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This would explain so much about Donald.
Back in July of this year, an article written by author Michael Gross about Trumps modeling company was posted on the Daily Beast. It didnt receive much fanfare, nor did these tweets-but lets take a look at them for a moment-
@harrysiegel
I've worked with Trump Models "Casting" we all knew of the trafficking
Wade Turnbull (@Wade_Turnbull) July 19, 2016
Asked to explain further, he stated the following:
@harrysiegel
For wealthy businessmen, Buying & selling fake contracts, Unfortunately many model agencies have the same business model
Wade Turnbull (@Wade_Turnbull) July 19, 2016
@harrysiegel
They'd ship in models, Eastern Euro's who had absolutely no chance of working in NYC. It becomes a debt slavery or fresh meat
Wade Turnbull (@Wade_Turnbull) July 19, 2016
These Tweets came from the account of Wade Turnbull. His remarks echo the sentiments of many who have worked with Trump Model Management. Turnbulls remarks are notable in particular because of their timing-They were made a full two months before the Mother Jones article outlining the immigration fraud, financial exploitation and generally deplorable working conditions at Trumps agency were made public.
It should also be noted that Mr. Turnbull, judging by his Twitter feed, is no fan of Hillary Clinton. This is simply his impression, based on his experience working with this particular agency. And he is far from alone in his views.
About a month ago I came across a Mother Jones article about Trumps modeling agency and its treatment of a young, largely immigrant workforce. The story was, in a way the height of irony-here was a man who built an entire campaign on his hard-line stance against immigrants, and all the while his business was committing full-scale immigration fraud. But as I read on, I was struck by how much this all resembled the business model of sex trafficking-something I have researched and written about extensively.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/6/1578544/-The-Untold-Story-of-Trump-Model-Management-A-Daily-Kos-Exclusive-Part-1
Link to tweet
To my astonishment the story disappeared into the ether of the 24/7 news cycle and seemed to be all but forgotten within a week, if that. Barbara Boxer initiated a senate inquiry, which I have been told is now underway. MJ did a short follow up, noting that Trump Models only response was to point out that the story was from many many years ago (it actually wasnt)
Melania Trump sued a relatively unknown Canadian blogger and the Daily Mail over a related story, but otherwise disappeared from public view amid questions about her own strange and inconsistent account of her path to citizenship. And even as Trump ramped up his scathing rhetoric about undocumented immigrants, not one reporter bothered to challenge him on how he squared those public pronouncements with his business practices. Not one reporter asked him how much of his own purported fortune was made on the backs of undocumented immigrants, from his Polish demolition crews to his imported child models, and why that kind of thing was acceptable. The universe basically gave a collective shrug, and moved on.
This OP in DU was almost ignored in October 2016:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/12512476490
Turn CO Blue (4,057 posts)
DailyKos BLOCKBUSTER Diary: "We all knew about the trafficking- The Untold Story of Trump Model Mgt"
link:http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/6/1578544/-The-Untold-Story-of-Trump-Model-Management-A-Daily-Kos-Exclusive-Part-1|
The diary in the link is probably the bravest and most important diary by a citizen journalist I've ever read.
It's the longform style of writing like in Rolling Stone or The New Yorker, with a narrative type of style that connects people, associations and events over a period of time.
I don't even have the words to express just how engrossing this diary/investigative report is and how I felt a sick, sick brick of dread and import and outrage and "ick" begin to form in my stomach from the very first paragraph.
Be prepared to be pulled in and to spend at least an hour reading this VERY LONG piece of journalism and the comments over there below it.
The first part is the backstory on modelling agencies, the dark side of that industry, and starts making connections between very rich and powerful men, and their financial and physical exploitation of young girls and women, including debt-slavery, molestation and assault.
Part II will apparently be more connections and get more into Trump Model Management, the author's conversations with Trump Models, human trafficking, and is apparently quite explosive and well-resourced.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Does anyone know what happened to the writer of the article I posted in the OP?
Is she oK? Her last article was about suicide after the election last year:
https://www.dailykos.com/user/SwedishJewfish
https://twitter.com/swedjewfish?lang=en
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Does anyone know what happened to the writer of the article I posted in the OP?
Is she oK? Her last article was about suicide after the election last year:
https://www.dailykos.com/user/SwedishJewfish
https://twitter.com/swedjewfish?lang=en
leftyladyfrommo
(18,874 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)We should've known there was a reason for that weird accusation.
MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)I remember a tweet a couple months ago from someone with intel connections saying that Trump would die in jail. I really hope they get him before he has a heart attack.
I want him to rot for years, not get the easy way out.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)So yeah he & all his surrounding MAGGOTTS could possibly end in jail sooner or later.
Danascot
(4,694 posts)but seriously, the Pizzagate accusation involved trafficked children and models are often underage so if anything the story could get even worse.
Plus there's that dropped lawsuit where the accuser said she was raped by Trump at a party thrown by Jeffrey Epstein when she was 13.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Bradical79
(4,490 posts)I read a couple related articles last year, and the Melania story, and I'm not happy about how that entire thread was dropped.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Know that Donald's lawyer went around viciously threatening people that touched on the subject.
And this writer, where is she?
GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)And look at the second result.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Are you talking about the facebook entry? Not seeing anything new there.
About 36,100 results (0.45 seconds)
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I write on Daily Kos as swedishjewfish-CSA survivor, radfem, working for a world worthy of its children through nonviolent resistence #safetypin #notmypresident. ... ((Rebecca Mesle))? @SwedJewFish 26 Oct 2016. ... ((Rebecca Mesle))? @SwedJewFish 21 Nov 2016.
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GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)Just a guess: she is a freelancer and still writing but it hasn't been picked up nationally.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Many do including many household names.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Or yachting and actresses generally.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)But actresses/prostitutes have been going on forever. Everyone has heard of the casting couch.
Show business is a dirty business. I would never allow my kids to do so. There are also a ton of pedophiles in show business.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)And she would disagree. Probably that most intelligent, grounded, well traveled and over achieving 10 year old that you will ever meet.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)Actors, actresses and musicians merely get better invitations than most people.
Stuart G
(38,449 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,311 posts)Certain things are not discussed. National Security and all. Or does anything
go after the Clinton impeachment?
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)As long as his brainwashed sheeple still support him with a mix of those who believe hate media when they will no doubt push that it's all a fake news attack on their hero, together with the rest that just don't give a fuck, the house and senate GOP don't have to do a damn thing.
I now believe him when he said he could shoot someone on 5th avenue and he'd lose no support
bucolic_frolic
(43,311 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 23, 2017, 09:18 AM - Edit history (2)
Partnering Against Human Trafficking
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/16/AR2009061602628.html
Heres How I Plan to End Modern Slavery
https://medium.com/hillary-for-america/here-s-how-i-plan-to-end-modern-slavery-67ca2d07a0d
Googling 'New York' 'Russian' 'escort agency' 'busted' has several hits over the last 20 years
As to whether there are any connections relevant to politics, that is for someone with more
time and zeal to decide
for example:
http://nypost.com/2011/07/20/brooklyn-prostitution-ring-busted/
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Because trump is on jesus' side now and wouldn't do that any more. Nevermind that even if true, he's never done a damn thing to make amends except marry what might be one of them.
keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)I've known Jeff (Epstein) for 15 years. Terrific guy,'' Trump told New York Magazine back in 2002. "He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it Jeffrey enjoys his social life."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141705027
LS_Editor
(893 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)MineralMan
(146,333 posts)"We supply beautiful young women, our models, for events at our stated rates. Each of them is an individual. What they do during those events and afterward is completely up to them. Each of our models makes her own personal decisions."
d_r
(6,907 posts)Adore him
JI7
(89,276 posts)About this and whether he had connections to this through any of his businesses
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Everything he has accused Hillary of, he has done.
Sabrinao
(23 posts)Her email is swedishjewfish@gmail.com... has anyone been in contact with her?
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Am I missing something? https://www.facebook.com/TreeClimbingGirl
Her name is Rebecca Mesle (Berry is maiden name). Husband Kenneth Mesle also nothing recent.
Here her twitter: https://twitter.com/swedjewfish?lang=en
and her husband's: https://twitter.com/bouncejbounce2
Here is where her googled her:
https://www.google.com/search?q=rebecca+mesle&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS527US527&oq=rebecca+mesle&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i61j0l2j69i61l2.3597j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Googled him:
https://www.google.com/search?q=rebecca+mesle&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS527US527&oq=rebecca+mesle&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i61j0l2j69i61l2.3597j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=kenneth+mesle
bucolic_frolic
(43,311 posts)to political money laundering, and how many officeholders were involved?
This is almost a footnote from yesteryear
mopinko
(70,238 posts)and i have no doubt that melania did more than "soft porn". cheato likely bought up her "work" before he married her.
the whole thing fits.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)mopinko
(70,238 posts)or more would surface.
i firmly believe she met him as an escort. she wasnt w his agency, but many are like that.
and let us not forget about jane doe, who said she was lured in to work as a prostitute by promises of a modeling career.
Gothmog
(145,619 posts)N/T
Hekate
(90,829 posts)58Sunliner
(4,410 posts)Tired of the abuse of women and children. Tired of the silence.
I don't think the Kremlin has a pee-pee tape. I think they have something worse.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)using them for their wild parties...off with their heads, both kinds.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Knowing his tastes, such a recording would probably overlap with this sort of thing
58Sunliner
(4,410 posts)on a bed for douche bag's amusement.
AllyCat
(16,228 posts)I think even the Fundies would have a hard time supporting 45 if they knew this.
volstork
(5,403 posts)THIS would be a mushroom cloud.
broadcaster90210
(333 posts)nt
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)From the book of Goebbels once again: Anything they accuse Clintons, Obama, etc. of doing is some variant of what THEY are actually doing.
Edit: I see that was noted up above!
I completely believe this about the 'Modeling Agency'. Trump may be better off leaving Mueller in place.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)AllyCat
(16,228 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Comrade casino, also known as the Republican Draft Dodger in chief, clearly has a cesspool for a soul. It's beyond me or any other decent human being, to understand why Republicans submissively worship and follow him. He has no honor
FuzzyRabbit
(1,969 posts)I read it several months ago, and it still haunts me, especially the part about Trump signing his daughter Ivanka to his agency.
It raises in my mind questions about Trump's relationship with his daughter when she was a teenager.
AllyCat
(16,228 posts)Homer Wells
(1,576 posts)dchill
(38,546 posts)AllyCat
(16,228 posts)Lots of people I really think are so disgusted they turn away hoping it is fake news.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)what next?
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)She works to end human trafficking.
https://www.mccaininstitute.org/human-trafficking-mission/
She often tweets on the subject. @cindymccain
bucolic_frolic
(43,311 posts)knew the London criminal world. The really big fish, such as Professor Moriarty, run everything with no fingerprints.
The question is, how did he do it? Payoff the politicians, pay well for favors and silence, bring discipline to
the masses to keep them in line, rake in the money.
Robert Ludlum, in his book Apocalypse Watch as I recall, has a page in there where someone testifies that
the country is being sold - the right get their agenda, the mafia get the profits.
Fiction is stranger than fiction.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)AllyCat
(16,228 posts)On edit: now I have. Was unable to finish reading the full article. Ugh.
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)inanna
(3,547 posts)Great post - thanks.
Very long read, but worth it.
area51
(11,923 posts)Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)All it takes is one immigration officer at JFK getting suspicious about one woman and they're in for a world of bureaucratic or criminal hurt. The disreputable ones involved in porn and prostitution are mostly on the west coast and get their victims to use tourist visas.