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The first time Jeffrey Epstein was locked up, it was in a private wing of the Palm Beach Stockade with unlocked doors and a ‘work release program’ (even though sex offenders were barred from participating in work release programs) that allowed him to keep an office outside the prison, then ‘work’ from his beachfront home, hire Sheriff’s Deputies as his private security, have them refer to him as a “client” and all the records of his visitors, who reportedly included minors used for sex, were then destroyed as part of a “routine purge”.

As an example of the justifications for his special treatment, a Palm Beach officer wrote that Epstein is “poorly versed in jail routine and society and his adjustment to incarceration will most likely be atypical. For the time being, I am authorizing that his cell door be left unlocked and he be given liberal access to the attorney room where a TV will be installed”.

Both local and federal prosecutors threw the case against Epstein resulting in a light sentence. And while being a registered sex offender should have crippled his prospects when he got out, officials in three states colluded to keep him off their sex offender registries.

Florida prison officials refused to list him as a sex offender while he was in custody despite the clear evidence of his conviction. Officials in New Mexico, where Epstein owned a $17 million ‘Zorro’ ranch, took him off the sex offender registry two days after he signed up.

In New York, the Manhattan DA’s office colluded with Epstein to lower his sex offender status from Level 3 to Level 1 despite a specific recommendation from the State of New York Board of Examiners of Sex Offenders and objections from the judge who had never seen such a thing. The NYPD did not end up monitoring him because of yet another error in his registration.

Florida and New York officials claimed that they had made errors. New Mexico officials blamed a ‘loophole’ and yet another error. Future ‘errors’ in Manhattan’s criminal justice system were less favorable to Epstein when they led to his death in the ‘hole’ of a high security prison even though he was supposed to be on suicide watch, but somehow had his fellow inmate removed and was not being properly monitored when he died and took his secrets to his grave.

Was any of this natural? Obviously not. Throughout Epstein’s long criminal career, law enforcement and assorted local, state and federal officials used various excuses to justify his special treatment. And while some of that may be explained by bribery, all of it cannot. No one walks in and just bribes the Manhattan DA’s office and Palm Beach is used to dealing with men wealthier than Epstein. And while law enforcement isn’t immune to corruption, there are fewer cops and prosecutors who would take bribes to betray their duties for a rapist of underage girls.

It would take more than money. It would take allegiance. The question is to whom?

To the CIA? If the CIA had the ability to command that level of allegiance across the country, it would be a very different creature from the incompetent mess that it really is. The FBI? There is strong evidence that Epstein had acted as an FBI informant at one point, but it’s highly doubtful that the Bureau would go to such lengths to enable his lifestyle or to put him down afterward.

Tucker Carlson and other agents of foreign influence from Muslim terrorist states like Qatar have mobilized to blame Israel, but if Epstein had been a Mossad operation, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak would not have been allowed to get close to him. And Epstein’s flight logs would have been filled with Muslim names instead of Naomi Campbell, Chris Tucker and Kevin Spacey. These are not the kind of people an intelligence agency is interested in, but it is the kind of list that a pimp to the parties of the rich and powerful would have assembled.

And the most powerful man in Epstein’s orbit was the former president of the United States.

The obsession with connecting Epstein to intelligence agencies foreign and domestic is a very 2025 response to a problem from the Clinton administration. And many people forgot a time when the entire political and media class expended its capital denying that President Bill Clinton was a career sexual predator and that his wife’s political future depended on covering up for him. Those cover-ups involved the FBI, local law enforcement and officials in different states.

Clinton’s sexual abuses were a kind of trial run for Epstein’s. And the most disturbing thing about them was how lying about them and covering up became a litmus test for Democrats. In the brief window between Bill’s exit and Hillary’s rise, some Democrats publicly bemoaned their role in enabling the utter corruption of the Clintons, but then the Clinton Foundation, which Jeffrey Epstein claimed to have co-founded, rose and critics of the Clintons shut up again.

What could have convinced local officials in three different states to lie and protect a rapist?

Allegiance to the CIA? Your average local official doesn’t care about the CIA. The Mossad? Still less likely. Even assuming some international Jewish conspiracy, many of the officials who colluded to give Epstein a pass were not Jewish. And the ones who were Jewish tended to be so liberal that their response to a request from the Mossad would have been “Free Palestine.”

There was one thing that the three places that protected Epstein had in common. Dems.

When New Mexico took Epstein’s name off the sex offender registry, Gov. Bill Richardson, a former Clinton official, ally and friend, was running the state into the ground. Richardson’ extreme corruption later denied him the chance to join the Obama administration. In Palm Beach County and Manhattan, Epstein dealt with Democrats, many of them with ties to the Clintons, who not only protected him, but also aided other Clinton sexual misconduct pals.

Former DA Cyrus Vance Jr., the son of Jimmy Carter’s secretary of state, had also protected Harvey Weinstein, but targeted Trump.  Palm Beach prosecutor Barry Krischer had gone after Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter while giving Epstein a pass. The pattern is not hard to spot.

Democrats in different states didn’t just collude to aid Epstein, but other Clinton and Democrat donors, and they also colluded to target conservatives including Trump. This was not an intelligence operation, but a partisan political campaign much like Russiagate.

9 years ago, I assembled lists of sexual predators associated with the Clintons and Democrats. Epstein was just one of the names on that list. Rather than being a unique phenomenon, Jeffrey Epstein was part of a pattern of sexual crimes surrounding the Clintons and the Democrats.

Conservatives used to know that, but social media grifters have overrun the movement, some of them in the pay of foreign governments, and they obsessively push their agendas. Many are millennials who don’t even remember the Clintons. And the Clintons are less exciting now that Bill is a doddering old fool who can barely finish a sentence and defeat reduced Hillary to a bitter powerless shrew. But the Democrats have not become any less corrupt for it all.

Could the Jeffrey Epstein case happen today? Of course. And we watched it happen.

During the Biden administration, we witnessed the spectacle of multiple law enforcement agencies, federal and local, as well officials from across the government, collude to cover up the crimes of Hunter Biden despite public photo and video evidence of drug use, prostitution and behavior that would have landed any normal person behind bars for a decade or two.

We saw the president head up a money laundering operation across members of his family in a conspiracy involving corrupt meetings with foreign billionaires from Russia to China, and payments in diamonds and through shell accounts, blood money, and threats of torture in a Middle East dictatorship aimed at witnesses who tried to speak out against the Bidens.

Jeffrey Epstein is not a phenomenon. He’s just another day in the life of the Democrats.

It’s not the Deep State, it’s the Democrat State.

And whether it’s the Clintons, Obama or Biden, Democrats have shown that they will conspire to cover up any crime, no matter how awful, not for their country or any country, but for the party.

The Epstein case matters because it shows how corrupt the Democrats are. And those trying to divert attention from the Democrats to undermine Trump with their own agendas are not only hurting the president, but are aiding Epstein’s real backers so that their crimes will continue.

Jeffrey Epstein is dead, but as Hunter Biden showed us, there are plenty of ‘Epsteins’ out there.