The two former presidents were among dozens named in papers released Wednesday night. Neither has been accused of misconduct in the Epstein case.

Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump are mentioned in newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein-related court documents, but they are not accused of any wrongdoing involving the disgraced sex trafficking financier.

Clinton, who sometimes flew aboard Epstein’s private plane, is listed repeatedly in the documents because he was the topic of an argument over the credibility of a witness who said she saw the former president when he was a guest of Epstein.

Trump’s name appears in a document in which Epstein is quoted as saying he would invite the then-real estate mogul to join him at a casino. In another document, a witness said she was never asked to engage in sexual relations with Trump.

  • antidote101@lemmy.world
    465·
    11 months ago

    Apparently he had a jet and would constantly offer it’s use to other people. Basically acting as a domestic taxi service so he could have a captive audience to figure out if they also wanted access to what was going on on his island.

    Very much sounds like a honeypot… And there’s plenty of info about Ghislaine Maxwell’s father’s connections to the Mossad.

      • Deceptichum@kbin.social
        172·
        11 months ago

        It’s probably both. These are “high ranking” people in society, there’s a lot of motive for extortion.

    • stown@sedd.itEnglish
      61·
      11 months ago

      Holy cow, I guess that could help explain why US politicians vehemently support Israel and their war against Gazan citizens. If the Israeli Government had access to this list and threatened to release it whenever the US didn’t fall in line they really had American politicians by the balls.

      • antidote101@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        Six heads of Mossad and an ex-prime minister of Israel were in attendance at his funeral, and he is also known to have taken money from Russia for his services.

      • antidote101@lemmy.world
        51·
        11 months ago

        It’s public information, it’s on his Wikipedia page.

        Mossad allegations; Vanunu case edit

        The Foreign Office suspected that Maxwell was a secret agent of a foreign government, possibly a double agent or a triple agent, and “a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia”. He had known links to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), to the Soviet KGB, and to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.[57] Six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence services attended Maxwell’s funeral in Israel, while Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogised him and stated: “He has done more for Israel than can today be told.”[58]

  • kboy101222English
    292·
    11 months ago

    Honestly I’d be substantially more surprised if Trump and Clinton weren’t named.

  • Lifecoach5000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    11 months ago

    One of Giuffre’s attorneys, Sigrid McCawley, said more needs to be known about “who enabled and facilitated” Epstein’s trafficking network, and that survivors of his abuse deserve more justice.

    “The public interest must still be served in learning more about the scale and scope of Epstein’s racket to further the important goal of shutting down sex trafficking wherever it exists and holding more to account,” McCawley said. "The unsealing of these documents gets us closer to that goal.”

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    I mean so what is the next step here then? How does this facilitate any more information or justice happening in the future regarding this situation?

  • oakey66@lemmy.world
    613·
    11 months ago

    Of course. It wouldn’t have been released if it implicated either of them. The man was constantly flying with a ton of high powered folks who knew about Epstein’s proclivities.

    Edit: rewrote a horribly written sentence.

    It’s funny that this is getting downvoted. Ask yourselves; when has a person of great wealth with connections to the halls of power been taken down. Even Trump who tried to burn the world down was able to get away with so many illegal acts that went un-investigated. Look at the governor Snyder of Michigan who poisoned a whole community in Flint. We don’t punish people in power.