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    Everyone on the Epstein list deserves to face open justice.

    If he’s innocent he could have just released the list and proven it to the whole world.

    I don’t think anyone would even trust that now.

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      Everyone on the Epstein list deserves to face open justice.

      There’s no Epstein “list”. What we have are his digital Rolodex, his flight logs, his various alleged business associations, and the volume of blackmail that may or may not still exist.

      And because Epstein was a major lobbyist and “philanthropist”, the end result is different ideological factions cherry picking who they want to blame while waving off their friends as incidental.

      Epstein is the pedophile’s “Too Big To Fail”

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        That’s kind of just semantics and the frap the Trump admin is doing to say it doesn’t exist.

        The FBI definitely has a file on this. They have the contents of his vault, his log books, etc.

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          The FBI definitely has a file on this.

          Almost certainly. But Mossad has files on the folks running the FBI, so everyone’s at a stand-off.

          They have the contents of his vault, his log books, etc.

          A big part of their job is picking through all of that material and drawing out exactly who was a “client” and who was merely an acquaintance.

          But (again, as the Trump freak-out demonstrates) a large part of that work is weeding out people that the FBI Director is friends with and focusing in on people who won’t create any collateral damage. Because Epstein was in so deep with so many people, the only target they could really go after was Maxwell. And even she’s got enough pull to make keeping her in jail hazardous to a lot of other high ranking bureaucrats.