Epstein Emailed "trump tower" on Nov. 13, 2016
Five days after Trump won, Epstein told a contact exactly where he was—and Ellie Leonard found it.
Cliff’s Note:
Jeffrey Epstein was never photographed at Trump Tower on November 13, 2016. Five days after Trump won. Cabinet picks happening upstairs.
Ellie Leonard found two words he typed that day.
The first half of her investigation is free. The two words are not.
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by Ellie Leonard, Blue Amp Media Contributing Editor
With the help of a great crowdsourcing community on Substack, we were able to find multiple documents in the Epstein Files that showed Epstein likely visited Trump Tower on November 13th, 2016, 5 days after Donald Trump won the presidency.
According to media outlets, including the Sun Sentinel, Roll Call, and CNN, Trump spent the day holed up on the 5th floor making decisions about high-level cabinet positions. Downstairs in the lobby, important characters came and went, documented throughout the week by a bank of photographers that seemingly never slept.
But how do we know Epstein, who was never photographed, was in the room as these important decisions were made? Well, that’s where the power of crowdsourcing and “two heads are better than one” comes in.
In this case, it took four simple documents—all that mattered individually, but combined provided proof of Epstein’s whereabouts.
1. EFTA01620474
On November 10th, 2016, Ken Mapp, then Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, received a text (SMS) message from an unknown sender, saying, “Trump means many opportunities. I’ll be back next week.”
Three days later, the unknown sender reaches out again.
“Seeing Trump people today, can we speak? I know it’s Sunday :)”
Ken Mapp changes the subject and begins discussing permitting on Great St. James, the big island between Little St. James and the mainland. He’s disappointed that “unknown” has not followed the protocols. And although we know Epstein purchased the big island in 2016, we still can’t verify for sure who is speaking.
But on November 15th, 2016, the unknown sender says something unique.
“as you might guess , If i feel a sneeze coming on , I ask for legal advice. What john woods ericka, and amy say, contradict some of the contentions. I have no relevant view. ( not my expertise )”
When I saw this, I thought we might be able to figure out who was speaking to Mapp. Unique phrases are often the key to finding unredacted documents in the DOJ files. Sure enough, with a little digging, something else popped up,
2. EFTA02669184
On the same day that the “unknown” sender told Mapp “If i feel a sneeze coming on,” Epstein sent an email to himself saying the exact same phrase. This is something he often did, to either give himself a virtual high-five to refer to later, or to document things he’d said to important people.
This verified that Jeffrey Epstein was the “unknown” sender in the SMS text thread on November 13th, 2016 who claimed to be “seeing Trump people,” the same day Donald Trump met with high-level officials at Trump Tower.
But we’d need more proof.
We got it—and it’s two words Epstein typed himself.
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