Michael Cohen Just Admitted Something About Trump and Epstein — And the Media Won’t Touch It

The press won’t touch Epstein’s most dangerous truths. Independent media will.

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For me, the Epstein story has never been about politics. It’s about piecing together a sprawling sex trafficking operation for survivors who’ve been denied justice for decades. I don’t care if the trail leads to Democrats or Republicans. I’ve been on it since mysterious Epstein’s death — hosting two investigative podcasts, Broken: Jeffrey Epstein and Power: The Maxwells, and following leads from anyone brave enough to send them my way.

Then this weekend it dawned on me that Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former fixer, who appeared on MSNBC this weekend to declare there’s no way Trump ever went to Epstein’s island because Trump denied it “more than five, six times,” could have more information on why Trump doesn’t want the Epstein files released. Afterall, he worked for him for 12 years, even if they weren’t the years that Epstein was in Trump’s life. But Cohen seemed to be covering for Trump in the case, questioning on CNN a Wall Street Journal report that Trump once gave Epstein a depraved card with a suggestive doodle, insisting Trump doesn’t doodle or use the word “enigma.” Both claims are false — Trump’s doodles have been auctioned at Sotheby’s, and he’s used the word “enigma” on the record.

So why defend Trump here? That’s when the puzzle clicked: In 2016, just before the election, a Jane Doe known as “Katie Johnson” accused Trump of raping her at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse when she was 13. She filed three lawsuits. Days before the election, she dropped the last one, citing threats.

Who would have handled a nuclear allegation like that? Trump’s fixer. Michael Cohen.

I ask Cohen on The Red Letter Live about Trump’s relationship with Epstein, and after four minutes of flat denials, “I have no knowledge of anything with Jeffrey Epstein. Zero,” he cracked. On the record, Cohen admitted he had handled a rape complaint tied to Epstein and Trump. That is not a leak, not an anonymous source, it’s his own confession.

And here’s where the real story is: no one in the mainstream media has touched it.

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