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Barack Obama’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein uncovered

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

The 3.5 million pages of Jeffrey Epstein’s files, which documents the names of people compromised by Epstein through financial or other means, has been a nightmare for the American Left… and it just got way worse.

The archive, which the Trump administration released on January 30, reads like a Rolodex of Democratic donors, left-wing intellectuals, and public figures adored by liberals.

The latest revelations tie the world’s most infamous child sex trafficker to Barack Obama, who now becomes the third Democratic presidential administration linked to Epstein.

It turns out Barack Obama and Jeffrey Epstein had the same personal legal counsel, at basically the same time. And questions swirl about her role in both relationships.

Obama, who only hired people he trusted, named Kathryn Ruemmler as a legal adviser on the day he took office. Ruemmler worked her way up to being Obama’s White House counsel from 2011 until she left the administration in mid-May 2014. At one point, Obama even considered naming her attorney general.

As soon as she left Obama’s White House, she went to work for Epstein as his legal expertise… and a sordid personal relationship developed.

Ruemmler’s name appears in the Epstein files over and over again, giving legal advice, taking expensive gifts, and allegedly indulging in a sex scandal of her own.

“Her name was one of the most frequently referenced (in the Epstein emails) in the years following his 2008 conviction,” as “a confidante and close adviser,” said investigator Andy Ngo.

Ruemmler’s advice apparently intimidated a television network into axing a new story that would have exposed Epstein.

Ruemmler’s name is included in a list of lawyers who advised Epstein about how to stop ABC from airing an interview with one of the pervert’s most outspoken accusers, Virginia Giuffre, in 2015.

Epstein threatened legal action against ABC in a letter seemingly crafted by Ruemmler while she was an attorney at the high-powered firm Latham and Watkins.

ABC swept the episode under the rug.

Epstein, who donated massive sums to science, occasionally discussed such strange topics with Ruemmler as how to engineer kosher bacon.

But the emails also show Ruemmler loved Epstein…and apparently really loved another one of Epstein’s lawyer.

Jeffrey Epstein gave the top Obama administration figure expensive gifts, “including a $9,400 Hermes handbag, an Hermes-branded Apple watch, and a spa treatment package at the Four Seasons Hotel,” according to the Washington Free Beacon, as well as a $4,200 Fendi fur-trimmed plaid wool coat and a $1,700 Fendi leather shoulder bag.

Emails show Ruemmler instructing Epstein exactly how to spoil her. “I would love the 40 mm, stainless Hermes with bleu indigo swift leather double tour,” she asked, and received, from Epstein.

“Am totally tricked out by Uncle Jeffrey today!” she wrote in a 2019 email, evidently unaware of the irony.

The gifts seemed to warm Ruemmler’s heart toward Epstein, who had already confessed to child molestation in court years earlier.

At one point, Ruemmler promised Epstein he would see so much of her that “you may get sick of me.”

Obama’s hand-picked adviser called Epstein “Uncle Jeffrey” and “sweetie,” said she sees the confessed pervert as “another older brother,” and signed one email to Epstein “xoxo.”

“I adore him,” Ruemmler gushed to one of Epstein’s aides.

But the emails seemingly reveal that, while living it up in Epstein’s orbit, Ruemmler had a sexual affair of her own.

The files contain an email Ruemmler received on June 15, 2015, from Cheryl Gould—the wife of another Epstein’s attorney, Reid Weingarten.

“Reid has confessed his sec[r]ets and lies,” wrote Gould, who berated Ruemmler’s decision to “sleep with and fall i[n] love with someone else’s husband.”

Although Ruemmler advised the world’s most notorious sex trafficker of underage girls, the press salivated over her.

An October 2018 profile paraphrases Ruemmler’s advice to college students on how she got ahead in life: “nice people still finish first because everyone wants to work with those who are nice to be around.”

Whatever her real career strategy, Ruemmler definitely succeeded in her chosen profession.

She turned to Epstein to get a job at Facebook in 2015, but that didn’t pan out, so she worked at her white shoe law firm until she got her current prime gig.

She’s now the chief legal officer and general counsel at Goldman Sachs.

“Kathy was always forthcoming” and “disclosed her association with Epstein before joining the firm,” said Goldman Sachs’ spokesman Tony Fratto.

So, the Wall Street giant admits it knew about Ruemmler’s ties to “Uncle Jeffrey” and didn’t bat an eye.

Investigators undoubtedly want to know more about her Obama years, including whether Barack Obama played any role in introducing the two or maintained any other contacts to Jeffrey Epstein.

Still, Ruemmler’s chummy ties with Epstein make Obama the third Democratic president in a row tied to the sex pervert and possible intelligence asset.

Bill Clinton denied his now-documented connections to Epstein in his autobiography, Citizen, writing, “I’ve never visited his island.”

But records eventually came to light proving that Clinton visited Epstein’s island at least 26 times. And newly released pictures show him receiving a massage or dipping in the swimming pool with Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and very, very young-looking girls.

Epstein also had a bizarre painting of Clinton wearing the infamous blue dress.

As The Horn told you, Jeffrey Epstein is also tied to former President Joe Biden through Cabinet appointee Eric Lander.

Biden’s administration named Lander director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), although records seem to indicate that Lander lied about accepting funding from Epstein.

Lander met with Epstein twice when the multimillionaire wanted to fund the Broad Institute, headquartered at Harvard and MIT, which Lander led.

Once again, the Democrats denied any wrongdoing. “Neither Dr. Lander nor the Broad (Institute) solicited nor received any funding support from Epstein,” said a Biden administration official at the time.

But Jeffrey Epstein’s website said his nonprofit “philanthropy,” The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, has “had the priviledge (sic) of sponsoring many prominent scientists including…Eric Lander.”

Lander, who never apologized for his ties to Epstein in his confirmation hearings, resigned in February 2022 after approximately 10 percent of OSTP staffers accused him of bullying and demeaning behavior—allegations eventually confirmed by a White House report.

If only there had been some warning.

Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Clinton, Obama, Biden, Noam Chomsky, Woody Allen, and others are available thanks to records—which you can read here—released thanks to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, promoted by Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and former Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene.

And many, many Democrats.

Ironically, they thought the Epstein files would nail President Donald Trump and pave the way for his third impeachment.

Instead, they’ve nailed a third Democratic administration.

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”