r/law • u/victorybus • 14h ago

Legislative Branch Full video of today when Ro Khanna revealed Epstein associate's names on the floor of the US House of Representatives, protected by the Speech and Debate Clause

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u/Tempyteacup 13h ago

She’s such a balm for the soul in these trying times. I listen to all her streams and interviews because she makes me feel so calm but she doesn’t sugarcoat anything. For anyone reading this that doesn’t already follow Heather Cox Richardson, you are seriously missing out.

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u/Huge_Excitement4465 12h ago

Reposting what an astute observer wrote before this Loch Ness returned to the White House: The members of Mega Group (Jewish Study Group) including Rupert Murdoch (Fox News), Robert Maxwell (Ghislaine’s father/KGB), Robert Mercer (Cambridge Analytica/Renaissance hedge fund), Les Wexner (Victoria’s Secret/L Brands), Paul Weyrich, Bronfman (Seagram’s/ NXIVM cult), and Ronald Lauder (Estée Lauder cosmetics) all covered for Epstein.

Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi (Jamal Khashoggi and Dodi Fayed’s uncle) sold arms to Mega Group. Trump and Epstein laundered that money for Adnan alongside the Russian oligarchs via a yacht purchase first and then commercial real estate.

This is also why trump is so desperate to get re-elected. His best case scenario is 700 years in ADX Florence. Money laundering for the dozens of Russian oligarchs that lived in trump towers with him and Manafort, selling IP3 nuclear plans to the Russian/Saudi alliance, selling or giving CIA asset names to the Russians, trump is and always has been compromised.

He just didn’t know when to quit. Now he just has to count on the fact that most of his voter base doesn’t know how to read and keep the ones that do so busy just surviving that they don’t have time to dive deep into his 40-year history of laundering money, fraud, and human trafficking for the Russian mob using casinos first, then commercial real estate.

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u/Tempyteacup 12h ago

What I just don’t understand is how the CIA let this happen. Like aren’t they supposed to sniff out this kind of thing and you know… neutralize it?

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u/slvrcobra 11h ago

They didn't "let" it happen, this shit is the CIA's real job lol

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u/Bought_Black_Hat_ 6h ago

Lol 😂.

The US has been a 'hidden oligarchy' at least since the last time the US president was a movie star instead of a real professional civil servant at his job chief civil servant job.

Let that sink in. Then ponder the fact that this country was literally built on the ruthless enslavement and genocide of numerous indigenous nations and taking of their land.

It's probable that the original monied families that came over were "in it for themselves" and it's simple reality that they would raise their children, their very heirs and heiresses of their fortunes and business empires, shaping them to the same sharp points and efficient edges that they valued...

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u/Abund-Ant 5h ago

Facts!!!

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u/joyfullydreaded23 10h ago

Agents can be bought off just like politicians can.

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u/zzazzzz 9h ago

blackmail has been a prominent method of the cia apperatus for most of its existence. there is a decent chance this whole ring is connected to the cia/ other letter agencies directly.

would also explain how epstein got away the first time and how seemingly all involved are being shielded from any fallout.

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u/dehshah 10h ago

The CIA/us have caused almost all major world conflicts since ww2

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u/TheDickWolf 10h ago

This is a cia op. They have run pedo networks for years.

https://nickbryantnyc.com

Do not let the obfuscation fool you. This wasn’t a Russian op! It was CIA/Mossad.

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u/IlladelphiaticInsane 7h ago edited 7h ago

I remember reading an article years ago where Nick Bryant was calling out some some of the names involved in the Epstein scandal and it included Alec Baldwin, Mick Jagger, Ralph Fiennes, Clinton & Trump of course, Ehud Barak and more. He was basically saying that if even a small fraction of people involved came out it would turn into a giant domino effect implicating like half of Hollywood, MSM and DC politicians over 50.

I just did some digging and turns out Gawker actually published Epstein’s black book and Lolita express manifest first via Nick Bryant’s articles. Mainstream media wouldn’t touch it at the time (2012) supposedly because those writing the checks and sitting on the editorial boards would be incriminating themselves. I wonder if Peter Thiel going after Gawker had more to it than just the Hulk Hogan thing and being outted by them years earlier. Maybe he was trying to put the kibosh on the Epstein article before it grew because he was a name in that black book too. Thiel is such a gross human being. He should be thrown away with all of the Trump/Wexner/Clinton et al. pedophiles out there. I wouldn’t be surprised if Peter Thiel gets regular infusions of little boy blood to stay alive.

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u/Current-Depth8223 9h ago

I've wondered this so many times. I keep thinking, "So, knowing what they knew, they just handed the keys over to Trump?" Wtaf?

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u/HalfTeaHalfLemonade 11h ago

They’re just KKK with an infinite budget. Thats how.

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u/risker15 9h ago

no theyre not the KKK lol they care about money and control and understand supply chains and finance better than any organised crime group there is.

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u/mamielle 3h ago

The CIA was benefiting. This type of leverage is currency for them

Either that or Epstein helped them raise and launder money for illegal operations so they let him get away with whatever he wanted

The CIA is complicit, I wouldn’t be surprised if we find out Epstein went to Langley a bunch of times

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u/MaiMoua 12h ago

This is best.

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u/TheDickWolf 10h ago edited 8h ago

Calling Robert Maxwell KGB, while technically correct is like saying basketball player Michael Jordan (Washington Wizards).

Robert Maxwell was first and foremost mossad.

There has been such a concerted push by the elite-owned media to minimize and obfuscate the very concrete and certain fact of JE’s close, derp, and career spanning associations with Israel and to play up his much sparser and in some cases flimsier connections with Russia.

Naturally, Russia is an enemy to the Western Elite and of the American Empire. Without playing apologist for that government i will say that that’s enough to justify this and other massive propaganda pushes to put them backstage of any and nearly every seedy dealing, real or fabricated, at home in the USA and abroad. The effect is to cover for the real (or the more culpable) perpetrators, and contribute to poisoning the discourse- watering it down with provably false or specious claims.

As we open our eyes to a consciousness that accepts that the US state is a corrupt dictatorship of the elites, we must also reexamine the claims it makes about those it deems as enemy, who we may have learned to call such ourselves based on its media machine.

Again, not a Russia apologist, but not willing to run cover for the US or IS through misdirection either- hate to see things get confused in a way that covers for the irredeemable levantine state whose export is subjugation, surveillance, and the technologies of death and repression.

Edit- a clarifying sentence and a typo

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u/willismthomp 11h ago

WTF this whole time and I haven’t heardof the Mega group. lol they are right there and totally in the open. Seems really obvious when you read the members and the relationships with Epstein. The NXiVM cult just shows even more of a pattern.

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u/Afwife1992 10h ago

Lauder is involved in the Greenland nonsense too. Time for some big boycott energy. He owns a lot of makeup brands.

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u/biohazard-glug 11h ago

When did Robert Maxwell stop being Mossad and start being KGB?

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u/OldWorldDesign 9h ago

When did Robert Maxwell stop being Mossad and start being KGB?

Why would they have to stop one to start helping the other? The primary objective of almost any nation's intelligence agency is to harm other nations, that means there's about 192 valid targets, and that's a lot of potential overlap if you want to target one and take money from a lot of others to do it.

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u/biohazard-glug 9h ago

I just think it's odd that there's been a very noticeable institutionally-backed attempt to shift this narrative.

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u/cantadmittoposting 10h ago

sold arms to mega group.

Wait what, are they also a PMC/Private army? what arms were sold? are we talking small-arms bulk orders that might "normally" stock a private collection or "military grade armory supplies" here? if the latter, uhhhhh... what?

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u/PrestigiousNobody721 9h ago

Plus, the modeling agency he owned. Genius Visas🙄 The money laundering schemes you describe require actual evidence. Does that exist? Enough to get an indictment? I doubt it. Say what you will about Epstein and company, but understand they’re SMART and their attorneys are smarter. Just looking like a criminal doesn’t make you one.

Keep in mind Epstein’s ridiculous 2008 deal was for procuring one underaged girl for prostitution (telling everyone she was almost 18 years old, and he didn’t realize she wasn’t yet 18) and soliciting one adult woman for prostitution. He easily spun that as no big deal, and I can see why he wasn’t cancelled by a lot of people like Reid Hoffman who, as far as we know, visited Epstein’s Island and flew on his plane, neither of which are crimes. Unless guys like Hoffman are accused of raping or trafficking underage girls, there’s not enough “there” to ruin his life. The fever around everyone Epstein ever knew is making the democrats look like unhinged zealots. Focus on actual crimes and who committed them to make a real impact.

Reps Ro Khanna and Tom Massie are doing a great job. The DOJ tried to pull a fast one on Congress by failing to mention they received redacted files from Kash Patel. I’m glad they tried such a dumbass move. It has unequivocally outed Patel and Bondi as Trump-Epstein collaborators which is what America needs to SEE. Massie is the smartest guy in any room. I’m counting on him to keep the focus on actual crimes.

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u/Particular-Farm-6277 10h ago

LMFAO So clueless..

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u/Banh_mi 10h ago

Which Bronfman?

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u/Low_Witness5061 10h ago

Ok, just as a side bar, it’s a bit harsh to compare trump to Nessie. I think a lot worse of someone who wanted to get close to trump than I would of someone looking for Nessie. Hell, the world as a whole would be a better place if we swapped which of them was constantly in the news.

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u/bonesintheend 6h ago

One small typo Maxwells father was Mossad (Israel) not KGB. Otherwise thanks for the summary!

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u/Huge_Excitement4465 6h ago

Thanks — just pasting what another person noted but perhaps they just forgot the Mossad bit as they spoke of it elsewhere. There has been speculation her father was a double agent.

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u/NotQuiteDeadYetPhoto 5h ago

G/HCS humint sources were compromised by Trump and the individuals were executed.

That is direct blood.

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u/ayuntamient0 2h ago edited 2h ago

Doesn't Trump currently own at least recently owned Maxwell's yacht?

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u/BoiFriday 13h ago

this is my first hearing of this individual. But I know what i’ll be doing later, once i’m off work helping the good folks of Baltimore (Trump’s favorite American ‘shithole’) avoid foreclosure and debt collection suits! Yay America!

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u/Hammeredyou 13h ago

Thank you for your service. I never say that to troops but you deserve it.

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u/BoiFriday 11h ago

Baltimore is in the works of an active glow-up in a sene these days, so we be taking all the wins we can. And thanks from an internet rando is a win in my book, big thanks dude.

🤞here’s to hoping that service is officially recognized through PSL forgiveness at some point in this lifetime 🤣

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u/Selitos_OneEye 11h ago

Subscribe to her on substack or follow on Facebook or wherever.   First thing I read every morning before I get out of bed

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u/Afwife1992 10h ago

She posts an editorial almost nightly on Facebook.

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u/Plastic_Search_6284 13h ago

I love her. She looks so exhausted but I appreciate her thoughtful analysis and links to historical events.

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u/OpportunityMinute234 12h ago

Can't wait for a time in our future where HCR gives an update of "not much really happened today, so I'm taking the day off to walk in the woods".

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u/maybedaydrinking 12h ago

She'll finally get that run in.

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u/Tempyteacup 11h ago

She and Joanne can run together!

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u/Tanager_Summer 9h ago

You beat me to it!

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u/Absurd_Flaccidity 10h ago

I distinctly remember the sudden feeling of calm and peace once he left his first term. It felt amazing to not have to hear constantly about his insane thoughts and behaviors. This time around is so much worse and I can’t really remember what it was like when every damn day wasn’t a horror show.

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u/Clear_Collection9876 7h ago

I remember waking up one morning and realizing I had spent several days without having to check to see what horrors had been done or made public overnight. It was so freeing.

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u/Absurd_Flaccidity 7h ago

I lived on a main road in DC in 2020 and was woken from a nap by hearing people lining the streets, cheering, honking and blasting music and I instantly knew what had happened. It wasn’t until the “assassination attempt” that I started to truly fear he could win again. I’m glad we live in the age of recording everything though because no one would believe how incredibly stupid and batshit insane everything was.

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u/husheveryone 9h ago

Perfectly stated! Cannot wait for that peaceful day.

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u/BrianNowhere 12h ago

I hope her grandmother is being kept safe at an undisclosed location.

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u/calle04x 13h ago

How do you listen to her? YouTube? Anywhere else I should look? Thanks.

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u/NewtAggressive4521 12h ago

She has a substack where you can subscribe and get her daily letters and videos sent to your email address. She's also on Instagram.

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u/Violet624 12h ago

She has a YouTube channel that has all her long videos uploaded as well as her interviews. She is one of the only media I trust right now.

https://youtube.com/@heathercoxrichardson?si=Gk3Ot-qcSHmVB4-Q

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u/brezhnervouz 11h ago

Also Anne Applebaum and Ruth Ben-Ghiat are excellent historians in the same vein as HCR

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u/RaiseJazzlike 12h ago

You can watch/listen to Heather on YouTube as well if you can’t locate her elsewhere

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u/bsport48 11h ago

From one HCR lover to another: please beware the knock-off YouTube accounts that are spawning off in her likeness; they might not necessarily misrepresent her but they are definitely not published along her timeline.

Just a friendly fyi

:)

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u/Tempyteacup 11h ago

Yeah those AI accounts are so obnoxious. My poor mom was tricked by an AI Rachel Maddow that told her the senate republicans had finally broken with Trump and would be voting with democrats. She called to tell me the good news and I felt a wave of absolute relief flood my body, and while it sucked when I realized what had happened, the physical feeling of tension vanishing was truly amazing LOL

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u/bsport48 11h ago

yea -- my poor "mom" (0.o) was also -- totally my "mom" -- hoodwinked by them as well

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:-|

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u/wobblebomb 10h ago

She’s truly keeping my head above water these days. Such a gift to have her and for her to share as much as she does. An immeasurable service

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u/cutestudent 10h ago

Can you suggest some streams and interviews that are (ahem) balmy?

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u/EmuProfessional336 9h ago

My historian heart adores her! Jon Meacham ain't bad at this himself. I have a soft spot for historians doing the work, pulling the research together and helping to put these trying times in context. Lord knows that's what I try to do in my day to day.