Do they think we were born yesterday, all those powerful people offering their pathetic, fatuous excuses for their friendship and their continued association with a vile man who was known to be a child-abuser after he had been convicted in 2008 for soliciting sex from a minor?
And yes, it was the rape and sexual assault of children, let’s have no prevarication about that, or give an inch to those who said they believed his nauseating excuse of ignorance of the real age of vulnerable 14 and 16-year old girls as an excuse for his crimes. Some of the correspondence released in recent weeks reveal just how twisted the attitudes of Epstein’s circle were towards girls and women – or, to be more specific, towards women who are poor and vulnerable and easy to exploit.
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