They want it to be about Trump because the truth is it's really all about...
Always has been.
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.
So the sexual abuse of underage girls by a billionaire and his cronies is nothing more than tabloid crap? Good to know I’ll quote you next time Biden’s pervy behavior around underage girls ever comes up.
NO.THEY.FREAKING.WERE.NOT.
What a bunch of bull crap. I suppose you believe that of the victims of the “grooming” gangs in the U.K. (which is what some of the police claimed). Mark Steyn has covered that miscarriage of justice extensively you might try reading his take on it. The law has laws on statutory rape because it recognizes that people of a certain age or disability are not able to consent to sexual acts.
The ability to give consent does not rest on age only. It also applies to coercion and mental state. Sexual predators are very likely to choose victims who are in life circumstances that make it seem the predator is a caring friend who can be trusted to have the victim’s best interest at heart. That victims fall for this does not make them willing participants.
“The key question is where and how did he get his money?”
I am going to make an educated guess based on everything I have read about him since his death.
EXTORTION
He lured mostly old men into his classic honey trap. Men who wanted to have sex with underage girls or young women.
We know that there were allegedly six billionaires.
One was Les Wexner. The owner of the Limited and Victorias Secret. He sold Epstein a seven thousand square foot townhouse on the upper east side of Manhattan for $1.
It was worth between $30-60 Million.
Why would Wexner do that?
Supposedly for the money Epstein saved him on creating taax shelters. Maybe, maybe not.
Then there was the younger son of the Monarch of the UK. Otherwise known as Prince Andrew. Featured famously posing with the now deceased Dufrey when she was 16.
How much money is it worth to the Royal Family to keep that information out of the Daily Mail?
Then we have the CEO of the largest Software corporation in the world(Microsoft). Someone who’s wife divorced him when she found out his relationship with Epstein. A person she stated was “the most evil person I ever met”.
How much would that billionaire have given to keep his ALLEGED visits with young girls secret?
Then we have a former Prime Minister of Israel(Ahud Barak)that allegedly again according to Dufrey was an extremely abusive individual that liked to have rough sex and abuse young girls. How much was that information worth not only to that former PM but ALSO the OPPOSING political party in Israel run by Bebe Netanyahu?
All that information is now in the hands of our Federal Government and probably the UK, Israeli, and maybe several other governments.
WHY would they want to willingly give it up?
When they can potentially USE that information to get people to do things they would prefer not to do.
Like, hey Mr Gates, we sure would appreciate if you were to provide a back door into your operating systems software.
Hey, liberal party in Israel(I forget he name)don’t you think it would be better if former PM Barak’s activities were kept secret?
Hey. former POTUS Bill Clinton, wouldn’t it be better to keep secret how many times you flew on Epstein’s plane?
It sure would be a shame IF those pictures of you and those young ladies got leaked to Fox News, wouldn’t it?
SECRETS HAVE VALUE.
Seeing how Epstein and Maxwell both had mossad ties I agree with your conclusion
He had to obtain a pile of money to start being able to blackmail. His NY place and island cost a lot of money. Once a blackmailer gets rolling, it’s easy to figure out income sources. But his initial background doesn’t suggest where this seed money came from. Maybe it was a small time blackmailer who grew his operation. That seems difficult. Somebody more powerful than you thought, knocks you off on the way.
I think the understandable focus on the lurid stuff obfuscates who and what he was about. He was involved in moving money for operations and projects that needed to be in the shadows. He was apparently the ultimate straw man. He was not CIA, (I suspect), he was in that circle of people who are above that. Or rather, he served the people who are above the visible parts of the intel and political world who avoid leaving their fingerprints on policies and operations.
This would explain why he was so well protected for so long. My question is, why did he lose his protection. Of course I ask the same question anytime a corrupt official gets brought down. Not how did he get caught, because we usually knew for decades what he was doing, but rather why did he lose his immunity.
Try reading the article. Girls calling and saying they can’t make it but can later.
I ain’t reading all that..
But congratulations or sorry that happened or whatever.
That does not equal consent. I did read the article. You obviously do not know how many sexual predators groom victims. Also you might try to suss out why there are age of consent laws even in such circumstances.
Oh bull. Politicians and the media are playing games, and the sheep love this melodramatic tabloid bullshit. Someone should make a five year series.
They want it to be about Trump because the truth is it's really all about...
Always has been.
Do you have any idea how many “massage” parlors with girls 15 to 17 in South Florida there are?
The old fashioned way... He inherited it.
The whole notion of taking out a central banker reminds me that the guy running Turkey Erdogan did that to his Central Bank chief over interest rates.
Turkey buddies with Qatar tied at the hip so much drama about Qatar but they all take Qatar’s money.
There are some 'sheltered' 14 year old children out there... But they are few and far between... When I was 14 if somebody had offered my a ride on a jet plane to a private island... I'm pretty sure I would've been fully aware that such an offer wasn't out of generosity alone. There's always a price to pay.
Hush up Ann.
Take an IQ pill.
“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.”
Allegedly. Acosta denies it to my understanding. The source was presumably someone on the first Trump Admin vetting team. I think it’s probably true and would explain a lot. If I had to bet I would say Bannon was the probable source due to the later Epstein connections.
FReegards
"Everyone knows" is often used as part of lies and propaganda. I must withhold judgement until I see the evidence. And connections can mean a lot of things, from an occasional cocktail party to a friendship to a partnership.
Candidate Trump states he would release the sealed Epstein records.
So, back in February, various nabobs show up, “OK. Where are they?”
Bondi: “Uhh, there is no ... Epstein client list.”
Congress eventually finds it necessary to pass a law to force the DOJ to release the Epstein files in their entirety. All 100 senators vote for it.
“The Trump administration is the most transparent in history,” proclaimed Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson, insisting that it has “done more for the victims [of Epstein] than Democrats ever have”.
On the last day of the 30 days from the day the president signed the bill, the DOJ releases them—with many of the pages looking like carbon paper or with big blocks of blacked-out sections.
The DOJ has 15 days from today to provide everything, per the law, to congress.
AG Pam Bondi falls on her sword and is hit with a contempt of congress citation ... wouldn’t that be a kick in the head.
Why are they doing this, Pollyannas?
Oh for pity’s sake she was an actress playing a role. Your comparison is a huge fail.
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