No List, No Revelations, No Plot—Just Epstein By Roger Kimball

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Roger Kimball


In the moderately large compendium of things I do not care about, details of the depravity of the late Jeffrey Epstein occupy a random page or two.

I had never heard of the “financier” and sex-trafficking impresario until shortly before his final encounters with the law in 2019. Like many, I received the news that he committed suicide in a New York jail in August of that year with a dollop of incredulity. Where were the jailers? Why was there a missing spot on the videotape just when the deed was done? Had Epstein threatened Hillary Clinton? What about that picture of Bill Clinton in a blue dress that was found in Epstein’s New York home?

There was plenty of food for doubt.

Unlike many, however, my incredulity was seasoned with indifference.

Okay, Epstein was a creep of the first order. He had attracted a bunch of famous men to his Caribbean island for sex romps with (mostly) underage girls. He apparently liked to videotape the proceedings. Why? In order to blackmail those stars of stage and screen was the consensus, natch. But did he?

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https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/13/no-list-no-revelations-no-plot-just-epstein/

[roamer_1]

The most difficult revelation to come out of the Epstein investigation, Hewitt notes, is that there are no revelations. The moral? It is “Time to move on! There really—really!—is nothing to see here.

Total and complete bullshit.

[Right_in_Virginia]

FTA:

I understand that the public’s appetite for scandal is a hardy perennial. The story of who is doing what to whom—especially if the “who”s are celebrities—is calculated to give prurient interest the gratifying cover of “the public’s right to know,” not to mention an opportunity to indulge in a little tongue-clucking moral outrage.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The word that one heard most often as the story of Epstein matured was “list.” Surely, he kept a list of the rich and famous who came to his little bit of paradise in the Caribbean. So it was a marked deflationary moment last week when Attorney General Pam Bondi released a DOJ memo that contained the sad news that 1) Jeffrey Epstein did die by his own hand and 2) the DOJ had discovered no list, not even of any kind.

What a letdown. Midway through the first season, the latest blockbuster is cancelled. Many people, including several friends, were not taking no for an answer. Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, for example, pooh-poohed the memo and noted that Judicial Watch, “in addition to its ongoing Epstein lawsuits … is now independently investigating this mess.”

[Right_in_Virginia]

May 18, 2025:

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6373031491112

[roamer_1]

NOT ONE arrest. Not ONE exposure. Total bullshit.

[jmyrlefuller]

"Drain the swamp" turned into "there is no swamp."

Campaign on child sex trafficking, and all of a sudden child sex trafficking is no big deal.

The Trump shills have no integrity, even in the face of term limits that make such fealty useless.