The Epstein Files Have Become Another #MeToo

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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.

Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie put on a show of demanding the DOJ “unredact” the names of six “powerful men”. Rep. Khanna read their names in Congress. Four of the men turned out to be nobodies who had nothing to do with Epstein. “Rep Ro Khanna and Rep Thomas Massie forced the unmasking of completely random people selected years ago for an FBI lineup – men and women. These individuals have NOTHING to do with Epstein or Maxwell,” the DOJ revealed.

The Epstein Files have done wonders for Khanna and Massie’s ambitions for higher office, as they did wonders for the politicians and activists who had falsely accused Trump of being a rapist, but much like the #MeToo lists, they’ve done nothing to bring actual offenders to justice. That ship was sunk by unreliable and unstable witnesses, deals with ‘survivors’ who turned out to be traffickers and a fruitless search for damning photo and video evidence of actual abuses.

But the burning unanswered question in both #MeToo and the Epstein case was who had arranged to protect the powerful abusers. Those are the questions no one really wants to ask.

Take for example, the common denominator in the cases of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, former Manhattan DA Cy Vance, accused of going easy on both Weinstein and Epstein (while vigorously prosecuting Trump).

The Manhattan DA’s office petitioned to keep Epstein’s name off the sex offender registry, in an incident that the judge had found baffling (“I have never seen a prosecutor’s office do anything like this,” she said), and after a model reported an assault by Weinstein, Vance’s office chose not to prosecute. One of Weinstein’s lawyers was Vance’s former law partner who had donated $24,000 to the DA and then another $10,000 after the case was dropped.

Vance is currently working at a prestigious law firm. But no one seems interested. The media isn’t camping outside his house. No one is reading his name on the floor of Congress.

And that in its own way says it all.

Unlike videos of sex crimes that may never have existed, the legal system has extensive paper trails for every interaction that Epstein (and some of the offenders in the #MeToo cases) had with the law and with elected officials. Instead of dumping random emails involving Epstein, the thing to have done would be to lay hold of every document and communication around the time that prosecutors in Florida, New Mexico and New York were protecting Jeffrey Epstein.

That would be genuinely dangerous territory. It wouldn’t just cancel a few aging intellectuals and corporate players whose star had faded a decade ago, but shatter the corrupt networks that made the abuses of #MeToo and the Epstein case possible. That’s why it will never happen.

I recently dug up an article that I wrote about Jeffrey Epstein and the Clintons back in 2015. (Long before the cast majority of the grifters and leeches who fastened on to the subject after his death were interested.) Front Page Magazine’s coverage of Hillary Clinton led to six years of IRS investigations. 11 years later, we’re still not supposed to talk about Epstein and the Clintons.

We’re supposed to look everywhere and at everything except the close Epstein allies who were the only ones with the nationwide political network that could have protected him in 3 states.

The conspiracy isn’t in some hidden vault. Telling you to look everywhere else is the conspiracy.