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cbabe

(6,407 posts)
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 09:56 AM 16 hrs ago

RFK Jr.'s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files (Dinosaur bone hunting)

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jrs-bizarre-trip-with-jeffrey-epstein-and-ghislaine-maxwell-exposed-in-files/

RFK Jr.’s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files

Farrah Tomazin
Political Correspondent
Updated Feb. 7 2026 3:07AM EST
Published Feb. 6 2026 8:12PM EST



Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, according to the latest tranche of documents released by the Justice Department.

As the fallout over the Epstein files continues, an email exchange between the two sex predators centers on the now-Trump Cabinet secretary, one of the many prominent people whose friendship the pair cultivated over the years.



The following day, Maxwell replies: “Love that - didn’t we go fossil hunting with him and Bobby Kennedy in N Dakota?”

“Yes,” Epstein replies.



The trip actually took place in South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where collecting fossils on reservation land without explicit tribal permission is considered looting.

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(Looting. On sovereign land.)
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eppur_se_muova

(41,311 posts)
3. Great -- amateur grave robbers, presumably with no certified guides, becaue rich people don't need stuff like that.
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 10:11 AM
16 hrs ago

Once a fossil is removed from the ground, all the info regarding the environment in which it formed is lost and cannot be recreated. Preserved for (hundreds of) millions of years, then wiped out in a single day by egotists searching for "interesting" souvenirs.

AZJonnie

(3,214 posts)
5. I think some people (not necessarily in their case) hunt for bones but don't take them for themselves
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 10:31 AM
15 hrs ago

They then call in the proper authorities if/when found. This way they get credited with a "find" but are not stealing/disturbing the area too much. Again don't know with these assholes, but bone hunting does not necessitate removing them by definition.

eppur_se_muova

(41,311 posts)
6. Remember, we're dealing with a guy who carried the head of a dead whale on top of his car. I doubt he thinks that way.
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 10:42 AM
15 hrs ago

I've done a fair amount of fossil hunting myself (small potatoes) and know of many important finds made by amateurs who did the right thing. I can't imagine Epstein thinking anything but "how much can we sell this for ?".

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