Good morning from Arlington, VA. Why do many commentators ( like Smerconish, this morning) state that many notable men have already been on Epstein's list and many underage females stated that Donald Trump had sexual relations with them, but these commentators do not pursue this fact?
💯 pardon and a free ride for djt and name others. Totally deplorable AND when things play out with Maxwell, reporters still need to continue to report his pedophilic tendencies.
Mike Nellis - I have been catching some of your podcasts lately and I have to say this one today was excellent. I really learned alot from listening to what Richard Chew had to say about the Democratic party. I didn't know who he was until today, so thank you for the introduction. I am a 68 year old white woman and I have been voting exclusively for Democratic candidates consistently since I was able to vote at the age of 18. So for the last 60 years, in every primary and general election and everything in between. My largest concern has always been our messaging and I really hope that we get it right soon!
Bill Clinton is no longer President. Hunter Biden was NEVER President, so I don't know their point - who cares? He was a private citizen.
MAGA people do not understand that many of us are dedicated to the rule of law, the Constitution, democracy, and our problem is not the party, but the lies, the violations of civil rights for anyone who is not privileged, contolling people's bodies, due process for some, but not others, and it goes on forever.
Richard Crew - thank you! The Democratic must have a voice!
This was on my FB feed this morning and why isn’t anyone looking into it?
Forget Epstein. Look at Trump Model Management: The Real Pipeline of Power, Flesh, and Silence
Forget what you’ve heard about Ghislaine Maxwell being the mastermind—she wasn’t the start of this story. If you want to understand how elite trafficking really worked—how girls were recruited, processed, and handed off to billionaires—you don’t start with Epstein. You start with the modeling agencies.
John Casablancas, Jean-Luc Brunel, Donald Trump, and Paolo Zampolli didn’t just work in fashion. They operated a system. A system that targeted vulnerable girls—especially from Eastern Europe, South America, and small-town America—and fed them into a machine dressed in glamour but running on coercion.
Casablancas created the cultural template with Elite Model Management, turning underage girls into marketable assets and normalizing relationships between adult men and teenage models. Brunel expanded it internationally with MC2, an agency Epstein himself bankrolled with at least $1 million, giving him open access to a pipeline of girls. Zampolli specialized in the immigration angle, gaming the U.S. visa system to bring in foreign models on O-1 "extraordinary talent" visas, or more often, B-1/B-2 tourist visas, and placing them in overcrowded, overpriced apartments while booking them for under-the-table modeling jobs.
Trump joined this system fully in 1999 with the creation of Trump Model Management, shortly after his relationship with Melania—herself a Zampolli recruit from Slovenia—became public. The agency followed the same model: bringing in young women illegally, charging them for housing and services, and working them while they accumulated debt. Former models testified they were told to lie to customs officers, to say they were tourists, and then immediately sent out to work. This wasn’t alleged. This was documented. The visas were real. The labor was real. The fraud was real.
Compared to the agencies, Maxwell and Epstein were the curated side of the operation. They didn’t run dorm-style housing. They didn’t feed girls into low-budget catalog shoots. They offered the illusion of escape. Girls who had already been broken in by the agency system—groomed to obey, to smile, to say yes—were selected by Maxwell for "something better": jets, shopping, rich men, and beachfront estates. The sex was transactional, yes. But it felt luxurious. Many of the girls said yes willingly. Not because they were naive, but because they had already learned how the game worked.
Maxwell didn’t coerce; she inspired. She flattered. She offered protection and status. Epstein didn’t chase; he curated. He kept logs, wired his homes, tracked movements. He didn’t need to rape. The system had already trained the girls to comply. His value wasn’t as a user—it was as a middleman. He connected the supply (from the agencies) to the demand (from the elite).
Epstein's network wasn’t about individual lust. It was about leverage. He offered powerful men something better than market returns: exotic islands, off-book girls, and plausible deniability. He recorded everything. Not always to blackmail—but to own them. To keep the powerful quiet. And it worked.
These weren't dark secrets. They were sunlit transactions, wrapped in language like:
“Your back hurting, Joe? I got a girl, comes every day. Real sweet. Max set it up. No pressure. You want to come by for dinner next week?”
This is how trafficking happened. Not with chains, but with calendars. Not in shadows, but at dinner parties.
And what’s worse—compared to the brutality of the modeling agencies, Epstein and Maxwell could almost be seen as saviors. At least their girls got paid. Got flown somewhere. Got treated like something more than inventory. That’s how sick the foundation really was. That’s what kept the pipeline full.
This wasn’t just Epstein. It wasn’t even just a ring. It was a whole tier of elite society operating on shared appetites, protected by shared silence.
You don’t see this story in major media because they’re in on it. The PR firms, the publishers, the party hosts—they’re the white-gloved cleanup crew. The modeling industry protected the designers. The lawyers protected the agencies. The press protected the donors. The politicians protected each other. And the girls? They vanished into the system.
Trump saying "release it all" is performance. He was in it. Clinton was in it. Maybe more. The point isn't whose side you're on. The point is that the rot is bipartisan and built into the architecture of power itself.
This wasn't a scandal.
This was policy.
And the reason it’s never been fully exposed is simple:
Because when the rot climbs all the way to the top, there's no one left to report it.
I appreciate most all you have written. I do take issue with your writing that Epstein didn’t need to rape the girls. He did just that. First time a massage, next time they’d get raped. Trump has created this mess that he’s in and I hope this is the endpoint. Ghislaine- if she disappears as in “suicide”, that will implicate him further. If he pardons her, that will be damaging. If she stays in prison, she can publish her book. It doesn’t look good any way you slice it. Sure he took off. Maybe to “think.”
How can we not see Netanyahu and Trump aren’t in bed together trying to wipe out the Palestinian population (since they didn’t agree to keave)?? We rescued the Jews and others during WW2 and here they are taking out innocent people and no one is doing anything about it!!! We are so worried about where Trump put his penis but forgetting about millions of people intentionally being terminated right now!! And you Trump will put up his next Trump Tower as soon as they’re gone!!
Only a moron would subscribe to the 'both parties' bs - this is the blind divisiveness that has put us where we are. Does incalculable damage, and is just plain inaccurate. But you do you, I'm out of here. I'm looking for intelligent discourse not stupid opinions.
When talking about working class Americans…let’s not forget people don’t know how to MANAGE their money. A couple may make $300K but be doing worse than their neighbors making $100K because of spending habits!! You can’t cry foul when you choose to buy a 90K pickup truck, $20K motorcycle and max out your credit card cards before your school loans are paid. Come on! You just put yourself into a forever working class position!
Re: Trump! We impeached Clinton for lying about a blow job, why aren’t we getting rid of Trump on so many levels!
Good morning from Arlington, VA. Why do many commentators ( like Smerconish, this morning) state that many notable men have already been on Epstein's list and many underage females stated that Donald Trump had sexual relations with them, but these commentators do not pursue this fact?
Local stations have been warned not to be critical of the regime.
Isn't that a violation of the First Amendment? Freedom of the press, freedom of speech?
💯 pardon and a free ride for djt and name others. Totally deplorable AND when things play out with Maxwell, reporters still need to continue to report his pedophilic tendencies.
Looks like they are buying Ghislaine’s silence???
No, they are going to use her to drop names of Democrats.
Mike Nellis - I have been catching some of your podcasts lately and I have to say this one today was excellent. I really learned alot from listening to what Richard Chew had to say about the Democratic party. I didn't know who he was until today, so thank you for the introduction. I am a 68 year old white woman and I have been voting exclusively for Democratic candidates consistently since I was able to vote at the age of 18. So for the last 60 years, in every primary and general election and everything in between. My largest concern has always been our messaging and I really hope that we get it right soon!
Glad you liked it Denise!! Richard is great
Christian nationalism is actually fascism covered by a Christian blanket of hypocrisy.
Texas, don't judge. 😂
I would never judge. Texas is a great state, even if I don't love the politics
Bill Clinton is no longer President. Hunter Biden was NEVER President, so I don't know their point - who cares? He was a private citizen.
MAGA people do not understand that many of us are dedicated to the rule of law, the Constitution, democracy, and our problem is not the party, but the lies, the violations of civil rights for anyone who is not privileged, contolling people's bodies, due process for some, but not others, and it goes on forever.
Richard Crew - thank you! The Democratic must have a voice!
This was on my FB feed this morning and why isn’t anyone looking into it?
Forget Epstein. Look at Trump Model Management: The Real Pipeline of Power, Flesh, and Silence
Forget what you’ve heard about Ghislaine Maxwell being the mastermind—she wasn’t the start of this story. If you want to understand how elite trafficking really worked—how girls were recruited, processed, and handed off to billionaires—you don’t start with Epstein. You start with the modeling agencies.
John Casablancas, Jean-Luc Brunel, Donald Trump, and Paolo Zampolli didn’t just work in fashion. They operated a system. A system that targeted vulnerable girls—especially from Eastern Europe, South America, and small-town America—and fed them into a machine dressed in glamour but running on coercion.
Casablancas created the cultural template with Elite Model Management, turning underage girls into marketable assets and normalizing relationships between adult men and teenage models. Brunel expanded it internationally with MC2, an agency Epstein himself bankrolled with at least $1 million, giving him open access to a pipeline of girls. Zampolli specialized in the immigration angle, gaming the U.S. visa system to bring in foreign models on O-1 "extraordinary talent" visas, or more often, B-1/B-2 tourist visas, and placing them in overcrowded, overpriced apartments while booking them for under-the-table modeling jobs.
Trump joined this system fully in 1999 with the creation of Trump Model Management, shortly after his relationship with Melania—herself a Zampolli recruit from Slovenia—became public. The agency followed the same model: bringing in young women illegally, charging them for housing and services, and working them while they accumulated debt. Former models testified they were told to lie to customs officers, to say they were tourists, and then immediately sent out to work. This wasn’t alleged. This was documented. The visas were real. The labor was real. The fraud was real.
Compared to the agencies, Maxwell and Epstein were the curated side of the operation. They didn’t run dorm-style housing. They didn’t feed girls into low-budget catalog shoots. They offered the illusion of escape. Girls who had already been broken in by the agency system—groomed to obey, to smile, to say yes—were selected by Maxwell for "something better": jets, shopping, rich men, and beachfront estates. The sex was transactional, yes. But it felt luxurious. Many of the girls said yes willingly. Not because they were naive, but because they had already learned how the game worked.
Maxwell didn’t coerce; she inspired. She flattered. She offered protection and status. Epstein didn’t chase; he curated. He kept logs, wired his homes, tracked movements. He didn’t need to rape. The system had already trained the girls to comply. His value wasn’t as a user—it was as a middleman. He connected the supply (from the agencies) to the demand (from the elite).
Epstein's network wasn’t about individual lust. It was about leverage. He offered powerful men something better than market returns: exotic islands, off-book girls, and plausible deniability. He recorded everything. Not always to blackmail—but to own them. To keep the powerful quiet. And it worked.
These weren't dark secrets. They were sunlit transactions, wrapped in language like:
“Your back hurting, Joe? I got a girl, comes every day. Real sweet. Max set it up. No pressure. You want to come by for dinner next week?”
This is how trafficking happened. Not with chains, but with calendars. Not in shadows, but at dinner parties.
And what’s worse—compared to the brutality of the modeling agencies, Epstein and Maxwell could almost be seen as saviors. At least their girls got paid. Got flown somewhere. Got treated like something more than inventory. That’s how sick the foundation really was. That’s what kept the pipeline full.
This wasn’t just Epstein. It wasn’t even just a ring. It was a whole tier of elite society operating on shared appetites, protected by shared silence.
You don’t see this story in major media because they’re in on it. The PR firms, the publishers, the party hosts—they’re the white-gloved cleanup crew. The modeling industry protected the designers. The lawyers protected the agencies. The press protected the donors. The politicians protected each other. And the girls? They vanished into the system.
Trump saying "release it all" is performance. He was in it. Clinton was in it. Maybe more. The point isn't whose side you're on. The point is that the rot is bipartisan and built into the architecture of power itself.
This wasn't a scandal.
This was policy.
And the reason it’s never been fully exposed is simple:
Because when the rot climbs all the way to the top, there's no one left to report it.
I appreciate most all you have written. I do take issue with your writing that Epstein didn’t need to rape the girls. He did just that. First time a massage, next time they’d get raped. Trump has created this mess that he’s in and I hope this is the endpoint. Ghislaine- if she disappears as in “suicide”, that will implicate him further. If he pardons her, that will be damaging. If she stays in prison, she can publish her book. It doesn’t look good any way you slice it. Sure he took off. Maybe to “think.”
I copied this from my feed. Not my research but my question as to why it’s not being reported more.
How can we not see Netanyahu and Trump aren’t in bed together trying to wipe out the Palestinian population (since they didn’t agree to keave)?? We rescued the Jews and others during WW2 and here they are taking out innocent people and no one is doing anything about it!!! We are so worried about where Trump put his penis but forgetting about millions of people intentionally being terminated right now!! And you Trump will put up his next Trump Tower as soon as they’re gone!!
Both are equally important. Cruelty!
Only a moron would subscribe to the 'both parties' bs - this is the blind divisiveness that has put us where we are. Does incalculable damage, and is just plain inaccurate. But you do you, I'm out of here. I'm looking for intelligent discourse not stupid opinions.
I’m sorry what are you referencing?
Faux ignorance in the form of a question is elementary.
Natalie, I agree with Mike...no knock on Texas...just the politics!!
“He didn’t need to rape.”
If his victims were underage, it was rape.
Trump doesn’t believe child sex trafficking is a bad thing. That’s why it’s easy for him to excuse Maxwell’s crimes.
Trump thought nothing about saying, “Ivanka wasn't my daughter, I’d date her.”
I don’t wanna hear another fucking word about crooked Hillary after this bullshit! Sorry for the language….
Coming in late from Colorado….
When talking about working class Americans…let’s not forget people don’t know how to MANAGE their money. A couple may make $300K but be doing worse than their neighbors making $100K because of spending habits!! You can’t cry foul when you choose to buy a 90K pickup truck, $20K motorcycle and max out your credit card cards before your school loans are paid. Come on! You just put yourself into a forever working class position!
Re: Trump! We impeached Clinton for lying about a blow job, why aren’t we getting rid of Trump on so many levels!
Hi from California. Can Trump prosecute ANY person who was a President, e.g., Clinton, Obama? ... the SCOTUS presidential immunity decision... ?