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I feel a bit of trepidation when anyone brings up the Jeffrey Epstein case. It’s hard to know, at first blush, which they’re talking about: the documented crimes of which Epstein was convicted or the surrounding fog of conspiracy. Sometimes, it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.
That’s especially true in the wake of a massive, chaotic document release, like the one that we got over the weekend.
The confirmed details of Epstein’s crimes are terrible enough. Over a period of several years, the financier sexually abused and trafficked dozens of girls and women.
He did so while maintaining........