I believe Trump wasn't just a friend, or even a client of Epstein, but rather a partner in the business,

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And at times even a competitor. How did Trump put it last year when explaining why he dropped Epstein as a friend, that Epstein "stole" young women. Strange that he would use language implying some sort of ownership, don't you think. But it goes beyond just language. In 1999, following the model of sex traffickers Jean-Luc Brunel, John Casablancas, and Paollo Zampolli, all of whom he knew well, Trump opened up Trump Model Management. Bringing in Eastern European and South American teenage girls on tourist or extraordinary talent visas, Trump would glam them up a bit, force them into sardine can like living conditions, charge them for every little thing, and turn them out for work. Whether some, or any of that work was actually legal, or even modeling, well, that's to be determined. His current wife came into this country the same way, and apparently worked in porn and escort services.

Let's not forget that Trump also owned, for awhile before he destroyed them, three beauty pagents, Miss USA, Miss Universe, and Miss Teen USA. He used his position to walk into the changing rooms while contestants were either naked or only partially clothed. He also, apparently, rigged the contest so that the ones he found most attractive won. Let's not forget that beauty pagents are rife with sexual assault, which former contestants have accused Trump of doing, and have serious ties to sex trafficking. In fact at least one of the Miss Teen USA contestants wound up being an Epstein victim.

Trump also has deep ties to the mob underworld, both the traditional native mob, and the Russian mob. It started out because the real estate and construction business has always been rife with mob influence. Then came the casinos, another mob influenced business. It also seems later that he laundered money for the Russian mob. Now the mob, both US and Russian are also heavily linked to sex trafficking. Things that make you go Hmmm.

Then there is the matter of with whom he surrounds himself. Name after name of men, currently in his administration, or prominent friends outside of it, keep dripping out of the Epstein files, Bannon, Lutwick, Dershowitz, on and on it goes. Birds of a feather, and all that.

So as these matters keep being revealed, in drips and drabs, the only conclusion I can come to is that Trump wasn't "just" a client, bad as that is. No, I think he was an active participant in international sex trafficking, in one capacity or another. Epstein might have been his partner, or his handler, who know, we certainly don't. Sadly I doubt we will ever know the full extent of this until fifty plus years from now, when Trump and all of these men of power are dead, and can't wield their influence to keep us from the truth.

But maybe, just maybe we can uncover enough in the here and now to remove that bastard from office and put him in jail where he belongs. One can but hope.