Turns out even a broken clock can get it right twice a day. The New York Times just plastered their front-page with an exposé connecting the sadistic Jeffrey Epstein empire with the politically radioactive Clintons.
Following the release of long-awaited files pertaining to the Epstein case by the Department of Justice, Times investigative reporter Danny Hakim took a detour away from his employer’s never-ending Trump bashing to draft a February 8 story that’s sure to make liberal heads spin: “Epstein Files Reveal Scope of Ghislaine Maxwell’s Role in Clinton Circle.”
What made this even more impression was it is something none of the CBS or NBC flagship morning or evening newscasts have been able to do. ABC has mustered only one mention thanks to Capitol Hill correspondent Jay O'Brien on Monday's Good Morning America.
The story, which appeared on the front-page of Monday's print edition, exposed how the files revealed that Ghislaine Maxwell — longtime Epstein companion and convicted madam of his sex ring — “played a substantial role in supporting the creation of the Clinton Global Initiative, one of President Bill Clinton’s signature post-White House endeavors.”
That certainly puts a new spin on the CGI’s notoriety as being part of a “charity fraud.” In fact, The New Yorker contributing writer Adam Davidson revealed in an August 2016 Slate podcast that “There is a really creepy vibe, to me, personally, at the Clinton Global Initiative.” “It seems to me that it is all about buying access. It is incredibly expensive just to go to the thing,” Davidson said, “and there are sort-of these explicit ways in which you get access. You pay more money to get more access to political leaders and to really rich people and big corporate leaders.” Looks like Davidson was really on to something all those years ago.
Hakim documented the extent to which Maxwell was involved with the whole Clinton scheme:
Ms. Maxwell took part in budget discussions related to the first Clinton Global Initiative conference; talked through challenges about it with both Clinton aides and Publicis Groupe, the company that produced the inaugural event; and arranged to wire $1 million to pay Publicis for its work on ‘the Clinton project,’ according to emails in the massive cache of documents collected as part of the government’s investigations of Mr. Epstein. The source of the money is unclear, including whether Mr. Epstein provided the funds. However, the emails show that he was aware of the payment.
In fact, Epstein reportedly wrote Maxwell: “‘Ask him to tell you why [$1] million now and where will it be going.’”
The emails in Hakim’s estimation provided corroborating evidence of Maxwell’s claims last year that “she played a key role in helping set up the global conference.” On the whole, the new documents “provide texture about the connections between the Clinton and Epstein circles, which have long generated a swirl of conspiracy theories and unverified allegations.”
One thing’s for sure: ABC This Week anchor George Stephanopoulos must really be kicking himself over that $75,000 in donations he doled out to the Clinton Foundation years ago now.
