Jeffery Epstein. Palm Beach Mugshot.
The Miami Herald has a long-form piece on billionaire sex offender Jeffery Epstein. I don't have a whole lot to say about the story itself as much of it is stuff I already know. If you are unfamiliar with Epstein it's a good round up, though it revels in it's anti-Trump bias. The main impetus for the story seems to be a hitjob on Trump's labor secretary Alexander Acosta, who was the prosecutor on the Epstein sex slave case. I think Acosta deserves quite a bit of criticism for his actions in that case but it's clear that the story isn't about him and is a hit piece on President Trump.
That being said, Epstein is one of the worst people that have made the news. The short version of what he did was use several teenage girls as sex slaves and prostitutes. He pimped those girls out to other elites and flew them to his island resort in the Virgin Islands on his personal jet, called the "Lolita Express".
Epstein is the American equivalent of Jimmy Savile or Marc Dutroux, a hugely disgusting person that the larger government protected and still protects to this day. In both those cases more people were implicated in wider scandals but it never really got off of the ground. Epstein's case never really got off the ground though and very few people are familiar with it outside of the more conspiracy minded on the left and right.
Should the Epstein case explode though, it could take down a lot of people. Many people have tried to implicate Trump with Epstein and it is true that they had links. Trump however banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after he found Epstein hitting on teens. Trump went on his plane once and then never again. It seems as though Trump was not that close to Epstein.
However the Clinton's were both very close with Epstein and visited him often. And they aren't the only ones. Many politicians, celebrities and other important figures have spent time with Epstein. Most of those people aren't on the record like Trump is in rejecting Epstein. If this story blows up again it could take a lot of people down.
I have always thought that the reason that Epstein didn't get a huge sentence for his extremely long list of crimes is that he has the dirt on pretty much everyone in Washington, Hollywood and among the media. Indeed, I sometimes wonder if his sex trafficking empire was just a shell for an effort to widely blackmail the elite. Still, that's pretty out there stuff, and I can't prove it.
Still, I have to say, out of all the conspiracy theories, the ones involving elite pedophiles/sex offenders are the ones that are most convincing to me. There have been too many real ones in the past for there not to be active people now. I doubt that Epstein is alone.
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