Mar-a-Lago was Key to Jeffrey Epstein’s Criminal Enterprise

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/mar-a-lago-jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump/

43 Comments

  1. cautiousbbygirl on

    This story isn’t “Trump ran Epstein’s operations” it’s that Mar-a-Lago was a place where Epstein moved freely for years and had access to workers that later show up in the Epstein files . That’s why the location keeps surfacing as investigators release docs.

  2. >Trump had every reason to know before 2003 that Epstein was sexually mistreating Mar-a-Lago employees, some of whom were under the age of consent. The 2003 letter from the beautician created a problem for Trump: He no longer had plausible deniability about Epstein’s misconduct. There was now a paper trail, one that could be used against Trump. His break with Epstein was entirely opportunistic.

    The big reveal of the article.

    Specifically, the letter came with a MANAGER’S approval stamp, so Trump wouldn’t be able to weasel out of it.

  3. SugarScriptSasha on

    Oh look, another pic of the ‘Best Friends Club.’ How many more skeletons do you think are hiding in these closets? 🕵️‍♂️

  4. Diplomatic007 on

    We go to jail for unpaid tickets, these guys rape and steal everything and somehow always fall up.

  5. It’s wild how the right was accusing the left of this for years only to elect Epstein’s literal best friend and business partner into office and despite massive evidence of this, they literally shrug their shoulders, write it off as fake news, or ignore it.

  6. elconquistador1985 on

    Donald Trump was key. He was equal partners with Epstein in a child sex trafficking ring.

    He’s not just a rapist. He’s a trafficker.

  7. Donald Trump provided children to his friends to rape.

    This is why Trump is trying to hide the evidence so badly. He supported a child pedophile ring.

  8. The pageants were a front to the trafficking. There, I save us all another decade.

    Now we just need 1) a whistleblower and 2) a journalist who wants a Pulitzer.

  9. The_Jolly_Dog on

    While im glad this stuff is getting reported on, its frustrating seeing so many of these articles and knowing that Trump will never actually be held accountable for any of these crimes

  10. StridingForChange on

    How are people just realizing this??? Trump knew the names of the teenage towel girls in the spa and got angry at Epstein for stealing them?? The guy who literally bought Miss Teen USA so he could walk backstage while they changed?!?!?

  11. Huge_Excitement4465 on

    Email from recent Oversight Committee release dated 7/24/2010 from Daniel S. to Epstein: *“I’m with Tigrane; he wants to meet you. He’s here with me in Ibiza with eight top girls. He says he would like to start something with you. Can you come to Ibiza? We have a huge house; how can we arrange it?”* (Tigran is described as someone who used to work for Trump. )

    Tigran Khachatrian, who ran Noah Models in Russia, was a pipeline for the agencies that operated as trafficking businesses. In [https://tatsuikeda.substack.com/p/the-epstein-files-phase-2-why-trump](https://tatsuikeda.substack.com/p/the-epstein-files-phase-2-why-trump) the author breaks down the Trump/Tigran/Epstein/Brunel connection: “By the time he partnered with Epstein, Brunel had perfected a system: scout vulnerable girls in Eastern Europe or South America, promise them modeling contracts, bring them to the U.S. on tourist visas, and then pressure them into “entertaining” wealthy men to keep their careers alive. **The business model was disturbingly similar to what would later emerge in lawsuits against Trump Model Management: foreign models brought over on tourist visas (not work visas), housed in crowded apartments, charged exorbitant fees that kept them in debt, and pressured to attend parties with wealthy men**.” 

    From 2010 deposition by Maritza Vasquez, Jean-Luc Brunel’s bookkeeper for a decade until 2006: Q: So in addition to his financial guarantor on the Line of Credit of a million dollars, what other involvement are you aware of that Jeffrey Epstein had with MC2 [modeling agency] and/or the apartments at 301 East 66th Street where the models lived? A: They were planning on buying or associating with a girl in — in France for a — company. They were planning to do a company. ***And actually, I gave the paper to Mr Shawn Connolly which is an actual paper that came from the office from Jeffrey Epstein, that was giving instruction to Jean-Luc saying that he wanted to have the same contracts as — uh, what’s his name, of Donald Trump, and that he wanted to have the same kind of benefits for the scouters.***

    [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25966082-maritza-vasquez-deposition-ocrmypdf/](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25966082-maritza-vasquez-deposition-ocrmypdf/)

    And this: For Wolfgang Schwarz, a veteran model agent in Austria who worked closely with Casablancas, and met Trump at the Plaza in the early 90s, **Trump’s decision to establish his own agency was about him wanting his own private source for models. “If you have your own agency and you’re the owner, you can tell your bookers to make a party,” Schwarz says. “It’s easier than calling 15 agencies in New York.” Trump’s representatives say he entered the modelling industry because it was a “very profitable” business opportunity.**

    [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year)

  12. Demonking3343 on

    This has been pretty obvious for a while now. It’s clear trump wasn’t just a client but co conspirator.

  13. I mean.. or you can look at it as Jeffrey Epstein was key to Trump’s criminal enterprise he ran out of Mar-a-Lago

  14. Huge_Excitement4465 on

    Email from recent Oversight Committee release dated 7/24/2010 from Daniel S. to Epstein: *“I’m with Tigrane; he wants to meet you. He’s here with me in Ibiza with eight top girls. He says he would like to start something with you. Can you come to Ibiza? We have a huge house; how can we arrange it?”* (Tigran is described as someone who used to work for Trump. )

    Tigran Khachatrian, who ran Noah Models in Russia, was a pipeline for the agencies that operated as trafficking businesses. In [https://tatsuikeda.substack.com/p/the-epstein-files-phase-2-why-trump](https://tatsuikeda.substack.com/p/the-epstein-files-phase-2-why-trump) the author breaks down the Trump/Tigran/Epstein/Brunel connection: “By the time he partnered with Epstein, Brunel had perfected a system: scout vulnerable girls in Eastern Europe or South America, promise them modeling contracts, bring them to the U.S. on tourist visas, and then pressure them into “entertaining” wealthy men to keep their careers alive. **The business model was disturbingly similar to what would later emerge in lawsuits against Trump Model Management: foreign models brought over on tourist visas (not work visas), housed in crowded apartments, charged exorbitant fees that kept them in debt, and pressured to attend parties with wealthy men**.” 

    “Kate, who worked for Trump Model Management in 2004, marveled at how her former boss has recently branded himself as an anti-illegal-immigration crusader on the campaign trail. “He doesn’t want to let anyone into the US anymore,” she said. “*Meanwhile, behind everyone’s back, he’s bringing in all of these girls from all over the world and they’re working illegally*.”…We’re herded into these small spaces,” Kate said. “*The apartment was like a sweatshop*.” Trump Model Management recruited models as young as 14. “I was by far the oldest in the house at the ripe old age of 18,” Anna said. “The bathroom always smelled like burned hair. I will never forget the place!” She added, “*I taught myself how to write, ‘Please clean up after yourself’ in Russian*.” 

    [https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/)

  15. Huge_Excitement4465 on

    From 2010 deposition by Maritza Vasquez, Jean-Luc Brunel’s bookkeeper for a decade until 2006: Q: So in addition to his financial guarantor on the Line of Credit of a million dollars, what other involvement are you aware of that Jeffrey Epstein had with MC2 [modeling agency] and/or the apartments at 301 East 66th Street where the models lived? A: They were planning on buying or associating with a girl in — in France for a — company. They were planning to do a company. ***And actually, I gave the paper to Mr Shawn Connolly which is an actual paper that came from the office from Jeffrey Epstein, that was giving instruction to Jean-Luc saying that he wanted to have the same contracts as — uh, what’s his name, of Donald Trump, and that he wanted to have the same kind of benefits for the scouters.***

    [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25966082-maritza-vasquez-deposition-ocrmypdf/](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25966082-maritza-vasquez-deposition-ocrmypdf/)

    And this: For Wolfgang Schwarz, a veteran model agent in Austria who worked closely with Casablancas, and met Trump at the Plaza in the early 90s, **Trump’s decision to establish his own agency was about him wanting his own private source for models. “If you have your own agency and you’re the owner, you can tell your bookers to make a party,” Schwarz says. “It’s easier than calling 15 agencies in New York.” Trump’s representatives say he entered the modelling industry because it was a “very profitable” business opportunity.**

    [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year)

  16. RevolutionHot1084 on

    Imagine Epstein had visited Joe Biden’s home in Delaware ONE SINGLE TIME. Sean Hannity’s head would explode. GOP – making hypocrisy great again.

  17. Trump laundered his underage sex trafficking operation through so called beauty pageants, talent agencies, massage parlors, and Mar a Lago.

  18. how do so many MAGA conspiracy nuts not understand that their PDF ring is their own party? Like even if irrefutable proof comes out (as it has basically already) they still wont admit wrongdoing.