This is the best summary I could come up with:
The documents identify about 170 people whose names have come up in a legal battle between Virginia Giuffre, one of his accusers, and Ghislaine Maxwell, his former girlfriend who in 2021 was convicted of trafficking girls to him for sex.
“This individual did not raise any objection to unsealing, and thus did not meet his or her burden of identifying interests that outweigh the presumption of access with specificity,” Preska wrote of Doe 36.
Two of the unsealed documents the judge said named Doe 174 are from a deposition of Johanna Sjoberg, who has accused Epstein of rape and Prince Andrew of groping her (the British royal has denied the claims).
“Mr. Epstein’s name has been widely linked in the press with prominent individuals such as Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew,” his attorneys wrote in a motion arguing that he should not be forced to testify in front of a jury, later adding: “His personal appearance at the trial of this case would predictably be the focus of massive media attention, of both the mainstream and gutter variety.”
One unsealed document from a lawyer representing Dershowitz seeks to discredit one of his accusers, Sarah Ransome, by saying she has made unproven claims about possessing video footage of powerful people having sex with girls in Epstein’s homes.
In her book “Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back,” she said she told the false story as a sort of insurance policy, though she maintained that “Jeffrey kept a trove of surveillance on every person who had ever visited his properties.”
The original article contains 1,119 words, the summary contains 262 words. Saved 77%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
How would this be a surprise to anybody? He’s already been proven to have numerous ties to Epstein. His base simply doesn’t care.
His base simply doesn’t care
Lets face it, we could have a video of trump raping those kids himself and they still would vote for him. Facts are irrelevant to cults, they are immunized against reality
“If Trump is raping kids live on camera, just imagine what the Demonrats are doing they’re too scared to film!”
It’s because they want to be him. Just like how they all don’t want to punish millionaires because they all think they’re going to wind up as one someday, they don’t want to punish their guys for breaking the law because they want to be able to break the law with impunity someday too.
John Doe 174 also repeatedly claimed that he was immune from consent requirements and numerous other unrelated matters…
Last time I checked there was no statute of limitation for child sexual assault.
Depends on the jurisdiction and how much the Catholic Church got to the laws. In most states it sadly does have a statute of limitations, with the clock starting either after it happens or after you turn 18.
In most states it sadly does have a statute of limitations
Which makes sense for a crime where in most cases the only real evidence is likely to be the accusation itself. Short of having a live camera feed and a GPS tracker on you at all times and retaining all the data forever, it gets increasingly hard to build a defense against an accusation like that the farther in the past it was.
Actually it’s pretty common to have limits. It’s why NY passed a law to let anyone make a claim regardless of when it happened by a certain date. It was a catchup law, pretty much, and now the limit is back in place.
I’m surprised that actually worked. Normally the statute of limitations in place when the crime occurs is the one that applies, and extending it later does not let you retroactively prosecute cases barred by the previous statute of limitations. Stogner v California went that way, for example.
Am I the only one that feels horrified that there were at least 173 more Does disguised in those documents?
Keep on mind that there were a wide variety of reasons people are on this list. There’s no evidence of wrongdoing for the vast majority of them. Some of the people on the list were even victims.
Of course the victims are different, but as for the people like Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, I am going to judge people by the company they keep. I doubt anyone in his circles were unaware that Epstein was a complete creep, though some of them might have been unaware just how much of a piece of shit he really was.
Not saying Clinton raped children, just saying that I’d be reluctant to shake his hand.