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Former Bill Clinton has faced scrutiny over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in recent weeks, as he testified on his ties to Epstein in a deposition before members of the House in late February.
But perhaps his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell should be drawing just as much — if not more — attention.
By several accounts, the two were “close” friends. And, according to both Maxwell and Clinton themselves, Clinton was closer to Maxwell than Epstein. (RELATED: Clinton’s Excuse: He Thought the Young Women on Epstein’s Plane Were Flight Attendants)
In a 2025 meeting with Department of Justice officials, Maxwell said, “President Clinton was my friend, not Epstein’s friend.”
She went on to describe the nature of her relationship with the former president: “President Clinton liked me, and we got along terribly well. But I never saw that warmth with Mr. Epstein.” (RELATED: Bill Clinton Has Much to Answer for on Epstein)
Maxwell also waxed poetic about Clinton, calling him “truly extraordinary” and a “fantastic ex-president.”
In his February deposition, Clinton said of his relationship with Maxwell, “It lasted longer and was more extensive than my relationship with Mr. Epstein.”
But the allegations against Maxwell are truly sickening. They include the serial sex trafficking of minor girls as well as sexual abuse by Maxwell herself.
Maria Farmer has accused Maxwell of sexually assaulting her at billionaire Leslie Wexner’s mansion and molesting her sister, age 15, on a massage table. Virginia Giuffre has likewise accused Maxwell of sexually abusing her when she was a teenager in abuse sessions that included Epstein. Another woman has alleged that she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Maxwell, alongside Epstein, when she was a teenager, after she was recruited by Maxwell and Epstein at the Interlochen Center for the Arts.
At Maxwell’s sentencing for a conviction of child sex trafficking, the judge stated that evidence showed that Maxwell herself had abused girls. He said, “[T]he trial evidence established that Ms. Maxwell was instrumental in the abuse of several underage girls and that she herself participated in some of the abuse.”
Clinton was close friends with a woman deeply entrenched in the serial sexual abuse and trafficking of children and adult women. That is, he was close friends — for more than a decade — with an absolute monster. The fact that Maxwell still lives in Epstein’s shadow does much to obscure this.
Clinton kept up his relationship with Maxwell after she was publicly accused of sexually abusing and trafficking a teenager. He was reportedly warned to cease his relationship with Maxwell, and yet he chose to continue publicly associating with her. Their relationship continued to such an extent that the Clinton Foundation celebrated Maxwell’s work as a supposed ocean conservationist and invited her to multiple events.
Here’s the timeline. In 2009, Virginia Giuffre filed a lawsuit claiming that Maxwell had recruited, groomed, and sexually abused her. The claim was reported in the media.
In September 2009, while Maxwell was leaving a Clinton Global Initiative conference, she was served with a subpoena in a lawsuit filed by 24 underage girls against Epstein. The serving was publicly reported.
In 2010, Maxwell had a front-row seat at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. Maxwell also hosted Chelsea on her boyfriend’s private yacht, demonstrating the Clinton family’s continued closeness with her at this time.
https://spectator.org/ghislaine-maxwell-and-bill-clintons-close-relationship-they-got-along-terribly-well/
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In 2013, Maxwell was an honored guest at a Clinton Global Initiative event, at which it was announced that her nonprofit, the TerraMar Project, had “committed to launch the Sustainable Oceans Alliance.”
Then, on Feb. 27, 2014, Bill Clinton invited Ghislaine Maxwell to a small, private dinner at an upscale vegan restaurant in Los Angeles, Crossroads Kitchen.
At this time, Maxwell’s involvement in Epstein’s crimes was being widely reported. For instance, the Telegraph reported in June 2014: “Some of the girls were introduced to him by Ghislaine Maxwell, his friend and the daughter of the late media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who allegedly told them they should give him a massage.”
Apparently, several people in Clinton’s orbit tried to stop him from inviting Maxwell to the private dinner due to the allegations against her. The Daily Beast has reported, “Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation say aides had squabbled over Maxwell’s invitation beforehand due to her links to Epstein.”
These sources, reported the Daily Beast, said that longtime Clinton gatekeeper Doug Band had sought to remove Maxwell from Clinton’s orbit in 2011 due to the sexual abuse and trafficking allegations against her. The New York Times has separately reported that Band sent an email to another Clinton aide in 2011 asking him to “remove” Maxwell “from all lists.” The Daily Mail, the Times noted, had that year referred to Maxwell as “Epstein’s Girl Friday ‘Fixer.’”
In 2020, Band told Vanity Fair that he knew his effort to exclude Maxwell would upset both Chelsea and Bill Clinton because they were both quite close to her, despite the allegations against her.
“I knew in telling everyone to stop including Ghislaine that Chelsea and her father would be very angry. It made it harder for them to justify being close to her,” Band said.
Plus, Band said, Chelsea Clinton wanted to benefit from the perks that came with Maxwell’s status in high society. “Ghislaine had access to yachts and nice homes,” said Band. “Chelsea needed that.”
For their parts, Chelsea and Bill have denied that they knew about the allegations against Maxwell while they continued associating with her. A spokesperson for the Clinton family told Vanity Fair, “It wasn’t until 2015 that Chelsea became aware of the horrific allegations against Ghislaine Maxwell and she hopes that all the victims find justice.” During his deposition, when Bill was asked when he first knew about the allegations against Maxwell, he said, “When the first evidence came out, when was it, in 2019?”
https://spectator.org/ghislaine-maxwell-and-bill-clintons-close-relationship-they-got-along-terribly-well/
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Police arrested an Evangelical pastor in the Matanzas region of Cuba after recording and uploading a Bible teaching video to his YouTube channel. He said the arrest was part of a pattern of authorities targeting him for years because of his ministry.
Pastor Rolando Pérez Lora was arrested Sunday in a park in the Peñas Altas area of Matanzas, a location residents often use for internet access because it is one of only two places nearby with public Wi-Fi, the reports United Kingdom-based advocacy group Christian Solidarity Worldwide.
Pérez Lora had just finished uploading the recording to his YouTube channel, “Pregonero de Cristo,” which translates to “Christ’s Herald,” when officers detained him in the park. The pastor later said the recordings are part of a weekly routine in which he films Bible teachings outdoors and posts them online.
During those recordings, people in the area frequently stop to listen. Some ask for prayer, which is provided by the pastor’s wife, Gelayne Rodríguez Ávila, who was present at the park when the arrest took place.
Rodríguez Ávila recorded and shared a video of the incident on social media. In the video, she says, “We were making a video in the park, and they are taking Pastor Rolando away because he uploaded a video reading the Bible to his YouTube channel.”
The footage shows two police officers pushing Pérez Lora toward a patrol vehicle as he resists being placed inside. The pastor can be heard telling the officers, “You’re mistreating me for no reason; I haven’t done anything wrong; this man is mistreating me.”
As officers forced him into the vehicle, the voices of the pastor’s young children can be heard crying nearby.
The recording spread quickly across social media platforms. Dozens of internet users reposted the clip to Facebook, where it received more than 300,000 views in less than 24 hours and prompted widespread online demands for information about the pastor’s whereabouts and condition.
Authorities transported Pérez Lora to the Playa Police Station in Matanzas following the arrest. He was held there for about three hours before being released.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-arrested-in-cuba-after-uploading-bible-teaching-to-youtube.html
her has blue check, so why they shutting him down?