Thread by @The_Wub_

In the late 1980s & throughout the 90s, Jeffrey Epstein became friends with Donald Trump & Bill Clinton. Simultaneously, Trump & Epstein built an international sex trafficking ring through modeling agencies. This ring catered to the bourgeoisie & State bureaucracy

The sex ring of the late 80s & 90s was made possible in large part by the destruction of the Eastern Bloc & the "opening" of nations in the USSR & SRFY to Western capital. Both the modeling industry & the sex trade grew exponentially thanks to Eastern European women

Two other men involved in the Trump-Epstein ring were titans of the modeling industry John Casablancas (the father of Julian Casablancas, the front man of The Strokes), who is considered the innovator of the "Supermodel" concept, & Jean-Luc Brunel, French leader of Karin Models

Casablancas opened his Elite Modeling Agency in 1972. Within its 1st year, two EMA models were dead. Casablancas was implicated in both cases, but the police seemed uninterested in a real investigation. About 10 years later, Casablancas first met Donald Trump

"In the spring of '91, Trump & Casablancas struck a business deal. Trump would sponsor Look of the Year’s final and host contestants at the Plaza, which would double as the headquarters" Several EMA models say that as teens they were required to dine with Trump & "other men"

By this time Casablancas had repeatedly been accused of raping models who worked at EMA & had himself openly declared his love of young women & girls. Gerald Marie, who managed EMA for Casablancas, was also a known rapist, but Trump apparently didn't mind

Jeffrey Epstein first met Trump sometime in the "late 1980s." In 1988, a 60 Minutes segment investigating rape culture in the Paris fashion world featured a segment examining allegations against Jean-Luc Brunel. This did little to Brunel, who met Ghislaine Maxwell that same year

One of the women featured in the 60 Minutes segment, Courtney Sorensen, later alleged that in 1988, Brunel took her to meet Epstein for a "casting call." This allegedly went as one would expect. Brunel deepened his relationship with Epstein & Maxwell during the 1990s

Brunel (pictured below with Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell on the "Lolita Express", which he rode dozens of times) later transformed the American branch of Karin's into a company named MC2, which acted as a pipeline for the Maxwell-Epstein trafficking ring & was financed by Epstein

Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's accusers, said in court: "My assumption was that Jean-Luc Brunel got the girls from Eastern Europe." According to Fortune: "Brunel was searching for potential models on behalf of MC2 in Eastern Europe, Ukraine, & Russia as recently as 2015.”

Epstein also had a relationship (allegedly platonic) with Faith Kates, who once co-owned a modeling agency with Brunel until his departure from that firm in 1996. Here is an excerpt from Whitney Webb's "One Nation Under Blackmail" summarizing Epstein & Kates relationship:

As Epstein & Maxwell were using the modeling industry as a base for their sex trafficking business, they also deepened their friendships with Donald Trump & Bill Clinton as Trump & Clinton also became friends. Epstein visited President Clinton at the White House at least 17 times

Clinton & Trump both flew on the "Lolita Express" several times. Epstein as well as Trump donated to the Clinton Foundation. The Clintons attended Trump's 2005 wedding (where he married Melania) & Ghislaine Maxwell attended Chelsea Clinton's wedding 5 years later

Trump & Clinton's friendship (rather than mere proximity) probably started around the end of the Clinton administration & continued right up until the 2016 election. Just before Trump announced his campaign, Clinton called him & told him to take a more active role in the GOP

Back in the 1980s, a model named Jill Dodd was raped by aforementioned Elite Model Agency manager-& business partner of John Casablancas-Gerald Marie. To escape the abuse, Dodd became one of the "harem wives" (her words) of billionaire Saudi capitalist Adnan Khashoggi

What Dodd did not know is that this was not an escape, but a business transaction between Khashoggi & Marie. According to Dodd, she was chosen by Khashoggi & sold to him like a commodity. As Dodd said, “It was all a front. I had been manipulated and used.”

At this time, Trump was in the orbit of Adnan Khashoggi, which also included Robert Maxwell, the media mogul & spy for Israel father of Ghislaine Maxwell. Trump purchased a yacht from Khashoggi & later sold it to another Saudi billionaire.

Here is Trump hanging out with Robert Maxwell in the 1980s on Maxwell's yacht. Here is Trump with Ghislaine Maxwell, who took a 14 year old girl to meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago in the 1990s. Following the mogul's shady death, Trump said of Robert Maxwell "He was my kind of a guy.”

Trump's proximity to the Saudi establishment as well as his longstanding connections to Israel (which go back to his father) make his friendship with Epstein & participation in Epstein's sex ring even more interesting for several reasons. First, Epstein's mentor was Les Wexner

In the early 90s, Wexner joined a Zionist lobby group calling itself a "Jewish study group" alongside members of the Bronfman family & Michael Steinhardt, both of whom are connected to the old Meyer Lansky wing of the National Crime Syndicate. Epstein & Robert Maxwell soon joined

The Bronfmans & Steinhardt are major North American supporters of Israel. Steinhardt started the Birthright-Taglit organization in the 1990s while the Bronfmans have patronized innumerable Zionist charities, NGOs & civil society groups for decades.

According to friend Jessie Kornbluth, in the 80s, Epstein claimed to work “for governments to recover money looted by African dictators” yet also helped these same dictators "hide their stolen money." At the time, Epstein's passport listed his primary residence as Saudi Arabia

In 1987, Epstein met fraudster Steven Hoffenberg, through mutual pal Douglas Leese. At the time, Leese worked with Adnan Khashoggi & Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud (known as “Bandar Bush” for his relationship to the Bush dynasty) to sell British arms to the Saudi military

Have to cap this for now (may do a follow-up) but as a sign off: in the 90s, Trump acquired Miss Universe & started his own modeling company. This came as his friend Epstein built a sex trafficking operation in the modeling world. The two things obviously overlap significantly

@SChairtwo I meant that they developed a particular network they controlled from predecessors and that obviously that isn't the only example of something like this in fashion or entertainment. But I didn't get that across so i apologize