• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    Going back over the Epstein timeline, it’s amazing how much of his activity took place under the Obama Administration and involved Democratic politicians and mega-donors. This was a guy who resided in a bright blue state (New York) and conducted much of his business squarely in the purvey of the SDNY, virtually untouched by the Feds or by the state agencies of Spitzer, Paterson, and Cuomo (all of whom were outed as sex pests and fuckbois during their own tenures).

    When Donald Trump was still cutting checks to Hillary Clinton’s Senatorial and Presidential Primary campaigns, Epstein was fully in bed with everyone from US Senators to Ivy League professors to “liberal” leadership from the UK to Israel.

    What a tangled web.

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      Well, yeah? Epstein was at the top of his game during those years and 3 years later finally got nailed to the wall.

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        He wasn’t nailed until June of 2019, after returning from holiday in France. Curiously, a place he could have been easily arrested and extradited from, if their own national security state could have bothered. Apparently, he’d been on his game in France for 5 fucking years while their local law enforcement had dragged its heels.

        He’d still be at-large today, probably hobnobbing with Macron and Mandelson at an exclusive restaurant in Versailles, if he’d simply been smart enough not to walk directly into the waiting arms of the FBI.