Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s private island

Elon Musk had more extensive – and more friendly – communications with the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein than previously publicly known, according to documents released on Friday by the Department of Justice. Emails in the files appear to show the two cordially messaging each other to make plans for Musk to visit Epstein’s island.

The documents include Musk and Epstein emailing in December 2013 to determine when Musk should make the trip to Little St James.

Musk has been harshly critical of those linked to Epstein, but the newly released emails appear to contradict his own longstanding denial of any ties of his own. The Tesla CEO told Vanity Fair in 2019 that Epstein was “obviously a creep” and claimed that Epstein “tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined.” The emails between the two moguls come years after Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting prostitution from a minor in Florida. Authorities later arrested Epstein in 2019 on federal sex-trafficking charges.

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    8 hours ago

    You know something? If a group of individuals stood in solidarity, claimed responsibility to enforce moral law, and fought to arrest Trump under their own self-proclaimed authority… I wouldn’t even be mad. In the past, people would have said “let the rule of law work it out.” At this point, however, the authority of a militia would not be too far off from the authority of Trump. Trump takes the situation into his own hands (those tiny little hands), with self-proclaimed Presidential powers up and beyond that of even Unitary Executive Theory. Something to contest that authority with its own would be welcomed in my book.

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      Well that’s the thing, isn’t it? We can’t bring them down with the legal systems that The Billionaires have built for themselves.

      If we want Justice then like minded individuals have to be willing to group up, and deliver that Justice upon their heads. We have to work outside of their legal systems.

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        Doesn’t even need violence. Just like-minded numbers that want accountability from representatives. People back down from a show of force, whether that be from kinetic energy or potential. Numbers enmass is enough to enforce change, without violence… simply with the implicative. Inevitably people will get hurt (we’re past that), but true consequences are often worse than death