- The letter quoted above was, allegedly, a gift from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday. Given the circumstances, one can only conclude that the veiled references in the letter are to the obvious thing: sex with underage girls. Rape. Pedophilia.
The President of the United States is a pedophile.
It is common, or at least it used to be, to portray Trump as a unique irruption into the American political scene: uniquely crass, uniquely rapey, uniquely popular. In that frame of mind, one might dismiss Trump's association with Epstein as yet another uniquely Trumpian deformity.
What if it isn't? What if the connection between reactionary MAGA politics and the sexual abuse of children is deeper than we want to admit?
The name for this idea is pedocon theory.
These ideas were so fringe 10 years ago that you would be looked at as a deviant yourself for even bothering to track how many republicans are caught committing child sexual assasult and grooming behaviors to lead to the same. I am looked at funny by conservatives and progressives alike for pointing out that challenges to age of consent and related topics ALWAYS come from the right, ALWAYS on the basis of religious exemptions to the law/freedom of religion, ALWAYS to promote the marriage of adult men to teen or pre-teen women they rape. This is biblical, according to them.
I don't know what it says about the state of 'discourse' that its a basically open and shut case that the president raped kids as part of an Israeli kompromat farm, and has now used the machinery of the federal government to not only cover it up, but provide the legal basis to make this all 'normal' in the future, forever. And I'm the weird one somehow.
In that sense, the pedocons have already won. This is already normalized and tolerated past the point of sanity. The erosion isn't happening, it happened already.
There's a lot I could add to KB's post. He's got some of the major nuts and bolts there. I'm sure any point I make wouldn't be given fair scrutiny. He died a spies death and Maxwell is buried on the Mount of Olives and part of his memorial was “He has done more for Israel than can today be said.” delivered by the then prime minister Yitzhak Shamir. I'm very much not going 'The jews are behind it' and very much saying 'The idea that a nation state* benefitted from Epsteins evil work isn't radical.' And to say that the government of israel has political ambition and power over the government of the united states through many different means isn't radical. Tell me what else AIPAC is. Ultimately it doesn't matter, because we can't do anything about it either way.
Robert Maxwell sold malware to the US for the Israelis which fucks with the whole "world government" angle. He also did work for the KGB - Czech arms for the Israeli war for independence came through Maxwell. MI5 tried to work with him and found him unreliable because he was such an opportunist. The idea of a "world government" is radical. It flies in the face of every experience the world has ever had with treaties and mutual defense organizations. Fuckn' NATO can't even agree who's supposed to pay the bar tab. As far as Israel? Hell yes they have political ambition and power over the government of the United States but it's fuckin' antisemitic to go "AIPAC is Jewish, Robert Maxwell was a Jew, Jeffery Epstein was a Jew, therefore Jeffrey Epstein maintained a honeypot for the express purpose of dominating the American government for Israel." I'll go one further - every time some dipshit on the internet leans into a conspiracy theory into the substantially damning available facts, Israel grows more powerful. The purpose of conspiracy theories is to drive credibility among the feckless and destroy it among the intelligentsia. Stop being feckless.
I should have said 'nation state' when I said 'world government.' I'm not screaming about globalists and blood libel. There is a specific line of associations, money, and national commendations and honors between Maxwell the elder, Maxwell the younger, Epstein, and the nation state of Israel. I would love to know what your understanding of these events is that isn't a conspiracy theory that accounts for the facts of Epstein's life as it relates to Maxwell and guys like Dershowitz and Trump.
I'm not going to endorse this wild flight of fancy because bloody hell if the whole point of being Republican is to diddle little kids they've got a piss-poor showing. Far better to become a priest, their numbers are better. BUT: Robert Maxwell definitely did business with the Israelis among others and his death left Gislaine without much in the way of meaningful support. Ari Ben-Manashe is in there because of course he his, and he's hoping you don't notice the timeline on this particular story because he was persona non grata with Israeli MID and legit in jail for selling arms to Iran by '91 when Robert Maxwell died (and Gislaine probably hadn't met Epstein yet). It isn't enough thread to knit a sweater. But it's reasonable to presume Gislaine Maxwell was at least known to Israeli intelligence. Robert Maxwell knew Epstein; Robert Maxwell might very well have been wiped out by Mossad so whether or not he introduced Epstein to Israeli spies is neither here nor there. People really want to see conspiracies when the fact of the matter is, Jeffrey Epstein was a craven opportunist, Gislaine Maxwell is a craven opportunist, Robert Maxwell was a craven opportunist and Israeli MID is, by all accounts a bunch of craven opportunists so the odds that their dicks rubbed a couple times are non-zero. Is it possible Jeffrey Epstein was blackmailing people for Israel? I mean... it's not impossible. Is it far more likely that Jeffrey Epstein created kompramat for his own purposes rather than Israel's? Indubitably. It takes a real conspiracist to go "he was obviously blackmailing people.... and he somehow amassed a giant fortune! How else could that have happened unless THE JEWS ARE BEHIND IT"