Julie Brown's Miami Herald bombshell "How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime," which appeared in November, found its target on Saturday when financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested for operating a sex-trafficking ring. It is now completely dominating the news; for instance, the top four "most popular" stories presently featured on The New York Times homepage are all Epstein stories.
Why? This story -- how federal prosecutors in Florida's Southern District basically issued Epstein a get-out-of-jail-free card back in 2008 -- has been out there for months if not years. But now more so than a decade ago there is an intense desire on the public's part that the high be brought low. There is a desperate "last gasp" aspect to this desire because it is so obvious that the rich, who rule the world as absolutely as the monarchs of old, have fucked things up beyond repair.
While former president Bill Clinton shamelessly tries to distance himself from his bosom buddy, claiming that he only rode on Epstein's private jet a couple of times when dozens of trips have been reported, one can feel a palpable craving for justice in the heartland.
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