Friends of Jeffrey Epstein have given more than $100,000 to Vivek Ramaswamy’s 2024 run even as he demands full transparency of disgraced financier’s clients

Close friends of the late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein are major donors to an outside group supporting Vivek Ramaswamy’s presidential election and his 2024 campaign.

Official records show that billionaire Glenn Dubin donated $100,000 in March to American Exceptionalism, a super PAC backing the biotech entrepreneur and presidential hopeful.

Dubin and his wife, former Miss Sweden Eva Andersson-Dubin, who gave testimony in support of Epstein’s henchman Ghislaine Maxwell, also gave a total of $13,200 (the maximum allowed) to Ramaswamy’s campaign.

Epstein, who committed suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in 2019, was a prolific political donor and had extensive ties in elite financial and social circles.

Still, details about his associates’ connections will be deeply embarrassing for Ramaswamy after he demanded full transparency in the Epstein case.

“I will release the full Epstein client list without apology,” he tweeted in May.

“The administrative police state must stop protecting its main sponsors while arming itself against its opponents. The first step to fighting corruption is to see it.’

But his campaign on Monday brushed aside the question of whether it was appropriate to accept donations from the Dubins.

Vivek has no knowledge of this, just as he knows nothing of the one-time allegations against his 100,000+ individual donors to the campaign, let alone those who donate to outside efforts that do not involve Vivek. with,” said spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin.

The Dubins were close friends of Epstein. Andersson-Dubin dated him for years before marrying her husband in 1994, and the couple kept in touch with him even after he was convicted in 2008 of obtaining a child for prostitution.

He was godfather to their children and Epstein spent his first Thanksgiving after leaving prison with the family. Andersson-Dubin wrote to his parole officer that she was “100 percent comfortable with Jeffrey Epstein around my kids,” according to Business Insider.

When Maxwell was on trial for child sex trafficking, the former Miss Sweden had to deny allegations that she had joined an orgy.

Dubin retired from the spotlight and from the hedge fund industry where he made his living in 2020. (Today Forbes estimates his net worth at $2.8 billion.)

But documents at the Federal Election Commission show that he and his wife remain active in supporting political candidates.

They have generally donated to Democratic candidates, raising over $800,000 over the years.

But in 2023, they both supported Ramaswamy’s long road to the White House, donating $3,300 each to his primary campaign and general election campaign, as well as to the political action committee backing his candidacy.

Ramaswamy has been the surprise pack of the race for the Republican nomination so far.

He has come in second in a number of national polls of Republican voters, and a survey for DailyMail.com last week found that he was rated by viewers as the winner of the first debate.

Acting as Trump 2.0, he claims he has the political and technocratic skills to tear apart Washington’s swamp and tear down what he calls the “administrative state.”

At times, he has relied on unsubstantiated conspiracy theories surrounding the events of September 11 and the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

“I think it’s legitimate to say how many police, how many federal agents were on board the planes that hit the Twin Towers,” he said in a profile recently published by the Atlantic.

He later claimed he had been misquoted.

In the same profile, he lumped the Epstein case with other questions he said were kept hidden because he demanded “truth” for the American public.

That’s, that’s really, when I say we deserve it — and I don’t think we got it on any of these questions. On Jeffrey Epstein’s customer list, about unidentified flying objects, on January 6, about vaccine — about the COVID-19 vaccine — about the origins of the pandemic, which, by the way, we now know that systematic efforts by people who had no idea what the origin was to shoot the origin.

The $100,000 Dubin donation represents nearly one-fifth of all the money received by the Ramaswamy-affiliated American Exceptionalism PAC since February.

Dubin had business ties with Epstein that predated his conviction. The financier reportedly received $15 million in compensation from the sale of Dubin’s hedge fund in 2004, for example.

He did not respond to a request for comment.

The couple also flew Epstein’s planes often between Palm Beach and New York, where they both owned homes.

More sordid claims recently surfaced in court during the New York trial of Epstein’s enabler, Ghislaine Maxwell.

During the 2021 Maxwell trial, Andersson-Dubin described how she dated Epstein for nearly a decade after 1983 and remained in contact with him for years afterward.

She told a Maxwell attorney that she had not seen any inappropriate behavior between Epstein and teenage girls between 1994 and 2004.

She was also asked about the testimony of a woman named ‘Jane, who testified at trial that someone named ‘Eva’ had participated in group sex when she was a minor.

“I don’t recall ever meeting this person,” she said, denying any sexual encounter with her.