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Trueblue Texan

(4,310 posts)
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 09:59 PM 11 hrs ago

I'm convinced it was more than just a sex trafficking ring...

It was an international plot, stealing state secrets, blackmailing, manipulating markets, consolidating wealth, holding working families hostage to increase the wealth of an international oligarchy and concentrating power in the hands of a few very evil people. Accountability must be severe and guaranteed.

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I'm convinced it was more than just a sex trafficking ring... (Original Post) Trueblue Texan 11 hrs ago OP
If it walks like a duck... GiqueCee 11 hrs ago #1
I entirely agree with you. Also, I think that it still exists. . . . h2ebits 11 hrs ago #2
Agreed and all roads lead to Putin. There's a reason why Trump and his gang are pro-Putin and why everything they do Doodley 11 hrs ago #3
Trump was right in the middle of all of it Blues Heron 11 hrs ago #4
I've said that a few times on this site and I'm sharing that with anyone who talks about Pedolf. Probatim 11 hrs ago #5
they come to the casino to see a show or gamble rampartd 8 hrs ago #26
Yep. Bread and Circuses 11 hrs ago #6
and from a real island, not a non-existent basement under a pizza parlor. Norrrm 11 hrs ago #7
I hope that I live long enough to LakeVermilion 11 hrs ago #8
In 2016 we already knew about a golden showers pee tape. How quaint. And we knew Putin had interfered in our election. BadgerMom 11 hrs ago #9
It's Almost TOO Quaint. Wonder What It Really Means. ForeGoneLegsBirne 4 hrs ago #30
TSF may have isolated us from all our allies, but those allies will facilitate ... Trueblue Texan 35 min ago #36
Read my posts! usonian 11 hrs ago #10
Right on! kentuck 10 hrs ago #11
The sex trafficking was the hook, Hassler 10 hrs ago #12
And with the recent allegations surrounding Howard Lutnick... Initech 10 hrs ago #13
Yeah, just like in the movies Figarosmom 10 hrs ago #14
Of course it was Warpy 10 hrs ago #15
I've come to realize that sex trafficking was just a hook. patphil 10 hrs ago #16
I believe murder was also involved. Epstein purchased 220 gallons of sulphuric acid, possibly to dispose of bodies. Fil1957 10 hrs ago #17
And possibly killing girls. iemanja 10 hrs ago #18
Way more than possibly womanofthehills 10 hrs ago #19
It gets more awful by the day. iemanja 9 hrs ago #20
WOW Just_Vote_Dem 33 min ago #37
Yes, of course. H2O Man 9 hrs ago #21
Absolutely correct! HappyLarge 9 hrs ago #22
Accountability will probably come from Europe and non-US countries. nilram 9 hrs ago #23
I read about Epstein talking to scientists hoosierspud 8 hrs ago #24
The ultra wealthy crime syndicate. roamer65 8 hrs ago #25
Of course it was Metaphorical 7 hrs ago #27
That's exactly why I believe it's unlikely Dark n Stormy Knight 7 hrs ago #28
I wish I could recommend this OP a million times. Irish_Dem 6 hrs ago #29
You know who knows everything... Ghislaine Maxwell IcyPeas 4 hrs ago #31
I totally agree .. Bo Zarts 2 hrs ago #32
Yup, a komromat factory for wealth and power accumulation. GoCubsGo 1 hr ago #33
Far more. OldBaldy1701E 1 hr ago #34
Correct is right malaise 1 hr ago #35

h2ebits

(992 posts)
2. I entirely agree with you. Also, I think that it still exists. . . .
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 10:09 PM
11 hrs ago

Epstein is just the tip of the iceberg.

Doodley

(11,825 posts)
3. Agreed and all roads lead to Putin. There's a reason why Trump and his gang are pro-Putin and why everything they do
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 10:11 PM
11 hrs ago

benefits Putin.

Probatim

(3,250 posts)
5. I've said that a few times on this site and I'm sharing that with anyone who talks about Pedolf.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 10:18 PM
11 hrs ago

Lure them in under the premise of networking, set them up with a honeypot, and blackmail the ever loving shit out of them.

That so many in Pedolf's cabinet are also in the files, means there's a lot we'll never know about.

rampartd

(4,439 posts)
26. they come to the casino to see a show or gamble
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 01:20 AM
8 hrs ago

comp a room with a video setup and send in the dead girl or live boy.

his cabinet are "loyal" because if not the video can be leaked or the redactions flubbed.

Bread and Circuses

(1,791 posts)
6. Yep.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 10:18 PM
11 hrs ago

I’ve come to same co clusion.

This is much more than a political toppling.

We have a borderless conglomerate of criminal syndicates re-tooling Fascism with Tech/Crypto.

BadgerMom

(3,404 posts)
9. In 2016 we already knew about a golden showers pee tape. How quaint. And we knew Putin had interfered in our election.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 10:46 PM
11 hrs ago

So many more dots are connected now. And those connections will continue to grow. If we had functioning investigative journalists and a functioning justice department we’d be further along, but our role as observers putting pressure on journalists and jurists cannot end.

Trueblue Texan

(4,310 posts)
36. TSF may have isolated us from all our allies, but those allies will facilitate ...
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 09:18 AM
35 min ago

...our resurrection in the world by holding the investigations our own government won't. This isn't just about our nation, this is global. It is all going to be blown to smithereens and justice will be done. There is no stopping it now. The rats will abandon ship before you and I will know what is happening and their walls of secrecy will collapse.

usonian

(24,396 posts)
10. Read my posts!
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 10:54 PM
11 hrs ago

I've been saying that the Trump-Epstein illicit sex, blackmail and money laundering operation was (and maybe still is) the biggest crime operation in all of history.

I left out state secrets because I don't have clearances, but those boxes in Trump's shithouse?

Someone just posted today that Epstein hid away his secrets all over. They showed receipts (credit card charges) for storage facilities other than the 18th hole at Trump's golf course.

kentuck

(115,331 posts)
11. Right on!
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 11:03 PM
10 hrs ago

I agree with you.

And there is much more to that pardon that Trump gave to that drug dealer from Honduras, I believe?

It's a huge money-laundering operation also.

Hassler

(4,852 posts)
12. The sex trafficking was the hook,
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 11:08 PM
10 hrs ago

Then the blackmail, money laundering, espionage, destabilizing governments...

Initech

(108,268 posts)
13. And with the recent allegations surrounding Howard Lutnick...
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 11:12 PM
10 hrs ago

I'm seriously wondering what Goldman-Sachs' connection is in all of this. They were Epstein's bank. They were the central financiers of this horrible syndicate.

Figarosmom

(11,084 posts)
14. Yeah, just like in the movies
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 11:14 PM
10 hrs ago

The big evil world wide cabal that wants to rule the world. By blackmail, purchase or inticement. Nothing good about them.

Warpy

(114,536 posts)
15. Of course it was
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 11:18 PM
10 hrs ago

First are his first two jobs, obvious cover jobs, the first provided by William Barr Sr, a former OSS spook. How a double college dropout was initally connected to the intelligence services is something I'd very much love to know. He was as unqualified as a prep school teacher as he was for his second job at Bear Stearns. However he was plugged in, he stayed that way long enough for them to run interference during his first conviction.

(Former prince) Andrew Windsor has been arrested for feeding Epstein classified material. He's most likely not alone and I doubt if he'd been arrested unless the Crown had masses of evidence. What we don't know is what Epstein did with it.

Epstein was well known to curry favor and gain access to the rich and powerf Once he'd gotten access, he set about finding out ul by doing favors for them, from money laundering to just letting them use one of his planes for honest or even lofty purposes. Once he'd gained access, he reportedly set about exploiting them.

Whispers for years have mentioned money laundering, blackmail, extortion, embezzlement, and just outright theft. It has long seemed to me that trafficking underage kids for sex was a sideline, his favorite hobby.

How much of this will we ever know? Not much, not for a very long time. Everyone who enabled him, funded him, used his services, got blackmailed, or was trafficked has to be safely dead before this shit really starts to come out.

I have little doubt that he was murdered in jail by people who didn't want him to talk about any of it, ever. I just wonder what took them so long.

patphil

(8,899 posts)
16. I've come to realize that sex trafficking was just a hook.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 11:21 PM
10 hrs ago

It was one of the ways they used to compromise thousands of rich and powerful people from around the world and use the information they could get from them, or had on them to gain money, power, and control on a global scale.
It's like The High Table from the John Wick movies; a secret organization of elites that manages a vast criminal enterprise, and manipulates markets, banks, and governments everywhere.
Their goal is to destroy the idea of freedom.
It consists of a small ruling class, a large overseer class that runs day to day operations, and enforces the rules, and a huge lower class of expendable workers. This is all coming to fruition through the development of AI as an all seeing eye that puts absolute power in the hands of the ruling class. It also makes it possible to rule a world of far less people than are on it now.

If they have their way,eventually governments will only exist to do their bidding.
We only have a small window of time to call a halt to this. The biggest block to our success is the willingness of so many tens of millions of people to either let it happen, or actually help make it happen.

Fil1957

(640 posts)
17. I believe murder was also involved. Epstein purchased 220 gallons of sulphuric acid, possibly to dispose of bodies.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 11:32 PM
10 hrs ago

womanofthehills

(10,845 posts)
19. Way more than possibly
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 11:45 PM
10 hrs ago

And Rep Melanie Stanberry mentioned probably also men at Zorro Ranch.

Jeffrey had a trap door on the Island that went right into the sea. And all the talk about “jerky “

HappyLarge

(85 posts)
22. Absolutely correct!
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 12:00 AM
9 hrs ago

Until humans societies all agree that everyone is a person and not a thing to be stripped of value and left as garbage in the street, it’ll keep happening.

nilram

(3,525 posts)
23. Accountability will probably come from Europe and non-US countries.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 12:27 AM
9 hrs ago

Our (semi) trusted law enforcement agencies are complicit, if not aiding and abetting.

hoosierspud

(226 posts)
24. I read about Epstein talking to scientists
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 12:57 AM
8 hrs ago

About eugenics and wanting to create a superior group of humans by impregnating women with his sperm. (Did Elon steal his idea?) Its been thought that the New Mexico ranch was a baby farm.

roamer65

(37,866 posts)
25. The ultra wealthy crime syndicate.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 01:02 AM
8 hrs ago

“Behind every great fortune there is a crime”.

-Mario Puzo, Godfather. (Honore de Balzac)


I definitely agree and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Metaphorical

(2,612 posts)
27. Of course it was
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 02:02 AM
7 hrs ago

Last edited Tue Feb 24, 2026, 02:40 AM - Edit history (1)

It was a massive intelligence conspiracy, with sex trafficking and drugs no doubt a part of it as well as selling of state secrets and it was no doubt how Trump was both able to keep others under control, and how others made sure that Trump remained at least somewhat under control. He is not the mastermind, though likely he is part of a cabal.

Here's the problem for him. Trump is now a liability. He's exposing the network due to his incompetence and increasing senility, and important people - not just those who were ensnared but also those who were involved - are increasingly coming under the spotlight. He's making mistakes and losing enough support that no amount of electoral shenanigans are going to keep the illusion that he has popular support - or that he actually won the election in 2024 that he likely lost (note, I have never believed that he legitimately won in 2024, not by the margins that he did).

Things are unravelling. We have a GOP Texas Congressman that is embroiled in a major sex scandal who may tip the House, Democrats are winning in by-elections that they've not done in decades, and the spotlight is now on elections at a very bad time for the GOP - and Trump. He doesn't have hold of the military, and ICE, while not neutered, has been dealt some serious blows.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,484 posts)
28. That's exactly why I believe it's unlikely
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 02:10 AM
7 hrs ago

they'll be held accountable. They have too much power & money.

Irish_Dem

(80,613 posts)
29. I wish I could recommend this OP a million times.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 03:26 AM
6 hrs ago

You hit the nail on the head TT.

Thanks for posting it!

GoCubsGo

(34,820 posts)
33. Yup, a komromat factory for wealth and power accumulation.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 07:59 AM
1 hr ago

They were laundering money, too. And, it likely all leads to Putin. It's getting more and more obvious.

OldBaldy1701E

(10,844 posts)
34. Far more.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 08:08 AM
1 hr ago

I suspect there are some Illuminati believers who are laughing their asses off right this moment.

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