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Epstein Files | WSJ releases 50th bday letter from Trump to Epstein
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Look, you insane TDS Afflicted liberals, just because Donald Trump was best friends with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the world, and just because Donald Trump spent time on that child sex traffickers plane, and just because Donald Trump went to that child sex trafficker’s private parties which were known to feature underage girls, and just because Trump liked to brag about being able to walk in on naked 14 year olds and beauty pageants, and just because dozens of women both of age and underage have accused him of sexual assault (many of which long before he became president!), and just because he said that he wishes he could have dated his daughter when she was 13 years old… DOES NOT MEAN that he could possibly be a sex predator of underage women!!
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This article and the prior WSJ article about the naughty birthday note both make a point that there was an anonymous tip to Palm Beach police about Winston having underage women at his home not long after Trump won a bidding war with Epstein for a Palm Beach property. They seem to be leaving a lot of between the lines space for inferring that Trump may have been behind the anonymous tip against his at that point former friend.
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Also, the Times made a point of identifying the Palm Beach house that Trump and Epstein competed for and ultimately had a falling out over: Maison de l’Amitié.
That property had a very odd Russia connection for Trump that some suspected (but never proven) was a suspicious transaction …
“In 2008, Donald Trump sold a Palm Beach, Fla., estate for $95 million, making it the most expensive single residential property ever sold in town. Now the property is about to set another record — as Palm Beach’s most expensive tear-down.
…While such tear-downs have become common in Palm Beach and other high-end resort towns, the demolition of the six-acre estate known as Maison de l’Amitié, or House of Friendship, represents a new level of disposable wealth.
Bought by Mr. Trump in 2004 for $41 million and sold in 2008 to a Russian billionaire [Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev] for $95 million, the residence has since sat empty, a monument to the housing bubble and to Trump’s outsize salesmanship.
… After the sale [to Trump in 2004], he [Trump] told The Palm Beach Daily News that he would turn the estate into the “second-greatest house in America,” after his Mar-a-Lago home down the road. He would then sell it to “create terrific value.”
… Mr. Trump initially said he had “gutted the house” and made $25 million in extensive renovations. Yet in the application for demolition, filed in February, the architect for the project said that the 2005 and 2006 renovations were limited to a new kitchen, the creation of new bedrooms and bathrooms, and “some minor interior alterations of doors, frames and windows.”…”
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Could be Trump just made a super successful investment.
Rybolovlev’s ex-wife accused him of using the purchase to hide assets in their divorce.
Tearful Russian billionaire who spent $2 billion on art tells jurors Sotheby's cheated him
A Russian billionaire who accused Sotheby's of teaming up with a Swiss art dealer to cheat him of tens of millions of dollars became tearful while testifying in court and calling for more transparency in the art market.
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“… In 2018, Rybolovlev was included on a list that the Trump administration released of 114 Russian politicians and oligarchs it said were linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
However, he was not included on a list of Russian oligarchs sanctioned after Russia attacked Ukraine, and Kornstein told jurors that his client, who studied medicine and became a cardiologist before switching to business, hasn’t lived in Russia in 30 years….”
At the time of the 2008 purchase, Trump was still digging out of a 2004 bankruptcy, had a $40 million personal guarantee likely to come due on a struggling Chicago condo and would soon have another business file bankruptcy in 2009. The $50 million profit filled a potential hole in his personal liabilities at the time. Which could simply be shrewd real estate flipping work on his part at a time he was under pressure financially.
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The trillions in wealth transfer to the richest people in the world just isn’t a headline anymore. Billionaires have the greatest stooge in history in the presidency. A man of incomparable venality and accompanying clownishness, who will facilitate the theft then return to his dime store, rapey PT Barnum persona and distract the masses with cheap trickery.