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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42475417

There it is folks.

Remember that name: Chabad-Lubavitch

declassified FBI memo from the Epstein files, released on Friday, includes incendiary allegations about US President Donald Trump.

The memo says that Trump was “compromised by Israel”, that convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epsteinworked with Israeli intelligence, and that a Jewish religious group calling itself Chabad-Lubavitch sought to hijack his first term in office.

The memo, written in 2020, formed part of an FBI investigation into domestic or foreign influence over the US electoral process. It draws on information from a confidential human source (CHS) and appears among a vast trove of Epstein-related files released by the US Justice Department.

“CHS advised Chabad is doing everything they can to co-opt the Trump presidency,” the memo states regarding his first term. 

Chabad-Lubavitch, a religious Jewish sect founded in Russia, has grown to an estimated 90,000 members. Its messianic, ultra-Orthodox ideology has repeatedly been linked to hardline settler colonial politics in Palestine.

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Bruh, Ghizzlain Maxwell’s dad was Robert Maxwell, one of the most notorious Mossad agents of all times. Epstein himself had Mossad agents doing extended stays at his estate as well as close ties with the former leader of Mossad per already released emails.

Yeah, Israel is all over the child sex trafficking blackmail operation, aka the Trump-Epstein files.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I really hope calling them the Trump-Epstein files catches on.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Why? To take heat off all the other pedophiles?

From Clintons to the English royal family, from authoritarian middle eastern kings to Noam fucking Chomsky, the whole rotting lot of them need to be executed for their crimes.

Trump is just one of the many murderous pedophiles involved.

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't be hard to believe that the kompromat was shared or uncovered by other nations too - too much (particularly in Trump first term) lead to indicate he was also used extensively by Russia, IMO. Or maybe it was a joined thing, or negotiated between the nations (Taiwan for Ukraine for Gaza, idk).

"Operation Xiao Kosher Pierogi is a go, I repeat..." sounds as plausible as anything else happened these days :-/

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Meh, while Trump wasn't as gung-ho as Blinken later was under Biden, he also wasn't particularly helpful to Russia either in anything but saying the quiet parts loud.

He was impeached first time for trying to make weapons he was sending to Ukraine conditional on digging up dirt on Biden, for example - but he was also sending more weapons than under Obama.

Russiagate was much more a phenomena of the Dem aligned media finding a topic that they could use against Trump while NOT also challenging their leadership. So that left out any economic fights (that was for bitter BernieBros), Epstein, and even emoluments. Russiagate was mostly conspiracy theories done by Rachel Maddow, but it did have the main effect of not bothering Democratic leadership. We even saw them weaponizing it against the left, as for example when Bernie was leading in Nevada in 2020.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Frankly, I'm beginning to think Russiagate was, in fact, the original distraction from the Epstein files.

[–] carrotfox@piefed.social 37 points 2 months ago

Actually this kind of thing would make sense as to why support for Israel is so high among politicians. They must have dirt on all of them.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But they don't link the file or its name or anything helpful... bullshit

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 months ago
[–] dhork@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago
[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Christ, just look at who Maxwell's father was and what he got up to.

There's zero doubt intelligence agencies knew about Epstein and would have been able to leverage his crimes against him. And his connections would have drawn them like flies.

The dude had permanent keycard access at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics after his 2008 conviction. Powerful people everywhere weren't just turning a blind eye to the guy, they were opening their doors to him. The only shocking thing would be if he had ties only to the Mossad and not a host of other clandestine organizations.

[–] deHaga@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

Robert Maxwell was a triple agent for the KGB, MI6, and Mossad

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

"Leveraged"? What makes you think he wasn't an agent himself?

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago
[–] October1@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago
[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Trump probably compromised Israel in an equal fashion

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I guarantee you that because if these files being released trump is gonna invade Greenland soon.