Reason # 34: The “Lolita Express” flies again
Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House?
If you have been reading my daily Facebook posts over the past month, you know that I am so concerned about the potential danger of having Donald Trump back in the oval office that I have committed to posting an important reason not to vote for Trump or the Republicans who enable him, every day until election day. That will total 100 Reasons.
Some days, choosing the topic is hard. Today is simple.
Vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance made an astounding gaff today, that virtually places an explosive topic, on a tee, where even a duffer golfer or a six-year-old baseball player can bash it. What did Vance say?
Perhaps stung by being pilloried in Chicago last night, at the Democratic Convention, he made the following astonishingly callous and foolish remark.
“Giving Kamala Harris control over inflation policy, Shannon, it’s like giving Jeffrey Epstein control over human trafficking policy.”
OK JD, so you really want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein; let’s talk about Jeffrey Epstein, who has been characterized as “the most notorious pedophile in American history.” He was investigated and an indictment was brought before a Florida grand jury in 2008. Grand Jury transcripts are never released to the public but Governor Ron DeSantis made an exception and released the Epstein transcripts.
https://www.mypalmbeachclerk.com/home/showpublisheddocument/4194/638554423710183560
Read ‘em and gag. Epstein got a sweetheart deal in Florida, was charged with only one count of solicitation and sentenced to 18 months in jail. He went on “work release” after three months and was released early. He resumed his sexual abuse and trafficked large numbers of teenage girls, as young as fourteen, between his mansions in New York City, Palm Beach and his private Caribbean Island until he was finally convicted in New York and hanged himself in prison.
Wikipedia reports that Epstein was hired as a teacher, despite a lack of a college degree and was later fired. He worked for Bear Stearns and after being fired there, formed his own company, International Assets Group (IAG). In 1987 he moved on to become a “corporate raider” for Towers Financial. When that firm lost $450 million of client investments in a Ponzi scheme, Epstein was not charged, despite accusations that he had been a participant.
Epstein renamed his corporation and moved it “offshore” to the Virgin Islands. Epstein then moved into new methods of securing loans that ultimately brought down Bear Sterns and triggered the credit default swap meltdown. He made lots and lots of money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein
To sum up, Jeffrey Epstein was a rags to riches, slimy, dishonest vulture capitalist, pervert, criminal and crook; just the kind of guy Donald Trump would love to hang out with. But did Trump associate with Jeffery Epstein? You bet he did.
Like Epstein, Donald Trump was a notable libertine and, showing incredible insensitivity to American veterans, bragged that 1997’s sex life was “his personal Vietnam”.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240809220714/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h822LPnM5uw
Although Trump spent a lot of time with Epstein, as reflected in seven documented flights on Epstein personal plane, there is no evidence that Trump ever participated in Epstein’s preferred “social activities”.
That does not imply that Trump did not sexually abuse women, just that all known accusations involve adult women.
Their accusations are corroborated by Trump himself in his live-mic boast that
“I’ve got to use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her,” Trump says. “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.” “And when you’re a star, they let you do it,” Trump says. “You can do anything.”
“Whatever you want,” says another voice, apparently Bush’s.
“Grab them by the pussy,” Trump says. “You can do anything.”
In a remarkable “back to the future” disclosure, it has now been reported that JD and Donald have been campaigning for the past month, flying on a Gulf Stream once owned by Jeffrey Epstein!
Flashback. This was not the first flight for Donald Trump. During the trial of Ghislane Maxwell, convicted of “grooming” a fourteen year old girl for Epstein (keep in mind how Florida rightists accuse Democrats of “grooming” schoolchildren) and sentenced to twenty years in jail, Epstein’s pilot testified that Donald Trump was “a repeat flyer” on Epstein’s plane. Documentary evidence records seven such flights (1993-97).
So, in the end, there is solid evidence that Trump was a neighbor and social acquaintance of a “terrific guy”, Jeffery Epstein and who has flown on his plane seven times and visited his home. While Trump claims that contacts were minor and that he was “not much of a fan of his.”
But one Trump quote that suggests otherwise has been resurrected.
“”I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy, He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it—Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
Ask yourself honestly, does that sound like Donald Trump did not know what was going on over at Jeff’s mansion and on his island?
Fortunately, there are also photographs and videotapes that document the friendship and assist you to come to your own conclusion about how close the two were.
This video of Jeffrey Epstein (and Ghislane Maxwell in the background) visiting Trump at Mar a Lago offers a rare window into Trump’s character.
My take is that I am watching an entitled, spoiled brat, man-boy, aping for the video camera, smirking suggestively, as he leers at younger women, while simultaneously making snide remarks to his “bro” Jeff.
There is no evidence that Trump ever participated in Epstein’s “social activities”. Neither is there exculpatory evidence.
There is no evidence that Kamala Harris has ever associated with Jeffery Epstein in any way, and every expectation that, had she been the Florida AG, he would never have gotten a free pass to resume assaulting children.
As to JD Vance, do we really want a VP who is dumb enough to resurrect Donald Trump’s bromance with Jeffrey Epstein?
Have a heart; use your mind, search your conscience, and vote for Democratic candidates – across the ballot – on November. 5th.
Please share this message with your friends and please, add your thoughts, to expand upon what are only brief sketches here.
Fred Grannis
August 22, 2024