Friday, December 3, 2021

Epstein At The Clinton White House

The Ghislaine Maxwell trial is bringing out unrelated material on Epstein's modus operandi, as well as his high-level dupes and cronies. As a longtime Ferdinand Lundberg fan, this provides confirmation and insight for me into how the ruling class actually operates. My guess is that there's a great deal that hasn't come out over Epstein and his ability to manipulate the various economic and legal systems at high level, and much of it may never come to light. I don't think, though, that Epstein is a unique figure; Hunter Biden is a near clone as we speak.

The UK Daily Mail obtained White House visitor logs from the Clinton Presidential Library under a series of FOIA requests. Its story here covers Epstein's visits in some detail.

Epstein, who died in 2019, visited Bill Clinton at the Executive Mansion over the course of three years with the first invitation coming just a month after his inauguration in January 1993.

The logs show the late financier showed up on 14 separate days, even making two visits in a single day on three different occasions.

Epstein was invited by some of Clinton's most senior advisers and aides, including one who later served as Treasury Secretary, according to records.

The documents reveal that the vast majority of Epstein's visits stated that he was going to the West Wing, meaning there was a strong likelihood he was meeting Clinton.

What's at least as important as the visits themselves is how they were arranged and who arranged them.

They show that Epstein's first visit to the Clinton White House was on February 25, 1993 and the person who issued the invitation is listed as 'Rubin'. The location of the visit is listed as 'WW', or West Wing.

The most prominent Rubin in the White House at the time was Robert Rubin, who took up his position as director of the National Economic Council when Clinton took office.

Rubin was so favored by Clinton that he was appointed Treasury Secretary in January 1995.

Robert Rubin was not a bit player. The story makes the point,

Rubin would go on to serve as chair of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an international affairs think tank, between 2007 and 2017.

Epstein was a member of the CFR from 1995 until 2009 and donated $350,000 to the organization, money which it later gave to an organization which fights human trafficking.

Wikipedia says the CFR

is a United States nonprofit think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. It is headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Massachusetts. Its membership, which numbers 5,103, has included senior politicians, numerous secretaries of state, CIA directors, bankers, lawyers, professors, and senior media figures.

There is general consensus across the spectrum that its membership includes the power elite or the lizard people, who are extremely influential in high level policymaking. It's mildly surprising that Epstein would have been a member for 14 years, presumably at Rubin's recommendation. Wikipedia says of membershio in the CFR,

The CFR has two types of membership: life membership; and term membership, which lasts for 5 years and is available only to those between the ages of 30 and 36. . . . A candidate for life membership must be nominated in writing by one Council member and seconded by a minimum of three others.

That Epstein served for well over five years as a member suggests he was a life member, leaving in 2009 presumably after complications arose following his 2008 guilty plea and detention. But prior to that, he appears to have ben a fully fledged lizard person. And in the years immediately following Clinton's leaving office in 2001, he flew on Epstein's Lolita Rxpress multiple times.

Among the unanswered questions arising from the Epstein affair is how Steven Hoffenberg, Epstein's partmer in the Tower Finamcial Ponzi scheme, was jailed for 20 years after its 1991 collapse, while Epstein was never arrested or charged. (A related question is how Epstein in the wake of this case could be vetted for admission to the White House.) Tower Financial was the biggest Ponzi in history before the Bernie Madoff scheme. Another issue is the 2006-2008 case that resulted in a guilty plea to charges of procuring a minor, which included immunity from federal prosecution and an extremely lenient work relase sentence.

Alexander Acosta, then the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, said he negotiated the plea deal because he was told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence", was "above his pay grade" and to "leave it alone". There can be no question that Epstein lived a charmed existence for much of his life.

I have a strong suspicion we'll never know exactly how this happened.