If Epstein had lived, wouldn’t Trump have eventually pardoned him?
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TODAY IN ANALOGIES!
Michael Wolff : Epstein :: Ben Smith : Michael Wolff
(former drawn to latter, despite obvious moral flaws; winds up writing implausible apologia)
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Nov 17, 2025
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November 17, 2025 at 04:33PM
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Maybe this is obvious, but probably Epstein revered Lolita not just because he liked young girls but because he wanted someone (Wolff?) to depict him the way Nabokov depicts Humbert–ie recognizing his destructive immorality but sucking you in. Nabokov just left out the money
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Nov 17, 2025
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If it’s Podesta, Darryl Cooper is going to faint. (Cooper goes on and on about John Podesta’s brother’s sick art collection.)
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Nov 17, 2025
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Close, I tell you! Always sorta trust content from kausfiles. https://t.co/z6mBZyrbsF
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Nov 17, 2025
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A morning Breakfast at Jeffrey’s included Epstein, Ehud Barak and “a high ranking official from the Obama White House, whose name I am asked not to use,” Wolff writes in his unpublished 2014 profile. https://t.co/wgE9i1Cegb
Who dat? (It’s not Summers, who is mentioned by name
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Nov 17, 2025
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November 17, 2025 at 01:29AM
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Maybe the journalistic payoff is in Wolff’s 2021 collection of essays about the rich and powerful, which discusses Epstein. Smith doesn’t cite anything revealing from it. https://t.co/q2PUWYjDWI The unpublished 2014 draft profile Smith just disclosed is embarrassing, not because https://t.co/lHoJ99ASU2
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Nov 17, 2025
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The unpublished profile is here https://t.co/wgE9i1Cegb
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Note that in his defensive interview with Joanna Coles Wolff doesn’t say he would’ve gotten around to writing about Epstein’s sins. He says it was worth it to suck up to Epstein because Epstein became a “very significant source for me ” for his writing about Trump. [See https://t.co/yLVzWLgzc5
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Nov 17, 2025
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You’re only at the 3rd sentence of Wolff’s *unpublished* Epstein profile, when you hit this: “Once I arrived for a visit and found several police cars blocking the street and thought the worst-they’d come for him again.” Why was that ‘the worst’?
Sure, Wolff would’ve turned on https://t.co/yLVzWLgzc5
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Nov 17, 2025
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Releasing the Epstein files is what, a 70-30 or 80-20 issue in favor? Are all those people ‘they’re-all-pedos’ or TDS types? Is Massie? Doesn’t the overwhelming civic-minded opinion of a bipartisan majority have political force of its own in raising the issue? York seems to https://t.co/LblAhkE7ib
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Nov 17, 2025
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November 16, 2025 at 11:13PM
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The backstory to this reversal, if it’s not fake, may be as revealing as the files. Why did Trump wait until his cover-up had ripped his party apart? Did he need to get permission from someone or some institution? What were his calculations? He could’ve done this months ago, no? https://t.co/v19MVFP4m7
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Nov 17, 2025
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Wolff just never got around to publishing about Epstein, you see, argues @semaforben. “There’s no reason to think, given his record, that he wouldn’t have burned Epstein once he’d filled his notebook.” But there are plenty of reasons. One is he’s had the time since Epstein died https://t.co/lHoJ99BqJA
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Nov 17, 2025
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“But it’s impossible to deny that in his coverage of Murdoch, of Trump’s circle, and of Epstein he captured scenes and voices that would otherwise have gone unrevealed.” Huh? Give him Murdoch and Trump? Where are the instructive scenes about Epstein? https://t.co/uNVRxPBaQD
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Nov 17, 2025
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#3 a good point *if* you think Epstein killed himself …. https://t.co/OJLLPGPbw7
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Nov 16, 2025
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November 16, 2025 at 05:35PM
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There were & still are very good civic-minded reasons to release the Epstein files. It’s not just the “they’re-all-pedos” crowd. In part it’s a “were-powerful-officials-compromised-in-a sex-ring” crowd and also a “how-sick-is-our-ruling-elite” inquiry. https://t.co/LYUJrdNvET https://t.co/fYCu7FAJ5k
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Nov 16, 2025
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November 16, 2025 at 03:39PM
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Internet encourages wild attention-getting overreactions. It’s not “the end of the Trump administration.” https://t.co/H36iFJZmFh To think I called @sullydish excitable.
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Nov 16, 2025
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Psst: Of course Trump ‘knew’ about the girls. He’s not a moron. Lots of people knew about the girls, certainly by the time of this 2007 article. https://t.co/RbVNRUbfm6 “He has never been secretive about the girls,” says, um, Michael Wolff in the article. Trump at least seems to
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Nov 16, 2025
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“It would be an understatement to note that Trump was living rent-free in Epstein’s head.” https://t.co/UDQZpztWhp
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Nov 16, 2025
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I dunno. BBC’s conduct would seem to violate at least one prong of the “actual malice” test–either BBC knew it was false (almost certainly) or they proceeded in “reckless disregard” of its truth or falsity. Much stronger on this key point than his suits against CNN, ABC or CBS. https://t.co/pboovkEq40
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Nov 16, 2025
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November 16, 2025 at 01:32AM
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The California Endowment was created when the state somehow required the creation of a lavishly funded liberal non-profit as the price Blue Cross had to pay to go “for-profit.” An incestuous public-private Dem scam. As if the only non-profits are liberal non-profits (in this case https://t.co/Ar1Is0vSGw
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Nov 16, 2025
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November 16, 2025 at 01:20AM
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Of course anything that actually *improves* a community (safer streets, OK schools, etc) potentially causes “gentrification.” So they have you coming and going. https://t.co/Ar1Is0vSGw
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Nov 16, 2025
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November 16, 2025 at 01:06AM
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Three unforced errors hurting Trump:
1. Ballroom
2. Epstein files
3. H-1Bs— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 16, 2025
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November 15, 2025 at 07:50PM
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… more like 99%, probably.
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Nov 16, 2025
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.@AnnCoulter podcast points:
1. Plenty of 14 year olds molested by JE
2. Trump & JE not buddies. Emails show Epstein obsessed with HATING Trump.
3. JE hated T so much, if he had dirt (eg photos) of Trump and girls he surely would’ve released them
4. Dirt JE thought he had was— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
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