Another Trump-Epstein connection!** MSM really needs to keep investigating Epstein's finances. Never know — you might get Trump!
**–however fanciful
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 16, 2019
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Would Toobin support Toobin for #SCOTUS? https://t.co/zFiL25i2A5
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I try not to RT tweets with loaded phrases like "flailing @NYTimes that say you're only talking to the your own side. But jeez, it does seem like the wheels are coming off over there these days. Deleted tweets & headlines, basic screwups, woke didactics https://t.co/QAgQdkHgp9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 16, 2019
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"Don't overthink this" https://t.co/tiI7Smc3k7
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That's a pretty weak connectio …. wait, I mean TRUMP CABINET OFFICIAL LINKED TO EPSTEIN SCANDAL!
Gotta keep this thing alive. https://t.co/KmZe6RaNjM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 16, 2019
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"During the week of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York this year, the person said, a steady stream of dignitaries could be seen arriving at Mr. Epstein’s townhouse." OK! https://t.co/lJnjk7OLwD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 15, 2019
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Thanks. Do you think it adds up? Wexner somehow let him walk off with $200 million? Then he earns "millions in fees" from Black + there's a weird $15M Highbridge fee. Plus an unverified currency-trade boast. Does that get you to $500M-which the story says may underplay his worth? https://t.co/tRZxgdcKAT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 15, 2019
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If Jeffrey Epstein was a hustling pischer con-man networker with "few clients," HOW DID HE GET HALF A BILLION DOLLARS? The more minor-league he seems, the bigger the mystery gets, no? https://t.co/toisd2s5Mh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 15, 2019
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Certainly doesn't seem like Epstein would've gotten a glowing recommendation from Leslie Wexner at that point https://t.co/pQA6ugLdP3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 15, 2019
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So B. Gates wants "nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein," sex offender. Yet he winds up in multiple meetings, including at Epstein's house (Vanity Fair says) after an "aggressive lobbying campaign" by Epstein? Doesn't add up-unless B.Clinton was the lobbyist https://t.co/toisd2s5Mh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 15, 2019
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Bill Gates on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein: "Every meeting where I was with him were meetings with men." There was MORE THAN ONE MEETING? (And, really, no women in the room, even bringing in papers, etc.?) https://t.co/Bks6vWoaM9 via @WSJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 15, 2019
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Idea that Dems could "move as far left as activists preferred at no political cost" seems like political equivalent of Modern Monetary Theory https://t.co/twnoe0gJ78 via @intelligencer
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 15, 2019
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Most revealing sentence in NYT piece: "Ms. Ramirez also did not see herself as a victim of ethnic discrimination. The college campuses of the 1980s had yet to be galvanized by the identity and sexual politics that course through today’s cultural debates." https://t.co/5gwRUYJt5p
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 15, 2019
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I didn't realize that Bill Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell were "seen dining" at Nello's in NY in 2002. https://t.co/AC3GatlAZP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 15, 2019
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HMMM: Was Jeffrey Epstein in Riyadh on Election Day, 2016? His plane was. https://t.co/tadFMovHIr In 2013, he said he planned to buy a house in Riyadh, according to this profile https://t.co/9zwfNROcSJ And there's that photo of MBS in his mansion https://t.co/EARBHne5eJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 15, 2019
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"a teleporter accident involving a mole rat and an electric shaver"–https://t.co/dIcil1R0Iu Not bad description of new BMW grille https://t.co/VrJV4Es8kT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 15, 2019
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Wrong link: This is the Epstein profile in which he boasts about flying to Moscow to meet Putin. https://t.co/9zwfNROcSJ https://t.co/MQSQ8taLbV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 15, 2019
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Really need a NEW TRUMP CONNECTION to Jeffrey Epstein STAT, or else press will lose interest. Unfortunately there don't seem to be that many connections. Where is Left Twitter when you need it? @Emptywheel? @kurteichenwald @brianbeutler Anyone?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 14, 2019
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Why not put together a short online quiz that lets people find out if they know the basics and lets them share their scores? https://t.co/LBgb5zwSaA
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 14, 2019
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Again direct your attention to key bogus part of @Lessig essay: "[W]hen Joi was investigating …no one was suggesting that his enormous wealth was the product of blackmail or sex slavery. He was, the world assumed, a brilliant, savant-like investor…" Plenty of people were1/2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 14, 2019
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V-useful from Edward Jay Epstein on Jeffrey Epstein. JE comes off as full con-man-but piece ultimately doesn't explain how he went "from faking airplane upgrades and bouncing checks to amassing a half-billion-dollar fortune." Evidence of embezzlement/Ponzi https://t.co/9zwfNROcSJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 14, 2019
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It's a publicity stunt. Seems like a campaign expense to me. (Also passes the FEC's "irrespective" test, as the story notes.) https://t.co/uGhrz7c4Ry
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 14, 2019
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"Directed" seems like a lawyer word. You can influence, arrange for, suggest, help secure, etc without having "directed." https://t.co/CiKOgydBLH
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Might be a make-up call for this: https://t.co/vPTfnKoYn9 https://t.co/LQbsxkpPdO
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 14, 2019
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It's one thing to have RECEIVED Epstein's money–that's bad, people who took it should be held accountable.
But in the face of the core mystery (@xeni's "Elephant") it's creepier to have GIVEN money at Epstein's direction. Why would you listen to him? Why'd you owe him "favors"? https://t.co/1QoJyTEt2k
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 14, 2019
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