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Reading Tina Brown on Epstein and the Suspicious Deaths

from Wet Hot American Epstein | The Tim Dillon Show #452 · #452

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Tim reads at length from Tina Brown's account of investigating Epstein in the 2000s, including Epstein personally threatening her in her office, and then reads a list of people connected to the Epstein case who later died under suspicious circumstances.

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  • Tim lists suspicious deaths connected to Epstein: John Luke Brunell, Epstein himself, Virginia Giuffre, and others.
  • Tina Brown's article describes a creepy personal encounter with Epstein at her office in a Manhattan building.
  • Tim distinguishes between excusing abuse as a mistake and the systematic evil of international human trafficking and murder.
  • The narrative around trafficking victims gets distorted: people claim girls looked older or were strippers, obscuring the reality of imported 14-year-olds.
  • Tim describes the full scope: people in power organizing rape, murder, money laundering, and drug smuggling through a parallel financial system.
  • Brown reports that despite harming over 1,000 victims, Epstein faced only two minor counts because his lawyers discredited victims from rough backgrounds.
  • Epstein explicitly instructed recruiters: 'The younger the better,' directing them to bring girls to his home.
  • Epstein was a Manhattan society figure who attended Clinton Global Initiative events and used philanthropic donations to build credibility.
  • After Brown's publication in July 2010, Epstein called her personally and showed up unannounced at her office with threats.
  • Brown notes that Epstein strategically avoided further legal threats, calculating the story would fade without his engagement fanning the flames.
  • Kito Sarnoff documented five deaths associated with the Epstein case—with the implication that these are only the known ones.
Mentioned here

human traffickingJeffrey EpsteinAndrew CuomoTina BrownWhitney WebbEric AdamsKito Sarnoff

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