Does The Ghost of Epstein Live On Through Stanley Pottinger?
So we all know Trump and Epstein were pals or at least close acquaintances going back to 1987 and had mutual friends like the billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi whom Trump bought his yacht from. They had a falling out around 2004 before Epstein got charged with diddling little girls, allegedly over a dispute over a piece of property both wanted to buy.
This is stuff we all know. We also know the guy Trump appointed as his Secretary of Labor (Acosta) was the guy who gave Epstein his sweet heart deal because he was told Epstein belonged to intelligence. Epstein reportedly bragged at one time he was CIA
In this period (2004-2008) Trump was partnering with another Intelligence Asset at Bayrock. A fellow by the name of Felix Sater, who is the son of a guy who allegedly worked for a Russian Mafia crime boss, a Ukrainian Born dude named Semion Mogilevich).
However Sater was also pals with Trumps former lawyer Cohen as they grew up together. In return for helping out FBI and other Intelligence Agencies in the Former Soviet Union and tracking down Stinger Missiles he stayed out of jail for Stock Fraud that he was charged with.
We also know Trumps Attorney General was also Poppy Bush AG and was in the CIA at the same time Poppy was CIA Director and was the son of a former OSS guy who gave Epstein a job at the Dalton School which caters to rich kids. When Epstein needed a law firm after being charged he picked the law firm Barr was working for. Indeed after Epstein got arrested in 2019 there was some talk of Barr recusing himself due to this connection. He didn’t of course, and Epstein got snuffed not long after Barr paid him a visit. Dead men tell no tales
So none of this is new, why am I bringing it up now?
Recently I became aware of a guy named Matt Pottinger, a Mandarin speaking China hawk who was Deputy National Security Adviser in Trumps NSC at the time COVID was breaking out. According to Deborah Birx he was instrumental in pushing many of the COVID policies we hate so much like testing, masks, lockdowns, etc. he was also the one who lobbied for Birx to head the White House Coronavirus Response
No doubt he was behind this
His wife is a virologist who used to work for the CDC subordinate to Birx and her work in developing HIV tests kept her connected to Birx
Matt had an interesting career. Working for years in China as a journalist for Reuters and the WSJ who covered SARS from ground zero. I can tell you as a long time expat the CIA would no doubt have attempted to recruit Matt as an asset if not as an agent.
During his time in China at about the time of the Iraq War Matt was persuaded to join the Marines despite being too old and out of shape. He worked for Marine Intelligence
When Matt left the Marines he set up a Consulting firm investigating Chinese Companies for Investors. That sure has spook written all over it. Once a spook, always a spook. He also went on to work for a secretive and privately owned Hedge Fund Company (Davidson Kempner Capital Management) that liked to move their money around in various tax havens like the Drug Lords and Spooks do.
A more detailed look into Matt is given in this article.
Deputy National Security Advisor, Matt Pottinger played a singularly outsized role in shaping America’s disastrous response to Covid by taking the following actions:
Throughout January 2020, Pottinger unilaterally called White House meetings unbeknownst to those in attendance and breached protocol to ratchet up alarm about the new coronavirus based on information from his own sources in China, despite having no official intelligence to back up his alarmism.
Despite having no background in science or public health, beginning in February 2020, Pottinger embarked on a months-long campaign to urge the adoption of universal masking and travel quarantines in response to the coronavirus based on information from his own sources in China. However, there does not appear to be a single picture of Pottinger wearing a mask anywhere on the Internet.
Pottinger popularized the idea of shutdowns within the White House using a questionable study on the 1918 flu pandemic comparing outcomes between Philadelphia and St. Louis, a month before this study received any significant attention from media outlets in 2020.
Pottinger specifically courted Deborah Birx to serve as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, who then embarked on a months-long campaign for lockdowns that were as long and strict as possible across the United States.
Despite having no background in science or public health, Pottinger appears to have promoted the idea of mass testing for the coronavirus.
Pottinger appears to have endorsed use of the drug remdesivir as a possible Covid therapy based on information from a doctor in China.
Pottinger has continually promoted the conclusion that the coronavirus came from a lab, and specifically prodded the US intelligence community to do the same, regardless of evidence to support that conclusion, while simultaneously urging the global adoption of China’s virus containment measures.
So this ex-Marine and China Hawk, handpicked by General Flynn for the NSC, with a Father who helped take down Nixon, and a wife who knew Deborah Birx (who was close to CDC Director Robert Redfield having worked together in the Military on HIV Vaccines), also a CFR member and 2019 Bilderberger attendee single handedly was responsible for our destructive COVID Policies
Nope, but he certainly played a major part in this Military-Intelligence led operation.
Now for the icing on the cake. Matts Father. Stanley Pottinger, who has his own connections to Epstein, or at least Epstein’s victims
Stanley Pottinger, was the man who allegedly figured out who was “Deep Throat” in the Watergate Affair, long before he confessed. A guy who helped take out Richard Nixon as President. Deep Throat was Mark Felt of the FBI . It helps to remember that Bob Woodward was from Naval Intelligence and the Washington Post was an arm of the CIA.
As reported by George Webb
Stan Pottinger even wrote a book about getting Prescott Bush’s Nazi bioweapons scientists into our National Laboratories (with the help of then Vice President Richard Nixon). What does the “Last Nazi” do to the world? The Last Nazi (thought to be loosely based on Nazi bioweapons scientist Eric Traub), causes a worldwide pandemic, then institutes a set of rules and emergencies to put the Third Reich back in power.
Welcome to the Fourth Reich (aka Fourth Industrial Revolution or Great Reset)
After divorcing Matts Mother in 1975 Stanley began a 9 year affair with Gloria Steinem who has known ties to the CIA
In 1980, the FBI put a wiretap in the Gulf Capital Corp. when Pottinger recommended a man named Cyrus Hashemi be used to carry a message to Khomeini, NBC reported.
Pottinger, who headed the Justice Department's civil rights division under Ford and Nixon, was Hashemi's lawyer after leaving government service.
But federal officials say the wiretap recorded Pottinger advising Hashemi on arms shipments, NBC said. They say Hashemi was Khomeini's arms broker in New York.
'The government says Pottinger ... was heard on hidden microphones giving advice on how to make military shipments to Iran through dummy companies in other countries,' NBC said.
'Federal authorities say that military supplies, disguised under phony invoices, were flown to Zurich, Switzerland, then shipped to Teheran' by the T and T Trading Company located in Basel, Switzerland, NBC said.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/05/25/Stanley-Pottinger-head-of-the-Justice-Departments-Civil-Rights/3173454305600/
Stanley was reported to be a CIA operative and, in fact, was reported to be Hashemi's CIA controller for many of these purposes. The story that was going around-and this was broadcast and published in a number of places-is that Stanley Pottinger was named as an unindicted co-conspirator and narrowly escaped indictment because the FBI had lost the wiretaps so he couldn't be indicted.
Shortly thereafter in 1984 Stanley Pottinger and Gloria Steinems relationship fizzled. Stanleys cover was blown, and Gloria moved on
A bit more on this character Pottinger was conspiring with from wikipedia
In mid-1985 Hashemi was partnered with Adnan Khashoggi in "World Trade Group", "a joint venture ... that was seeking to trade farm equipment, oil and military weapons with Iran."Roy Furmark was also involved.
In June 1985 Hashemi approached William Casey with a new arms-for-hostages plan.The Los Angeles Times reported in 1988 that "according to newly declassified CIA and State Department memos, Hashemi approached then-CIA Director William J. Casey with an arms-for-hostages plan of his own that was strikingly similar to the one that would soon be embraced by the White House as its secret Iran arms initiative." A June 1985 CIA memo documented a call regarding a potential arms-for-hostages deal from Hashemi to Shaheen. The Times said in 1988 it had discovered that Hashemi was meeting with Adnan Khashoggi and Manucher Ghorbanifar, and that Hashemi's efforts to arrange a deal collapsed in August 1985 due to Kashoggi's competing efforts to arrange US access to Ghorbanifar via Robert McFarlane.
Hashemi died suddenly in 1986 shortly before Iran-Contra scandal was exposed. The man suspected of being behind the leak was Admiral Arthur Stanley Moreau who served as assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A month after the news broke Moreau died of a heart attack at age 55. Cant blame Pfizer for that but the CIA had their ways even then (not that I have proof they were behind it)
But I digress
Lets flash forward
Stanley Pottinger had a law firm.
From wikipedia we see
Pottinger represented more than 20 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stanley_Pottinger
Lets dig deeper
Stan Pottinger is a partner for Edwards Pottinger, a Florida-New York law firm. The firm focuses on civil litigation with special attention to sex abuse cases; mediation; press and media matters; and healthcare law.
After his government service, Mr. Pottinger practiced law at Troy, Malin & Pottinger, a Los Angeles, Washington, Paris-based law firm. Following a few years of investment banking, he established Pottinger Media Group LLC (PMG), a New York firm which acted as agent and consultant on literary and press matters. PMG also established Velocity Press, a private publishing company.
https://www.epllc.com/attorneys/stan-pottinger/
Interesting, focusing on sex abuse cases and is Media/Publishing companies. CIA has been known to invest in Media/Publishing Companies. Now why would a presumably still CIA Agent be interested in handling Sex Abuse Cases?
I’ll try to guess. For those of you who are familiar with what Epstein was doing you know he was allegedly running a blackmail operation for one or more intelligence agencies. Video rich and powerful people diddling kids that he arranged for them and then those he gave it to would use it to get money or influence their actions in areas of interest. But in such operations you run the risk of the kids growing up and blowing the whistle on what you are doing. That happened with Epstein.
What happens next is you run the risk of criminal prosecution and civil action that can expose some very important people. If you can control the Justice System with puppet AG’s like Acosta you can keep the case from going to court some of the time. But what about the times you can’t keep it out of court. Well, then you want to make sure you have lawyers representing the victims who will settle or at least a judge you own that hears the case and keeps important evidence off the record (we may have seen that in Ghislaines trial)
What I am suggesting is that it may have been one of Stanley Pottingers purpose in going after these Epstein victims cases, besides potentially lucrative payouts. Indeed every case he handled to conclusion got settled and did not go to court
Now some of you might wonder why there have been no indictment of the Johns diddling these kids despite having it all on tape. Here is my hypothesis. These tapes are now in the possession of the FBI, not the Mossad or the CIA who no doubt burned some of them for their own purposes but some of these Johns are assets that still have value. They don’t want to burn them all.
The ones they did burn, shaking them down for money , can be burned again, but by someone else , maybe someone like Stanley Pottinger, maybe by someone else connected to the Feds.
This story by the NYT will give you an idea of what I am talking about. But don’t buy the narrative that Kessler was a fraud and the tapes don’t exist. Maybe thats true but consider that maybe is a deception and Kessler delivered the goods.
One more thought. In January 2020 it was reported a record number of CEO’s resigned.
Related? I dont know
Mr. Edwards, who did not respond to interview requests, had a law firm called Edwards Pottinger, and he soon referred Kessler to his New York partner. Silver-haired and 79, Mr. Pottinger had been a senior civil-rights official in the Nixon and Ford administrations, but he also dabbled in investment banking and wrote best-selling medical thrillers. He was perhaps best known for having dated Gloria Steinem and Kathie Lee Gifford.........
After an initial discussion with Kessler in Washington, Mr. Pottinger briefed Mr. Boies — whose firm was also active in representing accusers in the Epstein case — about the sensational claims.....
In his conversations with Mr. Pottinger and, later, Mr. Boies, Kessler said his videos featured numerous powerful men who were already linked to Mr. Epstein: Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister; Alan Dershowitz, a constitutional lawyer; Prince Andrew; three billionaires; and a prominent chief executive.....
Mr. Pottinger and Mr. Boies have known each other for years, a friendship forged on bike trips in France and Italy. In legal circles, Mr. Boies was royalty: He was the one who fought for presidential candidate Al Gore before the Supreme Court, took on Microsoft in a landmark antitrust case, and helped obtain the right for gays and lesbians to get married in California.
But then Mr. Boies got involved with the blood-testing start-up Theranos. As the company was being revealed as a fraud, he tried to bully whistle-blowers into not speaking to a Wall Street Journal reporter, and he was criticized for possible conflicts of interest when he joined the company’s board in 2015.
Two years later, Mr. Boies helped his longtime client Harvey Weinstein hire private investigators who intimidated sources and trailed reporters for The Times and The New Yorker — even though Mr. Boies’s firm had worked for The Times on other matters. (The Times fired his firm
By 2019, Mr. Boies, 78, was representing a number of Mr. Epstein’s alleged victims. They got his services pro bono, and he got the chance to burnish his legacy. When Mr. Pottinger contacted him about Kessler, he was intrigued.
On Sept. 9, Mr. Boies greeted Kessler at the offices of his law firm, Boies Schiller Flexner, in a gleaming new skyscraper at Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s West Side......
Kessler claimed that a technology executive had introduced him to Mr. Epstein, who in 2012 hired Kessler to set up encrypted servers to preserve his extensive digital archives. With Mr. Epstein dead, Kessler boasted to the lawyers, he had unfettered access to the material. He said the volume of videos was overwhelming: more than a decade of round-the-clock footage from dozens of cameras......
Mr. Boies and Mr. Pottinger had decades of legal experience and considered themselves experts at assessing witnesses’ credibility. While they couldn’t be sure, they thought Kessler was probably legit.......
According to excerpts viewed by The Times, Mr. Pottinger and Kessler discussed a plan to disseminate some of the informant’s materials — starting with the supposed footage of Mr. Barak. The Israeli election was barely a week away, and Mr. Barak was challenging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The purported images of Mr. Barak might be able to sway the election — and fetch a high price. ........
[Conspiracy to interfere in a foreign election. Who do they think they are? The CIA?]
Can you share your contact that would be purchasing,” Kessler asked.
“Sheldon Adelson,” Mr. Pottinger answered.
Mr. Adelson, a billionaire casino magnate in Las Vegas, had founded one of Israel’s largest newspapers, and it was an enthusiastic booster of Mr. Netanyahu. Mr. Pottinger wrote that he and Mr. Boies hoped to fly to Nevada to meet with Mr. Adelson to discuss the images.
“Do you believe that adelson has the pull to insure this will hurt his bid for election?” Kessler asked the next morning.
Mr. Pottinger reassured him. “There is no question that Adelson has the capacity to air the truth about EB if he wants to,” he said, using Mr. Barak’s initials. He said he planned to discuss the matter with Mr. Boies that evening.
Mr. Boies confirmed that they discussed sharing the photo with Mr. Adelson but said the plan was never executed.
[Sidney Aldeson was Trumps biggest financial supporter]
The men whom Kessler claimed to have on tape were together worth many billions. Some of their public relations teams had spent months trying to tamp down media coverage of their connections to Mr. Epstein. Imagine how much they might pay to make incriminating videos vanish.
You might think that lawyers representing abuse victims would want to publicly expose such information to bolster their clients’ claims. But that is not how the legal industry always works. Often, keeping things quiet is good business.
One of the revelations of the #MeToo era has been that victims’ lawyers often brokered secret deals in which alleged abusers paid to keep their accusers quiet and the allegations out of the public sphere. Lawyers can pocket at least a third of such settlements, profiting off a system that masks misconduct and allows men to abuse again.
Mr. Boies and Mr. Pottinger said in interviews that they were looking into creating a charity to help victims of sexual abuse. It would be bankrolled by private legal settlements with the men on the videos.
[charities are a great way of avoiding taxes on the income]
Mr. Boies acknowledged that Kessler might get paid. “If we were able to use this to help our victims recover money, we would treat him generously,” he said in September. He said that his firm would not get a cut of any settlements.
Such agreements would have made it less likely that videos involving the men became public. “Generally what settlements are about is getting peace,” Mr. Boies said.
Mr. Pottinger told Kessler that the charity he was setting up would be called the Astria Foundation — a name he later said his girlfriend came up with, in a nod to Astraea, the Greek goddess of innocence and justice. “We need to get it funded by abusers,” Mr. Pottinger texted, noting in another message that “these are wealthy wrongdoers.”
Mr. Pottinger asked Kessler to start compiling incriminating materials on a specific group of men......
The lawyers held out hope of getting Kessler’s materials. But weeks passed, and nothing arrived. At one point, Mr. Pottinger volunteered to meet Kessler anywhere — including Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.
[seems a strange place to want to meet]
Mr. Boies had concluded that Kessler was probably a con man: “I think that he was a fraudster who was just trying to set things up.” And he argued that Kessler had baited Mr. Pottinger into writing things that looked more nefarious than they really were. He acknowledged that Mr. Pottinger had used “loose language” in some of his messages that risked creating the impression that the lawyers were plotting to monetize evidence of abuse.
Several days later, Mr. Boies returned for another interview and was more critical of Mr. Pottinger, especially the hypothetical plans that he had described to Kessler. “Having looked at all that stuff in context, I would not have said that,” he said. How did Mr. Boies feel about Mr. Pottinger invoking his name in messages to Kessler? “I don’t like it,” he said.
But Mr. Boies stopped short of blaming Mr. Pottinger for the whole mess. “I’m being cautious not to throw him under the bus more than I believe is accurate,” he said. His longtime P.R. adviser, Dawn Schneider, who had been pushing for a more forceful denunciation, dropped her pen, threw up her arms and buried her head in her hands.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/30/business/david-boies-pottinger-jeffrey-epstein-videos.html
Boies and Pottinger discussed using the promised videos in litigation or to try to extract settlements from the men in the videos, with the money going to a charitable foundation, the New York Times alleged. The settlements would remain private.
When Kessler asked Pottinger to provide some hypotheticals to explain how money could be collected from those depicted in the videos, Pottinger provided two examples, according to the article.
In one hypothetical, Pottinger said the money would be split among his clients and the foundation. Up to 40% of the money would go toward attorney fees.
In the second hypothetical, the lawyers would ask the men on videotape to hire them and make a contribution to a nonprofit as part of the retainer. Hiring the lawyers would prevent the men from being sued.
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/man-who-claimed-to-have-epstein-sex-tapes-duped-david-boies
It just sounds very fishy. I mean if it was just a hoax why did they make such a big deal of it. There is a hidden purpose behind this story. Maybe its just them covering their asses or its their way of letting the Johns know they are coming for them but not to worry so long as they pay up.
And last but not least here is another Epstein connection to Trump matters
Judge Bruce Reinhart’s wife Carolyn Bell is an Assistant U.S. Attorney, who was appointed by Gov. Rick Scott.
Judge Bruce Reinhart is a popular American magistrate Judge. Judge Bruce Reinhart came to the limelight after he Represented Jeffrey Epstein’s Pilots And Secretary. Now Judge Bruce Reinhart is popular as the Judge who signed off on the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion and donated $2,000 to Barack Obama’s campaign. Previously Judge Bruce Reinhart has represented several employees of the billionaire pedophile.
https://wikinewspedia.com/judge-bruce-reinhart-wiki/
Now some people are jumping in this as pro-Epstein liberals are all after Trump here and how Trump walked away from Epstein after he found out what Epstein was up to. But they ignore the fact the so called “raid” like the so called “insurrection” was likely to have been staged to achieve an objective. In this case, help Trump win the Republican Nomination so he can run against whoever the Democrats choose. Trump had his 4 years and failed . He presided over the damaging Lockdown. Appointed swamp people. Was easily duped (if you cant believe he was in on it), and still supports the deadly Warp Speed COVID jabs. The Democrats would much prefer running against Trump with his baggage than a guy like DeSantis.
But thats just my take