On one hand, crucifying someone because they knew someone who everyone knew is probably a bad idea. On the other hand, he wrote "The life you lead is so outrageous, and yet I can’t tell a soul ..." which suggests strongly that he knew something has some serious 'splaining to do. And the email chain it's attached to suggests that explanation will be ... difficult.
You also don't hang out with rich and influential people. Turns out that's a fairly small club and Epstein made it his business to know basically everyone in it*. Indeed, that's a big part of why he was wealthy, in that club, Epstein was the man who knew everyone and was happy to connect you to someone it would benefit you to know (both for good and for ill).
You can say that again!
That's what can happen when you have generally independent news media rather than a bunch of cowardly right-wing parrots.
On one hand we’ve got a vast tranche of documents, emails, photos and videos that strongly implicate Trump. Some of them may be fraudulent but all of them? There are so many, and the US govt refuses to release the really serious stuff, in spite of the law demanding it.
The press don't have the power to make arrests. It's the government that's different, more than anything else.
The UK has the worst press in the western world. It is no coincidence that its major newspapers hacked the phone of a missing teenage girl, wiped messages from frantic parents who tried to call her to find out where she was, so that they could conceivably get a scoop to splash on the front pages. It is also no coindicence that when this became known, nothing much happened. The inquiry set up to investigate was largely ignored when it published its findings.
It's becoming more apparent that the operation was a honeypot with apparent nation state involvement. Not to excuse him in the least, but Epstein was likely a highly compromised front to do the bidding of more powerful figures behind the scenes. There are probably numerous powerful people wrapped up in that web that are/were putting heavy pressure on whoever they can to keep things under wraps. Some of these people are well known and in the open for anyone bothering to pay attention.
I don't think there's any support for that notion, just a lot of people who desperately want it to be so.
My personal opinion is that Bondi is almost certainly an accomplice, and that she’s behaving as she is not just in service of Trump, but also in service of herself.
The Prime Minister of Poland, Tusk, thinks there's enough smoke to investigate whether there's any fire.
I agree with all you said, except I'd omit the "almost". Even if she wasn't quite an accomplice years ago, in this administration she has made herself one.
Likely because they didn't want to piss off every single member of the jet set billionaire social calendar. I mean, if you are rich and powerful enough, Epstein was the person who knows the person who can fix your problem and was happy to put you in touch with them. This means that he also knew what everyone's problems were. So nobody in that group particularly wants people looking into all that. Even people whose problems were of the legal and relatively mundane sort, that's still a lot of mundane dirty laundry that they don't want on the from page of the National Inquirer.
And this is the kind of conclusion that tries to connect too many things to a single actor, which is to say it's a conspiracy theory. There's no secret hand controlling all the rich people and preventing them from coming clean. Just individual people acting a according to their own individual motives and reasoning.
I mean… both can be true. Most people are their own personal kind of shitty AND from time to time Russia gave a little nudge for their own purposes. I don’t think anyone is claiming sort of clear operational control like the whole thing was a well-planned op with a command center in Moscow. That seems vanishingly unlikely. But Russia stirring the pot from time to time and using it to their own advantage seems incredibly plausible and worth looking into.
Now you get to see what happens when you are afraid to confront evil because it's in your political opponent.
She's an accessory after the fact and full participant in the coverup.
That's not the flex China thinks it is.
I mean, this is Poland. They kinda hate Russia, so anything he can do to put Russia in even more of a bad light, he would do so.
I admire your enthusiasm. Unless the Dems have super majorities for years to come this will not happen.
Pretty much this. The Chinese authoritarians are cackling with glee because the American political system is on track to become just like them.
We know where Epstein got his first few million, it was from Les Wexner, apparently Victoria's secret was how she made Jeff Epstein rich. And we know how he got most of the rest of it too, no need for some squirrelly deal with the Russians. He was a thief, blackmailer, slave trader, and fixer.
