President Joe Biden’s CIA Director William Burns reportedly had several scheduled meetings with the infamous pedophile and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. A stunning occurrence over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal published Epstein’s newly-revealed private calendar showed scheduled meetings not only with Burns, but also a college president and an attorney who served in the Obama administration.
Fox News reports documents which belonged to Epstein showed planned meetings “with a slew of prominent individuals, including now-CIA Director William Burns, Bard College president Leon Botstein, Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler and professor Noam Chomsky.”
The Journal reported that the majority of people they spoke to said they met with Epstein for donations or to make powerful connections. Botstein, who has served as Bard College’s president since 1975, said he met with Epstein to try to get him to donate to the liberal arts school.
“I was an unsuccessful fundraiser and actually the object of a little bit of sadism on his part in dangling philanthropic support,” Botstein told the outlet. “That was my relationship with him.”
A spokesperson for Burns, who has taken the CIA’s helm since 2021 under the Biden administration, said the nation’s spy chief met with Epstein a decade ago when he was trying to leave the government.
“The director did not know anything about him, other than that he was introduced as an expert in the financial services sector and offered general advice on transition to the private sector,” CIA spokeswoman Tammy Kupperman Thorp said. “They had no relationship.”
Fox News adds that all the scheduled meetings were slated to take place after Epstein was jailed in 2008 “on charges of solicitation, including soliciting a minor. WSJ could not prove each scheduled meeting actually took place, and the documents did not reveal the purpose for the meetings.”