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Monday

Cockburn

Please don’t attend this ‘Storm The Clinton Estates’ event

The internet is making us all madder. A Facebook event created last month encouraging people to 'Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us' has accrued over two million attendees. Now, following the deeply convenient suicide of Jeffrey Epstein Saturday, a successor is hot on its tails. A newly-formed page is inviting internet crazies to 'Storm The Clinton Estates’ with the motivational message: ‘They Cant Suicide All Of Us' [sic]. The date is set for the same weekend as the Area 51 storming (so don't double-book). The joke event alludes to a conspiracy theory popular in the MAGAsphere: that Bill and Hillary Clinton are somehow responsible for the deaths of various people who have been in their circle at some point.

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Friday

Dominic Green

Dershowitz: New Yorker illegally published sealed Epstein emails

‘They hate my views on Donald Trump,’ Alan Dershowitz says of the New Yorker. ‘They hate my views on Benjamin Netanyahu, and they hate my views on Israel.’ This week, the New Yorker ran a long-awaited hit piece on Dershowitz by Connie Bruck. Dershowitz wrote an article anticipating the attack here. It’s not clear why Bruck took a year to write her story. Its most damaging claim has circulated for several years: that Dershowitz, the erstwhile friend and lawyer of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, had sex with Virginia Roberts, a teenager procured by Epstein. This story failed to get to court, despite Roberts, now known as Virginia Giuffre, engaging David Boies as her lawyer.

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Friday

Madeleine Kearns

Jeffrey Epstein isn’t the only one sexualizing children

Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire charged with sex trafficking minors, was found injured in his Manhattan jail cell on Thursday. Either Epstein did this to himself or – far from his private jets and mansions – he encountered the honor of thieves. It’s understandable to not feel any sympathy for a wealthy and powerful man who exploited and abused children in the most disgusting of ways. However, it’s worth considering whether characters like Epstein have become scapegoats for something in which we are all complicit. Over 10 years ago, Epstein was charged with the sexual abuse of underage girls, but managed to use his money and influence to wiggle out of a long sentence and keep off the sex offender’s list.

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Thursday

Alan Dershowitz

On Jeffrey Epstein and a New Yorker attack on me

The election of Donald Trump has pulled American debate away from objectivity and turned publications into actors in a political battle. After Donald Trump’s election, the New Yorker magazine lost no time nailing its colors to the anti-Trump mast. David Remnick, its editor, lamented that Obama – a 'man of integrity, dignity, and generous spirit' – was being supplanted by 'vulgarity unbounded, a knowledge-free national leader' who would 'set markets tumbling', 'strike fear into the hearts of the vulnerable, the weak' etc. This set the tone for the magazine’s subsequent reporting. Those sympathetic to Trump are treated in the same way – as I have found out.

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Friday

Jacob Heilbrunn

Adios, Acosta! Labor secretary resigns

It wasn’t even that laborious a process. Two days after he gave a prolonged self-exculpation masquerading as a press conference to defend the sweetheart deal in Florida that he vouchsafed to billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein 12 years ago, labor secretary Alex Acosta threw in the towel. For Trump the prospect of having Acosta remain was a nonstarter with the 2020 presidential race looming large. Trump was quick to note today that he will miss Acosta, whom he deemed 'a tremendous talent, he’s a Hispanic man.' Indeed Acosta was the lone Hispanic member of his cabinet. Trump even singled out an elite school as evidence of Acosta’s bona fides: 'He went to Harvard.' According to CNN, this will make for high-level vacancy 261 for the Trump administration.

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Sunday

Dominic Green

Jeffrey Epstein is a pervert for our times

Why do dogs lick their own genitals? Because they can. And wouldn’t it be great to be able to do whatever you like? Only those at the very top and bottom of society have the license to live like that. Our culture lionizes them even after the grubby final reel. They’re the Gatsbys, the Scarfaces — but also the Jeffrey Epsteins. The rich are different, like F. Scott Fitzgerald said. The degree of difference may vary, but the ways of difference don’t change much. The degree of difference between the very rich and the merely affluent is wider now than at any time since the Gilded Age — and wider than it was in 1925 when Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, his groveling tribute to those who differ by having more money than sense. But the ways of difference remain much the same.

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