The Company a President Keeps
Chris Stigall
Fresh revelations in 2026 from the Justice Department’s Epstein files have cracked open a long-buried question: how close did Barack Obama’s inner circle come to one of America’s most notorious child sex traffickers? Kathryn Ruemmler—Obama’s White House counsel from 2011 to 2014 and the legal shield who guarded his administration’s secrets under attorney-client privilege—called Jeffrey Epstein “Uncle Jeffrey,” joked about his “girls,” accepted luxury gifts like Birkin bags, wine, and spa days, and continued emailing him even after his 2008 conviction as a registered sex offender. She resigned from Goldman Sachs this week amid the fallout. Obama entrusted her with everything.
If his top legal confidante embraced a monster like Epstein, what else stayed hidden behind the “scandal-free” facade?
That single, stomach-turning association is the spark for re-examining the man marketed as the ultimate unifier—a constitutional scholar who would rise above partisanship and heal a divided nation. The polished image won elections and still lingers. But leadership is not speeches; it is revealed by the people you trust, empower, and refuse to disown. Obama’s choices form a consistent pattern: radicals who damned America, bombers who attacked it, Israel critics who undermined its allies, and now an enabler cozy with depravity. These were not accidents. They shaped a presidency defined by resentment, centralized control, and grotesquely poor judgment.
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