"In the first half of 2019, as federal investigators were preparing to arrest and indict wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein on charges of sex trafficking of minors, the infamous pedophile was apparently receiving daily consolation from a major MAGA world figure: Steve Bannon. The conservative strategist and onetime top aide to President Donald Trump had been in Epstein's orbit for a few years, ever since he had been cut free by the Trump administration in 2017."
"Only hours before federal agents arrested Epstein at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, he had been discussing filming locations for the documentary, with Bannon suggesting that "If we arrange it we can film on the island," in reference to Little St. James, Epstein's private island in the Caribbean that is central to many of the sexual abuse and trafficking allegations. After Bannon texted again to ask about filming times ("Can we do late morning say 11 a.m.?"), Epstein replied back with a terse message: "All canceled.""
In early 2019 federal investigators prepared to arrest and indict Jeffrey Epstein on charges of sex trafficking of minors. Epstein received daily consolation from Steve Bannon, a conservative strategist and onetime top aide to President Donald Trump. The two referred to each other as close friends, and their communications appear throughout the Department of Justice Epstein files. On the day Epstein was arrested in July 2019, he and Bannon texted about a documentary project intended to rehabilitate Epstein's image and counter another docuseries. Hours before the arrest they discussed filming on Little St. James and scheduling; Epstein later texted "All canceled."
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