Not a single abuser has been brought to justice.
The arrest of Prince Andrew in the UK made worldwide headlines. What made fewer headlines was the tenuousness of the charges: “misconduct in public office”. Andrew was one of the few Epstein associates who could be most directly linked to the dead sex offender’s hobby. But “misconduct in public office” is an ambiguous charge based on his association with Epstein rather than any crimes against girls that he may have committed. And that’s par for the course.Apart from Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of charges related to Epstein’s abuse of underage girls, no one has been held accountable for those crimes. Certainly not the abusers.
The hysteria and manipulation of the Epstein Files has become a new #MeToo movement in which people whose names simply appeared in a document, sometimes without having any relationship to the man himself, have been dragged into the spotlight and had their lives destroyed by social media grifters and political frauds like Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie whose very recent interest in the Epstein Files is limited to destroying President Trump.
A coterie of ‘Epstein Survivors’, some of whom were really smaller versions of Maxwell, helping traffic girls to Epstein, have been put forward by Democrats like Rep. Khanna, who was funded by an Epstein pal, LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman, who visited Epstein’s island, and Never Trumpers like Rep. Massie and the Bulwark crew, as well as through an ad campaign backed by everyone from the UN to abortion groups to the Carter Center, targeting Trump.
Meanwhile Bill and Hillary Clinton were dodging a congressional subpoena over Epstein.
People who should actually be going to jail are being treated like heroes and ‘survivors’ while Trump, who was one of the first to blow the whistle on Epstein, is being smeared at the behest of Democrats, Never Trumpers and the Left by women who helped traffic girls to be abused.
This cynical circus has entirely obstructed any hope of actual accountability for the abusers.
The Epstein Files have become another #MeToo, which began with the takedown of known abusers like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, who had appeared untouchable, but quickly turned into a witch hunt with fake accusers, smear campaigns against innocent people, information operations by powerful international players and a fake organization, ‘Time’s Up’, that protected the abusers and the industry while trying to redirect attention to Trump. In reality, the people behind Time’s Up were working with multiple sex abusers including Epstein.
What began with actual legal cases became cancel culture aimed at fading entertainment industry figures, who were not actually accused of committing any crimes, but of making their supposed victims feel ‘uncomfortable’. Some may well have acted badly while others fell afoul of politically motivated hit jobs by rivals, former friends, PR flacks and malicious journalists.
It wasn’t until Stephen Elliott won a six-figure settlement over his appearance on the ‘Sh___y Media Men’ list that had destroyed so many careers, and Chris Avellone won a settlement forcing his ‘accusers’ to admit that they had lied that consequences arrived for #MeToo smears.
And the fever broke.
But many careers were still permanently ruined, for which no amount of money can compensate, and more importantly, the prosecutions of actual abusers had come to an end. The original #MeToo cases were refought in the courts to a near draw with nothing to show for it.
The Epstein case followed the same trajectory, the initial arrest of Jeffrey Epstein, who had been protected from above for too long, and the arrest and trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, and then, instead of leading to actual arrests and trials, it became fodder for the same kind of #MeToo cancel culture industry and political exploitation based on lies, smears and PR campaigns.
The powerful people who (unlike Trump) chose to associate with Epstein long after his crimes were known should face a certain amount of disgrace, especially those in positions of political power (Obama’s White House counsel), who developed troubling ties to Epstein (Bill Gates), or advocated for him (Noam Chomsky), but this isn’t actual accountability for crimes against girls.
And, much like #MeToo, this kind of cancel culture has dragged in the more obviously guilty with a range of people who did little wrong, and people who did nothing wrong at all. Some people have been targeted because their name or a name that might have been theirs was mentioned in an email. People who had nothing to do with Epstein had their names spread around over it. --->READ MORE HERE
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