{"id":151556,"date":"2024-01-04T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=151556"},"modified":"2024-01-03T22:23:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T03:23:39","slug":"nothing-to-see-here-move-along-epstein-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=151556","title":{"rendered":"Nothing to see here, move along – Epstein redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hundreds of Jeffrey Epstein court file names were released Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Numerous other folks were named, including\u00a0 Prince Andrew of Great Britain, prominent litigator Alan Dershowitz, billionaire hedge fund founder Glenn Dubin, fashion CEO Les Wexner, and deceased modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel. All involved have publicly stated that their involvement with Epstein and his sidekick, Ghislaine Maxwell, was entirely innocent.<\/p>\n

In some cases, this may be believable, as their names came up in third party references or merely mentioned by someone may have suffered from credibility issues.<\/p>\n

In pretrial litigation, Maxwell said Giuffre lied about about seeing Clinton on Epstein’s private Caribbean island, and that this assertion undercut her credibility in general. This dispute is the reason the former president’s name pops up so frequently in the documents.<\/p>\n

Clinton’s office referred reporters a 2019 statement that said the former president “knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York.”<\/p>\n

Spokespersons for Clinton have said he made trips to Europe, Asia and Africa on Epstein’s plane and that the former president had met with the financier in his Manhattan office in 2002.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n

Seems like after years of circling the wagons, there was nothing to see but the campfire remains where they all sang “Kumbaya” together.<\/p>\n

Not like the rich and powerful used the intervening years to scrub the files and documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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