US President Donald Trump. The current US ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack. The Clinton administration’s Treasury Secretary and former Harvard dean, Larry Summers. The billionaire founder of PayPal and close ally of Vice President J.D. Vance, Peter Thiel. The former Prime Minister of Norway, Thorbjorn Jagland. And also the Russian ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All of the aforementioned refer in one way or another to the messages of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, which were made public by the Democratic members of the House of Representatives Oversight Committee, opening a new round of confrontation around the scandal that poses the greatest threat to the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recipients<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It is recalled that the emails include conversations between Epstein and his convicted paedophile partner Gillian Maxwell and journalist Michael Wolff, in which Trump is mentioned by name and it is implied that he knew more about the abuse of minors than he has admitted. Specifically, in a 2011 email to Ghislaine Maxwell, he had written that \u201cthe dog that didn\u2019t bark is Trump,\u201d adding that \u201cone of the girls spent hours at my house with him.\u201d In another message, in January 2019, Epstein wrote to journalist Michael Wolff that \u201cof course he knew about the girls, since he had asked Ghislaine to stop.\u201d Democrats argue that these messages show that the president was aware of Epstein\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, if the aforementioned messages \u2013 which were characterized by the White House press secretary, Caroline Levitt, as a slanderous narrative \u2013 concern Epstein’s allegations, a series of others prove that he maintained or wished to acquire strong contacts with high-ranking figures in the political and diplomatic world. Such as Bannon, for example, to whom Epstein was willing to mediate as a liaison with leaders of European countries, in case the ideological “architect” of the Trump phenomenon decided to become active in the Old Continent. In the case of Jakland, who led the Council of Europe at the time, Epstein again offered himself as a mediator, this time between Washington and Moscow. \u201cI think you could suggest that Putin ask Lavrov to talk to me,\u201d he wrote, specifically a month before the US president met his Russian counterpart in Helsinki in 2018, during his first term in the White House. And he mentioned that he had previously discussed Trump with Vitaly Churkin, Russia\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, before Churkin died in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The culmination of the new, dark chapter in the already knotty case is the email correspondence between Epstein and Barack, in which the latter asks the former to send him a photo of himself \u201cwith the child\u201d to make him smile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Boomerang<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It wasn\u2019t long ago that Trump declared that he would release all the files related to Epstein, \u201cwe\u2019re probably going to see some very interesting things,\u201d he declared during the campaign, announcing revelations regarding the infamous \u201clist\u201d with which he allegedly blackmailed a series of high-ranking figures who visited his private island. The commitment satisfied a demand from the most hard-line segment of the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement, which links Epstein\u2019s death to the QAnon conspiracy narrative \u2013 according to which a global elite of pedophiles rules the world. And it summed up Trump\u2019s message, in terms of arguments, that a corrupt elite had betrayed America\u2019s interests and values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first disappointment came from the joint investigation by the Justice Department and the FBI, which concluded that there was no evidence that Epstein had a \u201cclientele\u201d that he blackmailed or that he himself was murdered in prison. Even more furious was the reaction from Trump supporters, after a post in which he called on his followers \u201cnot to waste time and energy on a guy [ed. Jeffrey Epstein] that nobody cares about anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the wake of the recent revelations, the ruling party attempted to respond drastically. Thus, the Republicans who are part of the relevant committee, released 23,000 pages of documents on the case, while Trump accused the Democrats of using the \u201cEpstein Fraud\u201d to distract from the 1.5 trillion dollars in damages that they caused in the US with the federal shutdown. However, the Democrats are also criticized by journalists who point out the presence of powerful figures from the party in the infamous correspondence. They themselves accuse the party\u2019s leaders of a boundless willingness to political exploitation, which further exacerbates the polarization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u201cMAGA people\u201d however seem to have formed an opinion. Just four in 10 Republicans say they are satisfied with the president\u2019s handling of the case, according to a Reuters\/Ipsos poll conducted in October. At the same time, a small but powerful group of conservative lawmakers, led by the leading figure of the pro-Trump movement, Marjorie Taylor Greene, have signed a discharge petition to put the full release of Epstein\u2019s files to a vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And all this while the recent election contests are interpreted as a first warning shot to the ruling party, in view of the midterm elections next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US President Donald Trump. The current US ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack. The Clinton administration’s Treasury Secretary and former Harvard dean, Larry Summers. 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