We're Missing the Point on the Epstein Scandal
Last month, the Deputy U.S. Attorney General met with Ghislaine Maxwell and her attorney in Tallahassee, Florida. The private meeting was unprecedented. Todd Blanche, the former personal attorney for the President of the United States, who was given a top ranking role at the Department of Justice, met with the convicted child predator on behalf of the administration.
The DOJ didn’t meet with the victims, mind you — they met with the assailant. And on Friday, news broke that Maxwell had been transferred to a minimum-security prison in Texas, which could signal that Trump is on the verge of issuing a pardon.
According to a poll out last week from the Economist and YouGov, the majority of Americans are outraged about the Epstein coverup. MAGA and Trump are trying to say this is a partisan witch hunt. The talking heads keep talking about Trump and Epstein, flight logs, photographs, and Epstein Island. And in the process of all of this, we are all becoming desensitized to the term “pedophile” and we are losing the point.
Back in 2009, I joined the Office of the Florida Attorney General as then-AG Bill McCollum’s press secretary. For some history, now-U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was elected to the seat vacated by McCollum in 2011. When I started with that office back in 2009, I had no idea how much that job would change me and shape my worldview going forward.
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The "justice" in the U.S. works on two levels.
Wilhoit's Law
https://systemicunlearning.substack.com/p/wilhoits-law-there-is-no-such-thing
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.
For millennia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been.
This is blatantly evident in the protection of pedos and the prosecution of immigrants.
Oligarchs must be protected.
They have divine right, Droit du seigneur. They are allowed to f*ck anyone they want without consequence.
The poor are "sinners". The rich, powerful, and holders of blackmailable evidence are saints.
All the delay is, IMO, due to DOJ using the AI machine to alter every single document, producing what's no more incriminating to the oligarchs than last month's losing betting slip or lottery ticket.
That's why Mikey created the delay.
How does a Trump, so up to his eyeballs in Epstein camaraderie, protect those business tycoons, princes, politicians and who knows what else without incriminating himself? Well, that's the GOP dilemma. They will do everything they can to weasel out of it.
Donald apparently met his latest bride courtesy of Epstein. "Never heard of the guy"
Droit du seigneur.
A bit more here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=410510