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The Trump-Epstein Files™

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TRIGGER WARNING: suicide + intimidation

The whole article is worth a read.

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Bates number is EFTA01245428

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The student told the FBI that she declined the invitations, both to meet Trump and to go to the party. After that, she started to get threats, she said.

“[She] said that she received death threats when she did not want to go meet Trump. The threats consisted of the men saying that they knew where she worked and could find her. [She] never told the police because she did not think they would believe her.”

She also described watching the same men approach other women in the following six months. “[She] saw girls, usually blondes, approximately 15/16 years old with one of the two men and them get on an escalator. [She] never saw any females meet with Trump.”

In a dark twist, she told FBI agents that she knew a woman who said that her daughter had been waiting to meet her at Trump Tower, and had been persuaded to go upstairs with the recruiters.

“This was in the early 1990s. [The student] recalled sometime later seeing [redacted] at a cocktail party and the woman said something horrible happened to her daughter that day. The daughter had dropped out of school, got into drugs and committed suicide.”

Trump has not been charged with any crime following the woman's interview with the FBI. He has not been formally accused of any wrongdoing in connection with the Epstein Files, in which he is mentioned thousands of times. A DOJ statement at the time the files were released read, "Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already."

ETA: archive link + Bates numbers

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[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

MAGA: "One thing the epstein files have definitively proven is that Epstein hates Donald Trump!"

Me: well, that might explain why the FBI hasn't done anything about him yet

less than 24 hours later: Epstein FIles: "...and they recruited child prostitutes/sex slaves at Trump Towers"

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

From my internal synthesis of the corpus.

And imagine there are at least 8 more datasets the DOJ is sitting on, which contains the actual meat that implicates Trump.

Trump Tower

Total mentions: 72 across 53 documents (ds1-ds8: 1, ds9: 54, ds10: 7, ds11: 10)

Overview

Trump Tower at 725 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, appears in the corpus primarily through FBI 302 interview transcripts describing recruitment activity in and around the building. The most significant document, EFTA01245428 (DS9), is an FBI interview in which a witness describes being approached by two men in the public atrium of Trump Tower in the early 1990s. The men asked if she was a student, mentioned they were meeting Donald Trump that day, and offered to introduce her — the witness stated she "felt these men were playing the role of recruiters for Trump." The encounter occurred near the escalators and waterfall in the Tower's public lobby area, where the witness was studying during her lunch break from a nearby job.

The low total count (72 mentions across 53 documents) is itself noteworthy given the well-documented social relationship between Epstein and Trump during the 1990s and early 2000s. Trump Tower served as both Trump's residence and business headquarters for decades, and Epstein's black book contained multiple Trump contact numbers. The corpus contains more references to Trump Tower as a location in witness statements than in Epstein's own correspondence or records, suggesting either that interactions at the Tower were conducted outside documented channels or that relevant documents were not included in the release.

DS9 contains the majority of mentions (54), consistent with that dataset holding the Giuffre v. Maxwell litigation materials and FBI investigation records where witness statements were compiled.

Key Documents

EFTA Dataset Mentions EFTA02628214 ds11 1 EFTA02605480 ds11 1 EFTA02412232 ds11 1 EFTA02363447 ds11 1 EFTA02697644 ds11 1 EFTA02631674 ds11 1 EFTA02639560 ds11 1 EFTA02669960 ds11 1 EFTA02553010 ds11 1 EFTA02443612 ds11 1

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Realistically, what could even happen to Trump? He's the president? Isn't he safe even if he's a felon and child rapist?

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The DOJ policy is that a sitting president shouldn't be indicted, no.

But that's not law, it's just policy.

Even if it keeps though, he can still be charged as long as he's impeached first.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Haven't presidents been indicted? Watergate comes to mind.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Sorry for the slop answer but this one doesn't sound too delusional and I was just using regular google, not gemini.

Richard Nixon was never formally indicted for any crimes. While a grand jury did name him as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate cover-up, he avoided facing federal indictment after his successor, President Gerald Ford, granted him a full and unconditional pardon on September 8, 1974.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

Realistically we have the power. We just have to learn to not follow the algae in the reflective pool, the monster truck birthday party.

The order of execution is:

  • we keep following the threads, pressure republicans around him to release the remaining datasets they are withholding > the court of public opinion pushes him out of office > he loses presidential immunity > he is prosecuted

This only happens we collectively stop even upvoting or commenting here on the ragebait and clickbait and phone and write Capitol Hill.

And dig through the files and post findings here or on the sister community on Reddit.

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Well he's safe because republicans in the house wont do anything to him, same reason musk is safe.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

In November, that might change, no? Well, if the Dems grow spine.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

November and the mask comes off

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

Realistically, what could even happen to Trump?

Realistically, right now, nothing.

But everything is changing pretty rapidly, so what's important is that people are busy putting facts together and creating cases that can be pursued when he no longer has the legal protection he has right now.

I personally believe that will come instantly when no one is expecting it, if only because I'm old and have seen how these things move very slowly until they don't, and then it's dizzyingly fast, like Watergate over two years and then the sudden resignation of Nixon. He's already lost the House, IMO, I don't think he can push through a majority on anything substantial anymore, and may even lose the Senate, so his protection from the legislative branch is already slipping.

Right now we're all waiting until the midterms, but if something big were to happen prior to tip the scales the start of his reckoning could come even faster. No one wants most of what he is doing now, and the number of people willing to put their careers and livelihood on the line is shrinking.

When that day comes, the knives will be out for him, politically and who knows how else. This protection will not last forever.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

@ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world

~~I’m trying to find the Bates numbers this article is referring to, but not having much luck. Tagging you here in case you have any ideas.~~

Found them, added to OP

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All good. I'd have been happy to help look, though. Glad you found them. Trying to search the DoJ archive directly is a cast iron bitch sometimes, and I am absolutely certain that's by design.

Right now I'm trying to think through the easiest way to cross-reference a list of 113 members of Peter Thiel's Dialog Group with the Epstein files; I see two right off the bat (Larry Summers, Peter Attia) and I know there are more.

But I've lost track of all the various Epstein archive sites so short of doing it name by name I might just drop it: in the end, Peter Thiel being in very rich but bad company isn't exactly a shocker, lol.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Equally happy to help. If you have entities, names, locations or connections you want me to have run on, I’d be happy copy paste the results back to you.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago