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Today in the release:
- Speech by Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse at the US Senate Congress session on March 5, 2026.
Instead of an epigraph: On Friday, Fox News correspondent at the White House, Peter Doocy, asked the 47th president what he thinks about reports that Russia is allegedly providing Iran with real-time intelligence to help attack American targets. To this, Donald Trump replied: “I respect you a lot. You have always been very kind to me. But what a stupid question you are asking at this moment.”
▶ Democratic Senator from Rhode Island Sheldon Whitehouse delivered a 48-minute speech on Thursday at a Senate session of the US Congress.
I want to present its full translation for your consideration.
When reading, keep in mind that Senator Whitehouse was a prosecutor in the past and has often delivered accusatory speeches in court against criminals, presenting detailed evidence of their crimes.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, speech at the Senate on March 5, 2026:
“It was the spring of 2019.
Public and media interest in Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s report on the Russian election interference operation had reached a peak. Since Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in the 2016 elections, new reports had been coming in – drop by drop – about the warm and rather strange relationships between Trump’s team and Russia. On the eve of the Mueller Report’s publication, Trump’s Attorney General Bill Barr sent a letter to Congress, supposedly summarizing the report’s findings.
The letter stated that Russia and the Trump campaign had not conspired to steal the election. The press, eager for any news about the long-awaited conclusion of the Mueller investigation, mostly accepted Attorney General Barr’s narrow and carefully worded conclusion. Without yet having access to the full report, the media spread the attorney general’s summary worldwide. Trump himself declared—in capital letters—NO COLLUSION.
He said he was completely exonerated in the so-called “Russian hoax,” a term he usually applies to things that turn out to be true, such as climate change. An annoyed Mueller wrote to Barr that the attorney general’s letter did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of the investigation. But by the time Mueller’s voluminous and complex report was released a month later, its main point had already been obscured.
In reality, Mueller’s report concluded that the Trump campaign knew about, welcomed, and expected to benefit from Russian interference. This conclusion was later confirmed by an investigation conducted by the Senate Intelligence Committee chaired by Marco Rubio at the time. It was a bipartisan report. However, Barr’s scheme largely worked.
Many in the media and the Democratic Party seemed to inwardly accept the idea that the talk about Russia might have gone too far and that perhaps we were wrong in thinking there was a connection between Trump and Russia.
But is that so? Let’s look at some of Trump’s actions favoring Russia recently—often at the expense of U.S. interests. There are many such examples, but here are the top ten.
First. After Trump and Vice President Pence theatrically lectured the heroic President of Ukraine Zelensky in front of cameras in the Oval Office last year, Trump suspended U.S. arms supplies to Ukraine.
Second. In July, during the most intense Russian bombing campaign of the war at that point, Trump halted an already funded arms supply to Ukraine, including PATRIOT interceptors that protect civilians from Putin’s brutal attacks.
Third. That same month, Trump’s Treasury Department stopped imposing new sanctions and closing loopholes in existing sanctions, effectively allowing shell companies to send money, microchips, and military equipment to Russia.
Fourth. Leaked phone calls show that White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and Putin’s representative Kirill Dmitriev were closely collaborating behind the scenes on a peace agreement favorable to Russia.
Fifth. Last summer, Trump rolled out the presidential red carpet for the Russian dictator on U.S. soil by organizing a summit in Alaska, which unsurprisingly led to no progress on ending the war in Ukraine.
Sixth. Trump’s vice president attended the Munich Security Conference and repeated Russian anti-Western theses spread by right-wing groups that Putin has long financed and used to create political tension in Europe.
Seventh. Trump appointed Russia apologist Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence—to the great delight of Russian state media.
Eighth. After Pam Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General, was appointed, the Justice Department closed its anti-kleptocracy program, which had successfully prosecuted Russian oligarchs linked to Putin.
Ninth. At the end of last year, Trump introduced a new so-called national security strategy that abandoned traditional alliances in Europe and embraced transactional foreign policy (transactional policy means “you scratch my back, I scratch yours” – editor’s note), which the Kremlin praised as, I quote, “largely consistent with the vision and desires of Moscow.”
Tenth. The Trump administration is even paving the way for Russia’s return to global sports competitions, ending its isolation imposed after the aggressive invasion of Ukraine and Russia’s systemic state doping program.
This is just the first ten. But the list could go on. If Trump were deliberately carrying out Russia’s orders, it’s hard to imagine what he would be doing differently.
The United States is the most powerful country in the world. Russia is a weak and corrupt regime. My old friend, Senator John McCain, said that Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country, run by thugs with an army.
It’s illogical that the president of the United States, who insists on dominance in almost any relationship, shows such subservience to one person—and that person is the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
So what ties Trump and Russia together? And could it have something to do with Trump’s close friendship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein?
Much about Epstein remains little known. But the survivors who have come forward publicly and the millions of emails released under the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act have shed some light on the activities of the late financier’s global pedophile network.
Again and again in this story, Russia appears.
When a journalist recently asked Trump about the Epstein files, Trump said, in particular: “It’s just Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.” Again, the word “hoax”—a word he uses when things turn out to be true.
But the most telling detail is that when Trump was asked about Epstein, his thoughts immediately turned to Russia.
Russia, Russia, Russia.
It should be noted that Epstein’s ties to foreign intelligence may never be fully known. It is a dark and tangled world.
He had connections with officials in the United States, in the governments of Russia and Israel, and in many other places. But it’s worth closely examining his ties to Russia—a country so hostile to the United States.
Epstein’s career began in the mid-1970s at the prestigious Dalton School in New York, where, despite being a college dropout, the 21-year-old Jeffrey Epstein secured a position teaching mathematics to the children of some of New York’s wealthiest families.
Notably, the school’s director, who was leaving his position when Epstein was hired, was Donald Barr—the father of future Attorney General Bill Barr and a former intelligence officer during World War II.
Senior Barr was known for making unconventional staffing decisions at Dalton. A couple of years later, Epstein was able to leverage elite contacts he made at Dalton to secure a position at the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns, where he quickly advanced up the corporate ladder.
However, after being caught falsifying his resume, using a corporate credit card to purchase expensive gifts for his girlfriend, and ultimately providing her with privileged information about securities, among other unscrupulous actions, Epstein left the company and founded his own financial firm.
These early schemes were just the beginning.
Soon after, Epstein met a wealthy man named Douglas Leese—a British defense contractor connected to the arms industry and the British government.
At that time, Epstein was telling people he was a bounty hunter searching for hidden money.
According to Stephen Hoffenberg, Epstein’s former business mentor who was jailed for creating a massive Ponzi scheme and later claimed that Epstein had masterminded it, Leese introduced Epstein to Robert Maxwell.
Ghislaine Maxwell, who became Epstein’s friend and accomplice in human trafficking for sexual exploitation after her father’s death, was Robert Maxwell’s favorite daughter, and he actively involved her in his work.
Robert Maxwell, born in Czechoslovakia (Robert Maxwell was born in 1923 in Solotvyno, in Transcarpathia, which was then part of Czechoslovakia – Ed.), had complex and shifting ties with British, Soviet, and Israeli intelligence.
Initially funded by MI6, he also accepted secret payments from the KGB through his publishing enterprise that was friendly to the Soviet Union and was one of the rare individuals who operated on both sides of the “iron curtain.”
In 1992, the British newspaper Sunday Express reported that a secret document signed by the head of the KGB a few months before Maxwell’s death at sea indicated that Maxwell was a political and intelligence asset of the Soviet Union.
The newspaper claimed that the document stated the Soviet leadership instructed the KGB to protect Maxwell’s reputation and business interests.
Maxwell’s dossier at the British Foreign Office, released more than a decade after his death, described him, I quote: “a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia.”
Journalist Vicki Ward wrote the following in Rolling Stone magazine in 2021:
She said: “Hoffenberg told me that Epstein claimed he worked on several projects with Robert Maxwell, including solving Maxwell’s ‘debts’.”
The word ‘debts’ in this context was in quotation marks.
Maxwell died in 1991 under very strange circumstances—apparently falling off the yacht Lady Ghislaine at night.
After his death, it was revealed that he had stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from his employees’ pension funds.
The article further stated:
Epstein also told Hoffenberg that through Maxwell and Lisa, he was involved in what Hoffenberg described as ‘national security issues,’ which he said included extortion, influence trading, and information exchange on a very serious and dangerous level.
The article concluded with the words:
“Four independent sources confirmed to me that Epstein’s arms trading activities in the 1980s led to his work for several governments, including the Israeli government.”
Epstein’s money-making strategies and work with intelligence contacts seemingly had some similarities with Robert Maxwell’s strategies.
For the record: Epstein, known for his endless lying, once told Ward that he never met Robert Maxwell or Lisa.
At some point in the 1980s, Epstein became friends with another bold New York businessman named Donald Trump.
Author Michael Wolff said the following about Trump and Epstein:
“They shared everything. They shared their planes. They shared women. They constantly exchanged business and financial advice.”
There are many photos of these two men together at social parties in New York and Palm Beach during the 1990s.
Trump, famously said in 2002:
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. They say he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Alan Dershowitz told The New York Times in 2019 that back then, if you didn’t know Trump and didn’t know Epstein, you were nobody.
Dershowitz is a prominent lawyer who was part of Epstein’s defense team when he was charged with sexual contact with minors in 2006 and also participated in Trump’s defense team during his impeachment proceedings in 2020.
The president of Trump Plaza Hotel in Atlantic City in the late 1980s said he saw Trump and Epstein together so often that he considered Epstein to be Trump’s best friend.
The same person described an incident where Trump brought Epstein and a 19-year-old girl to the casino floor.
Once, Epstein brought a model to Trump Tower where, according to her, Trump grabbed her with his hands, laughing together with Epstein.
She noticed that it looked like a perverted game between the two men.
One of the surviving victims says that one night Epstein summoned her to his office.
Soon Trump arrived.
According to the New York Times, she recalled being frightened when Mr. Trump looked at her bare legs.
Then Mr. Epstein entered the room and, according to her, told Trump, “No-no, she’s not for you.”
When the men left the room, she said she heard Trump comment that he thought she was 16 years old.
In 1992, Trump held a “calendar girls” contest at Mar-a-Lago for dozens of young women. The event organizer was shocked to learn that Trump and Epstein would be the only men attending this private event.
During Maxwell’s trial, one of Epstein’s victims stated that he took her to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump when she was 14 years old.
Ghislaine Maxwell recruited 16-year-old Virginia Giuffre from the Mar-a-Lago spa. Giuffre was abused by Epstein and passed on to other men in his circle.
In 2025, Trump stated: “I think Giuffre worked at the spa. He took her.”
He refers to Epstein.
In 1997, the British tabloid Daily Mirror, formerly owned by Robert Maxwell, reported that Trump was dating a 20-year-old British model and that Ghislaine Maxwell introduced them at a party.
The tabloid wrote that Trump met the model at a Manhattan party. Several American millionaires had already noticed the girl, but she went there with Robert Maxwell’s daughter, Ghislaine, who introduced several of her attractive friends to developer Donald Trump.
According to Mirror, after the introduction, Trump took Ms. Maxwell and the model south—to Florida, where they spent a pleasant weekend together.
When they returned to New York, the model settled into one of Donald’s numerous apartments.
In an interview with BBC Newsnight, the model said: “Ghislaine Maxwell really introduced me to him—Trump—and did so with the clear implication that I would be with him, just as she shuttled me and brought me to Jeffrey Epstein.”
However, she added: “I can only speak for myself, and it should in no way negate the experiences of others, but President Trump never acted inappropriately with me.”
The same woman, in an NBC interview in 2019, accused Epstein of sexually abusing her when she was a teenager.
NBC wrote: “The abuse continued for several years and took place in various locations. In addition to the estate on his private island, she said Epstein abused her in his homes in New York City and Paris.”
According to Craig Unger’s book American Compromat: “Trump was often in the spotlight of Ghislaine Maxwell, and women who came into Trump’s orbit were sometimes linked with both Trump and Epstein. They spent part of their time at a Trump Tower apartment, and part in Florida, at Mar-a-Lago, or in one of Epstein’s homes.”
Among them was a Russian model and beauty pageant contestant, whose journey from the world of beauty pageants and modeling to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago and Epstein’s island is quite illustrative of how Epstein and his circle began to manipulate young women.
The story continued as follows.
In the early 1990s, before moving to the United States, this woman placed high in beauty contests—finishing second in “Miss Russia 1993” and winning the title of “Miss Baltic Sea 1994.”
In 1995, she left Moscow, spent six weeks studying English in St. Petersburg, Florida (not Russia), and was featured in the Tampa Tribune as the reigning “Miss Russia.”
Soon after, she met Donald Trump.
Quote: “Despite Trump still being married to his second wife, Marla Maples, the woman moved into an apartment on the 30th floor of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.”
According to a note in the New York Post, her luxurious living was paid for by an unnamed “sugar daddy.”
She spent time with both Trump and Epstein.
Flight logs published by a federal judge in New York in 2019 showed that in February 1999, this woman, who was then 27, flew on Epstein’s Gulfstream plane – the so-called “Lolita Express” – with Maxwell and Prince Andrew from Epstein’s Little St. James Island (also known as “Pedophile Island”) back to Florida.
Trump tried to distance himself from his former friend – the monstrous pedophile who is believed to have sexually exploited and abused at least a thousand women and girls.
It’s worth looking at how exactly the relationship between Trump and Epstein reportedly deteriorated.
There are different versions regarding whether Trump banned Epstein from appearing at Mar-a-Lago because he was recruiting spa workers from the resort.
But it is known that the rift between them was at least partially related to a bidding war for a mansion in Palm Beach in 2004.
Trump won and bought the property for $41.3 million.
Just four years later, after minor renovations, Trump sold this mansion to Russian billionaire oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million.
At the time, it was considered the most expensive residential property sale in US history.
A very impressive investment for Mr. Trump.
The oligarch, having paid $95 million, never even moved into this house.
And this brings us back to Russia.
“Epstein claimed he shared some observations about Trump with the Russians.
Epstein met several times with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN from 2006 until his death in 2017.
In one of the letters, Epstein wrote, “Churkin was magnificent. After our conversations, he understood Trump. It’s simple. He needs to look like he’s getting something. That’s all.”
In 2018, Epstein wrote to Thorbjørn Jagland, former Prime Minister of Norway and then head of the Council of Europe:
“I think you could suggest to Putin that Lavrov get an idea (about Trump – IA) by talking to me.”
Apparently, this was a reference to Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister.
This letter was sent before the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki.
In another letter to Jagland, Epstein wrote that he wanted to help Putin and Russia reboot the financial system.
A 2017 FBI report based on a confidential source claims that Epstein was managing Vladimir Putin’s wealth.
Epstein several times tried to meet with Putin, often through Jagland, although it is unknown if such a meeting ever took place.
However, Putin’s name is mentioned nearly a thousand times even in the smallest part of the published Epstein case documents.
And the word “Moscow” appears in these documents almost ten thousand times.
Epstein involved many Russian and Eastern European girls and women in his system of sexual exploitation.
A profile of Epstein published by New York Magazine back in 2002 stated: “At a party at Maxwell’s house, according to her friends, Russian call girls were as likely to be seen as Prince Andrew.”
The 2003 article by Vicky Ward provides information on how one guest described a cocktail party hosted by Maxwell, attended by Prince Andrew, which was filled with young Russian models, according to him.
In a 2010 letter, Epstein offered a young woman as a dinner companion for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince, assuring him that she, quote: “is Russian, beautiful, and reliable.”
Recently, the Daily Beast reported on an alleged secret U.S. intelligence document claiming: “Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor became entwined in Moscow’s orbit due to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, which the Kremlin allegedly used as a channel to infiltrate the British establishment.”
In another 2010 letter to a redacted individual, Epstein wrote: “Tomorrow I am hosting a dinner for several new Russian girls. See you at ten.”
In 2012, he received a letter from a sender with a redacted name (in the document published by the ministry of justice): “I have two Russian girls for you to meet. One is 21, the other 24.”
A message left for Epstein by one of his staff in 2005 claimed that French model scout Jean-Luc Brunel found, quote, “a teacher” who could give Epstein “free lessons.”
Quote: “He has a teacher to teach you to speak Russian. She’s twice eight years old. Not a blonde.”
Twice eight years old.
According to the book American Compromat, apart from his legitimate work as a model agent, Brunel allegedly hired people to identify, recruit, and transport underage girls, many of whom were 15 or younger, hiring them for so-called “massages” and delivering them to clients.
Brunel was found hanged in his cell in a French prison in 2022 following charges of rape and human trafficking.
Bill Gates reportedly had affairs with two Russian women, which Epstein later learned about.
At some point, Epstein established a relationship with Sergey Belyakov, a former deputy minister of economic development of Russia and a graduate of the FSB academy.
Epstein introduced him to contacts such as tech billionaire Peter Thiel, who later donated $10 million to a political fund that helped elect current vice president JD Vance to the Senate in 2022.
In 2015, Epstein warned Belyakov that “a Russian girl from Moscow is trying to blackmail a group of influential businessmen in New York.” According to Epstein, this was “bad for business for all involved.”
Belyakov responded with information about the woman, whom he claimed worked in sexual services and escorting.
The FSB academy graduate stated that he would meet with the person who knew her.
The following year, Belyakov informed Epstein that he had taken a new position at the Russian Direct Investment Fund — Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, headed by Putin’s current envoy Kirill Dmitriev.
The same person who was mentioned in leaked phone calls with Steve Witkoff, which I mentioned earlier.
Masha Drokova, a former press secretary for the pro-Kremlin youth movement “Nashi,” maintained regular contact with Epstein in the years leading up to his death in prison.
Formally, she assisted him with public communications.
According to the Washington Post, she was “the heroine of the 2011 documentary ‘Putin’s Kiss,’ whose title references a widely covered award ceremony where she received a medal from Putin and spontaneously kissed him on the cheek.”
In a 2017 letter, Drokova asked Epstein to introduce her to suitable Russian oligarchs.
The newspaper reported in 2022 that her fundraising presentations highlighted her links to wealthy Russians, although Drokova herself denied writing these letters and claimed she received no funding from Russia.
Epstein advised Drokova when she launched her venture firm in Silicon Valley.
In turn, she introduced Epstein to her contacts in the tech world.
In one 2017 email, after meeting billionaire Jeff Bezos, Drokova wrote to Epstein that she “was trying to figure out what she didn’t understand about him.”
Epstein replied that Bezos was “smart, funny, and visionary. A very nice person. Probably the best among the ‘bees’ in Silicon Valley.”
Documents also show that Epstein had dealings with Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire whom the U.S. Treasury Department named as a money launderer for Vladimir Putin.
Deripaska also maintained friendly relations with Peter Mandelson, an influential figure in the UK Labour Party.
It appears that Mandelson attempted to use Deripaska’s contacts to obtain an urgent Russian visa for Epstein in 2010.
Correspondence also shows that Epstein’s assistant tried to arrange a meeting between Epstein and Deripaska in Moscow or Paris.
There is also an audio recording in which Epstein advises then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to have dinner with Putin to secure a job after leaving government.
There is at least one itinerary for an extended trip to Russia, as well as photos of Epstein and Ghislaine, allegedly taken in Russia, including images with people resembling Russian soldiers.
Umar Dzhabrailov, a former Russian senator who recently committed suicide, called Maxwell a kindred spirit.
Epstein had a series of Russian visas between 2011 and his death in 2019.
Epstein’s crimes left a long financial trail, and this trail leads back to Russia.
Senate Finance Committee member Ron Wyden is persistently trying to uncover the truth about Epstein’s transactions with Russian banks and Eastern European entities.
A suspicious activity report filed by JPMorgan Chase after Epstein’s death shows that from 2003 to 2019, Epstein conducted 4,725 bank transfers totaling more than one billion dollars — and this is just in one bank.
Epstein used several banks.
According to JPMorgan, these operations were marked as suspicious as they were “consistent with suspected trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation” and involved the “high-risk jurisdiction of the Russian Federation.”
CNN reports that two accounts mentioned in the suspicious activity report were linked to the sanctioned Russian banks “Alfa-Bank” and “Sberbank.”
Reports of suspicious activity also mention Maxwell, as well as related entities like Brunel’s modeling agency MC2 Model Management, and various women and girls.
Back to journalist Vicky Ward.
Sources – from former arms dealers to former intelligence officers, as well as Hoffenberg – suggest that Epstein, who had no moral compass, decided to compromise influential people by recording them on video doing things they would not want publicized.
And after serving his sentence, in the last ten years of his life, Epstein boasted to various people, including journalists, that he was advising a range of foreign leaders – including Vladimir Putin, Mohammed bin Zayed, Mohammed bin Salman, various African dictators, Israel, the British, and, of course, Americans.
He also told several of these same people that he was making a huge fortune from arms, drugs, and diamonds.
I am still quoting the same source.
In intelligence circles, Epstein was called a “hyper-fixer” – someone who could operate between different cultures and networks.
Epstein, of course, was known for his parties, which he insisted on hosting in his numerous mansions where he could fully control the environment.
Many of Epstein’s victims said they believed they were recorded on video.
Virginia Giuffre wrote in her posthumously published memoir that Epstein had a vast library of videotapes and a room in his New York home where monitors displayed real-time surveillance from all his properties.
She wrote: “He openly talked about using me and what I was forced to do with certain men as a form of blackmail, so these men would be indebted to him.”
Another survivor recounted that Epstein once showed her around his mansion, pointing out micro-cameras embedded in the walls. He boasted they were in every room.
According to Epstein’s emails, in 2014 he instructed an employee to purchase hidden cameras installed in tissue boxes.
The New York Times obtained photographs of the interior of Epstein’s New York mansion, showing a camera installed near the ceiling of the master bedroom and another along a decorative cornice in an adjacent room.
Journalists also found cameras near a number of bathrooms on the same floor as Epstein’s bedroom.
When police searched his Palm Beach home in 2005, they found, quote, “two hidden cameras.” Both cameras were inside clocks — one near a desk, the other in the garage.
It is worth noting that Epstein often, apparently, learned in advance when Palm Beach police planned to come to his residence with searches.
Reportedly, Epstein once told his former girlfriend: “I collect people. I own people. I can destroy people.”
Disgraced financier Hoffenberg allegedly stated in the National Enquirer in his last interview before his death:
“Wherever Epstein entertained, he and Ghislaine recorded everything.”
This material was published only last summer because Hoffenberg asked the newspaper not to publish his comments until three years after his death.
According to the Daily Beast, former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Florida Alex Acosta once stated that Epstein, quote, “belonged to intelligence” and that the decision to grant him a lenient plea deal in 2008 was made at a level above his authority.
The Prime Minister of Poland, a country with extensive experience in countering Russian intelligence operations, has initiated an investigation into possible links between Epstein and Russian intelligence services.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said, “More traces, more information, and more comments in the world press suggest that this unprecedented pedophilia scandal could have been organized with the participation of Russian intelligence services.”
According to reports based on anonymous intelligence sources published in the British tabloid Daily Mail last month, some believe that: “Jeffrey Epstein ran the world’s largest ‘honey trap’ operation on behalf of the KGB by providing women for his network of contacts.”
I want to emphasize: we do not have definitive answers.
Epstein was a chronic liar and criminal who often sought to exaggerate his own influence and power.
And the documents related to Epstein’s case need to be viewed through this prism.
He could have worked with one intelligence service, multiple intelligence services, or been what the Russians call a “useful idiot.”
We may never know.
But we know that a significant number of influential people—our current president, some members of his cabinet, tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and others—were closely associated with Epstein at different times.
And Epstein appeared to be very closely connected with Russia.
We also know there is currently an attempt to cover up information in the Department of Justice.
The MAGA Department of Justice is trying to protect Trump from what the Epstein files contain.
We know that documents from these files concerning President Trump and subject to release have not been published.
The missing documents, first discovered by independent journalist Roger Salenberger, allegedly contain claims by one of Epstein’s accusers that she was also sexually assaulted by President Trump when she was a teenager.
(Translator’s note: Senator Whitehouse spoke in the Senate on Thursday, March 5. On Friday, March 6, these documents were published by the Department of Justice – IA).
One of the powerful forces sustaining Washington is the bias towards normality.
The bureaucratic establishment often benefits from being skeptical of unusual or extreme stories.
Because in many cases, the truth turns out to be more mundane than it initially seems.
What I did today was lay out the facts documented by many brave survivors (of Epstein’s network – IA) who have spoken publicly, risking much, as well as numerous journalists who have tried and continue to try to uncover the truth.
As a lawyer, I know that criminal offenses can be proven with circumstantial evidence.
A “smoking gun” is not always necessary.
Here we have: connections with Russia, girls from Russia, money from Russia, people from Russia, deals and transactions with Russia, contacts with individuals linked to Russian intelligence, journalistic investigations about connections with Russia, and an official investigation by the Polish government regarding a possible link between Epstein and Russia.
Sometimes, with a little imagination, you can see what is right in front of you.
Mr. Chairman, I ask for unanimous consent for this document – a bibliography of all the sources I referenced in this speech – to be included in the record and appended to the transcript of my address.
End of translation.
There are 1050 days left until the end of the story titled “Fear: Trump in the White House” © (the title of Bob Woodward’s book, published in 2018).
Thank you to everyone who read. Take care of yourselves and your loved ones. Take care of each other, help each other. Wishing health to everyone.
Ultimately, what happens in the world depends on us. Whether we fight evil, do good, remain mere spectators, wait passively and believe that someone somewhere will decide something for us, or fight evil and do everything possible for good to prevail.
We must not allow evil to win. The victory of evil would mean the end of the world as we know it. We cannot allow this. Especially now.
Ukrainian friends, I embrace and love you all. Please take care of each other, I earnestly ask you.
Ukraine is and will always be.
And evil will be defeated and punished. And this will certainly happen.
