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Epstein had ‘photos of Trump with girls’ | Spectator USA
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Someone who knows both men says Epstein showed him the photos in 2016 – they were of young, but not necessarily underaged, women
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at a party in the 1990s
As Donald Trump ran for the presidency in 2016, Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile financier, told a mutual acquaintance that he had compromising – or at least embarrassing – photographs of the candidate taken some years earlier. He showed them to this man who, three years later, described them for Cockburn as ‘sort of sexy, sort of suggestive’.
‘Jeffrey had a set of these pictures that had been taken, probably 2003, 2004, of Trump with a variety of the same girls that Jeffrey got in trouble for. They’re vaguely suggestive, but not overtly sexual. I think maybe in one picture a girl was sitting on his lap. There’s a picture in which he has a stain on the front of his pants, a potentially embarrassing stain, and the girls are pointing at it and laughing. That’s what I remember. There were maybe a dozen of these pictures.’
Assuming this account is accurate, the crucial question would be: were any of these girls underage? How old were they? Our informant replied: ‘I don’t know. These are girls who were around Jeffrey at that point in time…I think maybe he identified at least one of them as [one of] the girls the police had interviewed. But having said that, very few of the girls that the police interviewed were actually underage.’ The police had spoken to ‘scores of girls…the overwhelming number of them not being underage.’
He added, speaking of Trump as much as Epstein: ‘I don’t think necessarily the underage thing is the point here, although they may have been underage. But for all of these guys, including Epstein…they like women who look like…post-adolescent women. If you’re 18 years old, that’s probably the sweet spot. You know, something like that.’
After Epstein was arrested last month, there were stories that he was running a blackmail operation, using photos and videos of public figures with the young women and girls he’s accused of abusing. Would Epstein have tried to blackmail Trump – either as candidate or president – with the pictures described by this mutual acquaintance? ‘Jeffrey was unwilling or uninterested in using them in any way…I prodded Jeffrey at a couple of times to do something with them. And he laughed it off. I mean, he was certainly in no mood to engage Trump in a battle.’
Cockburn has spoken to another source who says that Trump visited Epstein’s villa in Florida and saw some teenaged women or girls around the pool, topless. Supposedly, two of them later told a story about Trump ogling them and making sleazy comments about their breasts. Their account was given to someone who passed it on to Cockburn’s source. It was confirmed by the mutual acquaintance of Trump and Epstein. ‘Epstein has told me that story.’
Trump has reportedly told a version of this story himself, too. His former adviser Roger Stone writes in his book The Clintons’ War on Women that Trump once described the pool at Epstein’s villa as ‘full of beautiful young girls’. ‘How nice, I thought, he let the neighborhood kids use his pool.’ In 2002, Trump told New York magazine: ‘I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.’ But Stone also writes that a woman who sued Epstein, Virginia Roberts, said she met Trump once at Epstein’s and he was a ‘complete gentleman’. Stone says ‘there is no evidence Trump did anything improper’ and as soon as the Palm Beach police began investigating Epstein, Trump dropped him.
That last part is true, says Cockburn’s informant on the alleged pictures, and he goes on, it may even have been Trump who told the police about Epstein — but for self-interested reasons. The two men had fallen out over who would buy a villa that Trump would later sell to a Russian oligarch for an immense profit. As has been widely reported, Epstein had found out that the villa was for sale at a discount and took Trump to see it for advice on how to move the swimming pool. Trump then snatched the deal out from under his nose, buying the place with money lent by Deutsche Bank. He paid $41m and sold it to the oligarch, Dmitry Rybolovlev, for $96m – a profit of $55m.
Epstein was furious, according to the acquaintance of both men, and threatened to publicly accuse Trump of money laundering for the Russian. ‘It was a big, sort of ugly real estate situation among rich guys. But Trump knew about Jeffrey’s “lifestyle”. He knew about these girls coming to his house all the time for these massages…Trump knew in detailed fashion about Jeffrey’s sexual habits. It is Epstein’s view that Trump is the likely person to have spurred the investigation. He believes that it was Trump who turned him in to the Palm Beach police. There was no ambiguity about this in Epstein’s telling of this story.’
Various media reports over the past month have suggested that Epstein kept a walk-in safe at the villa on his private island – and only he was allowed to enter it. He had another safe at his Manhattan apartment, which was blown open when the FBI raided the place. Several CDs with photos and videos were taken away. Perhaps there are a few of the public figures who knew Epstein wondering now what is on those CDs, or in the walk-in safe. Is President Trump among them?
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The Journal also said that some banks were giving documents related to the President's own business, the Trump Organization, to New York state investigators.
Investigators for the House Financial Services Committee and the House Intelligence Committee are reportedly working on a joint probe into whether there was potential foreign influence on Trump and his family.
The Journal said that more information will likely be handed over in coming weeks as the banks respond to subpoenas sent in April.
Trump has reportedly received around $2 billion in loans from Deutsche Bank over two decades. The Financial Times reported that the German Bank and Trump have had a complicated relationship, suing one another in 2008 over loans to build Trump International Hotel & Tower in downtown Chicago.
In April, it was reported that President Donald Trump, his children, the Trump Organization, and the Trump family trust filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and Capital One to bar them from complying with congressional subpoenas.
Trump's lawsuit, according to The New York Times in April, claims the subpoenas "have no legitimate or lawful purpose" and were issued to "harass" him and "to rummage through every aspect of his personal finances, his businesses, and the private information of the President and his family, and to ferret about for any material that might be used to cause him political damage."
Since then Deutsche Bank, Trump's primary bank, according to the Journal, has turned over emails, loan agreements, and other documents related to the Trump Organization office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, in response to a civil subpoena sent earlier this year.
According to the Journal, the congressional and state investigations are looking for different types of information. The congressional probe, which is reportedly being contested in court, is looking at a wide range of financial documents from the Trump family.
The state investigation comparatively, is looking at loans to the Trump Organization, according to people familiar with the New York investigation, the Journal wrote.
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Deutsche Bank and Wall Street banks reportedly just gave Congress thousands of documents related to Russians with possible ties to Trump | Markets Insider
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- Six banks including Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley, have been providing Congressional committees thousands of documents related to an investigation into Trump's Russia ties, according to the Wall Street Journal.
- The investigation is reportedly looking into whether there was potential foreign influence on Trump and his family.
- In April, it was reported that the President, his children, the Trump Organization, and the Trump family trust filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and Capital One to bar them from complying with congressional subpoenas.
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The Journal also said that some banks were giving documents related to the President's own business, the Trump Organization, to New York state investigators.
Investigators for the House Financial Services Committee and the House Intelligence Committee are reportedly working on a joint probe into whether there was potential foreign influence on Trump and his family.
The Journal said that more information will likely be handed over in coming weeks as the banks respond to subpoenas sent in April.
Trump has reportedly received around $2 billion in loans from Deutsche Bank over two decades. The Financial Times reported that the German Bank and Trump have had a complicated relationship, suing one another in 2008 over loans to build Trump International Hotel & Tower in downtown Chicago.
In April, it was reported that President Donald Trump, his children, the Trump Organization, and the Trump family trust filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and Capital One to bar them from complying with congressional subpoenas.
Trump's lawsuit, according to The New York Times in April, claims the subpoenas "have no legitimate or lawful purpose" and were issued to "harass" him and "to rummage through every aspect of his personal finances, his businesses, and the private information of the President and his family, and to ferret about for any material that might be used to cause him political damage."
Since then Deutsche Bank, Trump's primary bank, according to the Journal, has turned over emails, loan agreements, and other documents related to the Trump Organization office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, in response to a civil subpoena sent earlier this year.
According to the Journal, the congressional and state investigations are looking for different types of information. The congressional probe, which is reportedly being contested in court, is looking at a wide range of financial documents from the Trump family.
The state investigation comparatively, is looking at loans to the Trump Organization, according to people familiar with the New York investigation, the Journal wrote.
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Banks Hand Over Documents on Russians Possibly Linked to Trump
Some documents are related to Russians who may have had dealings with Mr. Trump, his family or Trump Organization
Deutsche Bank, Mr. Trump’s primary bank, has turned over emails, loan agreements and other documents related to the Trump Organization to the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, in response to a civil subpoena sent earlier this year, according to people familiar with the New York investigation. PHOTO: MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS
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Jean Eaglesham,
Rebecca Davis O’Brien,
Siobhan Hughes and
David Benoit
Aug. 8, 2019 5:30 am ET
Major Wall Street banks have given congressional committees investigating President Trump thousands of pages of documents related to Russians who may have had dealings with Mr. Trump, his family or his business, people familiar with the congressional probes said. Some banks are also giving documents related to Mr. Trump’s business, the Trump Organization, to New York state investigators, people familiar with the New York investigation said.
Wall Street firms including Bank of America Corp. , Citigroup Inc., Deutsche Bank AG ,JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co. have recently provided the documents to congressional investigators, according to people familiar with those probes. The investigators are working on a joint probe into potential foreign influence on Mr. Trump and his family by the House Financial Services Committee and the House Intelligence Committee. More information will likely be handed over in coming weeks as the banks continue to respond to subpoenas sent in April, the people said.
Paper Trail
Banks are handing over thousands of documents to investigators looking into President Trump’s finances.
Separately, Deutsche Bank, Mr. Trump’s primary bank, has turned over emails, loan agreements and other documents related to the Trump Organization to the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, in response to a civil subpoena sent earlier this year, according to people familiar with the New York investigation.
Ms. James’s office has also in recent weeks received financing documents and emails fromInvestors Bancorp Inc., the people said. The Short Hills, N.J., regional bank handed over thousands of pages in response to a civil subpoena demanding information on a 2010 mortgage on Trump Park Avenue, a condominium building in Manhattan owned by Mr. Trump, the people said.
Mr. Trump has filed several lawsuits seeking to block lawmakers and states from getting access to his bank, accounting and tax records. The documents being provided by the banks could give investigators some of the same information Mr. Trump is trying to block.
The legal fights “could drag on for months, if not years—and that of course is the president’s strategy,” said Saikrishna Prakash, a law professor at the University of Virginia. “The Democrats are seeking to investigate, embarrass the president, and he’s trying to delay his personal finances becoming public.”
Mr. Trump is fighting in court to try to stop Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corp. , two of the banks with the most information on his business, from handing over information to Congress. A federal appeals court in New York is due this month to consider a challenge by Mr. Trump, his three oldest children and his business to subpoenas from the House Intelligence and Financial Services Committees seeking records from the two banks. The banks have said they aren’t taking any position on whether they should be compelled to provide information.
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Another federal appeals court last month considered a bid by Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization to block a subpoena issued by the House Oversight Committee seeking eight years’ worth of financial statements and other records from Mazars USA LLP, Mr. Trump’s longtime accounting firm. Mazars said in a statement it will “respect the legal process and fully comply with its legal obligations.”
Mr. Trump also last month sued the Democratic-led U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, as well as the New York attorney general, to block the disclosure of years of his state tax returns.
Committee investigators are reviewing the documents provided to Congress so far by the Wall Street firms, House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D., Calif.), said in an interview in June. “We’ve gotten [information] from a lot of banks.”
Trump Park Avenue, a condominium building in Manhattan owned by Mr. Trump. PHOTO: KEITH BEDFORD FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Senior Democrat House intelligence committee officials said last month they are looking for evidence of foreign influence on the administration “whether it was during the campaign, the transition, the inauguration or currently.” Democrats are looking in particular for any evidence of Russian money going into Trump properties, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Mr. Trump has accused New York’s Ms. James, a Democrat who took office in January, of “harassing all of my New York businesses” to make him look bad. Ms. James responded in a tweet that “no one is above the law, not even the President.”
Mr. Trump has publicly declared that he was exonerated by former special counsel Robert Mueller’s nearly two-year probe into alleged Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election. Mr. Mueller in his report said he wasn’t exonerating Mr. Trump.
‘We’ve gotten [information] from a lot of banks,’ House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D., Calif.), said in an interview in June. PHOTO: STEFANI REYNOLDS/CNP/ZUMA PRESS
The New York attorney general’s subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Investors Bancorp are part of a civil investigation, which could yield fines or other civil actions if the office alleges illegality. The Deutsche Bank documents relate to three mortgages the bank extended to Mr. Trump’s business, as well as proposed financing that didn’t go through, people familiar with the New York investigation said. CNN reported earlier this year that Deutsche Bank had begun providing financial records to the New York attorney general.
Mr. Trump is seeking to quash the congressional subpoenas by arguing that Democrats are exceeding their constitutional powers by conducting investigations not directly tied to legislation. That legal argument couldn't be used to contest information demands from the New York attorney general, lawyers not involved with the investigation said.
The congressional and state investigations are seeking different types of information. The congressional subpoenas being contested in court are seeking a broad range of financial documents from the Trump family. In contrast, the documents being turned over to the New York attorney general involve loans to the Trump Organization, according to people familiar with the New York investigation.
The information already handed to Congress by banks includes records on Russian business people connected to a Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 involving members of Mr. Trump’s family, the people familiar with the congressional probes said.
The meeting, set up at the request of a billionaire Russian-Azerbaijani real-estate developer’s family, became a focal point in the Mueller investigation. The investigation didn’t establish that anyone affiliated with the Trump presidential campaign knowingly conspired with Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election, the report said.
The congressional subpoenas are also seeking any information the banks may have about Russians connected to conversations the Trump organization officials had about a potential real-estate development in Moscow, one person familiar with the matter said. The Trump Organization had explored the possibility of a new Trump Tower in Moscow before and during the campaign, and Mr. Mueller reported on the discussions about that project.
— Jenny Strasburg contributed to this article.
Banks Hand Over Documents on Russians Possibly Linked to Trump
Some documents are related to Russians who may have had dealings with Mr. Trump, his family or Trump Organization
Deutsche Bank, Mr. Trump’s primary bank, has turned over emails, loan agreements and other documents related to the Trump Organization to the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, in response to a civil subpoena sent earlier this year, according to people familiar with the New York investigation. PHOTO: MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS
By
Jean Eaglesham,
Rebecca Davis O’Brien,
Siobhan Hughes and
David Benoit
Aug. 8, 2019 5:30 am ET
Major Wall Street banks have given congressional committees investigating President Trump thousands of pages of documents related to Russians who may have had dealings with Mr. Trump, his family or his business, people familiar with the congressional probes said. Some banks are also giving documents related to Mr. Trump’s business, the Trump Organization, to New York state investigators, people familiar with the New York investigation said.
Wall Street firms including Bank of America Corp. , Citigroup Inc., Deutsche Bank AG ,JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co. have recently provided the documents to congressional investigators, according to people familiar with those probes. The investigators are working on a joint probe into potential foreign influence on Mr. Trump and his family by the House Financial Services Committee and the House Intelligence Committee. More information will likely be handed over in coming weeks as the banks continue to respond to subpoenas sent in April, the people said.
Paper Trail
Banks are handing over thousands of documents to investigators looking into President Trump’s finances.
Separately, Deutsche Bank, Mr. Trump’s primary bank, has turned over emails, loan agreements and other documents related to the Trump Organization to the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, in response to a civil subpoena sent earlier this year, according to people familiar with the New York investigation.
Ms. James’s office has also in recent weeks received financing documents and emails fromInvestors Bancorp Inc., the people said. The Short Hills, N.J., regional bank handed over thousands of pages in response to a civil subpoena demanding information on a 2010 mortgage on Trump Park Avenue, a condominium building in Manhattan owned by Mr. Trump, the people said.
Mr. Trump has filed several lawsuits seeking to block lawmakers and states from getting access to his bank, accounting and tax records. The documents being provided by the banks could give investigators some of the same information Mr. Trump is trying to block.
The legal fights “could drag on for months, if not years—and that of course is the president’s strategy,” said Saikrishna Prakash, a law professor at the University of Virginia. “The Democrats are seeking to investigate, embarrass the president, and he’s trying to delay his personal finances becoming public.”
Mr. Trump is fighting in court to try to stop Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corp. , two of the banks with the most information on his business, from handing over information to Congress. A federal appeals court in New York is due this month to consider a challenge by Mr. Trump, his three oldest children and his business to subpoenas from the House Intelligence and Financial Services Committees seeking records from the two banks. The banks have said they aren’t taking any position on whether they should be compelled to provide information.
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Another federal appeals court last month considered a bid by Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization to block a subpoena issued by the House Oversight Committee seeking eight years’ worth of financial statements and other records from Mazars USA LLP, Mr. Trump’s longtime accounting firm. Mazars said in a statement it will “respect the legal process and fully comply with its legal obligations.”
Mr. Trump also last month sued the Democratic-led U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, as well as the New York attorney general, to block the disclosure of years of his state tax returns.
Committee investigators are reviewing the documents provided to Congress so far by the Wall Street firms, House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D., Calif.), said in an interview in June. “We’ve gotten [information] from a lot of banks.”
Trump Park Avenue, a condominium building in Manhattan owned by Mr. Trump. PHOTO: KEITH BEDFORD FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Senior Democrat House intelligence committee officials said last month they are looking for evidence of foreign influence on the administration “whether it was during the campaign, the transition, the inauguration or currently.” Democrats are looking in particular for any evidence of Russian money going into Trump properties, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Mr. Trump has accused New York’s Ms. James, a Democrat who took office in January, of “harassing all of my New York businesses” to make him look bad. Ms. James responded in a tweet that “no one is above the law, not even the President.”
Mr. Trump has publicly declared that he was exonerated by former special counsel Robert Mueller’s nearly two-year probe into alleged Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election. Mr. Mueller in his report said he wasn’t exonerating Mr. Trump.
‘We’ve gotten [information] from a lot of banks,’ House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D., Calif.), said in an interview in June. PHOTO: STEFANI REYNOLDS/CNP/ZUMA PRESS
The New York attorney general’s subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Investors Bancorp are part of a civil investigation, which could yield fines or other civil actions if the office alleges illegality. The Deutsche Bank documents relate to three mortgages the bank extended to Mr. Trump’s business, as well as proposed financing that didn’t go through, people familiar with the New York investigation said. CNN reported earlier this year that Deutsche Bank had begun providing financial records to the New York attorney general.
Mr. Trump is seeking to quash the congressional subpoenas by arguing that Democrats are exceeding their constitutional powers by conducting investigations not directly tied to legislation. That legal argument couldn't be used to contest information demands from the New York attorney general, lawyers not involved with the investigation said.
The congressional and state investigations are seeking different types of information. The congressional subpoenas being contested in court are seeking a broad range of financial documents from the Trump family. In contrast, the documents being turned over to the New York attorney general involve loans to the Trump Organization, according to people familiar with the New York investigation.
The information already handed to Congress by banks includes records on Russian business people connected to a Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 involving members of Mr. Trump’s family, the people familiar with the congressional probes said.
The meeting, set up at the request of a billionaire Russian-Azerbaijani real-estate developer’s family, became a focal point in the Mueller investigation. The investigation didn’t establish that anyone affiliated with the Trump presidential campaign knowingly conspired with Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election, the report said.
The congressional subpoenas are also seeking any information the banks may have about Russians connected to conversations the Trump organization officials had about a potential real-estate development in Moscow, one person familiar with the matter said. The Trump Organization had explored the possibility of a new Trump Tower in Moscow before and during the campaign, and Mr. Mueller reported on the discussions about that project.
— Jenny Strasburg contributed to this article.
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