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Nevilledog

(51,005 posts)
Sat Oct 16, 2021, 12:27 AM Oct 2021

Epstein Bragged Bill Barr was in Charge, Not Trump




https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-bragged-barr-was-in-charge-not-trump

A controversial new book from the journalist Michael Wolff claims that the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein bragged that Bill Barr was the man in charge during Trump’s time in office and that the president “lets someone else be in charge, until other people realize that someone, other than him, is in charge. When that happens, you’re no longer in charge.”

The tome, Too Famous: The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Notorious and the Damned, also claims that Steve Bannon and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak tried to help Epstein rehabilitate his image, even suggesting that he try to get favorable coverage on Rachel Maddow or 60 Minutes.

According to Wolff—who reportedly tried to buy New York Magazine with Epstein and disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein—Barak asked Epstein the million-dollar question of who was in charge at the White House. “‘What I want to know from you all-knowing people is: Who is in charge, who is,’ [Barak] said, putting on an American accent over his own often impenetrable Israeli one, ‘calling the shots?’ This was a resumption of the reliable conversation around Epstein: the ludicrousness and vagaries of Donald Trump—once among Epstein’s closest friends. ‘Here is the question every government is asking. Trump is obviously not in charge because he is—’”

Wolff claims that Epstein interrupted the former politico and called Trump—his former playboy party pal—a “moron,” then confided, “At the moment, Bill Barr is in charge.” The pedophile financier continued: “It’s Donald’s pattern...he lets someone else be in charge, until other people realize that someone, other than him, is in charge. When that happens, you’re no longer in charge.”

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Epstein Bragged Bill Barr was in Charge, Not Trump (Original Post) Nevilledog Oct 2021 OP
There were reports that when Trump asked Kasich to be his VP.... More_Cowbell Oct 2021 #1
Remind me... How did that turn out for Epstein? RockRaven Oct 2021 #2
It's almost like he had something on The Barr family. njhoneybadger Oct 2021 #3
Might have worked out better if he decided to roll and offer evidence against a number cstanleytech Oct 2021 #4
Barr's dad hired Epstein. Kid Berwyn Oct 2021 #5

More_Cowbell

(2,190 posts)
1. There were reports that when Trump asked Kasich to be his VP....
Sat Oct 16, 2021, 12:53 AM
Oct 2021

He told Kasich that he'd be the one in charge.

RockRaven

(14,898 posts)
2. Remind me... How did that turn out for Epstein?
Sat Oct 16, 2021, 01:09 AM
Oct 2021

IIRC, he died in a facility under Barr's control under circumstances which cannot be described as anything less that irregular and inappropriate....

cstanleytech

(26,230 posts)
4. Might have worked out better if he decided to roll and offer evidence against a number
Sat Oct 16, 2021, 03:32 AM
Oct 2021

of people in power which is why I find his supposed suicide odd.
After all if he had that kind of info killing himself rather than rolling over makes little sense.

Kid Berwyn

(14,795 posts)
5. Barr's dad hired Epstein.
Sat Oct 16, 2021, 11:24 AM
Oct 2021
The Ties That Bind Jeffrey Epstein, William Barr & Donald Trump

Todd Neikirk
Hill Reporter, May 19, 2019

During Attorney General, William Barr’s confirmation hearing, he was mostly peppered with questions about how he would handle the Mueller Report. Senator Ben Sasse’s (R-NE) questioning, however, diverged from the pack. Sasse asked Barr about the lenient sentence given out to billionaire pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The future Attorney General told Sasse that he would look into the matter.

This, however, was not the first connection between Barr and his family and the disgraced pedophile. In 1973, Barr’s father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattan’s Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.

While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a number of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New York’s prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age.

Apparently, the hire was a successful one. The New Yorker wrote in a 2003 profile on Epstein, “he was something of a Robin Williams–in–Dead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs.” Epstein’s mathematical skills caught the eye of Bear Stearns’ chairman, Alan “Ace” Greenberg, whose son attended the Dalton School. Greenberg hired Epstein as an options trader and the former teacher was able to amass a fortune.

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https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-william-barr-donald-trump-34107

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Barr must’ve seen something in that young man, otherwise there’s no logical rationale for the hire.
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