Revealed: Epstein used Steve Bannon as middleman as he scrambled to meet survivors' group

Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and convicted sex trafficker, attempted to arrange a meeting between Steve Bannon, the right-wing strategist who helped bring Donald Trump to power, and leaders of the MeToo-inspired group Time’s Up, Raw Story has learned.

Phone texts exchanged between Epstein and Bannon in March 2018 show Epstein telling Bannon that an intermediary, Joichi “Joi” Ito — then the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — had agreed to set up the meeting.