But I thought he liked his models light and flimsy.
More seriously, I’m not being hypocritical in how I’m treating Democrats vs. Republicans. Both Trump and Bill Clinton have done bad things. But the things we know Trump has done are much worse than the things we know Clinton has done, so it makes sense to treat Trump worse on that account. As for the things we don’t know either has done, well, let’s investigate this fully, following all of the leads, and whatever pedophile scumbags we find, let’s lock them up. If that includes Trump, lock him up. If it includes Clinton, lock him up too. If it includes anyone else, of either political party (though I’ll note that Clinton seems to be the only Democratic name anyone’s mentioning so far), lock all of them up.
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The article is mostly about Fox’s talking heads and their issues, but it contained a tidbit related to this thread.
One day encapsulated everything that’s wrong with Fox News
From revelations about spreading Russian propaganda to making racist attacks, July 9 had it all.
To be fair, the guy in the clip didn’t mention Obama but did say the deal occurred in 2008 under a Democratic administration.
Probable response of the average Fox viewer: “I knew it!!! Obama’s fault!!!”
New York magazine ran a great article today. It pretty much says what that I posted yesterday regarding Epstein’s probable financial crimes, except it’s better written and has more detail, including a couple of possible scenarios that I didn’t consider.
And if anyone is interested, here’s a 2009 article speculating that Epstein is running a Ponzi scheme.
And I found this deliciously snarky op ed in Bloomberg about some of the fawning Epstein magazine profiles. The author comments “Really I should just walk around with a cell phone to my ear declaring my intention to short everything I don’t like. Maybe then someone will buy me an eight story Upper East Side townhouse.”
There is a article on above it on the page, you have to scroll down or read through to get to the Epstein piece. But it’s pretty funny.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-09/it-s-hard-to-make-everything-securities-fraud
posted for the record
The right has apparently come out strong with a defense of Trump, pointing out that 1) Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago and 2) Trump was the most friendly source of information against Epstein in a 2011 suit against him by Virginia Roberts, 3) Trump only ever flew on Epstein’s plane once.
So let me point out:
- What year? Is that before or after Epstein was arrested?
- Is this before or after Epstein’s arrest for criminal activity?
- Trump gave his daughter, Ivanka, to John Casablancas to personally develop into a professional model when she was 14 years old. This was in 1995. In 1988, Casablancas was popularly reported to be sleeping with 14 year olds as a regular matter and his business associates were on tape taking about driving and raping 13 year old models. This was widely reported in the New York press and it would be ludicrous to think that Trump would be unaware. Trump also worked with the developer Tevfik Arif for most of his property development and Arif was arrested in Turkey in 2010 for soliciting underaged models from former Soviet States to work as prostitutes.
That sentence should be “talking about drugging and raping”.
A fairly decent article:
So far as I can tell, everything in it checks out.
Somehow that didn’t come up in Acosta’s statement yesterday. How strange.
Interesting.
I guess that, now that CIA has decided that Saudi Arabia is more of an enemy than an asset, they’re fine to start burning the bridges.
Nader was also taken in recently.
Countdown to Tom Barrack being brought in…? Though, to be fair, I don’t know that Barrack has actually done all that much slimy compared to the rest of Trump’s gang. I’d be willing - so far - to put him into the category of schmoozer extraordinaire rather than a true criminal like Elliott Broidy or Epstein.
For what it’s worth, in his book Fire and Fury, Michael Wolfe described Epstein,Trump and Tom Barrack as the 3 musketeers of NY nightlife back in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
That’s a SNL sketch waiting to happen. Complete with constant head-bobbing.
So long as Barrack and all his partners were 18 years old or older, that is a legal thing to do.
I was somewhat taken aback to read that Dalton hired a college dropout to teach.
Either this is not true, and Epstein made it up, or there was something fishy going on.
Dalton is the kind of exclusive, very expensive private school where the teachers are, if anything, overqualified and quite likely to have a Ph.D. Certainly an M.A. or M.S. But no way only a high school diploma.
It’s not credible. I’m not even sure it’s legal, in New York State.
I’m not implying that it wasn’t. I’m just saying that Trump and Epstein were closer than Trump is letting on.
Also, I think world leaders should adhere to a higher moral standard than “technically legal”, but these days apparently that’s just me.
I’d bet the rent it makes someone “unqualified” to teach at Dalton.
According to this, Dalton requires high school math teachers to have a 4 year college degree.
40 years ago?
My girlfriend taught preschool there 30 years ago. She had a B.A. I don’t recall if it was required, but I suspect it was
There is breaking news that Acosta is resigning.
Trump’s Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigns after criticism over Epstein plea deal
Acosta had faced mounting criticism in recent days for his role years ago in cutting a deal for sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.