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I'm not quite sure if this massive Epstein photo dump is a good thing as it sure is implicating a lot of people, not just Donald J Trump. Chomsky was a real surprise to me. He was apparently BFF with Epstein, believing him to be an intellectual worthy of reform as Noam continued to correspond with Jeffrey right up to the time he mysteriously died in prison. Chomsky supposedly got financial advice from Epstein and enjoyed the contacts he made at the infamous soirees. All these new faces serve to take the focus off Trump, who has his boys assiduously scrubbing the Epstein files clean of himself before releasing them in full. What the DOJ has given us so far largely implicates Bill Clinton.

Epstein reminds me of Hugh Hefner, who was able to draw a who's who of celebrities, politicians and intellectuals into his orbit thanks to his pleasure palaces, first in Chicago then New York and LA. His television show Playboy After Dark was considered quite radical in its day, bringing together persons of all races in a convivial environment with bunnies keeping things lively between set pieces. No one thought anything bad about it until Gloria Steinem pulled the lid off his Playboy Clubs in A Bunny's Tale, but still the guests kept coming. It may have been sexist but heh, everyone there was an adult.

Not so in Jeffrey's case. Melinda French Gates sensed something was wrong when she went to one of Epstein's dinner parties and never returned. I don't know why she went in the first place unless Bill coaxed her into it, as it was already widely known Epstein was trafficking teenage girls. His first conviction was in Florida in 2008 and this after a three-year investigation.  You would think anyone who cared about their reputation would steer clear of this pervert. It seemed a lot of people gave Jeffrey the benefit of the doubt, not just Noam Chomsky.

Trump claims he tossed Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago in 2007 and never saw him again.  Jeffrey was apparently trying to recruit some of his spa girls and Donald got upset, ending a 15-year relationship that had served them both well. Epstein's records appear to indicate otherwise but who's to say? Especially now that the media has so many more photos and weird relationships to scrutinize. 

This has long been Trump's tactic. If confronted by something troubling, make sure to muddy it up so much that everyone gets implicated, not just himself. That way he comes across as the lesser of the various evils.  This was the tactic he deployed on the campaign trail in 2016 when confronted with sexual abuse allegations. You think I'm bad, meet the women that Bill Clinton sexually abused while he was Governor of Arkansas.  He paraded these women before the cameras ahead of his second presidential debate with Hillary Clinton. The press ate it up, making Hillary look like Ghislaine Maxwell. 

As Yogi Berra would say, it is deja vu all over again, as Trump's justice department plans on incriminating as many high-profile persons as it can just so Donald no longer looks so dirty. Bill Clinton being the first on deck, but Elon and others are soon to follow.

Unfortunately, the Democrats are playing straight into this narrative with their massive dump, much of it already on public record. There are so many faces, many of them liberal figures that will only serve to reinforce the impression in many persons' minds that the liberals are even more corrupt than conservatives. Chomsky has long been the darling of progressives, or Democratic Socialists as they like to call themselves, and here he is literally defending Epstein. This is not going to play well. 

As for Bill Clinton, we know he has long been a wild card but these pictures put the icing on the cake, even if Epstein kind of let Bill off the hook by writing that he never went to his "private island," in his journal. All we have is Donald's word that he didn't go. Nevertheless, that picture of Bill allegedly with Virginia Giuffre or some teenager like her is all the media needs to place him at the scene of the crime. There are no such incriminating photos of Donald.

No one comes clean in a situation like this and if there is anything Trump and his minions love is a mud wrestling match. They want to bring everyone down to their level and that is exactly what the Democrats have done with their massive dump.  In the end you won't be able to tell who is who, especially after the 2008 conviction, at which point anyone associated with Epstein is tainted. Donald can always say, I didn't know. Last I saw him was 2007.




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  1. AnonymousDecember 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM

    I believe that everyone knew way ahead of time that the release of the files would serve as kompromat aimed largely at prominent Democrats and other non-MAGA notables. Sure - there will be some parts of the files that will ensnare a few Republicans and minor-MAGAs, but all of the truly damning evidence was destroyed a long time ago. Bottom line - this all feels like a page pulled from the Soviet Secret Police playbook.

    I found it interesting and a bit alarming all those years ago that the standard answer from "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" was to say that every negative story about him was "fake news" - almost like the antimatter version of the fabled George Washington "I cannot tell a lie" regarding the chopped-down cherry tree. It was all just a precursor of what we have sadly become used to over these past 10+ years - deny, delay and deflect.

    I don't care one bit about any of the slimy characters that will be exposed through the release of the files. And to any prominent Democrats and Progressives that are shown to have been stupid enough to have been closely associated with Epstein - you all deserve anything and everything that lands in your sick laps. Some of them will find a convenient rock to crawl back under and disappear from public view - and the others will use their money and power to.....yep, you guessed it - deny, delay and deflect. And these are the folks that I had considered to be the good guys.

    And for all the others - I hope one day you get what the masses dealt out to Nicolae and Elena.

    SRBGB

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