Friday, July 03, 2020

Will Ghislaine target Biden? Here's what you DON'T know

My previous post, in which I predicted that Ghislaine Maxwell will insure Trump's re-election, pleased no-one. Even my ladyfriend told me: "You're such a doom-sayer. It's annoying."

Very soon, we won't be annoyed. We'll be clobbered.

Eric Trump fired the first volley. Dems think they've out-Twittered him, but the winner of this initial skirmish soon won't matter. The important point is this: The Trump family is not acting frightened -- which they would be, if there were any chance that Ghislaine might say something to incriminate Donnie.

True, she may have to spend some time in prison, but she'll be rewarded for that temporary inconvenience. Trump will be in a position to pardon her after she gets him re-elected.

To understand what is about to hit us, you have to stay focused on one key factor: Robert Maxwell worked for Mossad, and so does Ghislaine. According to Epstein's business partner Steve Hoffenberg -- whom I do not trust -- Epstein himself was Mossad.
Jeffrey Epstein's former "mentor" has revealed how the disgraced paedophile would boast to his friends about how he was going to sell Prince Andrew's secrets to Israel's intelligence agency Mossad.
"He told me that Ghislaine Maxwell was going to be the breakthrough to bring him into that orbit - to be able to part of the agency in Israel - and that's what did occur," he said.

"They created the plan of installing the honeypot cameras and had taken over the house in Manhattan [given to him by his billionaire client Les Wexner] to blackmail the politicians.

"He then took over the house in Florida and put in cameras. The cameras were to record rapes, it wasn't just about gathering intelligence, but compromising the politicians."
Hoffenberg's credibility is dubious, to say the least. I have no love for a thief who turned "born again" after a stint in prison.

(Hoffenberg and I briefly corresponded some years ago, but when I asked about Epstein's links to Russian mobsters, Mr. H insisted on speaking voice. I don't give out my phone number to anyone.)

Nevertheless, all signs indicate that Hoffenberg is right about this much: Ghislaine Maxwell is indeed a Mossad "helper," and Epstein did provide honeytrap and blackmail services for Israeli intelligence.

Thus, in order to foretell what Ghislaine will say, we need to ask ourselves one simple question: Whom do the Israelis prefer, Trump or Biden?

You may have noticed that Bibi Netanyahu has embarked upon an ambitious program of annexing much of the West Bank. For a while, he seemed intent on getting the job done before the American election. Now, there is a delay. From the Guardian:
Ultranationalists in Israel see Trump’s presidency as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to carry out measures that were long considered taboo in Washington.
Get the picture? If you thought for one second that Ghislaine would say one word against Trump, you were incredibly naive. Why did Ghislaine Maxwell stay in this country? Because she intended to be caught.

Until last night, I presumed that the scheme was to gin up charges against Bill Clinton, thereby smearing the entire Democratic party. While Clinton is indeed in danger, I now believe that Maxwell will go after Joe Biden himself.

Does that idea sound outlandish? Before you answer, let me ask you one question: Did you ever think to Google the words "Joe Biden" and "Virgin Islands"?

I did. Last night.

Turns out that Joe Biden routinely vacationed in the Virgin Islands while serving as Vice President. See here and here and here and here: "Biden Vacations in Virgin Islands for Second Time in Three Months." Here's the cottage he rented on one trip.

There was even a minor scandal-ette earlier this year involving a small, undeveloped island off of St. Crois purchased by Joe Biden's brother James for the sum of $150,000. (Biden's island is about fifty miles south of Epstein's island.) A third of the property was sold to a Joe Biden aide for roughly the same price that James paid for the whole island. Looks to me as though Joe used a proxy to give his brother some cash in exchange for a bit of property. Big deal. Trump does worse during any given lunch.

In and of itself, the Biden family's fondness for St. Croix proves nothing. But these vacays gave the QAnon conspiracy-mongers an excuse to drag the Biden name into their dark speculations about Jeffrey Epstein: See here, for example.

The Q crowd even made a video about the alleged Biden/Epstein connection. That video is definitely worth a watch, if only because gives us a look at James Biden's island. It also offers a preview of what we may expect to hit us between now and November.

(The narrator mispronounces Ghislaine Maxwell's first name. In college, I knew a Ghislaine from Switzerland; her own pronunciation veered from Ghee-LAYNE to Gheh-LEHN and all points in-between. Just keep the "S" silent and the "G" hard, and you'll be fine.)

The key point I'm trying to make is this: Biden was in the vicinity on certain dates. When a weepy Epstein "victim" shows up on teevee to deliver a "JOE RAPED ME!" yarn, she will no doubt place herself with Biden at the right time. The chronology will aid her credibility.

We are constantly being reminded that Epstein compiled blackmail evidence -- photos, videos -- against the bigwigs who hobnobbed with his girls. Even though there have been many articles about "deep fake" videos, most people still don't understand that video evidence can be rigged. Putin has smeared his political opponents via such "evidence." In the pre-digital age, an east bloc service concocted a video which allegedly showed Ronald Reagan having kinky sex with Vicki Morgan. (Ask Larry Flynt about that one: He got hold of a copy of this footage and has shown it at parties. I'm told that the video involved lookalikes -- and a certain plastic appendage.) 

Remember: The charge against Biden need not be proven. The point is to wrap him in scandal as election day approaches.

Dersh.
I suppose one should say a few words about Alan Dershowitz' instantly-infamous defense of Ghislaine Maxwell. If you look carefully at how he has worded his piece, you'll see that he is preparing the way for the coming Big Smear. He wants Ghislaine to be considered credible when she points the finger at Bill and Joe. Arguably, Dersh is laying the groundwork for a coming Trump pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell.

The worst accusations against Ghislaine Maxwell -- and Dershowitz himself -- come from Virginia Roberts/Giuffre. Predictably, Dersh slams her hard.
But she also has said — as I argue in a civil action against her — that she met Al and Tipper Gore on Epstein’s island (for this and other revelations she was paid $160,000). She describes the incident in great detail, but the truth is that neither of the Gores have ever met Epstein and were certainly never on his island. She has also made accusations against former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, former majority leader of the US Senate George Mitchell, former US Representative to the UN Bill Richardson, owner of L Brands Limited Leslie Wexner, and many others who have categorically denied these accusations. Her own lawyer has acknowledged that an 11-year investigation disproved the accusations against these prominent people.
I think it may be fairer to say that her lawyer wisely decided to keep the focus on Epstein.

I'm intrigued by this Gore business, since that name does not appear in most versions of the Virginia Roberts story. Here's a piece published in 2015 which brings up the Gore angle -- and once again, Dersh is the one who mentions them.
He also contested allegations the woman made to British papers that Al and Tipper Gore had been at Epstein's island as well.

"The evidence will show that former President Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore and Tipper Gore never set foot on Epstein's private island," and her "accounts are not merely preposterous on their face but in fact entirely false and her sworn statement to this court is perjurious," the filing says.
It's weirdly difficult to find a non-Dershowitz source for the Gore claim. There must be one; although I'm no Dershowitz fan, I'm sure that he would not have concocted such a thing out of whole cloth. Still, it is odd to note that, without Dersh, the internet record might be free of any news stories connecting Al Gore to Epstein's island. (It has been a while since I looked at Virginia's Complaint; I honestly cannot recall if the Gores were mentioned.)

In 2019, journalist Julie K. Brown responded to Dershowitz on this point, and her comments on Twitter are definitely worthy of consideration. I have taken the liberty of translating her Twitter-ese into normal prose:
1. She never claimed to me that she met Tipper or Al Gore. 2. She did NOT say she was 14, she said she was 15. And 3. She was a sex trafficking victim before she even met Epstein and it is NORMAL for trauma victims to get dates wrong. In fact, FBI experts say that if a child victim of sexual assault gets all the details of their trauma correct EVERY time, it’s a sign they have been coached to lie. In other words, it’s common and more more indicative that they are truthful when they do NOT remember exact details.
The most interesting aspect of Brown's response is the claim that Virginia was "a sex trafficking victim before she even met Epstein." These words may be interpreted as a reference to Virginia Roberts' father, who worked for Trump. He was the one who arranged for Mar-A-Lago to hire Virginia, and he apparently had no complaint when his daughter was made to wear a skimpy costume as she tended to adult males. In short order, she ended up in the clutches of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeff Epstein.

Virginia's dad is a mysterious fellow. Let's put it this way: What little I've read about him does not encourage me to nominate him for a "Father of the Year" award.

I still don't understand why Virginia Roberts refused to name either Trump or Mar-A-Lago in her original Complaint. A document of that sort usually offers specifics -- names, dates, places. So why was Trump so assiduously kept out it?

She refuses to name him now -- usually. She did talk about him here.

Mysteriously, when Australia's 60 Minutes did a piece on Virginia Roberts, they also kept Trump well out of it. The program showed a long shot of Mar-A-Lago without once naming the place. Think about it: Why wouldn't a TV show mention the name of a sitting president in connection with so extraordinary a case? A journalistic coup of that sort would have assured high ratings. I was always under the impression that TV producers like high ratings.

I can easily understand why Dersh won't mention Trump in connection with Epstein. Dersh is a zealous supporter of Israel and is thus probably down with Bibi's annexation plan. If Mossad helps Trump's re-election, Bibi will have kompromat on the American president -- and Israel will be able to do anything. Anything.

But Virginia's silence about the Orange One continues to trouble me. I used to trust her; now I don't. She has begun to remind me of the "Satanic Ritual Abuse" claimants I interviewed back in the 1990s: For every credible-sounding statement, they would offer at least one absurdity.

One should also note what Dersh has to say about claimed Epstein victim Sarah Ransome:
Another Netflix witness is a woman named, Sarah Ransome. But Netflix failed to disclose that in the run-up to the 2016 election Ransome wrote dozens of emails to the New York Post claiming to have sex tapes of the two ‘pedophiles’ who were running for president, namely Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, as well as sex tapes of Richard Branson and others. She also claimed that Hillary Clinton ordered the CIA to kill her and to destroy her tapes. The Post of course did not run that story. She subsequently admitted she had ‘invented’ that story; there were no sex tapes.
Dersh is right about this one. Hillary was never in the position to order the CIA to do anything. Although the Ransome story seems absurd on its face, it has been taken seriously by many writers; see, for example, here.

I'm very suspicious of the new claim that Ghislaine herself is a rapist.

Longtime readers know that I never bought into the allegations made by the woman who, for a while, called herself "Katie Johnson." In a lawsuit, she said that Trump raped her in Epstein's company when she was 13. Her story was too pat, too lacking in credible detail; she withdrew her suit in 2016.

That makes three -- perhaps four -- claimed Epstein victims whose truthfulness is questionable. Do you still doubt that a similarly dubious "victim" will come forward with tales about Joe Biden or Bill Clinton?

Come back soon for more prophecies of doom! I may be annoying -- but in your heart, you know I'm right.

10 comments:

b said...

Gotta admit, the basis for your conclusion about Trump's future is a little one-sided, Joe.

Consider the US coronavirus stats. So far, the ongoing large increase in reported cases of Covid-19 has not been reflected in figures for reported deaths, but that is likely to change within the next few days. See the Worldometers graph for daily deaths. The regular up-and-down pattern that peaks on Tuesdays is caused by fluctuations in reporting over the weekly cycle. When you screen that wave out by taking a 7-day average the trend SEEMS to be down, but a more careful analysis suggests otherwise. Compare the DAILY figures for 25-27 June (653,663,512) with those for 1-3 July (676,687,616). Those are increases of 23, 24, and 104 over a week before, proportionally 4%, 4%, and 20%.

My prediction is that the 6 July figure will be the largest for at least 4-5 weeks. That will be out on 7 July, which is next Tuesday. Next Friday has been scheduled for a hearing in the Mary Trump case. Some of the revelations in her book are precisely about how Donald Trump treated (at least three) members of his family when they were ILL.

Trump's only self-defence so far in relation to the increase in the figure for cases is that he wears it as a badge of pride because it shows how "great" testing is in the US. He has got away with spitting in the US population's collective face like this because it takes a short while for an increase in cases to affect the number of deaths. But by next week the bottom will have fallen out of his position.

Joseph Cannon said...

b, I admit that coronavirus has been an unpredictable factor. But you should also keep in mind that in 1988, Dukakis was ahead of Poppy Bush 51-38 -- in freakin' JULY. Bush slaughtered Dukakis though sheer mud-slinging.

Trump is far more vicious and unscrupulous than Poppy ever was.

You haven't addressed my key points. Ghislaine is Mossad. If Mossad helps Trump win, Israel will be free to do whatever it wants. Thus, Ghislaine will participate in a smear against the Dems.

Although Epstein truly was a monster, there have already been a few fake "victims" in this story. One of those fakes will surely testify against Biden or Clinton or whomever.

Biden is toast. I know that everyone is emotionally wedded to the narrative that Biden has this one in the bag, but he doesn't. Smears work. Frame-ups work. The Trumpers will stop at nothing. Trump will win, with a little help from his friends.

Imitating the ostrich is no way to prepare for battle, folks.

Ivory Bill Woodpecker said...

*rolls eyes* This country is not nearly as white in 2020 as it was in 1988.

Plus, I'm not yet seeing evidence that the smear machine of the Treason Party (fka GOP) still functions as smoothly as it once did, or that the general public is fully as gullible as it was in 1988. Gullibility, lack of college, and whiteness seem to go together in this country. (Reminder: I'm a cis-het white male, like you, although I lack your quaking terror of obscure, irrelevant academicians.)

Plus, even if the smear machine is as effective as ever, Poppy Bush wasn't having to run with a great big millstone named Corona-chan around his neck, plus the economic side-effects of Corona-chan, plus a bevy of scandals. How many fingers does Donnie Two Scoops have to stick in all those leaks in the dike? Again, the electorate of 2020 is very different from the electorate of 1988 (or 1968, which is the year Benedict Donald is hoping to repeat).

Plus, this time, Donnie Two Scoops does not have the good fortune to be running against one of the two primary targets of the most lavishly funded, long-running, well-organized, and insanely passionate smear campaign since Goebbels and Co. went after (((That Certain Minority))).

No, if he "wins" again, it will be for the same reason he "won" last time: Russia.

His own man Bannon said he drew an inside straight last time--and Bannon either was covering up the Russian factor or did not know about it. Russia can flip only so many votes before it becomes too obvious what is happening.

Oh, remember Corona-chan? If I understand correctly, she's using Putinstan as a punching bag these days. Putin may be a bit distracted this time.

Your problem, sir, is that you have spent too much time in Conspiracy Woo-Woo La-La Land; you have gazed into the abyss of irrationalism so long that the abyss is now gazing back into you.

You got lucky last time, just like Donnie Two Scoops did.

But last time wasn't just a Black Swan Event, it was a Perfect Storm of multiple Black Swan Events--and while Putin is skilled at arranging Black Swan Events, he is not omnipotent.

fred said...

Aussie 60 Minutes is running a new piece tonight (Aussie time) on Ghislaine Maxwell. We can expect a propaganda hit.

Anonymous said...

The smear is being built. See:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/04/ghislaine-maxwell-will-not-say-anything-about-prince-andrew-says-friend

There in the last graf, we find that back in 2002 Ghislaine was hanging out with Bill Clinton and others.

The sad fact is that many members of our population live in a world in which Lies Are Truth, and so by September a “national emergency” may be necessary for Trump as a way of avoiding an impossible-to-win election.

As deeply stupid as Trump is, we does know that if he leaves the White House, he will head straight into the criminal justice system. Which would be, for him, a fate worse than death.

Furthermore, such s move would be the most damaging thing he could to to the political system of the US. A goal the he and his backers would desire most.

Ivory Bill Woodpecker said...

Slightly off topic: The subject of the QAnonsense came up on another blog.

Back in the first decade of this millennium, I hoped another conspiracy theory was true: that the Cheney Administration (come on, who believes Dubya actually ran things?) knew the 9/11 attacks were coming, and let them happen (or even made them happen) so they could twist it around and blame Iraq, so they would have an excuse to go in, establish a puppet government, and seize all that lovely petroleum (of course, that didn’t work out, because it turned out Iraqis fight a lot harder when they’re fighting for their people and their faith and other things they love, instead of for a dictator’s ambition).

Why did I hope that? So that, if it could be proven true, then all those white conservatives (disclosure: cis-het white male American here)–whom I thought were, at least, patriots–would turn in righteous outrage against the Republican Party and the American conservative movement, and liberalism, or at least centrism, could make a comeback.

I see now that I was foolish to hope that, even if the 9/11 treason hypothesis had turned out to be true.

Benedict Donald is a traitor at least in spirit, if not in literal legal terms–and for anyone paying attention, that was plain when he was running for President the first time–and yet, most white conservatives love him still, because he hates the people they hate.

I have lost hope they will ever turn against him. I hope for his defeat only because a large portion of his voters last time were "gullibles" rather than "deplorables", so I hope that a sufficient number of gullibles and voluntary non-voters have wised up.

Therefore, Benedict Donald can sit on his tiny hands while his master Sith Tsar Putin offers bounties to the sheep-shagging barbarians who call themselves “Taliban” to kill the men and women of our Armed Forces, and the white conservatives will still vote for him in November.

b said...

It seems things are NOT going in the direction I predicted. The figures for deaths with Covid-19 in the US for 4-5 July are (254,251), down (11%,31%) from (285,366) for 28-29 June. So the rise in the number of reported cases is NOT being reflected in the number of reported deaths. Possible explanations include herd immunity, a longer than expected delay effect, figure faking, and "it's just happening like that, because who really understands virus pandemics?" If Donald Trump can sell enough people on the idea that he won the war against the coronavirus, I have to admit that he's in with a chance. But that's a big if.

Trump is crazy enough too to try to provoke a military conflict with China for nothing but his own personal benefit, but would the US military allow him?

As for a possible next round of Zionist annexation...one has to recall that the Israeli war against Egypt in 1956 got a bit of cover from military action by both a then superpower (USSR) and an ex-superpower (Britain), in the latter case even fighting the same enemy.

b said...

There may turn out to be a spooky parallel between Julian Assange helping the Trump campaign in 2016 from his confinement in the Ecuadorean embassy in London and Ghislaine Maxwell helping Trump's re-election campaign in 2020 from her prison cell.

How many citizenships does Ghislaine hold? I've seen four mentioned: British, French, US, and Israeli.

b said...

@IvoryBill - What does it mean to be skilled at arranging black swan events, and to what black swan events are you referring? You are using the term differently from Nassim Taleb. He doesn't even say the 2008 financial crash was a black swan. He says it was predictable and therefore not a black swan. Interestingly he also predicted a virus epidemic - explicitly, not between the lines - in his book "The Black Swan".

b said...

Hmmm...figures for 6-7 July are (378,993), up (3%,35%) from a week before. The 993 is the highest number of reported deaths with Covid-19 since 9 June. Who knows what will happen next? Those with the time and inclination might usefully analyse figures by state. There has to be some reason why the three-week upward trend in the number of reported cases hasn't yet been reflected in a sustained rising trend in the number of reported deaths.