Did Epstein Pick Trump's Cabinet?
The new attorney general cut the government’s Maxwell deal — and now controls every record of it. A federal judge wants answers Wednesday.
Jeffrey Epstein spent election week 2016 planning his place in the Trump administration — and he wrote it down. On September 25, seven weeks before a single vote, Linda Stone asked him: “Will you have a cabinet position?” Epstein had just asked her about Trump: “do you think he can win?” (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030639). Five days after Trump won, Epstein walked into Trump Tower on cabinet-picking day — placed there by his own emails and a text thread with U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Kenneth Mapp, which Ellie Leonard published Sunday afternoon (EFTA01620474). Narativ holds Stone’s full thread in its archive.
Todd Blanche was miraculously confirmed as attorney general — not despite his job of hiding the Epstein file, but because he has been so effective at clamping down on the truth. The Senate confirmed him at 4:31 a.m. Saturday, 50–49.
But two Substackers have a unique take: the battle over the AG may be lost, but the Epstein-file war continues to arm the protectors of democracy with voluminous evidence. Ellie Leonard and Christopher Armitage are live at 1 PM ET. Ellie has been writing about Epstein’s role in picking the first Trump cabinet.
