{"id":20711,"date":"2025-11-18T12:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=20711"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:00:32","slug":"es-wird-immer-enger-fuer-trump-die-verbindung-die-keiner-sehen-sollte-und-die-er-bis-heute-nicht-erklaeren-kann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/es-wird-immer-enger-fuer-trump-die-verbindung-die-keiner-sehen-sollte-und-die-er-bis-heute-nicht-erklaeren-kann\/","title":{"rendered":"It is becoming tighter for Trump - The connection that was never meant to be seen - and that he still cannot explain"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are political stories that lie in the dark for a long time until one discovery tears everything open. An analysis of private messages from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s communications archive belongs exactly in this category. It shows that Epstein, in the months before his arrest, had direct access to Donald Trump\u2019s innermost power circle - and that Steve Bannon, the chief strategist of the Trump movement, actively worked to protect Epstein politically and publicly. What looks like an ominous echo from the past reveals itself on closer inspection as a meticulously documented reality. The messages obtained by the House Oversight Committee paint a picture that fits as little with Trump\u2019s later attempts at distancing as almost anything else. While the President publicly insisted he had cut Epstein out of his life long ago, the actual contact moved in an entirely different direction. Epstein wrote to Bannon not only about the smallest shifts in the balance of power inside the White House - he transmitted information that only someone with access to Trump himself or to his closest circle could have known. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The messages begin in March 2019. What Epstein wrote to Bannon that afternoon was far more than chatter from the West Wing. It was insight that only the top leadership circle knew: Trump\u2019s growing frustration with his Vice President Mike Pence, the thought of replacing him with Mike Pompeo, and an absurd but apparently real episode in which Trump asked both John Kelly and Jared Kushner to push each other out of their positions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epstein wrote at 14:46:08: \u201cDjt. Now really angry at Pence\u201d At 14:46:55: \u201cthinks Pompeo would be better as vice president\u201d At 14:47:12: \u201cSays Pence is not really loyal\u201d And finally at 14:47:38: \u201cAnd yes, he asked Kelly to get rid of Jared, and then Jared to get rid of Kelly. Completely normal so to speak\u201d Bannon responded immediately, at 14:46:31: \u201cHow did you hear that and why is he like that\u201d Then at 14:50:06: \u201cThis is why everything is so messed up\u201d And at 14:50:17: \u201cPompeo much better as vice president\u201d None of this was public. And yet Epstein predicted these developments months before the media reported them. This is no coincidence but an indication of a connection that Trump still downplays - and that becomes tangible in these messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It becomes especially delicate with a message from June 28, 2019. Epstein wrote to Bannon at 10:58: \u201cNow you understand why Trump wakes up at night in a cold sweat when he hears that you and I are friends.\u201d Bannon\u2019s reply at 10:59: \u201cDangerous.\u201d It is a sentence that contains everything Trump later tried to deny. Epstein believed that Trump knew about his exchange with Bannon - or would soon know. And considering the type of information Epstein provided, this is not a far-fetched assumption. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second message thread explains why Epstein was convinced that Trump might be nervous. In early December 2018, he wrote to another contact: \u201cyes thanks. it is crazy. because I am the one who can bring him down.\u201d A declaration that unfolds its effect only when one pieces together the months before and after: Epstein, who has intimate insight into Trump\u2019s environment; Bannon, who continues to operate the political machinery of the Trump movement; and a President who publicly claims all this lies long behind him while everything else unfolds behind the scenes. But the communication was not limited to the White House. Epstein was also embedded in Bannon\u2019s European projects - in that phase when Bannon attempted to forge an axis of right-wing parties in Europe, with Matteo Salvini, Viktor Orban, Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen as key figures. Bannon sent Epstein internal briefings provided by his European organizer Benjamin Harnwell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 22, 2018, Epstein received through this channel a detailed analysis of Bannon\u2019s planning status. Epstein responded at 01:51:58: \u201c9th circle\u201d Bannon wrote back: \u201cAbandon hope all ye who enter here\u201d A few minutes later Epstein sent another question: \u201cHicks?\u201d Bannon, terse and dry: \u201cWell played sir\u201d Epstein knew who was involved, who would travel, which politicians Bannon wanted to include, and he discussed all of this with him as if he were part of the project. In March 2019, the two then discussed in real time the new state charges against Paul Manafort. Epstein wrote at 11:22:18: \u201cManafort new. York charges. Symbolic of what is coming\u201d Bannon replied at 11:26:12: \u201cSaw it - now it gets serious\u201d Epstein at 11:27:14: \u201cHis choice now is the risk. Attica\u201d Bannon at 11:27:52: \u201cWill they let his wheelchair up there at all\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this looks like a view into a control room where politics, justice, Europe and personal loyalties intersected - and Epstein was right in the middle. The messages become even more explosive in those exchanges that refer to the weeks before Epstein\u2019s arrest. Epstein and Bannon were working together on a documentary project intended to rehabilitate Epstein. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It involved interviews, prominent participants, filming locations - and Epstein\u2019s private island Little St. James, the place at the center of the abuse allegations. At 03:58:06 on July 6, 2019, Epstein wrote to Bannon: \u201cWe are scheduled to go to his house in Cold Spring Harbor. I will then go to the airport and to the island. For the rest of the week.\u201d Bannon asked at 03:59:04: \u201cIf we can arrange it, can we film on the island?\u201d Epstein\u2019s answer, five seconds later: \u201cYes\u201d Bannon wrote at 03:59:23: \u201cPerfect\u201d This is not a suggestion, not speculation. It is the documented plan to film on the island that for years had symbolized Epstein\u2019s crimes. And it shows how far this cooperation extended - until the very last hours. Because in the afternoon Bannon wrote at 16:35:17: \u201cCan we do late morning, say 11 am\u201d Epstein replied at 16:37:20: \u201cAll canceled\u201d Bannon responded: \u201cYou are not coming?\u201d No further messages follow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point Epstein had already been arrested in Teterboro. In another exchange, Epstein and Bannon even discussed high-level diplomats. On June 17, 2019, Epstein introduced him to \u201cMiro\u201d - Miroslav Lajcak, then Foreign Minister of Slovakia, OSCE Chairperson, and former President of the UN General Assembly. Epstein wrote at 07:07:23: \u201cCurrent. Slovak foreign minister. Current chairman OSCE. Former president United Nations\u201d Bannon responded at 07:08:01: \u201cYes yes yes\u201d Then at 07:08:21: \u201cPompeo and Kiron Skinner\u201d And at 07:08:30: \u201cLet me take care of it\u201d These conversations do not prove that Epstein intervened in foreign policy. But they show that he moved in an environment where such contacts were discussed as a matter of course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the end a picture emerges that shakes the political self-description of recent years: Jeffrey Epstein moved until shortly before his arrest in the very environment that Donald Trump publicly claimed not to know anymore. He transmitted secret internal information from the White House, was part of Bannon\u2019s projects in Europe, discussed Manafort, diplomats, filming locations, strategies - and wrote only a week before his arrest that Trump woke up at night in fear when he heard that he and Bannon were friends. It is the story of proximity, power and fear. And it is a story that Trump has not been able to answer so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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