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Kid Berwyn

(23,687 posts)
19. I noticed that, too.
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 10:47 AM
Yesterday

The thing needs updating. I blame the redactions.



Jeffrey Epstein claimed he gave Russians insight into Trump

Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.


By KYLE CHENEY and NAHAL TOOSI
Politico, 11/12/2025

Nearly a month before President Donald Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top diplomat: If you want to understand Trump, talk to me.

“I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” Epstein wrote in a June 24, 2018, email to Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway who was leading the Council of Europe at the time of the exchange. Lavrov was an apparent reference to Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s longtime foreign minister.

In the email exchange, one of hundreds released Wednesday by congressional investigators, Epstein indicated he had previously talked about Trump with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s forceful ambassador to the United Nations, before Churkin died in 2017.

“Churkin was great,” Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, wrote. “He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.”

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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-russia-emails-00648919



Above, First Organ Grinder Lavrov in the Oval Office with traitor monkey. “Blackmail. It works.”

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Holy moly - that is quite an article. OhioBlue Saturday #1
Are you going to market Epstein trading cards, or do I have to 😀 usonian Saturday #2
lol - feel free! OhioBlue Saturday #5
I still have a set of Iran-Contra Scandal trading cards. Pinback Saturday #10
That's what I remember! usonian Saturday #11
Would they fit on your livng room floor.. ananda Saturday #6
Bookmarking MustLoveBeagles Saturday #3
This brings to mind that famous line, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" flashman13 Saturday #4
Your spell checker substituted "tentacles" for usonian Saturday #12
... flashman13 Yesterday #13
Very interesting and yes it is a question, why did she feel the need to Bev54 Saturday #7
Hoping the Streisand effect causes some positive actions! erronis Saturday #8
Time for a lot of independents to dog these aholes. They should set up a legal fund for all the Bev54 Saturday #9
Katherine Keating is connected to Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell too muriel_volestrangler Yesterday #14
Fascinating. Another picture into the "close" relations these people have. erronis Yesterday #15
Epstein was the global Fixer of Fixers Kid Berwyn Yesterday #16
I guess Putin is not considered part of his "social" network. More like business or crime network. erronis Yesterday #18
I noticed that, too. Kid Berwyn Yesterday #19
That is an impressive many-tentacled thing. Some "interesting" outliers. erronis Yesterday #20
Whale Hunters Kid Berwyn 22 hrs ago #24
Yep Jbraybarten Yesterday #21
Nick Ribis was one of Trump's lawyers Dread Pirate Roberts Yesterday #17
There is so much yet to know. yellow dahlia 23 hrs ago #22
They (rich/powerful people) are so easily manipulated. "People come up to me with tears in their eyes, ..." erronis 23 hrs ago #23
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