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Gilberts Dad's avatar

I learned more in this article than I have in the last 15 years of when I first heard of Epstein. Thanks Ellie.

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Lori Owen's avatar

Same here

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Georgina's avatar

Only a fool would not see it for what it is. But there are many fools.

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Matty's avatar

Classic choice - the perfect theme for the throngs of public servants who’ve already quit their jobs in disgust because of Trump.

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Rebecca McPhillips's avatar

I think proof that he’s guilty of sexual assault against minors — with or without Epstein’s involvement — is the only surefire way to get the country to unequivocally turn their backs on him. That being the case, he’s already tied up every conceivable loose end in order to make certain no one is alive to corroborate the story. I haven’t read your info all the way through yet, so I apologize if you already addressed this: I still would like to know more about the death of Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused both Epstein and Prince Andrew. There wasn’t a lot of news coverage, and I can’t help but question the true cause of her demise.

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Mary Kellogg's avatar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Giuffre gives her report of being insured in a collision with a bus, followed by renal failure. She died by suicide a month later (although her father claimed it wasn't suicide, but that "they'd gotten to her.") Lots of footnotes for a long article.

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Rebecca McPhillips's avatar

I agree with her father that it was suspicious. She said online she would be dead in a few days and she wasn’t. I think it’s possible she was supposed to die in that non-accident car wreck, and when she didn’t die then or shortly thereafter, she was eliminated another way. These people attempt to be covert in their removing of those in their way; they wanted it all to look like an accident, then a suicide. I put nothing past any of these people. Look at everything both Trump and Epstein have gotten away with, then think about how much worse it got when Trump entered office again and hid everything he could get his hands on that he hadn’t already hidden or destroyed — it’s never ending. The Untouchables will do ANYTHING to stay that way.

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Dee Elle's avatar

And how interesting Trump has been invited back by the King for an unprecedented second state visit…….

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Joyce M's avatar

Suspicious great minds think alike mmmm…..

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Mary Kellogg's avatar

Typo correction. "Insured" should be "injured." Mea culpa.

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

Noted❤️

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Zephyr's Lair's avatar

Ghisella is alive n in prison. That's a huge loose end

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John Connor's avatar

And her crimes didn't happen? There was no client list or evidence of crime according to the gutted DOJ and FBI. Bondi said it was on her desk until they got to her and wiped her memory. The DOJ and FBI, when they functioned as departments protecting the law and the public trust, would have put out a long report on their findings. It wouldn't be, welp didn't find anything, they explain how each lead did not turn up evidence at great length.

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Joyce M's avatar

All of the court filings on Epstein and Maxwell are available on the internet by name, date, court filed, attorney of record, judge presiding and all of the hearing proceedings unless classified by the court.

It takes time to find everything; but, it’s out there.

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John Connor's avatar

Yes, everyone should read all the court filings. The information is public. But I would also like to read the client list that Bondi said was on her desk and suddenly doesn't exist. The client list that MAGA wants even more than the 🍊🤡's enemies because 🌮 ran on exposing Dems with evidence in the Epstein files. We should see the Epstein files, including the client list, and then prosecute ALL associated pedophiles regardless of political affiliation. If protecting and punishing people who hurt children is no longer the American Way, then I don't know what America stands for anymore.

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Kathleen Wilber's avatar

Unfortunately evidence like videos are not public, and they have no intentions of releasing those videos. If they don't want to release the videos, they should at least have someone examine them to see if they can identify the men who were participating. But I'm not going to hold my breath on that happening.

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

I think we’re a long way from done with all this. People are debating the NDAs they signed decades ago.

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Zephyr's Lair's avatar

Ok apparently her stupid ass name is Ghislaine...correction.

But she is alive n still breathing in prison

Make her testify in front of Congress open session.

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John Connor's avatar

Yes, offer her a reduced sentence for testimony that implicates the 🍊🤡, aka 🌮, of crimes. And all the other pedophiles too. I don't care which political party they are in. Figure out and prosecute ALL lawbreakers is the American way.

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Rebecca McPhillips's avatar

I’m with you.

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Joyce M's avatar

Ellie, Way to go! You are One Serious Good Deed Doer! Many , many thanks for such a great job of compiling the data and presenting it in an accessible/readable format.

There’s nothing that you or anyone else can do to make the topic or the perpetrators less sleazy or perverted. The victims, alas, are beyond our reach at this point.

I only hope that they have received the help they needed and that they deserved in order to move on and live their best possible lives.

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Rebecca McPhillips's avatar

See below

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John Connor's avatar

I find the Katie Johnson case to be pretty damning. Here are the documents of the case: https://ellieleonard.substack.com/p/jane-doe-v-trump-and-epstein-2016

Long story short, Trump and Epstein and a 13 year old girl destroyed.

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Rebecca McPhillips's avatar

I know about that one as well. They threatened to kill one girl, there’s little doubt legally (none at all for me) they did it before that, and no doubt they’ve done it since. Actually, most of us have no doubt those criminals already have had multiple people killed for a variety of self-serving purposes.

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I-Can't-Even's avatar

Yes, but Gislaine is alive…at least for now

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Rebecca McPhillips's avatar

She’s in jail, and she has too much to lose if she says something. As long as she thinks she can convince Mein Trumpf to pardon her (or persuade someone else to convince him for her), she’ll stay quiet. Also, I presume she’s afraid she’ll end up like Epstein unless she’s as discreet now as she was when he was alive.

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John Connor's avatar

She is safer in witness protection in another country. She could be offered a sweet plea deal for her testimony and write a book about it later.

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Wendy E's avatar

If she gets pardoned and gets out, she won't live to tell all that she knows.

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Kay G's avatar

Thank You - I knew much of the information was out there. It’s been in documentaries and available on line, but you have made an easy to follow timeline for people.

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

Thank you, that was the goal

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Maria's avatar

Convenient for him. (Trump) a junkie, no matter if it’s drugs or in this case sex pedophile behavior.. it’s never too far from his connection.. JUST SAYING

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

Yep, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck…

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Michael Reichert's avatar

His favorite fable…”you knew I was a snake….”

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Maria's avatar

Yup. 🦆

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

Today Noel Casler re-posted on Substack his 2023 article about Trump’s pre-POTUS NYC mistreatment of girls and women. A treasure trove of bad behavior!

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

I’ll look for it thank you

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Michael Reichert's avatar

Alex Acosta was in charge of Palm Beach County’s prosecution of Epstein for the sexual crimes. Epstein received a jail sentence that allowed him to go to his home office Monday through Friday, 9 to 5.

Alex Acosta was later named U.S. Secretary of Labor in Trump’s first administration.

(The current Secretary of Labor is Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.)

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MUSA💙💙💙USAM's avatar

And his ‘office’ was in his home where most of the crimes occurred! They release the criminal to the location he committed the crimes! Let that sink in!!!

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Demetria Livingston's avatar

There’s a trail of corruption that is beyond disgusting. Trump will stop at nothing to burn the whole place down to save his own sorry ass. He’ll get what he has coming to him when he’s turned away from those “pearly gates”. You know, the one that his Right Wing Christian Nationalist cult thinks he came from.

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Michael Reichert's avatar

If he was sent by God, then he was sent as a test to the Evangelicals. They failed.

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Steven Bailey's avatar

Great Work here! This is what we need facts, not statements with no evidence!

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

Thank you! I try to do my homework ;)

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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

You can add this your information. You can judge for yourself. My verdict:Guilty until proven innocent.

https://rumble.com/v6p6esu-the-gropes-rapes-of-donald-j-trump-a-journey-in-to-the-mind-of-a-sick-preda.html

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Susan Cox Smith's avatar

13 years old. He needs to be in prison!!!!!

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

100%. But that was a case that involved more young women. There were many.

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Susan Cox Smith's avatar

Makes me sick to my stomach

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Jack Charney's avatar

Tho I understand why she won’t come forward I’ve always hoped Jane Doe would come forward and save our nations wounded soul from this beast….

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

She received a lot of threats from the other side and from people at large, and I think backed down due to self preservation. They didn’t even offer her a settlement, just overpowered her until she quit.

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Jennae Bullet's avatar

Re: Epstein’s ‘suicide’: I thought there is just over one minute missing from the video outside Epsteins cell the night he died? What I read was the cell hall video tape went blank from sometime during 11:58pm and only resumes just after 12:00am. Not true?

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

I posted just the first portion of the security footage but the FBI linked two in their statement: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1407001/dl?inline

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Maria's avatar

Oh. You have been busy 🦆‼️. T.Y.

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Maria's avatar

Yes,I saw that . It’s on internet. And then the hooded individual!

Americans are so busy, surviving his tsunami of attacks.

That he believes( the king of chaos.) will never investigate on their own so to speak pull the wall over our eyes.. . You can do it to some people some of the time. But not all. ,‼️

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Bethany's avatar

I’m convinced Melania was an Epstein girl Trump decided to take home.

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

Very likely could have been considering how they met

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Wendy E's avatar

You know who I bet is in there, John Roberts. That's why he always has Trump's back in these court cases.

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I-Can't-Even's avatar

I believe that, too, unless 💩 has equally bad kompromat of a different sort on Roberts. I’m sure he has something on every one of the SCROTUS men

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Bob Henry Baber's avatar

Alan Dershowitz…..how has this man continued to thrive?? Please write about him.

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

Ooh, that’s a good one

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JoAnne Campbell's avatar

Where do you get your coffee

Because l don’t know how the heck you produce like you do ?

Your kids must be special little pages and angels

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

Also I’m supposed to be writing a book right now and these articles are just me procrastinating

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JoAnne Campbell's avatar

What is it about🧚🏻‍♀️

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Ellie Leonard's avatar

😆I think I just thrive in chaos

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JoAnne Campbell's avatar

😆🌸

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JoAnne Campbell's avatar

Elli 42 howdy do you are in da groove on a roll seeing you grow

Told ya so! Hey did you have fun in the city! I need my metropolitan art museum fix

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JoAnne Campbell's avatar

I got up the courage to read one of my poems at club congress Sunday and then more to put it in my feed let me know how it hits you Elli Meadow Shadows. Hope you are doing popcorn and movies with your children tonight. Later gator. 46 is aging ten years every day it seems EPSTEIN. Can’t wait.

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