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 I think you're wrong on this one. In an article, Epstein had stated that he obtained his wealth from 3 people. Bill Gates, Leslie Wexner, and Donald Trump. Trump and Epstein were obviously very close during the 90's partying in Palm Beach and very likely doing real estate deals in New York (where they both were active at the time in that industry). Trump's administration also oversaw the coverup of the Epstein case. Do not defend Trump and don't defend anyone else for anything that you know you can't on. Maria Farmer (Epstein's first accuser in 1996, 10 years before his first sexual charge, first hand states she rode around with Ghislaine and Trump's first wife in 1995/1996 recruiting "nubiles" for "Victoria Secret" modeling (Leslie Wexner and Epstein's main trafficking cover outfit). She says Trump is involved but she does not know to what degree. If you want to talk more about it there is really so much going back past 2006/2008 (his first arrest) that the mainstream and even search engines try to cover. Whitney Webb is by far the best reporter on the topic and she lists all her sources which are well vetted (she has a degree in journalism I believe). 
 To understand Epstein you have to understand the history of blackmail/espionage in the US regarding an overlap in organized crime and intelligence that dates back to prohibition/ww2. 
More pertinently, Robert Maxwell is probably the most influential spy of our modern time (Ghislaine Maxwell's dad and, according to Ari Ben-Menasche, Epstein's recruiter to MOSSAD in the 80's). I fully believe that because of the Maxwells (Robert, Ghislaine, and siblings) and Epstein (probably a larger team involved but obviously the US government is covering this up) have compromised the USA to a noticeable degree for their nation, Israel. Did you notice how 95% of congress in a vote on H.R. 894 (Dec 5, 2023) they all agreed explicitly that "anti-zionism" is anti-semitism. This is despite the fact that 90% of Palestine is now Israel and to be a Zionist in modern day is to be for the complete eradication of Palestine.  
 Oh yea, I forgot to mention the zenith: The Rothschilds.
Ghislaine, per Maria Farmer in her interview with Whitney Webb done in 2020, said the Rothschilds are her family's biggest protectors. Well, N.M. Rothschild did finance Robert Maxwell's media takeover and transition into New York in the early 90's. That checks out. Donald Trump was bailed out by Wilbur Ross while he was an executive at a Rothschild bank. Lionel Rothschild had the Balfour Declaration made out to him. The Knesset and the Israeli Supreme Court building was funded by Rothschild family members. The back of your $1 bill has a hidden Star of David represented by the 13 stars/colonies over the eagle's head. That eagle and those arrows it holds can be found on the Rothschild family sigil. The Rothschild's via Paul Warburg can be seen having a hand in the creation of the US Federal Reserve before WW1 breaks out. J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller (both of which had bankers representing them at Jekyll Island) signed the Blackstone Monument in 1891 before the Father of Jewish Zionism, Theodore Herzl, begin writing about the subject (1896). 
I think there is a conspiracy built on the 3 religions by international bankers and the zionist Rothschild family to have the biggest religious PYS-OP done from the religious holy sites in the middle east. But that my friend, is just a theory. 
 https://rsw.beck.de/aktuell/daily/meldung/detail/fg-hamburg-warburg-bank-urteilsgruende-cum-ex-verfahren-steuerrueckerstattungen

it never ends 
 " Die Bank habe sich selbst insoweit inhaltlich unzutreffende Steuerbescheinigungen ausgestellt, deren Beweiskraft erschüttert sei."

That's the high school!

The fraudsters issue themselves tax certificates for tax payments that they have never made.

As we say in German: "Once a thief, always a thief."