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damonm

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15. Or foreign influence...

Reply to WSHazel (Original post)

Thu Nov 13, 2025, 07:29 PM

Nov 2025

There was this email from Epstein, also...
Nearly a month before President Donald Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top diplomat: If you want to understand Trump, talk to me.

“I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” Epstein wrote in a June 24, 2018, email to Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway who was leading the Council of Europe at the time of the exchange. Lavrov was an apparent reference to Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s longtime foreign minister.

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Additional Epstein files issue [View all] WSHazel Nov 2025 OP

Or what if he is being paid big bucks to keep them secret Raven123 Nov 2025 #1

Agree KT2000 Nov 2025 #2

There's something dodgy about MarALago mortgage leftstreet Nov 2025 #3

That would be awesome if he was evicted AllyCat Nov 2025 #4

The latest accusation of mortgage fraud came out today against Eric Swalwell. MLWR Nov 2025 #8

Right? leftstreet Nov 2025 #11

Pulte needs to be investigated/ He is the one recommending these investigations. OLDMDDEM Nov 2025 #31

Its always projection with trump and republicans MerryBlooms Nov 2025 #21

That would have to be a paper case, to be investigated by forensic accountants. Ocelot II Nov 2025 #5

My other half NHvet Nov 2025 #6

I don't know why it has to be either, most likely Bev54 Nov 2025 #7

I agree, both PatSeg Nov 2025 #13

I think there are a metric f***ton of crimes involved in addition to rape and trafficking. Pacifist Patriot Nov 2025 #9

And the Epstein files are probably the motherlode PatSeg Nov 2025 #14

I sure hope it makes the Blue Wave look like a fart in a bathtub. Pacifist Patriot Nov 2025 #18

Well, considering who we're talking about, PatSeg Nov 2025 #19

Always follow the money lindysalsagal Nov 2025 #25

also human trafficking.nt. drray23 Nov 2025 #26

I mentioned trafficking, but it certainly bears repeating! Pacifist Patriot Nov 2025 #30

This is the perfect example of DaBronx Nov 2025 #27

Trump is... GiqueCee Nov 2025 #10

Correct. If TSF, Maga, and GOP ever admit to anything (such as merely knowing Epstein) it is because wiggs Nov 2025 #12

Or foreign influence... damonm Nov 2025 #15

Didn't a Democratic Senator angrychair Nov 2025 #16

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. summer_in_TX Nov 2025 #29

Julius Seizure does everything for $$$. Hassler Nov 2025 #17

And that my friends is why he never provided his tax returns MagickMuffin Nov 2025 #20

Money laundering for Russian oligarchs was big part of trump and Epstein brands JT45242 Nov 2025 #22

I heard Michael Wolff hinting that Trump might've provided (trafficked).... Dem4life1970 Nov 2025 #23

It's long past time TommyT139 Nov 2025 #28

I still wonder what happened to the children he had put in cages. NH Ethylene Nov 2025 #24