Post by @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems

2026-02-02 22:00 UTC

Again tho, like I'm not dead set against the idea. There's apparently an FBI informant somewhere in the files claiming Epstein was working as a wealth manager for Putin and Robert Mugabe. Here, I dug it out: https://people.com/jeffrey-epstein-was-vladimir-putin-wealth-manager-fbi-source-claimed-11897555 So it's not nothing; that's a promising lead but to know what it all means Imma need the FBI to tell us more about the informant and they are NOT GONNA do that because FBI is Trumpland and has been for the past decade. But you folks keep talking like you've proven it, specifically proven that Trump is a Russian asset and Putin is running US foreign policy, and that's just not true by any standard my journalism profs at school would recognize. Plus, I feel like if it WERE true, 10 years of high level US intelligence investigations, including MULTIPLE investigations run by the opposition party at the time, probably would have come up with something resembling a smoking gun. I mean the NSA and CIA can get whatever they want and while covering up Epstein is clearly a bipartisan position (or was, until recently), covering for Putin is not. I'm not calling you crazy, but also, I just don't believe you've proven it and I'm going to need you to do that because I can prove VERY EASILY when Trump is working for any OTHER shit tier nazi billionaire oil pig. The fact is, I think Trump is just open for business. He'll take bribes from anyone - so I believe he's taken Russian bribes, but I also know he's taken Qatari bribes, and Turkish bribes, and bribes from crypto-billionaire fugitives, and bribes from rappers who want a pardon, so on and so forth. I just don't think there's a there, there - assuming what you're saying is "Trump is working for Putin; the US has fallen to a foreign adversary" which has been the nature of the discourse this whole time.

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@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems 2026-02-02 22:13

(Also, please note RE: the People article about Epstein being Putin's wealth manager... Obviously, you cannot take the word of an FBI informant at face value, but, and this is important - part of the regime's strategy in releasing the Epstein files, has been to dump a bunch of cold call reports from an Epstein tips hotline, unredacted with no investigative notes. They are doing this because they're hoping someone prominent can be deceived into running with one of those reports and then the DoJ can produce a gotcha moment where they say "the FBI investigated that and it was just some crazy; LOOK Trump's enemies are listening to insane people because they have TDS!" This? Isn't that. This is an an actual FBI informant speaking in 2017. So while I can't say 'this is definitely true," and you should normalize NOT taking FBI informants at their word - it's not nothing. It's not some random yahoo calling a hotline. Whoever the informant was, was credible enough to be retained for money, by the FBI PRIOR to the Epstein stuff. It's not nothing. I would kill to see the FBI's investigative notes after that tip.)

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@complexmath@hachyderm.io 2026-02-02 22:34

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes I think there's probably a meaningful distinction to be drawn between "he's a Russian asset" and "it was in Russia's interest for him to be president because of the damage he was guaranteed to do to the country, NATO, etc, by his very nature so they did some stuff to try and get him elected but there are no direct ties", but... *shrug*. It's probably better for us as a nation to face the fact that We're Just Like This and maybe it's time to do something about that.

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