Spent all morning pouring over the 943 page document, which I originally linked in my article before it was sent to editing: https://d.newsweek.com/en/file/468909/jeffrey-epstein-documents-full.pdf

It’s pretty disheartening. Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit offers a lot to unpack. Many of the names listed were not clients. We still don’t have the official flight logs. And honestly, this case has distracted from violent child sex trafficking slave trade rings.

When it first broke everyone thought it was a child sex ring. Then it turned out to be more of a grooming ring where girls who were just under the legal age of consent, and some who were legal adults, were groomed and trafficked without physical force.

I say this not to downplay Giuffre’s experiences, or the abuses that any of the victims suffered, but a runaway 16 year-old being coerced into what some would call “sex-work” is not exactly the same as young children being abducted and held prisoner as sex slaves.

This softens people’s idea of sex trafficking, child molestation, and grooming, which I have my own suspicions about.

But if reporting has taught me anything, it’s that most stories are made public on purpose. And that purpose isn’t generally honorable in most cases. Sadly.

I am definitely suspicious as to why Trump was employing a 16 year old runaway girl at his home estate spa before she was poached by Maxwell to be trafficked by Epstein.

But that’s my job I guess. To be suspicious of everyone in search of honest truth.

First Batch of Names From Jeffrey Epstein Client List Released