What makes him "Almost certainly funded by Putin"?
I know of one link to putin but that was via israel:
"Jeffrey Epstein and the Mossad: How The Sex-Trafficker Helped Israel Build a Backchannel to Russia Amid Syrian Civil War
Hacked emails show how Jeffrey Epstein and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak tried to engineer a Russian-led solution to remove Bashar al-Assad.
On February 21, 2014, Epstein wrote to Barak, “with civil unrest exploding in ukraine syria, somolia [sic], libya, and the desperation of those in power, isn’t this perfect for you.” Barak replied: “You’re right [in] a way. But not simple to transform it into a cash flow. A subject for Saturday.”
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Former CIA agent John Kiriakou says Epstein was "absolutely positively" working for Mossad -
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Epstein's accomplice and fellow rapist sex offenders dad was "infamous as "Israels Superpy" according to the community note
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The Israeli president and prime minister attended Maxwell's funeral.
A picture of Epstein in a IDF t shirt:
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