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Michael Tracey Profile picture
@mtracey
Sep 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
There's a new group called "Not Him, Us" that seeks to convince disaffected Bernie supporters to vote for Biden. Their manifesto warns of Trump instituting "full-blown fascism" (?) in a second term and ends with an obligatory invocation of the 1930s. Really embarrassing stuff
Same was prophesied in 2016. GOP controlled the House, Senate, and arguably the Supreme Court for the first two years of Trump's term -- and yet evidently failed to institute "full-blown fascism." Instead they focused on repealing Obamacare and cutting corporate taxes. Curious
If you want to put forward a reasonable argument in favor of voting for Biden, go right ahead. But some of these activist-brains can speak only in the tenor of hair-on-fire Third Reich play-acting. It's so tedious
By the way, why doesn't @NotHimUS list the names of the people behind the group? Just "a small crew of folks"? Weird

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Michael Tracey Profile picture
Dec 29, 2025
Epstein "survivor" Anouska De Georgiou, then age 31, emails Jeffrey while he's incarcerated in Florida and offers to come visit and/or send him pics of herself. "Seriously though sweetheart, if I can do anything let me know." Later received $3.25 million from the Epstein estate Image
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In 2011, Anouska De Georgiou, then age 34, emails Jeffrey to let him know she's in New York and would like to visit. Sadly, he's in Paris that week. By 2021, she's a "trafficking" victim and key government witness against Maxwell. By 2025, she's a "survivor" on the media circuit Image
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In 2022, Anouska De Georgiou explained that she finally realized she was a "survivor" in her 40s -- after undergoing intense, years-long "deprogramming" therapy

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Michael Tracey Profile picture
Dec 27, 2025
Interesting redaction. "Victim" Nadia Bjorlin, an actress on "Days of Our Lives," sent a headshot to Epstein. She testified in the Maxwell trial; this was a government exhibit. DOJ redacts not only her face, but the caption she wrote: "To Jeffrey -- Thanks for rocking my world" Image
In November 2020, Nadia Bjorlin received $5 million (tax free) from the Epstein Estate. She had hired a personal injury lawyer who advised that it would "help her case" if she helped the government prosecute Maxwell. Bjorlin was a longtime Soap Opera actress during this period Image
Another image shows the full note Nadia Bjorlin wrote (as an adult) to Epstein. "Thanks for rocking my world! You're the best!!!" Image
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
Dec 14, 2025
Truly craven statement from Netanyahu today, blaming the Australian government for the attack because of its recent "call for a Palestinian state." Which was mostly an empty symbolic gesture anyway, but for Netanyahu, it can somehow be causally connected to a random mass shooting Image
What's the scenario whereby the perpetrators were impelled to carry out this attack by the government's call for a Palestinian state? They likely never even heard about it, because it was so inconsequential, and even if they did, would've probably discounted it as meaningless
The former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, has been on a global media tour with a Palestinian counterpart promoting their latest (very anodyne) proposal for the creation of a Palestinian state. So why not blame him for fueling the anti-semitism that causes these attacks Image
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
Jul 29, 2025
This is what happens if you dare to ask the most gently critical questions about the media and Epstein

mtracey.net/p/epstein-medi…
Basically what happened here is a person hailed as one of the media's foremost "experts" on Epstein (CNN, MSNBC, etc.) couldn't handle a few incredibly mild questions, accused me of being an agent of Dershowitz, and then prematurely terminated the stream. Video in article above
The episode was emblematic of how impossible it is to have any reasonable public discussion of this issue. Asking simple factual questions leads to wild accusations. Those wedded to the popular narrative never expect to be challenged at all -- they're in a cocoon of reaffirmation
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
Jul 28, 2025
There's so much wrong with this "Meet the Press" clip, it's incredible. The "victim" whose harrowing testimony Kristen Welker quotes from is Anouska De Georgiou, a British model, actress, and reality TV show contestant who was preposterously allowed to testify in the Maxwell trial under the fake name "Kate," even though Anouska De Georgiou had already made numerous public statements and media appearances about her purported experiences with Epstein, including an NBC News interview.

The judge ultimately instructed jurors that they could not convict Maxwell on the basis of any sexual contact "Kate" claimed to have with Epstein, as none of this alleged contact would have been illegal under the charges brought by the government. It was certainly never close to established at trial that "rape" or "sexual assault" was perpetrated on this person, despite her dramatic claims at the subsequent sentencing hearing (quoted by Welker) which were not subject to cross-examination.

Anouska De Georgiou, aka "Kate," maintained contact with Epstein into her 20s and 30s. The idea that her story constitutes illicit "sex trafficking," much less pedophilic sex trafficking, is simply ridiculous. And yet Welker reads off this searing quote to a TV audience that will never receive any additional context.

Speaker Mike Johnson's claim that there are "probably a thousand" victims of Epstein also makes absolutely no sense, and is nowhere close to established by any credible evidence. It derives from the FBI/DOJ memo earlier this month, which does not provide any articulated basis for the claimed figure of "one thousand" victims, and appears to conflate Epstein's alleged possession of commercial pornography (legal) with child sex abuse, collapsing it all into one amorphous category of "victims."

Throwing around that huge, wildly unsubstantiated number is a perfect way to keep the public hysteria going.
Another interesting part of Anouska De Georgiou's "victim impact statement" that Kristen Welker chose to omit from her reading on Meet the Press is De Georgiou claiming to have undergone "deprogramming" in her "mind and body" in her 40s. Whatever exactly that's supposed to mean Image
In 2008, when she was around 30, Anouska De Georgiou emailed Epstein while he was incarcerated in Florida, offering to send him photos of herself. In 2010, she dated David Hasselhoff. In 2011, she again initiated emails with Epstein, asking to visit and stay with him in New York Image
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
Jul 23, 2025
I'm almost always right about this crap, just sayin'

"Trafficking" as a legal construct is a relatively recent invention of over-zealous prosecutors, pandering politicians, and lazy sensationalized media, jointly fomenting sex hysteria and moral panic -- as American as Apple Pie
It runs the gamut...
I will also proudly defend wrongly accused gays...
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