As the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to release thousands of files related to the late billionaire financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Americans are being reminded how wide a variety of people he associated with. Epstein interacted with everyone from right-wing Reagan Republicans to leftist author Noam Chomsky.
Another person who knew Epstein, according to Politico's Daniel Lippman, was political strategist Juleanna Glover.
In an article published on Friday morning, March 13, Lippman reports that during President Donald Trump's first term, Glover "publicly argued for a third-party presidential candidate" and shared ideas with Epstein.
"At the same time, she was privately trading e-mails with Jeffrey Epstein — a decade after he went to jail on child prostitution charges — to share possible presidential tickets 'outside the partisan lanes,'" Lippman explains. "Glover even offered some 'radical combinations' in an August 2018 e-mail to a group of 'third party thinkers' she then forwarded to Epstein via his now-infamous address jeevacation@gmail.com. Her list of dream tickets mixed and matched figures like former Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, former Republican Govs. Larry Hogan of Maryland and Nikki Haley of South Carolina, and Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates, coincidentally an Epstein associate himself."
Lippman continues, "Glover proposed: 'Biden/Romney? Bill Gates/Hogan? Bloomberg/Haley? Howard Schultz/Bob Corker? Sandberg/Kasich?' Their correspondence about centrist fantasy politics was only a small piece of a professional and political relationship that stretched across more than a year."
August 2018 was a year before Epstein's death. He was found dead in a federal detention cell in Lower Manhattan on August 10, 2019.
Glover's e-mail exchanges with Epstein, according to Lippman, "underline the degree to which a large number of influential people treated Epstein as if he was just another rich guy to be courted rather than a convicted sex criminal with a troublesome reputation."
"Glover, who has long been a leading Never Trump figure, told Politico, in an interview, that her motivation for engaging with Epstein was solely focused on unearthing any potential information that could sink Trump's reelection," Lippman explains. "Despite that claim, there are no e-mails between Glover and Epstein that show her soliciting information from him about Trump…. And in an interview, Glover acknowledged she had also asked Epstein for help in a business matter in 2017 involving her then-most prominent client, Elon Musk, and Saudi Arabia."
According to The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson — a Never Trump conservative and former GOP strategist — Glover contacted him about Epstein in 2015.
Wilson told Politico, "She's a great communicator, and that's why people seek her out — and that's why she was so valuable in this anti-Trump fight at the time. She was definitely in the pursuit of trying to stop Trump."