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The major sex crimes that very definitely never happened

It’s an uncommon election season for sure. One of the duopoly’s presidential nominees is being sued in Manhattan federal court, accused of the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl at a 1994 orgy hosted by millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein is a convicted sex offender accused of employing underage sex slaves at his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. A court document alleges that Epstein pimped underage girls to "prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders."

The litigious Donald Trump finds himself the target of what may or may not be a right wing, not left wing, attack with this suit. As the linked article above attests, media outlets are struggling with how to deal with the story. Other wealthy men from New York’s financial world were guests at Epstein’s island compound, and Epstein is also accused of enabling these sex crimes at his separate residences in Palm Beach, Florida, and New York's Upper East Side.

Did Trump rape an underage sex slave? It seems that some patrons of Epstein may have, and Trump was accused of rape by a former wife, Ivana, during their divorce proceedings, though she later changed her story. Epstein's brother, Mark, testified in 2009 that Trump traveled on the financier's private jet, dubbed "the Lolita Express" by tabloids, at least one time, and according to VICE News, Epstein pled the Fifth in 2010 when asked by a lawyer if he had ever socialized with Trump in the presence of underage girls. Why isn’t the Democratic National Committee making more of the accusation? Because if they’re trying to avoid personal attacks against Trump in this race, they’re otherwise off to a bad start, and of course, vice versa. Is promoting an unproven rape accusation a bridge too far? Because Trump is being called a racist by DNC representatives on a daily basis, and of course, rightly so.

We’re told that a Trump presidency must be avoided at all costs. So where is the Clinton hatchet squad on this detail? The same SWAT team that gutted Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky? The one that birthed the entire Obama birther movement during the 2008 Democratic primaries? Might it be that the Clintons want nothing to do with this story because Bill Clinton is linked to Epstein as well? And it's a much stronger link? Epstein was a favorite political donor of America's most famous power couple, flight logs show that Bill traveled at least ten times on Epstein's private plane, and he's widely reported to have visited the island where Epstein's worst crimes are alleged to have been committed. One of Epstein's victims, Virginia Roberts, said during a 2011 interview that she was told by Epstein that he had "compromising" information on the former president, and that Clinton "owes me a favor."

This is just food for thought before our nation's Independence Day arrives. The wife and I will join dozens of other figurative Moeller family tree branches in Big Sky, Montana, and Yellowstone Park, USA over the Fourth. Here's hoping that the fireworks this year are equal to the ones we’ve seen in the presidential race.

posted by CM @ 6:38 PM