Posted on 12/19/2025 10:46:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Now that Congress has passed a law – not a flimsy resolution, but a law – mandating that the Trump administration release all its files on Jeffrey Epstein, here’s what we know, and what we still need to know.
The basic elements of Epstein’s crimes were established back in 2006 by the Palm Beach Police, who began investigating the previous year after a woman reported that he had paid her 14-year-old stepdaughter for a massage.
Over the next 13 months, the police gathered sworn statements from dozens of witnesses, including five underage girls who said they’d been paid $200 to $1,000 to engage in sex acts with Epstein. “The more you do, the more you get paid,” one of his assistants told a girl in a phone call recorded by the police.
The girls cried as they told police of their revulsion at sexually servicing Epstein, some saying they averted their eyes and watched the clock, waiting for it to be over, so they could get paid and leave. Other witnesses said they’d been paid $200 for every teenage girl they brought to Epstein and described sex toys and dildos lying around after the girls visited.
A search of Epstein’s home turned up computers with the hard drives ripped out, explicit photographs of naked teenage girls, a high-school transcript, a phone message from one girl saying she couldn’t come because she had “soccer practice” and another offering to come over “Monday after school.”
All of this was handed over to the local prosecutor in 2006. Unfortunately, the local prosecutor was a Democratic activist named Barry Krischer, who’d just spent three years maniacally pursuing conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh for abusing back-pain medication.
Based on the prosecution’s presentation to the grand jury, one could be forgiven for thinking the teenage girls were the target. After one girl described how, at age 14, she had been sexually molested by Epstein, who then gave her $300, assistant prosecutor Lanna Belohlavek responded: “You are aware that you committed a crime?” Despite the allegation that Epstein had raped two teen girls, Krischer accepted his plea to one count of soliciting prostitution, with no jail time. This is the sort of monumental government failure that has shielded Epstein since 2006.
Another great moment in law enforcement was the FBI’s botched search of Epstein’s New York townhouse in 2019. The search turned up a hidden safe containing hundreds of photos of naked girls, labeled with their names and, crucially, also those of “third parties.” And then the agents walked out, leaving the safe’s contents behind, completely unsecured. Days later, the evidence was gone. The media are as guilty as the government. For years, they ignored the story of a billionaire New Yorker molesting hundreds of underage girls in his Palm Beach mansion. (Boring!) They became interested only after managing to attach Epstein to President Trump with Elmer’s glue and Scotch tape.
It seems that, after Krischer’s office failed to hold Epstein to account, then-US Attorney Alex Acosta had launched a federal investigation into Epstein. That, too, ended in an overly lenient deal, the main virtue of which was that it was less appalling than Krischer’s.
A decade later, Acosta was Trump’s first-term labor secretary. Also, decades earlier, Trump had been friends with Epstein.
And with that, the media awoke from their slumber and finally noticed the massive and continuing failure to nail the pedophile. To this day, the New York Times’s sole interest in the Epstein files is whether they will show “significant revelations about Mr. Trump.” Real and fake questions abound.
Fake: is the Epstein case nothing but a “moral panic,” a continuation of the 2017 #MeToo movement? This counternarrative is based more on the joy of sneering than on any actual facts. Epstein’s victims are the virtual opposite of the #MeToo claimants. They were discovered back in 2005, long before the #MeToo craze, and not by their own volition, but as the result of a police investigation.
They were also teenage girls, who’d already experienced broken families, incest, violence, fatherlessness, homelessness and other depredations. Instead of a helping hand, they got Epstein’s egg-shaped penis. (If Epstein didn’t want people making fun of his penis, he shouldn’t have whipped it out in front of so many talkative teenage girls.)
There are surely fake “victims,” who’ve come forward to allege abuse simply in order to get a piece of the Epstein settlement fund. There were also frauds applying to the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. That doesn’t mean there was no 9/11.
Real: where did Epstein get all that loot? Amazingly, we still have no idea where his money came from. The only thing we know for certain is that it did not come from where he said it did – his financial wizardry.
Learning the source of his wealth might help explain another mystery that demands an answer: How did “the most infamous pedophile in American history,” as one judge put it, get off scot-free for two decades?
When Acosta was being vetted by the first Trump White House, he explained the lenient plea deal, saying: “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone.” What “intelligence”? Who told Acosta that? Can we talk to whoever it was? Weirdly, the single most intriguing statement from the Epstein saga has been buried and forgotten. Epstein’s sex ring certainly sounds like a kompromat operation. His homes and private plane were outfitted with cameras, allowing him to covertly video rich, powerful men engaging in sex acts with minors – or, at its most wholesome, married men having sex with girls 40 years their junior. (I gather these men are the “innocent victims” that we’re supposed to be so concerned about.) Another real question is: who else participated? Virginia Giuffre and other girls have said Epstein farmed them out to his friends.
It’s pretty clear Giuffre was handed off to Prince Andrew (now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor), who has always denied the accusations against him, and French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel (now dead, having hanged himself in jail while awaiting trial for rape, sexual assault and sex trafficking of minors).
Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell isn’t much of a witness for the defense on this point. Asked about other men having sex with Jeffrey’s girls, she said: “They’re men that went and had a massage and maybe did something sexual. They’re men. I wasn’t in the room… Now did some? OK. I don’t know. I wasn’t there. I didn’t see it.”
Whatever mysterious force has been protecting Epstein must be awfully powerful to have insulated “the most infamous pedophile in American history” for 20 years. Unfortunately, that means it’s probably powerful enough to ensure we never get answers to the real questions.
I don’t care who keeps bringing up this tabloid crap.
NOBODY CARES!
It depends if anybody was getting blackmailed.
Lets see some open kimono here...no bluffing allowed.
When someone deliberately obfuscates his own behavior and that of a few others by associating with many other innocent people, it's very hard to get to the bottom of what really happened and who was involved. Everyone is engaged in CYA, possibly misleading investigators or deliberately implicating someone else who may be perfectly innocent to hide their own guilt or take advantage of the opportunity to hurt the other person.
When almost all of them can afford expensive and vicious white-shoe law firms and have political clout, investigate at your own risk.
The better question is, how would you know the truth when you heard it?
Is there much that we don’t know about Epstein’s sexual exploitation of minors?
There’s a lot more about Epstein that we don’t know and will never know.
I hadn’t heard from Ann Coulter in a while. I thought maybe she had thrown her keyboard away, in an act of protest.
If there were anything about Epstein and Trump Biden & Co. and the MSM would be hammering it out to the public 24/7/365.
Epstein story is a decoy act to hide something the democrats don’t want known.
I’d rather have the truth about the 2020 election steal come out, and people held criminally responsible.
It wasn’t primarily celebrities, it was powerful people. The key question is where and how did he get his money?
That question applies to so much today.
Miss Coulter, your IQ results are looking worse and worse.
If you drop leftism, they will improve significantly.
And many of the girls were willing participants.
Here’s a bonus hint for you: try to match the likely amount of unknowns in the Epstein case with its level of clandestine variables.
Ann Coulter: Will we ever know the truth about Epstein?Ann Coulter, a washed up has been never-Trump drama queen.
How will it change/affect your life?
Like her Democrat friends, she's hoping, praying, there's something on Trump.
It's all about the useless drama.
I am certain that the CIA does not want anything that incriminates them in sex trafficking released. I am even more certain that other intelligence agencies of other countries are threatening to expose the CIA and never share secrets with the CIA, if Epstein information is released and makes them look bad.
I am further certain, that there are claims of “national security” being made regarding the release of some Epstein data.
My opinion.........release it all. If our intelligence agency is involved with sex trafficking of under-aged women, then the CIA needs to be exposed. If releasing Epstein information causes other intelligence agencies that use sex trafficking to temporarily not speak or share information with the CIA,......then we as a nation are better off for not associating with such slime.
Does it make any difference? He’s dead, the island is shut down, and the politicians are going to circle the wagons to protect certain people from discovery. No one will get caught or punished and that is the only consistent thought process.
Look at the history of discovery, Clinton lied, both of them. The lies from the Kennedys are very historic. And none got jail time to include the Mary Jo and Ted Kennedy case. Biden violated security standards at the top level and was never charged or fined because he was too old and feeble. Other examples:
Roderick Wright: A former California State Senator, Wright was convicted of eight counts of perjury and voter fraud in 2014. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail but received probation and community service instead of immediate incarceration, and was eventually pardoned in 2018.
Mary Hayashi: A former California State Assemblywoman, Hayashi was convicted of felony grand theft (shoplifting) in 2011. She received an $180 fine and three years’ probation, avoiding jail time.
Jeff Fortenberry: The former congressman was sentenced to two years’ probation, community service, and a fine in 2022 for concealing information and making false statements to federal authorities investigating illegal campaign contributions. He avoided prison time.
Wes Cooley: In 1996, the former representative from Oregon accepted a deal to avoid jail time after being convicted of two counts of lying to voters about his military service in official state voter guides.
David Durenberger: The former senator from Minnesota pleaded guilty to five misdemeanors related to the misuse of public funds and improper reimbursements in 1995 and did not serve any jail time.
See the pattern here. All loopholes to get out of jail. There’s more, but it insults me to post it.
wy69
“Amazingly, we still have no idea where his money came from.”
That should be easy for the DoJ to get and provide.
“Out of 10 girls, I would say nine girls do it or have done it.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/nyregion/stubborn-cycle-of-runaways-becoming-prostitutes.html
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=underage+runaway+prostitution+NYC&ia=web
“The skinny 16-year-old allegedly raped by ... is just one of hundreds of brutalized underage girls working as prostitutes in the region.”
“’I’ve had girls who have been dropped off at hospitals beaten, burned with hot knives, kids with broken eye sockets, girls with broken jaws,’”
There were terrible things that have happened to females under 18 in NYC yesterday.
There will be terrible things that will happen to females under 18 in NYC today.
“After one girl described how, at age 14, she had been sexually molested by Epstein, who then gave her $300, assistant prosecutor Lanna Belohlavek responded: “You are aware that you committed a crime?”
I don’t know where you got the idea the victims were all older teens and young adults.
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