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New findings about sexual predator Epstein: He was also with Trump. He was also interested in Lajčák, but only as a diplomat

Thursday, November 13


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The once-secret Jeffrey Epstein documents that have been terrifying US political and social elites for months have taken a new twist. Democrats in Congress this week released another part of the communication in which the sex predator Epstein claims that US President Donald Trump spent"hours" at his home - the site of numerous sexual assaults, including cases involving minor victims.

This is Epstein's most direct description of what Trump should have known about what was happening at the residence, and according to Democrats, it reopens the question of why the administration is so stubbornly preventing the release of the entire file, the New York Times reports.

At the same time, it is resonating abroad that Slovakia also appears in these materials. In one of the emails, which were published a long time ago, Epstein writes about Slovak diplomat Miroslav Lajčák as a"future UN president" who could "lead the European project". However, no connection with Epstein's sexual affairs appears in the documents in this case.

The email was written at a time when Lajčák was one of the most prominent faces of European diplomacy and his name was indeed mentioned in connection with the highest positions in the United Nations. In 2016, Lajčák was considered as the head of the UN, and finally a year later he became at least the head of its General Assembly, the second most important position in the organization.

The documents do not indicate that Lajčák collaborated with Epstein or that they knew each other, but they do show that Epstein followed the Slovak diplomat as part of a wider circle of influential figures he considered in his political deliberations.

Political pressure in the US is growing

The so-called Epstein files are thousands of pages of documents mapping the network of contacts of the convicted sex predator, who moved for years among the political, academic and financial elites of the US and Britain. They include names such as Prince Andrew, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Steve Bannon.

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