• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    20 hours ago

    Crucially, the invitation to JKR’s play came in 2018, when Epstein was already in jail. You have to be a special kind of dumb to still invite him to a public event at that point. Compared to that, Bill Clinton’s contacts in 2002-2003 have pretty decent plausible deniability - it’s at least possible that he didn’t know that Epstein was a pedo rapist + pedo pimp, since that was before any accusations against him became public.

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      16 hours ago

      Clinton knew. He had briefs from US intelligence, even after out of office, a practice the current president stopped as I understand, The best news service in the world.

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        11 hours ago

        Would they have reported on alleged rapes, would they even have been informed of Epstein’s human trafficking activities in 2002? Maybe’s that’s why he allegedly broke off contact in 2003. Don’t know either way, but there’s definitely more "maybe"s here than for inviting him in 2018.