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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts)
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 11:49 AM Jul 2019

Jeffrey Epstein Met One Of His Underage Victims Via Trump's Mar-A-Lago

In a sworn court affidavit and in a recent interview with the Herald, Roberts described how Epstein and Maxwell began grooming her — not just to perform massages, but to sexually pleasure them and others.

“It started with one and it trickled into two and so on,’’ Roberts told the Herald. “And before you know it, I’m being lent out to politicians and academics and royalty.’’

Roberts was also tasked with finding more girls for Epstein, frequenting popular teen hangouts like shopping malls to draw young girls to whichever of Epstein’s several homes he was in at the time.
She began to travel with Epstein and Maxwell to Epstein’s other homes, in New York, New Mexico and the U.S. Virgin Islands — and her trips are documented in flight logs that frequently list her name or her initials as a passenger, court records show.

“His appetite was insatiable. He wanted new girls, fresh, young faces every single day — that was just the sickness that he had,’’ Roberts said.

https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/jeffrey-epstein-met-one-of-his-underage-victims-via-trump-s-mar-a-lago-P9ePD-7_1UiZCCZuMU3c1Q/

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Jeffrey Epstein Met One Of His Underage Victims Via Trump's Mar-A-Lago (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Jul 2019 OP
Epstein also has a home in Stanley, NM Ponietz Jul 2019 #1
recommended to publicize real Cannabis calm Jul 2019 #2
I don't recall the source, but there's a story which shows Trump KNEW... RockRaven Jul 2019 #3
DU thread about Trump signing young Ivanka with John Casablancas agency, tanyev Jul 2019 #6
Miami Herald True Blue American Jul 2019 #11
Politico link. SouthernProgressive Jul 2019 #4
Did Donny demand a cut moondust Jul 2019 #5
Truth Out saidsimplesimon Jul 2019 #7
MMM Kay ... Getting closer uponit7771 Jul 2019 #8
Republicans tell us predators are foreign and brown IronLionZion Jul 2019 #9
+1 uponit7771 Jul 2019 #18
Wow! Saviolo Jul 2019 #10
I do wish a couple of female FBI agents had contacted Virginia - first by phone, then in person Leghorn21 Jul 2019 #12
I remember reading that Mar-A-Lago was one of Epstein's favorite places for finding his victims. GuyNamedNathan Jul 2019 #13
It's a small, interconnected world the very wealthy live in. MineralMan Jul 2019 #14
Yup. GuyNamedNathan Jul 2019 #16
The OP's source is lifted verbatim from Part 3 of that Miami Herald series. GuyNamedNathan Jul 2019 #15
Why isn't this headline news all over ?!?! uponit7771 Jul 2019 #17

RockRaven

(14,974 posts)
3. I don't recall the source, but there's a story which shows Trump KNEW...
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 12:41 PM
Jul 2019

I don't remember the person's name either, or if the story even identified them, but there was an anecdote about Epstein trying to "groom" a girl at Mar-a-Lago who was the daughter of a member, and the member complained TO TRUMP about it.

It might have been that Palm Beach Post (or Miami Herald, I dunno) story from months ago which refocused the heat on Acosta's role in this gross mess, but I'm not certain... either way, if I am remembering correctly, there is at least one newspaper/magazine out there with a source claiming Trump SPECIFICALLY RECEIVED a complaint about Epstein trying to initiate a sexual encounter with a minor AT MAR-A-LAGO and continued associating with him for years.

None of this is surprising to anyone who paid the least bit of attention or has the slightest sense of morality, of course. So yes indeed to lot of Trump voters...

tanyev

(42,572 posts)
6. DU thread about Trump signing young Ivanka with John Casablancas agency,
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 01:29 PM
Jul 2019

several years after his predilection for minors became public knowledge.

https://www.democraticunderground.org/100212254763

moondust

(19,993 posts)
5. Did Donny demand a cut
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 12:55 PM
Jul 2019

from Epstein's "business," perhaps a "finder's fee" or hush money or free access to the "stable"?

IronLionZion

(45,461 posts)
9. Republicans tell us predators are foreign and brown
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 01:51 PM
Jul 2019

when it's their own rich friends in their mansions.

Trump has survived the pussy grabbing, rape allegations, a lifetime of lies and deplorable behavior. American girls are being abused in his home by his friends without consequence. Dude enables it and covers it up. What's it going to take to bring him down already? Even if Pence is worse in some ways, it's time for a new president.

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
12. I do wish a couple of female FBI agents had contacted Virginia - first by phone, then in person
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 02:57 PM
Jul 2019

A couple of strange male voices contacting her on the phone was not the way to go here

I hope today’s events bring her a little bit of comfort and peace of mind

VIRGINIA


 

GuyNamedNathan

(89 posts)
13. I remember reading that Mar-A-Lago was one of Epstein's favorite places for finding his victims.
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 03:01 PM
Jul 2019

It was in that Miami Herald series about Alex Acosta's corrupt bargain with Epstein.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
14. It's a small, interconnected world the very wealthy live in.
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 03:05 PM
Jul 2019

Bad actors find ways to connect with other bad actors. Sex with underage people is one of the areas where that happens, probably far more often than we'd like to think about.

The article at the link is interesting, and sound about right. There are rich pedophiles, just like there are priests who are pedophiles. It's independent of almost any other characteristic, I think.

Trump? Who knows? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe Epstein knows. Since he has Mar a Lago connections, perhaps he knows all sorts of things that go on at that exclusive resort.

 

GuyNamedNathan

(89 posts)
15. The OP's source is lifted verbatim from Part 3 of that Miami Herald series.
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 03:09 PM
Jul 2019
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article219494920.html

Scroll down to "FLORIDA AND BEYOND" in the above article.

I appreciate that Trump's connections are being highlighted, but I would also appreciate direct links to the original source of the investigative reporting, especially since the language here is verbatim.

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