I follow the Epstein mess as closely as anyone, and the media doesn’t seem to be asking the right questions. For once, what I want to know and what MAGA wants to know is in alignment, which scares me and gives me hope. It proves MAGA is capable of logic and critical thinking. Unfortunately, it proves they often ignore those skills when they pursue various conspiracy theories.
None of the questions being asked will ultimately lead to the man (and possibly women) who have been abusing young girls. Even the release of redacted files won’t tell us who the young girls have been trafficked to and what steps have been taken to protect them. The steps taken to protect the innocent victims have gone overboard in protecting the guilty. Here are the questions I want to get to the bottom of:
After interviewing thousands of girls, why has no one been prosecuted besides Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell?
The sweetheart deal engineered by U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta included a provision not to prosecute any co-conspirators, some of whom were known but not identified in the agreement. Ghislaine Maxwell is hoping to use that provision to void her conviction.
How much evidence is required for the Justice Department to launch an investigation?
We keep hearing there isn’t enough information to investigate anyone else, but let’s look at the types of information the Justice Department is known to have. Victims have named individuals with whom they were made to have sex with. Included are Attorney Alan Derschowitz and Prince Andrew, who is notoriously pictured with Virginia Giuffre. You could convince me there isn’t enough evidence to secure a conviction, but not that there’s not enough to investigate.
Why did Palm Beach police ask the FBI and the federal government to take over Epstein’s case in 2006?
How bad does it have to be for local police who have to work every day with the State Attorney to get their cases prosecuted, to beg the FBI to step in because the State Attorney isn’t doing his job? The grand jury indictment doesn’t mention that one of the girls was fourteen years old. The State Attorney refused to file charges on behalf of any girl sixteen or over and inferred that the underage girls were prostitutes.
Why were so many underage girls working at Mar-a-Lago?
By all accounts, Mar-a-Lago is a luxury resort, and its owner, the current President of the United States, claims the spa is one of the finest in the world. Several girls indicated they were recruited at Mar-a-Lago. President Trump discussed several young girls Epstein “stole” from the spa.
“I have a great spa, one of the best spas in the world in Mar-a-Lago," said Trump. "And people were taken out of the spa. Hired by him. In other words, gone. And other people would come and complain, this guy is taking people from the spa. I didn’t know that. And then when I heard about it, I told him, I said, listen, we don’t want you taking our people, whether it was spa or not spa. I don’t want him taking people. And he was fine. And then not too long after that, he did it again. And I said — out of here.”
Exactly what jobs were young girls performing with little enough supervision to get picked up by child abusers? The State of Florida requires a licensed massage therapist (LMT) to be 18 or older to get a license after 500 hours of approved education or an apprenticeship. The girls Epstein recruited had no massage experience, nor were they old enough to be masseuses. My daughter is an LMT and has worked in several spas, including a luxury spa in Orlando. No underage girls were running around performing any tasks. What jobs were they working at Mar-a-Lago?
Young girls can’t be expected to have the experience and skills to provide the quality of service expected at a “world-class spa.” They must have been there for another reason.
What did Donald Trump think Jeffrey Epstein was hiring his girls away to do?
When Epstein was allegedly hiring Trump’s staff away. What did Trump imagine Epstein wanted them to do? Epstein didn’t own a hotel or a spa. Trump knew Epstein liked them young. What did he think Epstein was asking them to do? The first victim to testify in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial alleged that Jeffrey Epstein took her to Mar-a-Lago when she was 14 years old to meet Donald Trump. What did Trump know and when did he know it?
Who are the pedophiles being protected?
The guilty have been protected long enough. Everyone who engaged in sexual relations with underage girls needed to be prosecuted. If the statute of limitations has run out. They should at least be named so that other girls can be protected from them. No matter if it turns out to be Prince Andrew, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, the late Bill Richardson, or any other known associates of Jeffrey Epstein. If there was enough evidence to bring charges, they should be named and shamed.
How were the girls being transported to Epstein’s homes?
I’m thinking of Epstein’s estate in Palm Beach, but the same concern holds for his New York penthouse, New Mexico ranch, or private island. Young girls didn’t walk to these locations; someone brought them, likely the same people repeatedly. Did Epstein have a personal driver or use a limousine service, and are there records? We know about the flight logs on Epstein’s plane. There are witnesses whose testimony seems not to have been solicited.
While the media is chasing down every rabbit hole and Trump's misdirection, MAGA wants to know who the pedophiles are and so do I. I’m far less concerned with the missing minute of video on Epstein’s cell than I am with who was raping young girls. Let’s focus for a minute on the cover-up and protection of pedophiles.
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