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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) walked through all of the details that connect trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and Russian intelligence.

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House Oversight's Robert Garcia: "We are now asking and demanding that President Trump officially come in and testify in front of the Oversight Committee. He appears in the Epstein files -- next to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell -- almost more than anybody else."

-- Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) Feb 27, 2026 at 11:05 AM

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"The Senator walked through a number of documents and emails in the Epstein files showing that Russian girls were part of his recruitment for the men that he sought to manipulate.

Whitehouse cited one communication from French model scout Jean-Luc Brunel to Epstein saying he found "a teacher" to help Epstein with his Russian. "She is 2 times 8 years old and not blond," he said.

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. identified more than $1 billion in suspicious transactions that it flagged to the U.S. government. The big bank identified about 4,700 transactions, saying that "they were potentially related to reports of human trafficking involving Mr. Epstein," reported The New York Times.

It also mentioned Epstein's wire transfers to Russian banks, even referencing "his relationships with two U.S. presidents."

Epstein also maintained connections with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), a close friend of Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner."

much more at the thread link

video of Sen Whitehouse presenting the findings:

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#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-05 09:14 PM | Reply

Text article ...

Senator connects the dots between Russian intel and Epstein-Trump saga
www.alternet.org

... Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) walked through all of the details that connect trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and Russian intelligence. Those connections also link President Donald Trump.

According to Whitehouse, the pathway goes through Ghislaine Maxwell's father, which the senator read from his MI6 file that Robert Maxwell was "a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia."

Whitehouse walked through all of the relationships that Epstein had with international assets, including Israeli and U.S. intelligence. Recently released files prompted Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to announce they would do a wide-ranging investigation into Epstein's possible links to Russian intelligence.

One of those was Epstein's relationship with Oleg Deripaska, who also had a close relationship with Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort. ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-05 09:18 PM | Reply

@#2 ... One of those was Epstein's relationship with Oleg Deripaska, who also had a close relationship with Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort ...

OK, that may raise issues regarding Mr Manafort ...

This is your daily reminder that Trump apparently ... picked a campaign manager he'd never met, who had worked for years to install Russian puppets in European democracies, who charged him NOTHING, and who was in debt to Russian oligarchs for 17 million dollars.


Who was Mr Manafort working for when candidate Trump "picked" him as his campaign manager?



#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-05 09:36 PM | Reply

Russian intelligence
lol

#4 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-03-06 03:28 PM | Reply

Who was Mr Manafort working for when candidate Trump "picked" him as his campaign manager?

#3 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER AT 2026-03-05 09:36 PM | FLAG:

Russian intelligence
lol

#4 | POSTED BY JOHN_SAVAGE2

Is that your final answer or would you like to phone a friend?

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-06 03:33 PM | Reply

Operation Epstein Fury is bogging down in newly released Files.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-06 03:36 PM | Reply

Operation Epstein Fury is bogging down in newly released Files.
#6 | POSTED BY CORKY

This will require much more decisive, devastating and without mercy bombings of Iran.

We need to punch them harder in the privates while they are down. And maybe kill some more school kids.

That almost distracted us from the Epstein Follies for a second there.

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-06 03:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"Virginia Giuffre's invisible ghostwriter' on the Epstein survivor's legacy:
She wanted to name all of them. They deserve to be named'

Amy Wallace spent years helping Giuffre write her life story. Now she reflects on what the survivor would have thought of the release of the Epstein files"

www.theguardian.com

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-06 05:19 PM | Reply

Her book was a hard read, Corky. Took me two weeks when it should have been three days. I had to stop at the end of every chapter.

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-06 05:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#9

I couldn't have done it... not and stayed out of a lot of trouble.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-06 06:41 PM | Reply

Manafort for years worked in Ukraine for the President, Yanukovych, who was tossed out and taken in by Putin. That former President lives in exile in Moscow, or at least he did.

#11 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-03-07 07:10 AM | Reply

Epstein was a Russian operative who got the dirt that allowed Putin to OWN the United States of America.

What sad hollow shell of the once great nation we have become.

#12 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-03-07 10:35 AM | Reply

USAG Merrick Garland sat on the explosive and damaging Epstein files from 21 Jan 2021 to 19 Jan 2025.

He had SC Jack Smith waste four years on those two charges of Dummkopf Trumpf stealing classified documents and inciting the 6 Jan 2021 attack on the US Capitol which USDJ Aileen Cannon kept sabotaging with procedural nonsense.

What grand kabuki theater that was.

Had USAG Merrick Garland released the Epstein files on Day One, Dummkopf Trumpf would have spent four years fighting allegations of pedophilia, as well as lawsuits from countless victims.

NYSAG Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg would have also began New York investigations into Dummkopf Trumpf on 21 Jan 2021, taking advantage of the statute of limitations and access to all the investigators who worked on the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases.

That onslaught of litigation, investigations, and public outrage might have crippled Trumpf's presidential run.

To conceal Israeli and Mossad connections in our body politic, Garland didn't open up the Pandora's Box of Epstein's evils. But hiding the Israeli connections also meant concealing any Kremlin connections, something ex-FBI SA Johnathan Buna was investigating before he was fired and arrested.

You will notice AIPAC Democrats like Josh Moskowitz (D-FL) blaring like sirens over Trumpf's Russia connections, but quiet as church mice over deep Israeli penetration of the US government.


#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-07 11:07 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#13

You are not wrong. The prosecution should have started in 2021, and the tiny-fingered, ferret-wearing, cheeto-faced s--tgibbon should have been locked up pending trial. They should have gone after him in NY, NJ, DC, and FL at the same time. It should have been DoJ's highest priority.

Hopefully the same mistake won't be made in 2029, and they'll go after every criminal in this regime from the scumbag ICE pigs all the way up.

#14 | Posted by DarkVader at 2026-03-07 11:54 AM | Reply

Hi Dark Vader:

Thanks for that.

Too bad SC Jack Smith was not privy to the Epstein and Maxwell cases. He was at the public corruption squad at DOJ HQ and then the Hague prosecuting war criminals when those two monsters were being investigated. Maybe that's why USAG Merrick Garland assigned him the case to prosecute Dummkopf Trumpf only for hoarding classified documents and instigating the 6 Jan insurrection.

When Jack Smith returned to the US in spring 2021, in reality USAG Merrick Garland should have said: "Here, Jack, now you have a need to know..."

Dummkopf Trumpf took away NYSAG Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's security clearances for a reason-- to impede them personally from looking at the Epstein and Maxwell files. These two probably had USG non-SCI 'SECRET' clearances with a strict need-to-know to prosecute cases, but I can't be certain. I worked at the federal level, not the state or city levels.

Dr Sigmund Freud said: "A dog can have fleas AND ticks."

Thus with America.

Both the Kremlin and the Mossad are guilty as sin in this massive conspiracy, but AIPAC Democrats and proxies like Alan Dershowitz will blare only about Russia.

Focusing America's attention on Russia for the past several years allowed Israel to continue ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank while concealing their nefarious involvement with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

"Russia! Russia! Look at Russia!"



#15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-07 12:39 PM | Reply

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