On Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bondi initiated “Phase One” of a high-profile campaign promise from President Donald Trump: releasing the secretive files pertaining to notorious pedophile and billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein, who was found dead in his prison cell in August 2019 under suspicious circumstances, was a close confidante of many international political elites, including President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew of the British royal family.
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Maine’s own George Mitchell, the former Senate Majority Leader, has been associated with Epstein via witness testimony, and his name and phone number were listed in Epstein’s supposed little black book of phone numbers. However, no allegation of a criminal or sexual nature has ever been leveled against the Bowdoin College graduate.
Epstein was notorious in right-wing media as a pedophile and sex creep for years, but his vile sexual exploits spilled over into mainstream media around 2015 and 2016. He was eventually arrested and charged with sex offenses, but he died before he could stand trial.
Due to his wealth, his creepy private island, his coterie of wealthy friends, and his connection to various government officials and intelligence services, Epstein’s life and death have spawned countless conspiracy theories about how he was able to flout law enforcement.
The leading theory?
That Epstein secretly recorded politicians and other powerful people engaged in depraved sex acts and then used those recordings as blackmail material.
The release Thursday of at least some of the Epstein files should shed light on never before seen details of Epstein’s operation, as well as the vast trove of documents known to be discovered on his private island, Little St. James, when it was raided by American law enforcement around the time of his arrest.
We’ll update this story as the Internet hivemind combs the documents for significant details about once of the more enigmatic and insidious figures in modern American politics.
