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5/5

They’ve illuminated the way.
Now the major voices need to support & help amplify it! @rachelmaddow.bsky.social
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4/5

And that silence is part of how we got here&why the same machinery keeps advancing.
It’s time for prominent jrnlsts to get up to speed on the topic& stand in brave solidarity w the equally brave&exceptional truth-driven investigators who’ve done this work quietly&professionally &relentlessly.

3/5

Yet somehow the one name at the center of all of it keeps getting tiptoed around;even as Thiel’s companies become deeply embedded inside our own government systems, by design.

Even the bravest voices who call out everyone else suddenly go quiet when it comes to Thiel.

2/5

Backing up: this email exchange is with Linda Stone, a tech exec who had known Epstein since the 1990s: she brokered his entrance into academia, linked him with scientists. In 2016 they were close enough to be chatty, far enough to go months between emails: September, then a gap, then November. 2/

Part 2: on Sept. 26, three days after Stone asked Epstein if he thought Trump could win, he answers: "too soon to tell, we will know more come oct 15". He doesn't explain: what would he learn then? Meanwhile Stone isn't even sure if Epstein supports Trump: "Which team you pulling for?" 3/

Why would Epstein know Trump's election prospects on Oct. 15? Maybe Russia. That month Epstein arranged for Trump advisors Peter Thiel & Tom Barrack to meet Russian Vitali Churkin. Russia fed hacked emails to WikiLeaks. Then Thiel's folks spun up Pizzagate: a conspiracy about a pedophile ring. 4/

Part 3: Epstein and Stone email again a week after the election is called for Trump. Now Epstein seems onboard with the winner. He tells her: "I'm in Trump Tower". 5/

Here's the full exchange from the email drop, a complicated thread with multiple replies. The screenshot of Sept.-Nov. 2016 is from the Jan 6 'Big Timeline' (link below). That was a dark period full of dirty tricks, foreign influence.. and Jeffrey Epstein. 6/
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

An update since that parsing was off - long day. It makes sense if Epstein's times are Paris time. Sept 25: Epstein asks Stone if Trump could win. Sep 26: Stone questions him back: "SPEAK! what do you think?" And then Epstein gives his slightly chilling answer: "we will know more come oct 15." 7/