Posted on 11/28/2025 5:03:29 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
It was one of the big set-pieces in Washington in 2019.
All eyes were on Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen, who was testifying to a House committee about his former boss.
A Democratic member of the committee, Stacey Plaskett, was preparing to question Cohen and was seen on camera texting someone on her phone.
This week, the public found out the identity of the other person in that exchange - convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
According to emails made public by his estate under a subpoena, he was encouraging her to ask about a Trump Organization employee. After Ms Plaskett did so, Epstein texted her back: "Good Work".
In hindsight, this incident has struck a chord with many, who say it highlights the extent of his influence on America's elite.
Plaskett has denied she was seeking Epstein's advice, saying she was texting with many people that day, including Epstein, who was one of her constituents. She says as a former lawyer, she had learned to seek information from all sources - even people she didn't like.
"I am disgusted by Epstein's deviant behavior. I strongly support his victims and admire their courage. I have long believed and supported that the entire Epstein files be released," she said in a statement, sent to the BBC.
She says their exchange occurred before his arrest for sexual trafficking. But it was well after his conviction for soliciting prostitution in 2008.
His private island in the US territory had also been mentioned in a damning investigation by the Miami Herald just a year before as being one of the places he sexually abused several underage girls.
Just six months after her exchange with Epstein, the disgraced financier would be dead in his prison cell - a result of suicide, according to a medical examiner. His death, and...
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Let The Knack explain it: My Sharona.
Article as posted or excerpted is a non-sequitur to its title, i.e. it does not speak to “why.”
It is no mystery to me why thet were targeted, even if they were innocent. Being on a flight log is enough to cause a permanent loss of reputation and position.
It was because of fear.
You're right. The best I can come up with is I asked Grok to summarize the article and this is the conclusion it came to:
The documents highlight Epstein’s ability to retain access to elite circles post-conviction through wealth, connections, financial expertise, and transactional relationships, with many now expressing regret over continued association.
FTFY
MIT Mathematician Eric Weinstein (as of 2021 Managing Director of Thiel Capital- ie Peter Thiel). A genius in many ways— unarguable questions that need to be answered, from a mathematical design. And includes the notion of the “look the other way” and the convincing description of Epstein as a “Construct”— not a real personality made by intelligence or some other outfits. Jeffrey Epstein was at the wrong order of magnitude of “wealth”.
No woke crap— logic, mathematical provable thinking and questions. This is not a coverup— and those who are covering up for all of this depravity and destruction do not like ... logic vs people who are depraved (one could and many have said demonically depraved, and compromised pledged to Screwtape).
These are two interviews with Weinstein— compelling and demanding logical thought:
From Rebel Wisdom Youtube Platform:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84zJ9ahJ-qU
From Lex Fridman Podcast— Jeffrey Epstein and the Nature of Evil (at MIT):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Lf8eP41vs
Fridman’s Podcast gets to the inside of the depraved individual Epstein which ignores “woke” “oh I’m so shocked” larding over.
Have found these helpful. Especially the story of Robert Maxwell (and that Epstein was never any kind of real “money manager)
Take a good look at Lord Mandelson, Stacey Plaskett and Larry Summers-— they have the wasting and diseased look of the possessed. Plaskett especially could double for Moochelle Obamaumao (the female-y boy. Not Muddy Waters Mannish Boy, a “womanly” man so to say).
Wasted, empty soulless shells of people, and Hitlery Clinton (and Billy Cokenose) are the exactly like this— amoral.
Epstein played the role of “ultimate insider” very well.
Above all, he got access and connections by stroking rich people’s egos and their need to feel like “they’ve made it.”
“Why the rich and powerful couldn’t say no to Epstein”
easy answer: the rich and powerful fools were being blackmailed ...
Even those that did nothing had too much to lose, just because they were on a flight log. Everybody would have assumed they were guilty.
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