Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse (born October 20, 1955) is an American lawyer and politician serving as United States Senator from Rhode Island since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party and previously served as a United States Attorney from 1993 to 1998 and as the Attorney General of Rhode Island from 1999 to 2003.
Quotes
[edit]- Despite documented warnings from their own scientists dating from the 1970s, ExxonMobil pursued a campaign of deceit, denial, and delay. They may soon have to face the consequences. History will not look kindly on their choice.
- Whitehouse, Sheldon (October 27, 2015). Time to Wake Up: What Exxon Knew About Climate Change. Retrieved on December 31, 2018.
- There are few things that enrage the American public more than crooked, dark money political spending. If you tried to get a dark money political spending bill through the Senate, you couldn't do it. If you tried to get it through the House, you couldn't do it. If you put the Senate and House under Republican control, you still couldn't do it, but if you have captured the Supreme Court [...] then a decision that is as unpopular and enraging as this decision comes your way, and they pulled it off in plain daylight.
- "The Scheme 4: A New Constitutional Right For Dark Money" US Senate speech, July 13th 2021
- Behind Trump’s fog bank and pretexts, he and his un-elected co-president Musk are simply stealing from the American people to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. It’s gangster government.
- "Whitehouse Opening Statement at Spotlight Hearing on Trump’s Funding Freeze: 'It’s Gangster Government'" US Senate speech, March 12, 2025
"There is a Cover-Up Afoot" (Mar 5, 2025)
[edit]- : "Sen. Whitehouse Unravels Disturbing Trump, Epstein, and Russia Ties" A Youtube video from the Senator Sheldon Whitehouse channel. Also see "Trump/Russia, Trump/Epstein, Epstein/Russia" @Senator Whitehouse official website.
- If Trump were purposefully doing Russia's bidding, it is hard to see what he would be doing differentlty.
- John McCain used to say that Russia is a gas station, run by gangsters with an army.
- It doesn't make sense that the President of the United States, who... insists on being dominant... is so submissive to... Russia's dictator, Vladimir Putin.
- So what is it about Trump and Russia, and could it have any connection with Trump's close friendship with the deceased pedaphile, Jeffrey Epstein?
- [T]he survivors... and the millions of emails released... through the... Epstein Files Transparency Act have shed... light on the operation of the... global pedaphile ring, and over and over, it touches Russia.
- When recently asked... about the Epstein files, Trump said... "It's just a Russia, Russia, Russia hoax." ..."[H]oax," the word he used for when something is true, but the most telling... is that Trump's mind, [when] asked about Epstein, immediately went to Russia.
- According to Steven Hoffenberg... [Douglas] Leese introduced Epstein to Robert Maxwell. Ghislaine Maxwell, who became Epstein's... sex trafficking accomplice after her father's death, was Robert Maxwell's favorite daughter, and he involved her deeply in his work. ...Robert Maxwell had complex shifting ties to British, Soviet and Israeli intelligence. Initially bankrolled by MI6, he accepted secret payments from the KGB through his Soviet friendly publishing company, and... traversed both sides of the Iron Curtain.
- In 1992... The Sunday Express wrote that a secret document, signed by the head of the KGB... showed that Maxwell was a political and intelligence asset for the Soviet Union... [and] that Soviet leadership had instructed the KGB to protect Maxwell's reputation and business activities.
- "British Paper Says Maxwell was USSR Agent" (Mar 15, 1992) DesertNews
- Maxwell's UK foreign office file... described him as.., "a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia."
- Ref: Lydia Bell, "FO suspected Maxwell was a Russian agent, papers reveal" (Nov 2, 2003) The Telegraph: "...file, titled "Captain Ian Maxwell", at the National Archives in Kew, London, has been found to contain reports submitted to the Information Research Department (IRD), a covert unit of the Foreign Office, describing him as ..."
- Vicky Ward wrote... in Rolling Stone magazine in 2021.., "Hoffenberg told me that Epstein had said he'd worked on several projects with Robert Maxwell, including solving Maxwell's 'debt' issues." ...Maxwell ...[had] stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from the pensions of his employees. The story continued, Epstein... had... told Hoffenberg, that via Maxwell and [Douglas] Leese, he was involved in something that Hoffenberg described as national security issues, which he says involved blackmail, influence trading, trading information at a level that is very serious and dangerous. The story concluded, "Four separate sources told me on the record that Epstein's dealings in the arms world in the 1980s had led him to work for multiple governments, including the Israelis."
- Vicky Ward, "Was Jeffrey Epstein a Spy?" (Jul 15, 2021) Rolling Stone
- [I]n the 1980s Epstein struck up a friendship with... Donald Trump. ...Michael Wolff has said.., "They shared everything. They shared their airplanes. They shared women... They shared constantly business and financial advice." ...There are many photos of the two men together on the New York and Palm Beach party circuits throughout the 1990s.
- Ref: Isaac Schorr, "Michael Wolff Speaks Out After Release of His Emails With Epstein: We're 'Getting Close to a Smoking Gun' on Trump" (Nov 12, 2025) Yahoo News
- Trump... said in 2002, "I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy! He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
- Ref: Landon Thomas Jr., Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery "Terrific guy," Donald Trump booms from a speakerphone. "He’s a lot of fun to be with." (Oct 28, 2002) New York magazine.
- Alan Dershowitz told the The New York Times in 2019.., "In those days, if you didn't know Trump and you didn't know Epstein, you were a nobody." Dershowitz... served both on Epstein's defense team when he was charged with having sex with minors... in 2006, and on Trump's impeachment defense team in 2020.
- The president of Trump's Atlantic City Hotel in the late 1980s said he saw Trump and Epstein together so frequently that he believed Epstein was Trump's best friend. ...[He] described the incident where Trump brought Epstein a 19 year old girl to the casino gaming floor.
- Ref: Rhian Lubin, "'It was his best friend': Ex-Trump Casino boss reveals president brought Epstein and teen girl to gaming floor" The former Atlantic City Trump Casino executive said at one point Epstein was the president's "best friend" (Jul 17, 2025) The Independent
- Epstein once took a model to Trump Tower, where she says Trump groped her while laughing with Epstein. She remarked that it seemed like a twisted game between the two men.
- Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Lucy Osborne, "Donald Trump groped me in what felt like a 'twisted game' with Jeffrey Epstein, former model alleges" (Oct 23, 2024) The Guardian
- Epstein claimed to have given... some insight on Trump to the Russians. Epstein met on many occasions with Vitaly Churkin, Russia's representative to the United Nations in 2006, until Churkin's death in 2017. Epstein wrote in an email, "Churkin was great, ...He understood Trump after our conversation. it is not complex, he must be seen to get something its that simple."
- Epstein roped many Russian and East European girls and women into his trafficking operation. The New York magazine profile... in 2002 reads, "...at a party at Maxwell's house, her friends say, one is just as apt to see Russian ladies of the night, as one is to see Prince Andrew."
- Ref: Landon Thomas Jr., Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery "Terrific guy," Donald Trump booms from a speakerphone. "He’s a lot of fun to be with." (Oct 28, 2002) New York magazine.
- The Daily Beast recently reported on an alleged classified U.S. intelligence document claiming that, "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor... was drawn into Moscow's orbit thanks to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, which the Kremlin allegedly used as a route into the British establishment."
- Tom Sykes, "U.S. Spies' Verdict on Prince Andrew Outed in Jaw-Dropping Report" (Feb 27, 2026) The Daily Beast
- Epstein struck up a relationship with Sergei Belyakov, Russia’s former deputy minister of economic development and a graduate of the FSB, Russia's intelligence academy. Epstein introduced him to contacts like Peter Thiel... who would... give $10 million to the super PAC that helped elect now-Vice President J.D. Vance to the Senate in 2022.
- Nick Squires, Poppy Wood, "Epstein’s links to Putin and Kremlin spies raise fears he was Russian agent" Paedophile financier suspected of being engaged in 'world's largest honey-trap operation' (Feb 1, 2026) The Telegraph: "the huge cache of files has hinted... that Epstein could have been a longstanding agent working for Moscow. ...By 2011, Epstein appeared to have built up such a rapport with the Russians that he was having meetings with Putin."
- Epstein had a series of Russian visas between 2011 and his death in 2019. Epstein's crimes left a long money trail, and that trail winds back to Russia. ...One suspicious activity report filed by JPMorgan Chase... shows that between 2003 and 2019, Epstein conducted 4,725 wire transactions totaling over $1 billion. And that’s just one bank. Epstein used multiple banks.
Quotes about Whitehouse
[edit]- He is delusional.
- https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/
- Grover Norquist "Same Message, Bigger Audience: Sen. Whitehouse Flags Climate Costs" The New York Times (March 3, 2023)
External links
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- Sheldon Whitehouse U.S. Senator for Rhode Island (official U.S. Senate website)
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse YouTube channel
- "There is a Cover-Up Afoot": Sen. Whitehouse Unravels Disturbing Trump, Epstein, and Russia Ties