I don’t know.
Yeah, let’s just start there. I haven’t looked into this, because I have not been convinced yet it’s worth looking into. I’ve seen a lot of people go off on this issue and how there is a ton of criminal activity… but no one I know or particularly trust. I mean, the grifters are all over it — which doesn’t mean it’s not true but is usually an indicator if they’re the only ones talking about it.
I don’t know much about this, so I thought I’d give my uninformed opinion on it. Because most people have not looked deeply into this, so I think it’s useful to see whether it’s right to assume there is anything to this if you’re — like most people — a casual consumer of the news.
Things I know:
There is a Jeffrey Epstein, and he was arrested. This was big news.
He was a billionaire1 and ran in circles with lots of very powerful people. Probably true of any billionaire, though.
He had an island. The island was weird.
Jeffrey Epstein is dead, and it was ruled a suicide. A lot of people don’t think he committed suicide, but my joke about it was always, “I can’t believe he committed suicide — he had so much to live for!” I guess they should have been monitoring him so he wouldn’t do that, and I guess there is something hinky with the video feed, but that can all be explained by government incompetence (always a good explanation for anything). If we’re alleging someone killed Epstein or told people not to watch Epstein so he could commit suicide and then doctor the video, we’re now a conspiracy that multiple people had to know about, and we’re stretching credibility that it could be kept secret.
Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested and convicted of child sex trafficking. Pretty straightforward. She helped Epstein get underage girls and was convicted for that.
Trump gave a bunch of right-wing influencers these binders that said “Epstein Files: Phase 1.” But they were notably all the sort of influences that you should never trust, and I don’t remember anything interesting coming out of that.
Trump now says the whole Epstein thing is a hoax and wants people to get over it. Okay.
Now, here are things I’ve heard alleged:
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