When it comes to the Epstein files, what is most evident so far is that “we ain’t seen nothin’ yet.” Just as with the Webb telescope when it comes to the magnitude of the universe, so with what first dribble making it through the dyke portends, and so with what those sleepy officers on the Titanic saw as a pesky little icy configuration dead ahead, what we are now seeing of the Epstein files is, well, only the tip of the iceberg.
But even this, so far, is incredible. Trump appears 1,433 times as yet. His billionaire backers are also members. Elon Musk appears 1,122 times. Howard Lutnick is a member. So is Trump-backer Peter Thiel (2,710 times), and Leslie Wexner (565 times). As is Steven Witkoff, now Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, and Steve Bannon, Trump’s consigliere (1,855 times).
The Epstein Class isn’t limited to Trump donors. Bill Clinton is a member (1,192 times), as is Larry Summers (5,621 times). So are LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman (3,769 times), Prince Andrew (1,821 times), Bill Gates (6,385 times), and Steve Tisch, co-owner of the New York Giants (429 times).
As former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Reich correctly points out, this configuration of Epstein villains constitutes an entire class of society, the Epstein Class, connected by more than just by association with and possible participation in the crimes for which Epstein was convicted. Reich notes, “If not politics, what connects the members of the Epstein Class? It’s not just riches. Some members are not particularly wealthy, but they’re richly connected. They trade on their prominence, on whom they know and who will return their phone calls. They exchange inside tips on stocks, on the movements of currencies, on IPOs, on new tax-avoidance mechanisms. On getting into exclusive clubs, reservations at chic restaurants, lush hotels, exotic travel. They entertain one another, stay at each other’s guest houses and villas. Some exchange tips on how to procure certain drugs or kinky sex or valuable works of art. And, of course, how to accumulate more wealth.”
But, still, the formidable Mr. Reich is keeping it clean. Beneath this web of deceit crawls something even more sinister, far more so. It makes Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” expose film seem like a walk in the park. This web of human flesh devouring compulsions that know no bounds, none whatsoever, is grounded in a taught hyper-cynicism and honed cruelty which are preconditions for admittance. Their bond is their shared, unspeakable depravity.
Oh, how the Rev. Franklin Graham could accommodate this? Oh, how his pappy would spin in his grave. This is that from which the Lord’s Prayer urgently seeks deliverance.
See the telltale signs on the surface. See the life of Donald Trump. See how bankruptcies and other betrayals of common civility, the screwing of anyone doing business with him that he can, are his brand, not his mistakes, but his m.o. See his uncommon identity with the art of the lie. See how every accusation is a confession, how everything he accuses others of mirrors his own behavior. See how there are no bounds to any of this. Then imagine him in a room with ropes and a human victim, any age, and gender..
These grounds for viable hypotheses are the rightful starting points for our daring venture into the lives of Trump and the Epstein Class fraternity.
I for one think we may be scratching the surface of one of the biggest scandals in modern human history. Why are there millions and millions of pages of evidence? Why all the photographs? Why all the videos? To what purpose were they all put in their accumulation? Was this a massive blackmail enterprise, designed to bring down the West? Was this why, to begin with, Moscow chose Trump as its designated U.S. president-to-be in 1987?
This could rival the abject depravity of Hitler, or Stalin, or Pol Pot. Being boundless and with boundless power, a direct extension. Man’s inhumanity to man, and woman, unhinged.
