By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--May 16, 2016
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Former President Bill Clinton was a much more frequent flyer on a registered sex offender's infamous jet than previously reported, with flight logs showing the former president taking at least 26 trips aboard the "Lolita Express" -- even apparently ditching his Secret Service detail for at least five of the flights, according to records obtained by FoxNews.com. Clinton's presence aboard Jeffrey Epstein's Boeing 727 on 11 occasions has been reported, but flight logs show the number is more than double that, and trips between 2001 and 2003 included extended junkets around the world with Epstein and fellow passengers identified on manifests by their initials or first names, including "Tatiana." The tricked-out jet earned its Nabakov-inspired nickname because it was reportedly outfitted with a bed where passengers had group sex with young girls.The plane in question also shuttled Epstein and his guests to and from a private "Orgy Island" staffed with child sex slaves. One of those captives placed the former President on the island in the company of Epstein's "regular" girls.
According to Virginia Roberts, who claims to have been one of Epstein's many teenage sex slaves, Clinton also visited Epstein's private Caribbean retreat, known as "Orgy Island." "I remember asking Jeffrey, 'What's Bill Clinton doing here?'" Roberts said in 2011. The former president, she added, was accompanied by four young girls during his stay — two of whom were among Epstein's regular sex partners. "And [Jeffrey] laughed it off and said, 'Well, he owes me a favor.' He never told me what favors they were."So, one has to wonder at the wisdom behind announcing Bill's participation in a hypothetical Hillary White House. This could have been another of the Clinton's famous brush-offs. Hillary could have employed a boilerplate response of "Bill's not running for office, so these horrible rumors don't matter, and I won't dignify them with a response." But, by announcing that he'll be tasked with economic matters, she's placed Bill's 'issues' front and center.
Trump's attorney Alan Garten told VICE News last week that the presidential candidate had "no relationship" with Epstein, and only knew him because Epstein was a member of Mar-A-Lago, Trump's private club and residence in Palm Beach. "A lot of people hung out there, including Jeffrey Epstein," Garten said. "That is the only connection." But according to someone with intimate knowledge of the situation, Trump and Epstein appeared to have a somewhat stronger connection. "I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,'' Trump told New York magazine in a 2002 profile of Epstein written three years before Epstein began to be investigated. "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." When asked about a subpoena served to Trump in 2009, Garten said it "never happened." The subpoena called for Trump to give a deposition in a case against Epstein; Garten's denial baffled Brad Edwards, one of Virginia Roberts' attorneys. "There is no debate over what happened," Edwards told VICE news. "I served Mr. Trump with a subpoena for deposition in 2009. He talked to me voluntarily, and consequently we withdrew the subpoena in light of his voluntarily providing information…. I can't imagine there being any dispute of any of this."Garten later went through his records and determined that Trump had, in fact, received the initial subpoena.
Edwards, the lawyer for Roberts and about 10 other Jane Does, said that after he served Trump with the subpoena in 2009, Trump immediately contacted him. "During the conversation, Mr. Trump was open and forthright," Edwards said. "I cannot discuss the substance of the conversation. But I will say that it was obvious to me that he was in no way involved in any untoward activity." On October 15, 2007, the New York Postreported that Mar-A-Lago had barred Epstein because he hit on a masseuse at the club. Epstein denied to the the Post that he had been banned. One of the Jane Doe attorneys told VICE News a slightly different account, saying that he had been told Trump broke ties with Epstein after Epstein tried to pick up the underage daughter of a Mar-A-Lago club member.All of this suggests that, barring any horrible revelations about the Trump/Epstein connection, Bill's steadily growing number of trips on the "Lolita Express" and his possible visits to "Orgy Island" will be on the table. The more central she makes him to her campaign, the worse the potential fallout will be. ...And even MSNBC knows it. Take a look at this morning's Morning Joe panel: For now, it's clear that Hillary will continue to ignore the story. As the Clinton playbook dictates, she'll pretend the whole thing doesn't exist until she can no longer avoid it. Then, she'll lash out. However, if the other shoe drops - if Trump starts hammering on the matter, or if he brings it up in a debate - Hillary will have a very hard time spinning it away. If one of your main attack strategies involves painting your opponent as a misogynist, how do you then turn around and defend a man like Bill Clinton?
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