{"id":79,"date":"2025-07-17T14:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/epstein-and-trump-nothing-to-see-here\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T14:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:42:13","slug":"epstein-and-trump-nothing-to-see-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/epstein-and-trump-nothing-to-see-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein and Trump: Nothing to See Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/the-inside-scoop-on-jeffrey-epstein-b0da1cbe?st=LD41ZX\">Alan Dershowitz<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" data-type=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Open records show an acquaintance between Epstein and Mr. Trump many years ago. That relationship ended when Mr. Trump reportedly banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago, long before becoming president. I have seen nothing that would suggest anything improper or even questionable by Mr. Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" data-type=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">It is clear from the evidence that Epstein committed suicide. What isn\u2019t clear is whether he was assisted by jail personnel. That seems likely to me, based on the evidence of allegedly broken cameras, transfer of his cellmate and the absence of guards during relevant time periods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" data-type=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I have absolutely no doubt that Epstein never worked for any intelligence agency. If he had, he would surely have told me and his other lawyers, who would have used that information to get him a better deal. (He wasn\u2019t satisfied with the so-called sweetheart deal he got, which required him to spend 1\u00bd years in a local jail and register as a sex offender.) My sources in Israel have confirmed to me that he had no connection to Israeli intelligence. That false story\u2014recently peddled by Tucker Carlson\u2014probably emanated from credible allegations that&#0160;Robert Maxwell&#0160;(1923-91), father of Epstein\u2019s former girlfriend,&#0160;Ghislaine Maxwell, worked with the Mossad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" data-type=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Conspiracy stories attract readers, viewers and listeners. They are also fodder for political attacks. The Epstein case has generated more than its share of such theories, and there is nothing more annoying to gossip mongers than when stubborn facts (or the absence of facts) get in the way of a juicy theory. Sorry to disappoint you, but there is really nothing much to see here, beyond what has already been disclosed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Dershowitz: Open records show an acquaintance between Epstein and Mr. Trump many years ago. That relationship ended when Mr. Trump reportedly banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago, long before becoming president. I have seen nothing that would suggest anything improper or even questionable by Mr. Trump. It is clear from the evidence that Epstein committed suicide. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/epstein-and-trump-nothing-to-see-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Epstein and Trump: Nothing to See Here&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}