The left has been pushing hard on the idea that President Trump is refusing to release documents related to Jeffrey Epstein because Trump himself is somehow implicated in those documents. Andrew Kaczynski had a story at CNN last month which found that Epstein did attend Trump's wedding to Marla Maples in 1993, however their friendship was basically over by the mid 2000s, about the time Epstein's crimes first came to light.
Allegations that Epstein sexually abused underage girls first surfaced in 2005, leading to his arrest a year later. He was arrested again in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges and later died in jail...
Trump’s relationship with Epstein dates back to the 1980s and included regular appearances at social events in Palm Beach and New York. No law enforcement authorities have ever accused Trump of wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.
The two had a falling-out in the mid-2000s, according to the Washington Post, stemming from a dispute over a high-profile real estate deal in Palm Beach.
Today, Kaczynski has a follow up report on Ghislaine Maxwell's connections to the Clintons. Maxwell was still being praised at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2013, four years after the first allegations surfaced about her.
Years after she was publicly accused in civil lawsuits and the press of helping Jeffrey Epstein groom and sexually abuse minors, Ghislaine Maxwell was an honored guest at the prestigious Clinton Global Initiative conference in September 2013, according to newly uncovered photos, video and documents reviewed by CNN.
Footage discovered by CNN’s KFile shows Maxwell rising to applause during a CGI luncheon on ocean conservation, recognized alongside other “Commitment to Action” leaders.
Previously unreported information reviewed by CNN lists Maxwell among those recommended for complimentary access to the conference — a list that, according to a source familiar with it, indicates her access was personally recommended by either Bill or Hillary Clinton.
We know that people at the Clinton Global Initiative knew about the allegations against Maxwell because she was served a subpoena at the event in 2009 and later banned from attending future CGI events.
Allegations against Maxwell first surfaced in May 2009, when Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, in a Florida civil lawsuit against Epstein, claimed Maxwell recruited her as a teenager, groomed her for sexual abuse, participated in that abuse, and arranged sexual encounters with Epstein.
The following month, the Palm Beach Post covered the lawsuit on its front page, reporting Giuffre’s allegation that Maxwell had recruited her for Epstein. That September, while Maxwell was at the Clinton Global Initiative session in New York, she was served with a subpoena in the case...
The allegations against Maxwell drew limited public attention until a February 2011 story on Prince Andrew, in which Giuffre gave an interview to the Daily Mail claiming that Maxwell had recruited her as a teenager for Epstein and had once told her that Epstein wanted her to have his child...
That renewed scrutiny spurred top Clinton aide Doug Band to instruct an aide in an October 2011 internal email to “remove Ghislaine, from all lists” for Clinton-related events, according to information seen by CNN and past reporting in Vanity Fair and The Spectator.
However, the year after he drafted that email about Maxwell, Doug Band left the organization. Maxwell got invited back the following year and her attendance was comped, suggesting one of the Clintons was looking out for her. And Maxwell didn't just attend in 2013, she was an honored guest.
During the 2013 luncheon session focusing on oceans, Maxwell was among a group whose commitment to work with CGI was honored during comments by José María Figueres, the former president of Costa Rica and co-chair of the Global Ocean Commission...
“It was rare, prestigious and an honor to be acknowledged the way Ghislaine was at the CGI annual meeting,” a source familiar with the inner workings of CGI told CNN.
Here's video of Maxwell being asked to stand as part of a small group. She's visible on the far left of the frame near the end of this clip.
CNN reports the Clinton Global Initiative continued giving updates on the group Maxwell founded until 2015. It was finally shut down in 2019 after Jeffrey Epstein was arrested. But prior to that, Maxwell seemed to have connections to Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. This has to be my favorite paragraph summing up those contacts. [emphasis added]
In 2007, Maxwell was listed as co-host for a major fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign that occurred at the Capitale event space in New York City, according to information reviewed by CNN. Other reported hosts for the event included Harvey Weinstein, according to the New York Times.
You have to say this about Hillary, she really knows how to pick 'em.
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