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From Sexual Attacks to Shiny Objects Janet Kuypers 7/15/25 The first line of the Wikipedia page for Jeffrey Epstein reads that the man was an American financier and child sex offender. — Classmates would call him a nerdy kid in high school, but he never got a college degree — though that doesn’t matter when he got a teaching job without any credentials... which is where his inappropriate behavior to young women began. Lucky him, though, Alan Greenberg was the father of a girl where Epstein taught, and this CEO & Chairman at Bear Stearns was a beaucoup bucks big guy — so Epstein asked students and teachers to help get him in with Greenberg, which was sweet, when after he was let go from his teaching gig at Dalton for “poor performance,” he gave Epstein a job as a low-level junior assistant to a floor trader... ‘til his bad choices made them ask him to leave. So, Epps schmoozed his way to his own financial consulting firm. He was a high-end headhunter for both the rich and inter- national governments, and called himself an intelligence agent— while working with Hoffenberg on Ponzi-scheme companies... For decades, he lived off the riches of those he once kowtowed to. Because once you get to this point and are in the good graces of the likes of Donald Trump, private jets and owning a private island seem second nature. You once got by with a little help from your rich friends — now you get these lower younglings to do your bidding for you, because if you couldn’t get the girls as a teacher at Dalton, lure the teenagers to your secret hideaway and teach the pretty little things that no one will believe them if they ever try to reveal what really happened.        This is how so many girls were abused and forced into silence, because really, who’s going to believe a teenage girl over such a rich, powerful, strong man? You know, that’s how they can become the alpha male. No one questions it.     It’s frightening to see how far it can really go. — When stories like this break, no one wants to believe it, but it happens on all pay scales. A Palm Beach Florida Epstein case went to the FBI, and they thought they could help almost half of the 80+ known women-once-girls — until Epstein signed a plea deal for immunity (here’s another way life is so different when you’re rich), and he would never have to face the women he victimized.                                                                                      Once found dead in his own jail cell after his suicide (and one minute of tape deleted from his room cell entranceway), the conspiracy theorists go berserk, ‘cause this is not the way this madness should end. — And don’t worry, it won’t end. Performance Artist in Chief Donald Trump originally spoke of Epstein as a “terrific guy ... It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side...”* President Trump then heard Democrats wanted the Epstein files released, which he agreed to.                                                                                         Until later, when reporters started hounding him to find out if Trump’s name was in any of those lists. He never answers that (of course), and now he asks why people are so worried about Epstein, because, who wants to hear such old and insignificant news like that. (No one wants to hear how Trump and Epstein were each other’s wingmen, or how Clinton flew on Epstein’s jet multiple times...) But it’s a news reporter’s job to report the news, so they’ll keep haranguing him with questions he doesn’t want to answer. Instead, the Entertainer in Chief will become the master of distraction and start suggesting that they should work instead on revoking the citizenship of... Rosie O’Donnell.**     No lie— and no matter that there’s a decades-old Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits such an action taken by the government, that the Supreme Court had to say again, even though it is already woven into our constitution, and Trump will lose at legal trickery. But, we now live in a world where there are U.S. citizens who like to hear Trump say he wants to be dictator for a day. In this world, ICE agents now wear masks to cover their faces — because the White House claims democrats get ICE agent names and dox them. But when the White House reports a nearly 700% increase in violence, they are including anyone making an open-ended angry statement as a literal act of violence. And although any acts of violence are wrong, it’s safe to say that the overwhelming majority of claims of violence on ICE agents or families are not actually violent, but are actually non-violent legal acts — and constitutionally allowed. The thing is, it’s even in The Code of Federal Regulations immigration officers conduct provision; they are required to identify themselves as an immigration officer. So, now without a badge and behind a mask, Storm Troopers can hide, blur the lines and overstep their authority. It’s getting more difficult to separate the sanity from the insanity when the Performance Artist in Chief distracts us with a new rant and another shiny object to keep our eyes off the governmental road (that has been crumbling along with our bridges since we’ve given up on worrying about our country’s infrastructure now too). I’m sorry that we were thinking about the sexually abused girls by the dead guy who was once your wingman, mister President. I missed it — what was that beautiful, shiny object you were hypnotically moving back and forth in front of our eyes again?   * in a profile of Epstein in New York Magazine in 2002. ** https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rosie-odonnell-u-s-citizenship-revoke-threat/

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