As the Ghislaine Maxwell trial nears its conclusion, we’re no closer to unraveling Jeffrey Epstein’s secrets. Choire writes on what happens next
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I don’t agree with every conclusion, but I hope you’ll read — and let us know what else you’re curious about. It’s hard to know what the jury is thinking. First, I guess I would be horrified to have this front-row seat to Epstein’s world, particularly if I was learning about it for the first time, as they presumably are. Most of the time when you go to jury duty in New York City, the cases you hear are like, “This guy hit his knee on a bodega cellar grate while skateboarding on the sidewalk.” And the jury pool is like, “Well, he’s a damn idiot,” and everyone laughs. This is not that.
One Jeffrey Epstein doesn’t indicate the existence of a hundred Jeffrey Epsteins. Last week, The Atlantic published some reporting about America’s great child-trafficking panic. “All over the country,” Kaitlyn Tiffany wrote, “well-meaning Americans are convinced that human trafficking — and specifically child sex trafficking — is happening right in their backyard, or at any rate no farther away than the nearest mall parking lot.
And if there is one Jeffrey Epstein, it feels reasonable to think, Why aren’t there a hundred? If such a creature as Epstein could exist, surely anything is possible. Why wouldn’t Hillary Clinton be hoarding children in a pizzeria? The Boy Scouts is in shambles because so many people involved in their leadership were using their power to victimize children. The Scouts were accused of abuse by something like 93,000 people, a number that will make your face melt. Somehow, the Catholic Church has survived, while literally thousands of priests around the world abused children.
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