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Question: Is our ruling classtryingto make us to think theyre a bunch of pederasts? Our media could not be less interested in Jeffrey Epsteins child molestation ring and, with the sole exception of the Palm Beach Police Department, every arm of government has bent over backward to bury the case.

(Who says our media and government cant work together?)

The jurys courageous delivery last week of five guilty verdicts against Epsteins pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell, was a sort of reverse jury nullification. The U.S. attorneys office theprosecution did everything it could to get an acquittal, but the jurors defied them.

A court artists sketch of the jury in Ghislaine Maxwells sex trafficking trial on December 21, 2021, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

As for media coverage, did you even know that the FBI found Epsteins cache of sex tapes labeled (name of underage girl) + (name of VIP) and then lost them?

Immediately after Epsteins arrest at Teterboro Airport in July 2019, the FBI executed a search warrant on his New York mansion. Following a daylong search, agents discovered a hidden safe in the closet of a fifth-floor dressing room, used a saw to break into it, and found an enormous collection of photos of naked girls, and CDs of the girls apparently having sex with influential men.

Then, the agents left abandoning the photos and CDs, with Epsteins employees free to wander about the place. As Kelly Maguire, FBI special agent in charge of the search, explained during Maxwells trial, they only had a warrant tosearchthe house, but not toremoveevidence evidence at the heart of the entire sex trafficking scheme.

It didnt occur to Maguire to leave a single agent behind to guard the CDs? How about the intern who just gets coffee?

Youll never guess what happened next.

The CDs and photographs disappeared. By the time the FBI returned with a new warrant four days later to remove the CDs and photos, they were gone. Later, after a few phone calls, Epsteins lawyer, Richard Kahn, returned the cache in two suitcases.I had no idea they were important! I was just tidying up!

Were the videos tampered with? Were all of the photos returned? Who knows!

This was testified to by Special Agent Maguire.Thats the last time I trust the lawyer of a pedophile! Boy, is my face red! Darn it! Oh well, what are you going to do?

(Before moving on, lets take a moment to honor the historic appointment of Kelly Maguire as FBI special agent. Another glass ceiling shattered!)

How could any search warrant for Epsteins residence fail to specify videos?

In this courtroom sketch, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alison Moe, left, questions FBI Special Agent Kelly McGuire on the witness stand on December 6, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)

The reason the tapes are kind of important is that it was perfectly clear certainly by 2019 that Epstein had no legitimate source of income to fund his Caligula lifestyle, and further, that he was farming out underage girls for sex to the rich and powerful with hidden cameras running everywhere. It sure looked like his underage sex ring was a blackmail/kompromat operation.

Obviously, the most important question is:On behalf of whom?The tapes of (underage girl) + (important person) would have gone a long way toward answering that. What did the search warrant specify, if not videos and photographs?

If I didnt know better, I might think that those in power dont want us to know anything about Epsteins sex-trafficking operation.

As further evidence that there is ABSOLUTELY NO COVER-UP: The New York Times has never breathed a single word about the CDs lost in the FBIs botched search. Nor has the Washington Post. Nor the Chicago Tribune. Nor the Los Angeles Times.

Wait Ill make this easier. Heres a list of all the major U.S. newspapers thatdidreport on Maguires breathtaking revelation:

1) The Miami Herald2) The New York Post

The end.

Oddly, media in the rest of the world seemed to find Maguires testimony about the vanishing CDs somewhat more newsworthy. The story of the missing tapes was covered repeatedly in theDaily Telegraph(London),the Independent(United Kingdom),the Daily Mail(Ireland), Economic News (Russia) and theDaily Mail(U.K.), among others.

The totally not-a-cover-up gets weirder and weirder.

Epstein had vast wealth, and we still dont know where it came from. Normally, the IRS is extremely curious about unexplained flows of riches. Did the IRS decide in this case,Well, he may be a committed and energetic pedophile, but as far as we know, hes a conscientious taxpayer!

This collage shows four of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epsteins lavish residences around the world. Top left: Epsteins apartment in the 16th arrondissement of Paris; top right: Epsteins mansion on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; bottom left: Epsteins private island estate in the U.S. Virgin Islands; bottom right: Epsteins home in Palm Beach, Florida. (Jacques Demarthon, Kevin Hagen/Getty Images; Wikimedia Commons; Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo)

Similarly, there are vague claims that he made his money from investments. The SEC wasnt the least bit interested in finding out how he got this rich from secretive investment services?

And this: Epstein spent decades aggressively cultivatingpowerful,importantmen, quite afewfromforeigncountries evidently taping all their activities. Why wasnt the CIA concerned? Couldnt he have sold dirt on U.S. politicians to foreign intel agencies?

U.S Attorney Audrey Strauss points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during a news conference on July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Finally, its odd that our government wasnt concerned about how much blackmail material Epstein had gathered on high-level U.S. officials. Doesnt the FBI try to prevent that sort of situation? Or the Secret Service?

How was it that all these agencies let Epstein keep up his activities for so long?

Theres much more to this story. Stay tuned for next week!

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Ann Coulter: The Great Epstein Cover-up, Part I

It was for a good cause, Coulter, almost 45, explained when Associated Press Extraterrestrial caught up with her, fully loathed, at her undisclosed location.

Q: Why now?

Ann Coulter: My decision to do Playboy is literally one week in the making. I've always chided others for taking their clothes off and posed as the girl next door. I'm the number one right-wing talking head, and for years I've been known as "The Queen of Slime", all while keeping my clothes on, and that's taken some real discipline. Every couple of years when Hef would call I would graciously decline, because it would kill that whole androgynous legend that I've got going for me, and I thought that I could maintain the mystery by keeping my clothes on.

But this year, when I got the call from Hef, it was almost my 45th birthday. The Republican party had just received a humpin', so I thought, "Wow... at 45, America doesn't want us anymore?" And I thought it's almost an epiphany... like a "F--- 'em all!" moment. I feel empowered that you can criticize other people's morals and yet still be single, with no children, sexy and confident, and then bare all for the world.

Q: So what's the story on the androgynous deal?

Coulter: I feel proud of myself. I work out really hard, and people will just have to decide for themselves. The reason that I wanted to do it the most is because I am posing for a purpose: a portion of the proceeds from each issue sold is going to my charity.

Q: That would be...?

Coulter: I am the celebrity spokesperson for WILT, the national anti-erectile function association. It stands for Whitebread Ideology Less Tumescence. If you think about it, this last midterm election in which the Republican Party received such a humpin' was all because of this vast priapism of the party over the last six years that resulted in all the scandals. My charity is devoted to wresting control of erections from the parties and putting them back in the hands of voters. Celibacy is not just for Paris Hilton anymore.

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My Twitter accounts pinned tweet is one that says Trump would have elevated his reputation if he had conceded the election quickly; it concludes now people just hope he croaks. The tweet is dated Jan. 4, 2021so elevating the tweet is admittedly a kind of virtue signal: I am not the kind of Trump guy who backed his post-election antics, and Im pleased to have made that clear two days before what one writer aptly called the cornpone intifada.

But the people just hope he croaks line is too vague. The sentiment is shared by never-Trumpers and no small number of once pro-Trump activists and intellectuals who generally approved of his stated policy goals, only to experience a dysfunctional administration that accomplished little. As Ann Coulter (an early and vital Trump supporter) memorably put it, Trump is the opposite of a duck, flailing madly and going nowhere instead of moving quietly ahead in the water.

But it is not shared by Joe Biden, most elected Democrats, and the huge interlocking liberal complex of that makes up the mainstream media: for them, Trump is the best thing ever, someone they can portray effectively as a buffoonish fascist wannabe, while he remains an ineffectual foe with no real sense of how to use power. He is the essential glue and greatest hope of the Democratic coalition, and probably the only Republican a Democrat could defeat in 2024. Indeed, if the Democratic primary electorate moves leftward, as well it might, Trump could conceivably lose to Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, ushering in authoritarian socialist rule in the United States by free election.

Of course, Trump is a useful foil to Biden, whose aging communication skills revive when speaking of his 2020 adversary. But the fixation on Trump and January 6 envelops the whole party. How many times a day does one hearfrom the lips of a Democratic official or a CNN or NPR commentatorthat piously pronounced phrase our democracy to connote all that the January 6 rioters and Trump purportedly threaten. The phrase feigns a reverence to American constitutional practices, which is why Democrats are so enamored of it. But almost invariably it is coupled with transformative action agenda that is the very opposite of constitutional regard: ending the filibuster, packing the Supreme Court, the replacement of an Election Day where self-governing citizens go to the polls and vote by a rolling election period dominated by mail-in ballots and vote harvesting by activists. Such proposals are self-evidently designed to precisely subvert the mechanisms the Founding Fathers intended to encourage: gradualism and the need for decisive majorities to enact major changes into our democracyin other words, to undermine precisely the institutions which have made the United States arguably the most successful long-standing democracy in the world.

Writing for Unherd, Simon Cottee makes some comparisons between the way neoconservatives deployed September 11 as a lever for their long term agendas of war in the Middle East and the way contemporary Democrats are trying to use January 6. But if the goals of the neoconservatives were fairly tightly focused on the invasion of Iraq (and perhaps later Iran), those of todays liberal establishment are diffuse: for some they involve jettison of the checks and balances built into the American system, for others simply a means for the relegation of every aspect of Trumpismincluding the policy aspirations which remain broadly popular permanently into a realm of deplorable moral oblivion. In actuality, January 6 was a riot involving a few hundred mostly unarmed people whose breach of the Capitol was made possible by almost unfathomably poor preparation by riot control police (a critical factor about which we would surely be hearing much more if Trump and his administration bore responsibility for it). The Democrats seek to turn it into world historical insurrection whose nefarious meaning must be contemplated every day, as the New York Times somberly admonishes.

For the Democrats, every day that we talk about January 6 is a day where we are not talking about soaring rates of crime brought about by the progressives war on cops, or inflation accelerating to 1970s levels, or the months of rioting, egged on by prominent Democrats, including then candidates Biden and Kamala Harris, that followed the George Floyd killingrioting far more deadly and destructive than January 6. And every day of January 6 is a way to keep Trump in the spotlight, and in a way keep his persona central to the Republican Party. Its a goal which corresponds perfectly with Trumps own insatiable quest for the limelight; He seems to believe, perhaps correctly, that if he had (as he should have) conceded that he lost the election, albeit one held under unusual covid circumstances, his role as a future party leader would be diminished.

This reinforcing mutual self-interest of two campsthe Democratic establishment and Trump himselfnow constitute a real force in American politics, and possibly a barrier to any kind of enlightened leadership emerging from Republicans for the 2024 presidential race. The easiest way out one doesnt want to say out loud, but it does involve actuarial tables and the fickle finger of health.

Scott McConnell is founding editor of theAmerican Conservativeand author ofEx-Neocon: Dispatches from the Post-9/11 Ideological Wars.

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Why Liberals Secretly Love Donald Trump - The National Interest