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The Epstein Money Trail Connects the World's Worst People...and Donald Trump
I joined Wajahat Ali this weekend to discuss what I’m finding in the Epstein files. The short version: everywhere you look, two names keep coming up—Russia and Trump.
We covered:
* Leon Black went to Russia with Donald Trump in 1996. The same Leon Black who paid Epstein $158 million. The same Leon Black who sat on Putin’s sovereign wealth fund board.
* Peter Thiel advised Ehud Barak to invest in Palantir—while Barak was photographed entering Epstein’s mansion. Thiel’s Founders Fund invests alongside Masha Drokova’s Day One Ventures. Drokova did PR for Epstein.
* 31% of Trump’s inner circle…
The skinny
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