Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with a firm once run by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick may date back 11 years further than previously known, according to a newly unearthed document flagged by independent journalist Kaitlyn Pierce, who writes under the name Kait Justice.

Lutnick told The New York Post last year that he had cut off all ties with Epstein in 2005, but the Justice Department’s release of Epstein-related files quickly contradicted that claim. The files showed Lutnick visited Epstein’s private island in 2012 and that the two maintained contact through at least 2018.

Lutnick and Epstein were also discovered to have been “in business together as recently as 2014,” per CBS News, with the two of them both signing onto a deal to acquire stakes in a now-defunct technology company called Adfin.

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    “Trump Dodges Yet Another Criminal Investigation Because What The Fuck Are You Going To Do About It, Bitch?”

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      That absolutely is Trump’s attitude about it, which is why we have to make sure his punishment is harsh, and humiliating. It will be hard to make him regret his behavior, so grind him down until he learns. Make all those MAGAs bust rocks on a chain gang in the summer sun.

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        Perhaps you’re one of those people who is fortunate enough never have to actually deal with people who are as toxic and narcissistic is Donald Trump. Unfortunately, both of my parents are malignant narcissists. So I’ve picked up a thing or two about how to deal with them…

        People like Donald Trump don’t “learn lessons“. There will be no “justice“. Not in the way that you’re thinking. The only two justice that will ever be achieved with Donald Trump is for him to just fucking die.

        That’s not to say that the courts shouldn’t hold everyone around him, including his shit-sucking sons, accountable for all of their associated crimes. but the best outcome for Donald Trump? The best outcome for everyone involved is that he just fucking dies of a massive stroke, preferably while in the middle of delivering one of his hateful, disgusting, rambling, crazy person, speeches. Right on live TV, for everyone to see.

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      Stop telling them that we EXPECT there to be zero consequences, or that’s exactly what they’ll do. You are giving them PERMISSION to do nothing, and indicating that we will allow it.

      Instead, you should be saying “There better be consequences for all of this, or they will ALL pay, MAGAs and Dems alike.”

      Politicians are notoriously cowardly. We need to make the Dems be extremely afraid of what will happen to THEM, if they ignore MAGA crimes.

      We are already doing that right now, by electing DemSocs in the primaries, which has the DNC in a blind panic. A few more primaries in which vets get beaten by DemSocs, followed by a Midterm in which the new Dem majority are mostly DemSocs, and the DNC won’t have a choice but to accept them.

      This is exactly what happened to the Republicans in 2010, when they performed great in Obama’s first Midterm, but their success was due to the proto-MAGA Tea Party, which started throwing their weight around, and eventually took over the party, and made it Fascist.

      Now the Dems need to do that with Democratic Socialists, and give this country a true Left Wing Party. So stop giving them permission to ignore what we clearly want, and warn them of the consequences of ignoring us instead.

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    Lutnick KNOWINGLY and WILLINGLY did Business with CHILD SEX TRAFFICKER Jeffrey Epstein? We MUST make him a Highly Paid Government Official!

    -LITERALLY Republicans!

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    The invoice is dated July 27, 2001, and reveals that Darren Indyke – once Epstein’s personal lawyer – had sent an overnight envelope from Epstein’s office in New York City, New York, to a Robert F. Mace at Cantor Fitzgerald Securities, located on the 104th floor of the One World Trade Center. Mace was Cantor’s employment lawyer, and would be killed in the 9/11 attacks just 53 days after being sent the envelope from Epstein.

    “Wake up babe, new unhinged 9/11 conspiracy just dropped.”

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    Okay, sure, but you’re missing his super compelling evidence that clears him of all wrongdoing: a calendar with notes for all the days he wasn’t kid-fucking on kid-fucker island.