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Susan Semel's book on the history of Dalton School said that Donald "Barr didn't care about credentials as long as you were interesting and knew your stuff". Mr Epstein attended "NYU's Courant Institute, where he took courses in mathematical physiology of the heart, leaving that school, too, without a degree". Dalton's student newspaper (September 1974) indicated that Mr Epstein "was starting that year as a math and physics teacher". Given that Barr quit his office by the end of 1974, it is plausible to think that unqualified Mr Epstein was hired when Barr was still in charge.
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Mr Epstein attended "NYU's Courant Institute, where he took courses in mathematical physiology of the heart, leaving that school, too, without a degree". However, after leaving the school where he was allegedly "fired for poor performance", a Dalton school parent recommended him to Alan Greenberg who invited Epstein "to his office, barked out a few questions and hired him on the spot".According to people familiar with Greenberg at the time, this was not unusual for him.
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Johnson claimed that Trump violently raped her when she was 13 at a 1994 orgy hosted by Jeffrey Epstein 2014 the billionaire who was convicted in 2008 of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution and has been accused of having sex with more than 30 underage girls.The lawsuit alleged a number of charges against both Trump and Epstein, including rape, sexual abuse, assault and battery, and false imprisonment. Johnson said that when she was 13, Epstein lured her to parties at his apartment by promising "money and a modeling career."Johnson said Trump had sexual contact with her at four of those parties, including tying her to a bed and violently raping her in a "savage sexual attack." The lawsuit said Johnson "loudly pleaded" with Trump to stop, but that he responded by "violently striking Plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted."
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Hoffenberg went down as a convicted Ponzi schemer but claims he was ably partnered by Epstein who escaped being charged. According to Hoffenberg, a British business acquaintance introduced him to Epstein in the 1980s, and a friendly and business relation kicked off. Hoffenberg said "[Epstein] appeared to be brilliant, extraordinarily gifted and talented in convincing people to buy from him. And a criminal mastermind," and so, hired Epstein at Towers Financial. Epstein was essential in the operations as "He knew many people in the brokerage business that sold securities and they gave him access to investors,". Despite the crucial part played by Epstein in the fraudulent scheme, Hoffenberg wonders why he escaped being charged. He laments "There is no explanation in the world, none, for Jeffrey Epstein not to have been charged with me as a co-defendant." as he took the fall.
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It is very doubtful that Epstein made enough riches during his spell at Bear Stearns, as the possible span of earnings that could be made at that time was relatively too small to enable him to afford his flashy lifestyle. Epstein mysteriously left Bear Stearns to work on his own, reportedly handling the monies of the very wealthy. It is quite murky whether he was successful at this job or not, although he claims that he consulted for billionaires. Evidence from the 'Broken - Jeffrey Epstein' podcast suggests that "If you were working at Bear Stearns in the 1970s... so by the 1970s, you'd be probably making 50000 a year if you were good. I mean Jeffery Epstein... if he was making 15000-20000 a year, that's probably a lot" (26:56-27:28). In the 'Broken - Jeffrey Epstein' podcast, Hoffenberg explains that "Jeffrey Epstein was broke, couldn't pay his bills and came to us, humbly, looking for employment and asking for opportunity. There were clouds2026" (31-22-31:34).
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The period 2014-2018 saw detained migrant children alleging that they suffered sexual abuse during their detention. The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy caused thousands of immigrant children to be separated from their families. The US health department and the Department of Justice received about 4500 and 1303 of such complaints, respectively. Jonathan White, the deputy director for children's program's at Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), gave a testimony that the allegations were against personnel who were contracted by HHS to oversee the migrant detention facilities and not against HHS staff. With some of the complaints including "allegations that children were forcibly strapped to chairs, molested, and denied sufficient medical care" Mr Deutch admitted that "It was our responsibility, this administration's responsibility, to keep these children safe 2026 but we failed."
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Available facts contradict the claim that the look of the year parties had the careers of participants at heart. Aspiring young models who travelled from around the world to compete in the pageantry that had been running since 1983. The prize was a $150,000 contract with Elite Model Management, the world's leading modelling agency at that time. "[Donald Trump] was a headline sponsor ... He was also one of its 10 judges". Accounts from the participants revealed some dirty details. "[Shawna Lee, then a 14-year-old from a small town outside Toronto] recalls how the contestants were encouraged to parade downstairs, one by one, and dance for Trump...". Barbara Pilling recalls Trump, in the summer of 1989, asked her out for dinner. When Trump asked about her age, she recalled saying "I said 17 and he said, 2018That's just great 2013 you're not too old, not too young.'"
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It's hard to talk about Jeffrey Epstein without mentioning Les Wexner. Wexner is the CEO and founder of L Brands, the parent company to Victoria's Secret. Epstein, who was arrested and charged with sex trafficking in July, was once the billionaire CEO's financial advisor. Wexner was one of Epstein's only known clients.The two men maintained a decades-long relationship, in July 1991 Wexner granted Epstein power of attorney, which included the "full power and authority to do and perform every act necessary" on behalf of Wexner, The New York Times reported. Also, Epstein is said to have received millions of dollars from Wexner, and a private plane and two mansions that had previously been owned by Wexner or his companies fell into Epstein's hands.
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Qanon is a conspiracy theory that has claimed that Donald Trump is working hard to bring down a cabal of Satanic paedophiles who also run a global child sex-trafficking ring. This claim lacks any credence. The named champion of the fleet, Donald Trump, cannot be said to be fighting any group of paedophiles, as his own utterances suggest he hay have a sexual interest in minors. Trump is reported to have made some creepy comments about Michael Cohen's 15-year-old daughter, saying "Look at that piece of ass... I would love some of that". It so happened that Trump was referring to Cohen's then 15-year-old daughter, Samantha" More glaringly, some other minors have testified to being raped and sexually abused by Trump.
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Jean Luc Brunel and Epstein have been described as pals, business partners. Other accounts portray Brunel as Epstein sidekick and one that would go many lengths to please Epstein. As a renowned agent for young modelling talents, "[Brunel] was known for roaming the world in search of young, na 0efve beauties living in poverty-stricken countries and willing to do just about anything for money". Epstein benefited from Brunel's work as the friendship meant a free-flowing supply of young girls to satisfy his desires. Virginia Roberts tells in her memoir that "Jeffrey bragged about his birthday present from Brunel, once accepting three, twelve-year-old girls, sisters at that. He replayed the descriptive events with him telling me how they all massaged him and finished him off orally". It is quite interesting to note that Steve Mnuchin, who doubles as Trump's treasury secretary, is the contact person for Jean Luc Brunel's Next Management Corporation.
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After leaving Bear Stearns quietly for an unknown reason, Epstein continued to do business with the firm. He told people he was a 'bounty hunter' for governments and billionaires, and held an Austrian passport with a fake name and residence address in Saudi Arabia.
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AG Bill Barr advised President Bush Senior to pardon administration officials involved in the Iran-Contra affair. This won him the nickname 'The Coverup General'.
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Ghislaine moved to the U.S in 1991, shortly after her father's death in an apparent suicide. Some of the money he stole was never recovered
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Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine's billionaire father and a known Israeli intelligence asset, reportedly introduced Epstein to his daughter in the 80s.
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Trump has been partying with Epstein during the 90s and 2000s, and was accused of raping a 13 year old girl in Epstein's New York mansion. Their relationship ended for an unknown reason around the time criminal charges were filed against Epstein.
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In a 1992 video, Trump is heard saying about a child that he will be dating her in 10 years. He was 46 at the time.
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Alex Acosta, Trump's former secretary of labor, gave Epstein a 'sweetheart deal' for abusing girls when he was Florida's U.S attorney.
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Alan Dershowitz, the attorney who got Jeffrey Epstein a sweetheart deal in his Florida case, was one of Trump's lawyers in his impeachment trial. Dershowitz himself was accused of sexual abuse by Epstein's survivors. In a 1997 op-ed he wrote that the age of consent should be lowered to 15 or 14.
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During his investigation in Florida, Epstein assembled a powerhouse legal team of Republican or Democratic lawyers, depending on the political affiliation of the prosecutor.
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Trump has been partying with John Casablancas during the 80s and 90s, and sponsored his beauty pageants. Casablancas publicly dated a 16 year old model when he was 42, and a decade later married a 17 year old girl. Both Casablancas' associate Paolo Zampolli and Jeffrey Epstein claim to have introduced Melania and Donald Trump at a party in 1998.
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When Ivanka Trump was 15 years old, she started a modelling career with Elite Models. John Casablancas, the founder of the agency and a close friend of Donald Trump, was a known sex-predator who publicly dated a 16 year old girl when he was 42.
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During the mid-90s Melania Knauss worked as a model and lived in Paris. Paolo Zampolli claims to have discovered her in Milan and brought her to the US. Zampolli tried to buy Elite Models with Jeffrey Epstein in 2004 and is associated with other known sex predators such as John Casablancas and billionaire playboy Ron Burkle. Zampolli was rumoured to have run his modelling agency like an escort service.
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Jean Luc Brunel and Ghislaine Maxwell knew each other since the 1980s when he was a big-player in the French fashion scene. She introduced him to Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s, and he allegedly became a chief procurer of underaged girls from all over the world to Epstein
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Jean-Luc Brunel has been a model scout since the 1970s, and became the head of Karin Models in 1978. In the late 80s he was exposed, alongside other model agents, for drugging and sexually abusing underaged models. He later founded MC2 models with financial help from Jeffrey Epstein.
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AG Bill Barr released a statement immediately after Epstein was found dead in his jail cell. He described Epstein's death as an 'apparent suicide' despite suspicious circumstances, which he later called 'a perfect storm of screw-ups'. Barr's father was the headmaster of Dalton school who hired Epstein as a teacher, and Barr's former law-firm represented Epstein when he got the 'sweetheart deal' for his sex-crimes in Florida.
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Jean Luc Brunel has been a famous model scout ever since the 70s. He has founded several prominent modelling agencies and recruited young girls from all over the world. He was exposed as a sex-predator already in the 1980s, but continued his operations unimpeded until Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in 2019. Epstein has reportedly bragged that he slept with over 1000 of Brunel's girls
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The Trump campaign has filed a lawsuit claiming their election-observers were not allowed to observe ballot counting in Philadelphia. However, in court their lawyer admitted that there were, in fact, campaign poll-watchers present at all times. A similar claim was rejected by a court in Michigan. While the lawyers raised complaints about the distance that watchers had to maintain, and the number of watchers allowed due to social-distancing rules - Trump campaign's poll watchers were present and subject to the same rules as all the other watchers.
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In spite of repeated claims of voter fraud in Pennsylvania, Trump's lawyers have not presented any actual evidence of fraudulent or illegal votes in court. In fact, Giuliani said in court that he is not alleging fraud. All three judges who rejected the lawsuit in the federal court were appointed by Republican presidents. The one who wrote the ruling was appointed by Trump in 2017.
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In a lawsuit seeking to stop the certification of Georgia's election, Trump's team presented supposed irregularities in vote counting in Michigan, which used the same voting machines as Georgia. However, many of the precincts listed in the filing are in Minnesota, not Michigan, and none of them had more votes than registered voters. Trump's lawyers have admitted to mistaking the two states, but did not explain where the numbers they presented came from. A federal judge dismissed the case".
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Smartmatic is a Florida based company, founded by two Venezuelan-American businessmen with no known ties to Hugo Chavez. Smartmatic voting machines were used only in Los Angeles in the 2020 US elections. The results were very similar to those of the 2016 elections, with the Democratic candidate receiving just over 70% of the votes.
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Trump has alleged that Dominion deleted 2.7 million Trump votes nationwide. The president was referring to a fake report, supposedly from Edison Research, which claimed that Dominion Voting Systems may have switched as many as 435,000 votes from President Trump to Joe Biden, and deleted 2.7 Trump votes. Larry Rossin, the president of Edison Research, has denied issuing any such report.
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Trump and his supporters were circulating a list of dead people who have supposedly voted in the 2020 elections. CNN examined 50 of the more than 14,000 names on the list. Of the 50, 37 were indeed dead and had not voted, five people had voted - and they were all still alive. The remaining eight were also alive but didn't vote. No evidence of widespread fraud was presented in any court case regarding the 2020 elections.
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Several of Trump's lawyers claim that Dominion voting machines, which were used in Georgia and other states, were tied to Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013. In fact, Dominion is a Virginia based company that has no ties to Venezuela or Hugo Chavez. Smartmatic machines were used in Venezuela, but not in Georgia.
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The Trump campaign submitted a lawsuit in Pennsylvania, claiming that the election was not fair because some counties in the state allowed voters to correct mistakes in their mailed-in ballots while others didn't. Both a district court and an appeals court have rejected the lawsuit, since all counties have received the same instructions, and it was up to local election officials whether or not to notify voters of errors in their ballots. Additionally, the number of ballots in question is far lower than Joe Biden's lead in the state".
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Many of Epstein's friends stood by him after he was exposed as a sex-predator. Two months after he was released from prison, Epstein reportedly attended an exclusive event in Southampton where he was 'greeted warmly by guests' who included Wilbur Ross, Steve Mnuchin and Rudy Giuliani. In December that year Epstein held a party for Prince Andrew at his New York mansion. Woody Allen, who married his step-daughter and was accused of molesting another step-daughter, was among the guests.
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Trump has repeatedly complained that mail-in ballots in Georgia's 2020 election are fraudulent because signatures were not matched. In fact, signatures are matched by election officials in Georgia both when a person requests a mail-in ballot, and when the ballot is returned.
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Republican legislatures in several key states have refused to change their election laws and allow officials to start counting mail-in votes before election day. Additionally, Trump has encouraged his supporters to vote on election day and not by mail. As a result, Trump had a lead on election day, but once mailed-in ballots were counted Biden took the lead.
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The U.S supreme court has rejected a lawsuit from Texas' Attorney General, seeking to invalidate election results in four other states. He claimed that Biden's win is statistically impossible based on Clinton's support in those states. However, Biden has outperformed Hillary Clinton by 15 million votes nationwide and hence won the elections.
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The U.S supreme court has rejected a lawsuit from Texas' Attorney General, seeking to invalidate election results in four other states. He claimed that Biden's win is statistically impossible because Trump was leading when most of the votes have been counted. However, many of the late-arriving votes were mail-in votes, which were mostly for Biden because Trump has urged his voters to cast their votes in person.
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