Oregon Senator uncovers Epstein financial records

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58. It is probably useful to recall how things were when Epstein was putting this together

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It was still very much a "man's world". Sexual abuse was generally regarded as "What are you gonna do? Boys will be boys." If somebody offered you a private jet to a private island and all the sex you could ever want today, I think most people would be rather suspicious. But this was the tail end of the Mad Men era. It was a lot easier to entrap men back then, I suppose.

As this was getting started, the Cold War was supposedly ending (although it is debatable whether it ever ended). The KGB was morphing into the FSB and SVR. They would have been looking for new ways to exert influence following the collapse of the USSR. And of course, the KGB had already targeted Trump (code name Krasnov) years earlier. They started grooming Trump in 1987 and Epstein's operation took shape about 4 years later.

People talk like Trump was a minor bystander. Trump built his business and power base on extortion. That was one game he understood well. It is entirely possible that the KGB used Trump to influence Epstein to build this Kompromat operation. I have seen no evidence either way, but it is certainly possible that they recruited Trump before they recruited Epstein, and used Trump to help with the grooming of Epstein. If this scenario is even partially true, that makes it much more understandable why Trump is having a freak-out. Trump may have had no involvement in Epstein's death. But Trump certainly thought he was out of the woods when Epstein died. He is having nightmares now -- well beyond what an innocent person would have.