Posted on 07/20/2019 1:43:20 PM PDT by libstripper
n 2002, Donald Trump was a source for a New York magazine profile of Jefferey Epstein, who was denied bail on Thursday in New York. Epstein faces charges of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and the sex trafficking of underage girls—allegedly as young as 14.
Seventeen years ago, Epstein was a secretive billionaire whom the magazine dubbed an “international moneyman of mystery.” Donald Trump, a less reclusive billionaire, gave insight into the character and personality of his friend, Epstein. “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump said at the time. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it—Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
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This is Never-Trump Bill Kristol’s new effort, so expect plenty of anti- Trump articles.
Personally I wouldn’t post crap from this source.
This article is going to stop Bill Kristol from voting for The Donald!
Those phags at the Ball-Work argue about who gets to eat the cracker. It is how they end each day. Eating the cracker is their highest honor.
Look up the asshole who wrote this; he looks like he is in high school. Probably believes Democrats fought to free slaves from Republican plantation owners and WWII stared when Iceland bombed Mexico.
It started out OK: Kristol got the first three letters of his new propaganda outlet right.
Bul...
Left off the second l.
And completely misspelled the euphemism for feces..
There was a watershed moment, in the friendship of Jeffery Epstein and Donald Trump, beyond which a complete rupture shattered that connection forever. Some revelations have that effect.
Deep and very nasty secrets have a way of accomplishing these results.
Donald Trump was always much more circumspect than Jeffrey Epstein in his dealings with women on a personal basis.
Power can corrupt. It does not have to. Once the corruption is revealed, the power may also begin to fail.
Persons of great wealth are always balanced on a knife’s-edge, one slip and it could plunge them into great and lasting despair.
With LOTS of collateral damage.
Wait.
I thought WWII started when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor...
Trying to smear Trump while ignoring Clinton’s involvement with Epstein is about the most absurd and hypocritical contortion the left has performed to date.
When Donald Trump, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were BFFs.
When Donald Trump, Mohammad Ali and Rosa Parks were BFFs.
Best Friends Forever?
Not even close. Trump is a highly-extraverted international businessman. I am not convinced he even has a bona fide BFF.
If he did then, Jeffrey Epstein was not in the Top 100 candidates. Notice Trump cited what others said of Epstein, not what Trump knew firsthand from Epstein himself.
Regardless, cutting ties with him almost two decades ago made their spurious association somewhat less than Forever.
The Bulwark. After the Weekly Standard crashed and burned, Bill Kristol found some folks to bankroll another failed establishment GOP rag to sniff impotently about Trump.
I’ll bet Barry Rubin soiled his Twitter feed in November 2016...
Sometimes it’s good to post articles from this or any other source like it because it shows what the other side is thinking and what it has. If there’s any source that’s going to try to destroy our PDJT, it’s this monstrosity. I posted the article because it’s the NeverTrumpers’ best shot at him and it’s a ludicrous monstrosity. If this is the most he has to worry about in the Epstein mess, he’s got nothing to worry about and he can laugh all the way to 2020.
One of Jim Robinson’s best policies is to allow posting of antagonistic articles like this because it lets us see what our enemies are thinking and how strong their positions are.
Persons of great wealth are always balanced on a knife’s-edge, one slip and it could plunge them into great and lasting despair...
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And Trump being a skyscraper builder learned well the lessons of due diligence.
Perhaps that gave him the confidence to venture into the Miss Universe pageant and The Apprentice.
Nassim Taleb tells the story of how the Babylonians dealt with the problem of risk. Under the Code of Hammurabi, the architect who designed a bridge was forced to move his family to live under the bridge. In any system of significant complexity, the risks can be sufficiently hidden so outsiders don’t understand them.
Perhaps the search engine builders at Google and Twitter should be subjected to a similar program of proactive risk management.
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