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Following the abrupt resignation of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta on Friday morning after being dogged by accusations of giving a sweetheart deal to accused child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, MSNBC was able to get the Miami Herald reporter whose dogged pursuit of the truth led to the arrest on Epstein again on the phone.
Speaking with host Stephanie Ruhle, the Heralds Julie K. Brown said she was surprised but not that surprised.
Im surprised it happened this fast, Brown conceded, before adding, But, you know, that press conference that he gave the other day didnt do him any good. Practically everything that he said at that conference was either inaccurate or twisted in some ways to benefit him; to make him look good. In reality, there is nothing here that makes him look good. He dropped the ball on this case.
She then added, We had been preparing to do a fact-check story tomorrow that would essentially use documents to show everything he said was not true.
Brown then dropped some new news about Epstein, telling the MSNBC host, I know for a fact theres journalists all over the world covering this story now he [Epstein] had been recruiting in other countries. Im sure there will be more information coming out not only about his operation, but there were a lot of employees and other people, big people who, if they werent involved in the operation, they knew about the operation.
VIDEO:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/florida-reporter-drops-new-bombshell-on-epstein-while-blasting-resigning-acosta/
no_hypocrisy
(46,117 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)With in house spa service?
I could go on and on.
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,370 posts)Is a bit of a non-sequitur.
The people involved in this tend to be people of means. There is no need for cheap to enter into it.
colorado_ufo
(5,734 posts)Or in other words, tacky.
You mean a tRump hotel!
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)There are a lot of sick people in the world, sick, rich people.
mitch96
(13,907 posts)This is like a bad reality show with sad outcomes for the kids...
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ChicagoRonin
(630 posts)Which of course is big business in Eastern Europe, such as (cough, cough) Russia.
amywalk
(254 posts)Jeffrey Epstein introduced Trump to Melania. (Hmmm) It could get very ugly, very fast,
woodsprite
(11,916 posts)johnnyfins
(823 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,835 posts)Weren't there news stories about Rush Limbaugh and his buddies flying down to some country for long weekends and someone speculated what they were doing down there/???????????
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)He was detain in the Dominican Republic over a mis-labeled bottle of Viagra, while he was on a trip with several other men. Now, ask yourself, WHY would you take a bottle of Viagra if you only vacationing with men ?
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)begun its own inquiry into potential Jeffrey Epstein
crimes in New Mexico.
"We have been in contact and interviewed multiple survivors of alleged abuse here in New Mexico."
Link to tweet
Julie K Miami Herald
womanofthehills
(8,712 posts)and he has also been covering the kids at the border for the NYT's. I've known his parents (both artists) since we were all in the art dept at UNM in the 60's.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)This is what they are for.
SallyHemmings
(1,822 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)I heard some of the details regarding bath tubs with prosthetic breasts installed on them and immediately thought "this guy's perversion is THE driving force in his life" and figured there would be a trail of slime everywhere he's ever been. One that actually requires ACTIVE ignoring rather than PASSIVE lack of noticing...
Since I know that there is zero connection between myself and him in any capacity, I sleep soundly...for people who DID associate with him or hob-knob around his circles, I would be VERY worried about how much sleaze is going to hit shore in the ongoing Epstein tsunami of slime...
brush
(53,784 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)I was aghast at the CONCEPT, but it seems to fit this predator's M.O. to a tee...the young lady that was raped by Epstein when she was 15 years old talked about seeing this in his New York Caligula's reproduction.
There simply is no bottom any more...our government cages children and tortures them, our president is a sexual predator and one of his old running mates is a pervert on a scale that's hard to fathom...and I thought 2016 was a bad year, really hate that things have only gotten worse since then.
brush
(53,784 posts)inflicting almost incomprehensible damage to the nation. We have to keep our chins up though and keep fighting to get that sex predator out of the WH.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)You would play with them while,uh,er, jeffreys past time according to James Patterson.
Thank goodness James is now writing about his financial affarirs. Those are bad,too.
Farmer-Rick
(10,175 posts)Money corrupts absolutely.
Check out the Guardian, the royal family has deep ties to the pedosadist Epstein. And they never blew the whistle on the sicko.
leftieNanner
(15,114 posts)Because he has tapes.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)for the past 2 years and he commented this morning that often people there would reference "Pedophile Island"
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)She is a voluntary adult in this sick drama. She clearly determined long ago that the ends (access to a lavish lifestyle) no matter the means (being tied to Trump and his ilk forever) was a bargain worth making.
I hope she's ready for the imminent divorce/replacement as she reaches the "sell-by-date" that her asshole 'husband' is surely going to invoke.
keithbvadu2
(36,817 posts)Yet Acosta's coverup for Epstein was ok with Trump.
dlk
(11,566 posts)There is much more to the Epstein story. The law enforcement community is well-aware of the organized crime/sex trafficking link. Given Trumps recently scheduled caddy girl event with strippers at his Doral golf club in Florida, the former Trump models rumors of trafficking, and Trumps beauty beauty pageants, Trumps long association with Epstein deserves closer scrutiny. Trump has bragged about being a sexual predator...
Indykatie
(3,697 posts)Pictures of some of the "models" look like 12 and 13 year old children.
Backseat Driver
(4,392 posts)The murder of JonBenet Ramsay, a 6-year-old beauty pageant kid who looked the part of a glamour teen. Perhaps a kidnapping for sex trafficking gone wrong but needing strong chaotic cover-up threads???
Berlin Expat
(950 posts)a man who photographed JonBenet - a professional photographer - was arrested on kiddie porn charges.
A 66-year-old Oregon photographer known for taking images of JonBenet Ramsey in the months before her 1996 murder has been arrested on child pornography charges, reports KEPR.
Police in Springfield said Randall Simons downloaded images using the WiFi of an A&W restaurant near his home, per the Register-Guard. The arrest is getting attention because Simons famously was hired by the Ramsey family in June 1996 to take photos of the 6-year-old beauty pageant contestant. She was killed in December.
After her death, Simons came under fire for selling a portfolio of glamour JonBenet images.
https://wgntv.com/2019/07/12/disturbing-charges-against-a-jonbenet-photographer/
LiberalFighter
(50,942 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)malaise
(269,024 posts)You know all the scum with money gather for global sports events to organize anything but sports.
58Sunliner
(4,386 posts)Jean Luc Brunel-known for trafficking.
malaise
(269,024 posts)Wednesdays
(17,380 posts)Nuh-uh. It went exactly as he (they) wanted.
Catherine Vincent
(34,490 posts)It's laughable because I know the Trump fans are nervous, so they try and deflect to Clinton and his 26 trips on Epstein's plane.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)The right looks so stupid when their arguments devolve into an invocation of Bill or Hillary Clinton.
So while the right has its deep state circle jerk in their bubble, the wheels of justice are turning whether they acknowledge it or not.
Botany
(70,510 posts)... get leverage over people. At least that is what I now think. Epstein would bring in powerful
and rich men and then get videos of them having sex w/underage girls and maybe boys too.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Scratching our heads, wondering why they are all destroying themselves to obey him.
Maybe now we know.
anarch
(6,535 posts)(probably many through illicit funds channeled through the NRA); but hell, of course fuckface would want leverage like that, and is probably all too familiar with the technique of gaining leverage through compromising or embarrassing information about someone.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)fierywoman
(7,684 posts)lostnfound
(16,179 posts)I used to wonder whether it was Russians he was investigating in his new role in January 2017.
Eventually they claimed it was suicide on that beach 30 minutes from West Palm, but weve seen how corruption runs unchecked in the Epstein case.
Maybe importing more like Melanie young models from abroad?
cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)From elaborate, gaudy palaces to his corrupt and immoral kids, Trump and Saddam Hussein are the same person. Saddam lied and distracted the world to stay in power all while raping the treasury. Our Saddam aka Donald Trump is Saddams American doppelganger.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,300 posts)from the Mueller report was about Epstein.
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)THAT's a thought
randr
(12,412 posts)I'm guessing he was blackmailing all his clients.
Hekate
(90,708 posts)58Sunliner
(4,386 posts)If only we could nail Acosta.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Interpol is also investigating this and other crimes related to dump.
obamanut2012
(26,079 posts)Not these current charges, but it is known he attended sex parties comprised of minors.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)The Trump stuff specifically. My tinfoil hat says that Barrs on a mission to find and squash that stuff before it becomes public.
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)gave the presser the other day, conspicuously absent were any questions as to foreign intelligence help. Almost like the questions were pre-screened and they were told to leave the subject alone for now. But with the perp living mostly outside the US and with billions at his disposal, it was an obvious area of concern.
Laffy Kat
(16,382 posts)Something really big about to go down?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Ruh-roh.
Looks like a lot of heads will roll.