A bronze-painted statue titled “Finest Mates Eternally”, depicting Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding arms on October 2, 2025, in Washington, DC.
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The scandal round Jeffrey Epstein, who trafficked and abused youngsters and died in a jail cell in 2019, has by no means gone away. It continues to blow up now that Home Democrats have launched hundreds of e-mails from Epstein and his cronies. However whereas the political class and mainstream media are understandably centered on the intercourse scandal, one other dimension of the scandal goes uncovered besides by unbiased media retailers similar to Drop Web site: Epstein’s deep ties to the nationwide safety state. I talked to worldwide relations scholar Van Jackson about this important a part of the story.
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