla CEO told Vanity Fair in 2019 that Epstein was “obviously a creep” and claimed that Epstein “tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined.” The emails between the two moguls come years after Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting prostitution from a minor in Florida. Authorities later arrested Epstein in 2019 on federal sex-trafficking charges.

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[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Oh weird. The dude that randomly projected the notion of calling a dude that was acting heroic by saving kids in a cave a “pedo,” while actually being a pedo himself is absolutely shocking. I cannot quite sum up the words to accurately describe how blown away I am by this.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago

He's Elon Musk. Of course he's a pedophile. Why else project that onto a hero that rescued kids?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 2 hours ago

Thing people forget is that epstein was a purveyor. Teens to rape was just one of the things he provided.

Musk was probably hunting people for sport

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Is it guillotine time yet? I’m kinda thinking wood chipper? Anyone concur?

[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

I think we should just stay with the classics. And as an added benefit, a guillotine doesn't produce any pollution!

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 49 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's always the ones you most expect.

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 26 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

A pdf ring took over the US government to avoid going to prison. They will dismantle democracy if it means they will never be prosecuted for their heinous crimes.

Now it makes sense why they are willing to destroy the very system that protected them and from which their fortunes are derived. It's either this or prison! It may not seem like it, but deep down they are desperate.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Don’t forget Israel’s part in all of this

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago

Pedos of a pod.

[–] shithawk@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Anyone who's reviewed the emails released by Epstein's estate would know this already - along with eye of Sauron boy, but unfortunately, society has forgot how to read.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 87 points 15 hours ago

No way that the world's most richest child is s child molester. I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 59 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Dude has fathered like 20 children without having had actual sex with anyone. That doesn't exactly fill you with confidence that he has a normal attitude towards sex or adult women.

Then there is the little fact that he spent untold millions, if not billions, of dollars on having the brightest minds on earth devise a CSAM generation engine.

[–] ephrin@sh.itjust.works 10 points 13 hours ago

Definitely billions.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago

Didn't he say he'd go to prison if Kamala was elected?

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 62 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Funny how denial is the just them admitting the truth once it’s released.

All the slimeballs need to be in jail and not in power.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You know something? If a group of individuals stood in solidarity, claimed responsibility to enforce moral law, and fought to arrest Trump under their own self-proclaimed authority… I wouldn’t even be mad. In the past, people would have said “let the rule of law work it out.” At this point, however, the authority of a militia would not be too far off from the authority of Trump. Trump takes the situation into his own hands (those tiny little hands), with self-proclaimed Presidential powers up and beyond that of even Unitary Executive Theory. Something to contest that authority with its own would be welcomed in my book.

[–] ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Well that's the thing, isn't it? We can't bring them down with the legal systems that The Billionaires have built for themselves.

If we want Justice then like minded individuals have to be willing to group up, and deliver that Justice upon their heads. We have to work outside of their legal systems.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Doesn't even need violence. Just like-minded numbers that want accountability from representatives. People back down from a show of force, whether that be from kinetic energy or potential. Numbers enmass is enough to enforce change, without violence... simply with the implicative. Inevitably people will get hurt (we're past that), but true consequences are often worse than death

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago
[–] devolution@lemmy.world 25 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Rich conservatives who want to overthrow democracy mysteriously are all pedophiles?

Wonder if Bezos, Pachai, and Zuckerberg went too.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 14 points 13 hours ago

Nothing's been done about the crimes he openly committed at DOGE, and everything else he was being investigated for before he shut them all down. This information is only interesting if there's any consequences for it, and I have zero confidence of that happening.

[–] ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 22 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

So what? trump, musk, bezos, and all the elite are untouchable. They can go live on tv and rape, murder, and eat kids and no one can do anything. Who's going to stop them or prosecute them? god?

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

You gave up. It's so early, and you gave up.

No need to keep trying. We're done with you.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago

They are untouchable, for now. If we do develop into a one-party state fixing elections which appears more than likely, the administration will turn on them sooner than later, they will cannibalize them. If history is any guide which it is.

[–] ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Inside the legal system they built for themselves they are untouchable.

However, I wonder what would happen if we ignored their legal system?

[–] ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago

I wonder too.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@quokk.au 10 points 14 hours ago (3 children)
[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 10 points 14 hours ago

I am sorry, green Mario

[–] ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 5 points 14 hours ago

An army of them.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 15 points 14 hours ago

I can't believe one of the best gamers in the world would just make things up and lie.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 15 points 15 hours ago
[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

I asked Grok about it and reached "my current limit" within two questions when I sent a last message saying that the responses it was giving me sounded like blatant lies.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The his really is the epstein administration, isn’t it.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago

Epstrin admin is israel sdmin.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 13 hours ago

Not mister potato head!

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

My hope is that someone with a sense of vengeance gets fucked over by this and starts taking revenge on everyone else involved. I'd absolutely love to see these pieces of shit eat themselves alive. With how evil these people are there is no way in hell they don't have dirt on each other.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago
[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 3 points 14 hours ago

So are the Tesla supporters gonna turn on him?