Two things that amaze me:
(1) There are far more photos of Jeffrey Epstein hanging out with Donald Trump in obviously dubious social settings than there are trans women athletes in the entire world of American college sports. Somehow, it’s considered vaguely improper on the part of the liberal left to scream from the rooftops 24/7 that Donald Trump’s best friend for many years — not in any sense an exaggeration — ran a sex slave ring of underage girls, who were raped by men exactly like Donald Trump, who is currently the president of the United States.
(2) Jeffrey Epstein died in federal government custody under the most suspicious circumstances imaginable. If something like this had happened in a third world (LOL) country, everybody would simply take it for granted that he had been murdered, or at a minimum coerced into and allowed to commit an extraordinarily convenient suicide. But as soon as this incredibly predicable thing happened, it was like you were arguing that the government was controlled by lizard people if you were so tactless as to point this out.
The Democrats should be doing nothing but holding press conferences about this, with lurid photos and quotations etc. They should turn the fact that they’re talking about it non-stop in public into a meta-story: Why has the Epstein scandal become such a huge deal? Oh right, here’s why: Because the past and present president of the United States was an enthusiastic regular participant in a a sex slave ring of underage girls, along with dozens if not hundreds of other extremely powerful and influential men in America and across the world, and the pimp who ran this operation was murdered or “allowed” to commit suicide, in order to help the whole thing go away (again). Or at least it sure looks like that!
I mean under the circumstances, it really WOULD be irresponsible not to speculate.
There’s an incorrect belief that the Epstein case is somehow separate from the real concerns facing America, a conspiracist concoction untethered to reality. But it’s actually about the policy issue: Which is — the two-tiered system of justice and accountability in America, and the impunity we afford the nation’s elites.
For a scandal that’s supposed to be shrouded in mystery, the details of the Epstein case are pretty well known.
- With the help of associate Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein procured young girls as high-class prostitutes for a fairly broad cross section of U.S. and global elites.
- We have Epstein’s black book, which includes nearly 2,000 names of associates and clients.
- We have the flight logs of his private jet and its passengers.
- We have searing documentary testimony from the girls who were pushed into servitude at his pleasure.
- We know that Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Larry Summers, Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, former Disney CEO Mike Ovitz, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and many, many more had either meetings with Epstein, visits to Epstein’s private island, or have been subpoenaed for information about either or both.
- And we know that among Epstein’s associates was his neighbor Donald Trump. There are pictures and videos from parties, seven trips on Epstein’s private jet, numerous comments by Trump on how fun it was to hang out with Epstein and his coterie of young girls, connections between girls allegedly put into service by Epstein and their employment at Mar-a-Lago, and even direct testimony from Epstein himself. Audiotape released last year reveals Epstein saying that he was Donald’s “closest friend for 10 years.”
Even things we supposedly don’t know, like the source of Epstein’s wealth, are also pretty clear: He obtained power of attorney over the estate of The Limited and Victoria’s Secret founder Les Wexner in the late 1980s, from which he appropriated bunches of money for himself. He was paid hundreds of millions more by Apollo’s Leon Black.
In other words, a set of crimes perpetrated by a wealthy guy reached into the heights of the political and economic stratosphere, and went largely unpunished for decades. Yet another Trump connection, his original labor secretary in the first term, Alex Acosta, issued a secret non-prosecution agreement to Epstein in 2008 when he was a U.S. attorney, which allowed Epstein to enter guilty pleas for state charges and avoid federal charges or jail time.
Not nearly enough has been made of Trump rewarding — with a cabinet position — the prosecutor who gave a ridiculously lenient plea/immunity deal to Epstein and his cronies.
NO, none of these are Photoshopped.
