[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Epstein was a blackmail operation.

So it was a blackmail operation that required the blackmailer to be in far more trouble, and be far more ruined, than any of his blackmail targets if the operation is exposed?

And that rather than using professional honeypots or just prostitutes, uses underage civilian girls who then go right back to ordinary life, free to expose/spill the beans at any type me, expose the entire operation, and destroy the blackmailer? (Which is, in fact, exactly what happened)

If so, that's the worst/dumbest blackmail operation ever. Hardly a CIA or Mossad-level model of professionalism.

[Wallace T.]

I was listening to the voice of the brother of Jeffrey Epstein a few months ago. He spoke with an old school New York City working class accent, like the TV character, Archie Bunker. I decided to do a bit of Google searching. It turned out that Jeffrey Epstein came from a blue collar background, his father being a construction worker and his mother a teacher's aide and a secretary at an insurance firm. He grew up in a modest neighborhood in Brooklyn. Epstein attended two colleges in NYC but graduated from neither. Other than being an extrovert, he had no real skills. He was not from a family with connections.

The best I can guess is that Epstein was a New York version of Bill Clinton: an extrovert with a huge sex drive. That makes the whole Pedophile Island story unusual.