We're Missing the Point on the Epstein Scandal [View all]

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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