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demmiblue

(38,946 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 03:49 PM Wednesday

Jeffrey Epstein claims he gave Russians insight into Trump

Source: Politico

Nearly a month before President Donald Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top diplomat: If you want to understand Trump, talk to me.

“I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” Epstein wrote in a June 24, 2018, email to Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway who was leading the Council of Europe at the time of the exchange. Lavrov was an apparent reference to Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s longtime foreign minister.

In the email exchange, one of hundreds released Wednesday by congressional investigators, Epstein indicated he had previously talked about Trump with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s forceful ambassador to the United Nations, before Churkin died in 2017.

“Churkin was great,” Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, wrote. “He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-russia-emails-00648919



NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi

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Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-11-12T20:43:06.125Z
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Jeffrey Epstein claims he gave Russians insight into Trump (Original Post) demmiblue Wednesday OP
The Russians were grooming Trump for decades. Irish_Dem Wednesday #1
That plumbs new territory. bucolic_frolic Wednesday #2
The Kremlin had been cultivating Trump for years Coldwater Wednesday #3
Urine-corrigible! PuraVidaDreamin Wednesday #4
Russia, Russia, Russia. Harker Wednesday #5
I damn well hope Jagland reported this to his own intelligence agency muriel_volestrangler Wednesday #6
Pee Tape Kid Berwyn Wednesday #7
I am beginning to think that I might be the only person in the world with no (zip, zero zilch) ties to Russia. Marie Marie Wednesday #8
Hmm.. it's Often been questioned here... Cha Thursday #9

Coldwater

(615 posts)
3. The Kremlin had been cultivating Trump for years
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:07 PM
Wednesday

which includes his stay at Moscow’s Ritz Carlton hotel in 2013 with allegedly two prostitutes who each had a problem with incontinence.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,212 posts)
6. I damn well hope Jagland reported this to his own intelligence agency
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:44 PM
Wednesday

The Council of Europe is mainly about human rights in all of Europe (it's not an EU thing); Russia was a member in 2018, but expelled in 2022.

Marie Marie

(10,722 posts)
8. I am beginning to think that I might be the only person in the world with no (zip, zero zilch) ties to Russia.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 11:12 PM
Wednesday

Okay and maybe some of you upstanding citizens here on DU.

Cha

(315,831 posts)
9. Hmm.. it's Often been questioned here...
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 01:43 AM
Thursday

What Putin has on Traitor.

This seems extremely Plausible.

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