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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

NY Times’ David Brooks Said There’s Too Much Focus on Jeffrey Epstein. Here He Is Hanging With Epstein.

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NY Times’ David Brooks Said There’s Too Much Focus on Jeffrey Epstein. Here He Is Hanging With Epstein.

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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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New York Times columnist David Brooks appears at a 2011 dinner with Jeffrey Epstein in the latest set of photos from the House Oversight Committee.

cross-posted from: https://no.lastname.nz/post/2050418

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    I imagine most of them didn’t know that child sex abuse was going on. Even among the ultra rich, that’s not seen as acceptable behaviour. Epstein was probably careful about who he let into the inner circle. They were probably fully vetted, and/or Epstein had compromat on them so they couldn’t expose him without exposing themselves. The rest of them probably thought he liked women who were barely legal, but still legal.

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      I imagine most of them didn’t know that child sex abuse was going on.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations

      https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/prosecutors-detail-sex-abuse-allegations-against-dennis-hastert

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/14/more-than-300-pennsylvania-priests-committed-sexual-abuse-over-decades

      Even setting aside Epstein, this abuse is fully rampant in the upper eschalons of American society.

      And Brooks was going out with these guys, he was meeting their second and third and forth wives. He was writing long winded articles about Eastern Europe and the scandals of human trafficking, with the spin being a need for more US intervention to restore law and order in post-Soviet States.

      Epstein was probably careful about who he let into the inner circle.

      Nothing in the info dumps we’ve received suggests Jeff was particularly discrete. He bragged about who he knew and slept with. Ghislaine bragged on his behalf. It was a selling point.

      He had a plane christened The Lolita Express. Nothing about this screams subtlety

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