Trump, Epstein, Russian banks. Are they connected?

Sentor Ron Wyden has been investigating how Jeffery Epstein paid for his years long, sex trafficking crime spree. Russian banks may have been in on the scheme. Trump is connected to Russian banks.

Epstein’s alleged link to Russian banks

Days ago Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) announced that Jeffery Epstein moved over $1 billion through a single bank account that included thousands of wire transfers. He also claimed that Epstein accepted sex trafficking payments through Russian banks.

In a July 17 Senate Finance Committee Newsroom post Wyden wrote, “Treasury’s Epstein file details 4,725 wire transfers adding up to nearly $1.1 billion flowing in and out of just ONE of Epstein’s bank accounts. If you ask me, that’s 4,725 potential lines of investigation right there.”

Wyden continues, “The file shows Epstein used multiple Russian banks, which are now under sanctions, to process payments related to sex trafficking. A lot of the women and girls he targeted came from Russia, Belarus, Turkey and Turkmenistan. You shudder to think about the kinds of people who must have been involved in trafficking these women and girls out of those countries and into Epstein’s web of abuse.”

Trump’s well documented connections to Russian banks and Russian investors

In 2022 the village idiot’s social media platform Truth Social was about to go bust. Russian American investor Anton Postolnikov bailed him out.

Postolnikov co-owns a Caribbean bank called Paxum. The bank couldn’t lend directly to Trump because it wasn’t licensed to do business in America. Postolnikov set up a shell company, ES Family Trust that he used to circumvent US law. Postolnikov subsequently provided Trump Media, Truth Social’s parent company, enough capital to stay afloat. Check out the story here at The Guardian.

In 2011 The New Yorker reported that Trump was involved in a shady, unsuccessful licensing deal to build a Trump Tower in Batumi. The city is located on the Black Sea in the Republic of Georgia. Several of the characters involved in this saga touted direct ties to Russia.

Trump had a bizarre, legally dubious relationship within Deutche Bank. According to reporting by WYNC Studios (and other news outlets) the German bank loaned Trump at least $2.5 billion over a period of 20 years. “The bank continued writing him nine-figure checks even after he defaulted on a $640 million obligation and sued the bank, blaming it for his failure to pay back the debt.”

WNCY further reported, “Like Trump, Deutsche Bank has been scrutinized for its dealings in Russia.” It had to pay over $600 million to regulators in 2017. The case focused on “mirror trades,” which Deutsche Bank facilitated between 2011 and 2015. From 2011-2015 it was involved in “sham transactions whose sole purpose appeared to be to illicitly convert rubles into pounds and dollars — some $10 billion worth.”

There is no evidence that laundered Russian money interacted with Trump’s Deutsche accounts.

Then there’s the odd story of Alpha Bank’s digital back channel to the Trump transition team in 2017. Time reported that Petr Aven, a co-owner of the Russian bank facilitated a marginally detectable, secret communication network to the Trump transition team. According to the Mueller Report, this was to be a direct line of communication with Vladimir Putin.

Is there a connection between Trump and Epstein and any of these Russian Banks?

At this point, only Trump knows. Then again Pam Bondi and Kash Patel might know. They’ve probably seen the documents that Senator Wyden has been demanding access to.

Also, according to Senator Dick Durban, a thousand FBI employees were forced to review 100,000 Epstein documents. Durban says they were ordered flag any references to Donald Trump and to report them to Bondi and Patel.

Some of those FBI staffers might have noticed a connection between Epstein, Trump and Russian banks. That’s a lot of mouths to try to keep shut.

Seems unlikely they weren’t collaborating at some point

Trump and Epstein were such close friends for 15 years. Epstein is alleged to have had dubious relationships with Russian banks. Trump has been proven to have had dubious relationships with Russian banks. No smoking guns there for sure. Still, I’m unwilling strain my ability to dispel disbelief. It’s almost asinine to assume that they weren’t collaborating in some capacity.

This story seems like it’s just getting started. It’s one that I expect to resurface sooner rather than later.