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kentuck

(111,069 posts)
Mon Aug 12, 2019, 03:56 PM Aug 2019

How much would Michael Cohen know about Epstein's sex trafficking?

My guess would be that he knows a lot. He probably knows how much Donald Trump was involved in the sex trafficking business? He probably knows that Mr Trump used it as an incentive for his Russian and Saudi customers? He probably understands that it was one of the biggest sex trafficking rings in the world?

But he could never tell. He just wants to get out of jail.

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Leghorn21

(13,523 posts)
2. Been wondering, k - but I'm afraid that whatever Cohen knows or knew will not be forthcoming -
Mon Aug 12, 2019, 04:02 PM
Aug 2019

dammit

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
3. Was Epstein using it to blackmail others, or sell it to Putin and others for huge sums,
Mon Aug 12, 2019, 04:09 PM
Aug 2019

And trump was caught up in it too? Maybe trump was blackmailing others too by setting them up with sex and either blackmailing them or corrupting them to say give them sweetheart deals for himself or his close friends? Wouldn't surprise me if Cohen knew about many things trump was doing , or a lot worse stuff.

kentuck

(111,069 posts)
6. There was a story that Epstein lost the bidding war to Trump for a mansion in Florida...
Mon Aug 12, 2019, 04:26 PM
Aug 2019

...that was later sold to a Russian for about a $50 million dollar profit?

That leads me to believe that Epstein, like Trump, was in the money-laundering business. That is where he made his money. The records now being handed over by Deutsch Bank and others, may give some major clues?

It is just my opinion, but I believe Trump was running the sex trade out of Mar-a-Lago before he persuaded Epstein to move it to his properties. It was Trump that was running the beauty contests for teenagers and had access to young girls, before Epstein came along. If there was money to be made, Trump would insist that he get his cut.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
4. He was given plenty of chance to spill what he knows to stay out of prison. He didn't offer anything
Mon Aug 12, 2019, 04:11 PM
Aug 2019

in his last hearing, other than trump is mean, a cad, a racist, etc. Folks knew that when he was elected.

I get hoping something takes trump down, but I don't think Epstein is it either.

42bambi

(1,753 posts)
5. So...let's see, how much did Epstein
Mon Aug 12, 2019, 04:26 PM
Aug 2019

have to pay others to keep silent, and/or...how much did others have to pay Epstein to keep silent? ...or both?

Karadeniz

(22,486 posts)
7. They need to track down and interview the foreign girls who were instructed as to how to get
Mon Aug 12, 2019, 04:29 PM
Aug 2019

Into the country without triggering immigration so they could work for Trump's modeling company...and they were supposedly made to live in substandard conditions.

Shaddox

(384 posts)
8. Can't believe I'm saying this but I think that shit would even be a line for a scumbag like Cohen.
Mon Aug 12, 2019, 05:28 PM
Aug 2019

the only humanity I glean in the guy is that he loves his kids. If Trump was sexually trafficking minors, or abusing children, i don't think that would be a "confidence" that can ever be shared even with an inner circle because it is too dangerous. If it happened, Cohen didn't know.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
9. If Cohen
Mon Aug 12, 2019, 05:34 PM
Aug 2019

knew anything about Epstein and Trump, he wouldn't be in prison right now. As for the Russians and especially the Saudis, they already have plenty of women to enslave sexually all on their own, and can get rid of them anytime they want. They wouldn't take a chance with a US-provided "honey pot", whether the provider was a US President or not.

LuvNewcastle

(16,843 posts)
12. Good points.
Mon Aug 12, 2019, 06:05 PM
Aug 2019

if Cohen knows about the Epstein thing, it's probably rumors. I doubt he had first-hand experience with it. He would have revealed it already.

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