As many continue to comb through the latest release of Epstein files, new details keep emerging. The latest revelations include Department of Justice documents showing the FBI lacked evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was operating an organized sex trafficking ring and that Donald Trump called the police about Epstein in 2006. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has faced pressure to resign over his appointment of Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador, who had ties to Epstein.
On Monday, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) revealed six names originally redacted in the files: Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem (CEO of DPWorld), Leslie Wexner (former Victoria's Secret owner and co-founder of Bath & Body Works), Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov and Nicola Caputo.
Commentators from right and left have largely condemned the actions of those involved with Epstein. Some chose to focus on the sexual crimes and their victims, while others emphasized the corruption, noting that those involved with Epstein were often high-level politicians, diplomats, and business and industry leaders.
In ZeroHedge (Lean Right) a writer said, “It is no longer possible to treat the Epstein case as a sexual scandal involving powerful individuals. What has now come to light – documents, images, records, explicit connections – has pushed the debate to another level. This is no longer about ‘abuses,’ ‘excesses,’ or ‘individual crimes.’ What has been exposed points to systematic, organized, ritualized practices. And that changes everything.”
Adding, “And the uncomfortable truth, impossible to ignore, is that all of this may still be part of an even deeper and more macabre plan by the Deep State – encompassing both Democrats and Republicans – to ‘resolve the Epstein issue’ through a brutal campaign of collective desensitization, ‘normalizing’ in public opinion the idea that the Western elite is composed of pedophiles, satanists, and cannibals.”
Some opinions focused on how the files have rippled across Europe.
A writer for The Economist (Lean Left) said the files “are sullying Norway’s squeaky-clean image” as some of its royals, politicians and diplomats were named in the files.
Nick Catoggio wrote in The Dispatch (Lean Right), “I envy the hell out of a country where an honest-to-goodness king feels obliged to cooperate with police as they investigate his own brother for corruption involving Jeffrey Epstein. Try to imagine it happening here. Our own king doled out full pardons to his co-conspirators in a plot to overthrow the government and is presently at work turning the Justice Department into the legal arm of his mafia syndicate.”
“Get this, though: The ‘corruption involving Jeffrey Epstein’ for which (the former) Prince Andrew is being investigated in the U.K. isn’t even what you think. It’s not sex crimes that are the subject of the probe this time; it’s the fact that Andrew violated his duty of confidentiality as a British trade envoy by passing information about investment opportunities to Epstein in 2010. It’s an insider trading scandal, essentially, a form of sleaze that seems quaint—genteel, even—compared to the comically lavish corruption to which Americans have grown accustomed.”
However, a Vox (Left) article noted, “A lot of the leaders in America, the names that are jumping out are business leaders…I also think that, repercussions-wise, the whole point of the document dump is not to find new evidence. It’s for the Department of Justice to prove that it did not leave any stone unturned. It looked into everybody. It thought about prosecuting these people. It went down those rabbit holes. It couldn’t find enough to criminally prosecute anyone else other than Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein.”
A New York Times Opinion (Left) honed in on class conflict saying, “Then there is the flood of scandal contained in the recent release of files related to the Epstein investigation. So far they have failed to land any prominent American in obvious criminal jeopardy, but they fit neatly into a noxious vision of elite impunity and entitlement. ‘We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans,’ Senator Jon Ossoff, Democrat of Georgia, said in a speech last weekend. ‘But this is a government of, by and for the ultrarich. It is the wealthiest cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class, ruling our country.’”
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