“Ghislaine Maxwell admitted that Jeffrey Epstein had secret recordings of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, a CBS News producer has claimed in a new book.
The British socialite, who is awaiting trial on charges of procuring girls for Epstein to abuse in the mid-1990s, was reportedly duped by journalist Ira Rosen into confirming that the sex offender had taped his famous friends.
Reports that Epstein had planted secret recording devices in his homes and – it was rumoured – had potentially incriminating tapes of his many powerful associates have circulated for years but have never been verified.
Mr Rosen, an award-winning producer, said he spoke with Ms Maxwell ahead of the 2016 presidential election and, acting on a “hunch” that recordings existed, duped the socialite into apparently confirming his theory.
In his memoir, Mr Rosen writes that he told Ms Maxwell: “I want the tapes. I know he [Epstein] was videotaping everyone.”” telegraph
Comment: Well, pilgrims, does that mean, if true, that there are also tapes of people like Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, et al? This may explain why Maxwell was so incredulous when the FBI showed up on her doorstep in rural NH.
Anything on the recent spate of apologies to the family of Seth Rich?
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/seth-rich-wikileaks-conspiracy-theories-fox-news-1114700/
Skippy
You should to talk to Larry Johnson. That is his thing, transmission times, etc. I could care less. Want to talk about Hillary’s criminal and unprosecuted abuse of classified information?
Did Rosen dupe Maxwell, or did Maxwell dupe Rosen? Sure, let’s run with “apparent” confirmations. Both have admitted they knew Epstein. Trump was a single player for part of his life and Clinton was a married player for all of this life. .
My recollection that after Epstein died, his properties were raided and searched. I presume that the FBI has all the recordings both audio and video are in the FBI collection of such materials. Of course Trump et. al. have been recorded. I would guess these recordings were used for their intended purpose.
I have no reason to trust Rosen’s honesty. I do not see that Rosen had any legal authority or that Maxwell was speaking under oath.
The text reads:
Mr Rosen, an award-winning producer, said he spoke with Ms Maxwell ahead of the 2016 presidential election and, acting on a “hunch” that recordings existed, duped the socialite into apparently confirming his theory.
In his memoir, Mr Rosen writes that he told Ms Maxwell: “I want the tapes. I know he [Epstein] was videotaping everyone.””
Did Rosen dupe Maxwell, or did Maxwell dupe Rosen. Maxwell is cunning. She probably saw that Rosen wanted to believe that Trump could be blackmailed. She probably saw that flatly denying the existence of such tapes would anger Rosen. She may have given an evasive and vague answer that would not anger Rosen. And I think all of this is taken from Rosen’s personal recollection, not from a video or audio tape.
So I think Rosen desperately wants to believe that blackmail tapes exist that show Trump doing illegal things. And then I recall the last four years, during which many horrible people tried — and failed — to prove that Trump had done illegal things.
I do not trust Rosen’s claims. If Rosen can show the tapes that have Trump in a compromising position, I will adjust my beliefs. Until then, I will continue to be much more skeptical of Rosen than I am of Trump.
Epstein epitomizes the fact that the rule of law only exists for the plebes.
It’s not just Trump & Clinton. There’s Ehud Barak. There’s Leon Black who apparently paid him couple hundred million dollars for “tax advice”. There’s of course Les Wexner who gave him the NYC townhouse for a buck. Then there’s Larry Summers. And who else?
Many elite from Wall St to politics & business and even Hollywood were part of the Epstein pedophile ring.
Trump’s Labor Secretary and then federal attorney in Florida, Acosta signed the sweetheart plea deal with Epstein where he got to continue his lifestyle. Epstein and his cohorts did it all in the open. I would say they flaunted it.
No idea why the Feds arrested Ghislaine. Maybe it is to protect the dirt. A “safety” precaution. Clearly, we cannot have any trust that the DOJ and the FBI would be on the up & up in this case. Too many big names are involved.
Trump threw Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago. Is that a behaviour of someone who is compromised?
of course Epstein had tapes. he is not an idiot. he was either tricked or tortured into handing them over before he was executed.
That is why Maxwell was incredulous. She thought the tapes were still her ace in the hole.
if she is very lucky, she will be allowed to live out her life on a kibbutz.
walrus
“That is why Maxwell was incredulous. She thought the tapes were still her ace in the hole.” That would mean that she had a set of the tapes over and above what he had.
I’m not buying Rosen’s theory at all. Nor am I buying his book.
In the 2016 election, there were trillions of dollars at stake.
If they had tapes on Donald Trump he never would have been elected. He would have been knee capped with the tapes in the GOP Primary.
Teddy
That would depend on who was holding the tapes and how much leverage it was thought that this would give them on a Trump Administration. OTOH maybe the tapes were all of democrats, and not Trump.
I’m sure you all remember the Time Magazine article a couple weeks back boasting how the election had been
stolen“protected”. I regularly listen to On The Media on NPR, to make sure I know the Official Story. Today, they had a long segment with Kurt Braddock on Neutralizing Hateful Propaganda. To sum up: Braddock suggests inoculating against propaganda by introducing what a third party will tell you. For instance, to counteract Chinese propaganda about Uighurs, you could say the Chinese will be just saying how they’re just trying to bring the Uighurs into the Chinese mainstream, and that’s why they have to re-educated in special camps.Braddock accidentally gave the game away: though he didn’t refer to it, “everyone” knows that Q-Anon is focused on a massive pedophile ring encompassing our ruling class. Q-Anon first posted on 4chan in October 2017. Epstein was arrested in July 2019. Despite massive evidence of complicity with Epstein by the wealthy and powerful, the story is barely noticed by our media, and the public show no sign of outrage. We’ve been inoculated by the Q-Anon stories.
According to Russian rumor mill, Epstein did not have tapes on Clinton (they were more akin to partners in crime), but rather was the blackmailability provider of the Clinton machine.
Essentially, the naive understanding of Epstein, which is “lure powerful person into island and tape him while he has sex with minors” is wrong. It is “have person who wants to become powerful, make him understand that receiving this power requires a deposit to ensure/verify his loyalty, and then tape him while he has sex with minors, with him fully knowing what is going on”. A bit of the first would still be going on of course.
Blackmailability to the Clintons is a strongly career enchancing trait in D.C.
Before you think that Russia is much different, well, in nuances. Being exposed as a pedo gets you lynched in Russia so the demanded blackmailability is more being taped while having submissive gay sex, as such, the Russian equivalent is more akin to “spread your cheeks and think of mother Russia/your promotion”.
It also may or may not happen on basically the next door Island to Epsteins.