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In reply to the discussion: Epstein accomplice drops courtroom bombshell: 25+ secret payoffs with no criminal charges [View all]AZJonnie
(3,779 posts)Running a honeypot/entrapment operation rather the situation having been a "powerful pedo cabal". There are some interesting theories and tidbits of evidence that hint at that possibility, lets just say.
Here where I've come down on this idea after a good bit of consideration. I think it's possible that it "started that way" in some sense, but their "mission" if you will was not one that was meant to involve minors. Powerful people stepping out on their wives with young (but legal) models, and feeding some intelligent outfit the dirt from that? I think that's not impossible.
But I think Epstein and Maxwell were sick fucks, and their handlers might not have known how to deal with it when they started "going too far", paying minors for sex, and possibly even dangling them in front of "targets". In 2008 they got "covered for" because the operation as a whole, even without minors, was shady-ass shit but JE/GM knew they'd be covered for for that very reason. I also think that is not an impossible scenario.
Very conspiratorial and very much hypothetical, but I don't reject it completely due to some things we know were said in the past by various players, and the fact that Epstein had a reportedly VERY official Saudi Arabian passport, like the kind that only governments can provide.