| ▲ | JuniperMesos 2 hours ago | |
Lots of people's names appear in the Epstein files, because Epstein was a socialite who made efforts to connect socially with large numbers of people. I do not assume that someone's name appearing in the Epstein files in and of itself implies they are guilty of sexual assault or of any other crime. I also note that this is not the first time Trump or one of his associates has been accused of sexual assault on flimsy evidence - I still remember the media circus around Brett Kavanaugh's supreme court nomination and the extremely flimsy rape accusations that huge numbers of people took seriously because they thought it might derail his nomination. I frankly think this line of reasoning is backwards - some people want to prevent aliens from being deported so much, they're eager to let themselves be convinced that anyone actually doing deportations is a rapist or other equivalent evildoer. | ||