The child-rape files

Epstein’s Caribbean island nobody visited

The millions of pages of documents the Department of Justice has released – more than a month late – are not about who was on the private jet, or who was invited to dinner or when they sent emails or what was in the emails and texts. One way or another, the pages are about raping children. A powerful man wanted to “invest” money with Epstein? It’s not about the money. It’s about what that money ultimately was used for: raping children.

Elon Musk was busy on his X account yesterday doing what the New York Times is now calling “distancing” himself from Epstein. Why would he bother posting what I guess we could now call a distancing denial? “I had very little correspondence with Epstein and declined repeated invitations to go to his island or fly on his ‘Lolita Express’,” Musk wrote. Elsewhere, we learn that Musk’s “very little correspondence” with Epstein amounted to 14 emails. Musk admits that it isn’t the number of emails that matters right there on X with the words “Lolita Express.” Why would an aircraft be given that name if not to indicate that the rape of children was its purpose?

Listen to this from a Musk email to Epstein in November of 2012: “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” Note the date: four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for promoting prostitution with underage girls, three years after he was released from his pretend home-confinement sentence. Musk also posted on X yesterday that he didn’t know Epstein “very well.” By 2012, you would have to be functionally illiterate and blind and deaf not to know of Epstein’s criminal conviction and what he was convicted of. Musk wasn’t emailing Epstein about the date of his “wildest party.” He was emailing him knowing that Epstein had been accused of raping children and had been convicted of procuring a girl under the age of 18 for the purpose of prostitution. Every newspaper, every cable news report, every place there was coverage of Epstein’s conviction reported that he had pleaded guilty to the charge.

So, anyone emailing with Jeffrey Epstein after the year 2008 knew that he had been convicted of raping children, even if prosecutors had agreed to couch the crime in the more gentle language of “procuring for prostitution.” That would include Steve Bannon, who we are now told had a correspondence with Epstein that amounted to thousands of text messages in 2018 and 2019, ten years after Epstein’s conviction in Florida. Reports yesterday said that Bannon and Epstein had texted about all kinds of things – “shaping European coalitions” and investments in the Middle East. Epstein allowed Bannon to fly around the world, including to Rome, on his private jet.

Steve Bannon worked in Donald Trump’s White House as an aide in 2016. He helped in Trump’s attempt to get reelected president in 2020, and again when Trump ran in 2024. Bannon’s texts to and from Epstein might have been technically about money or “investments,” but where did that money go? What was it ultimately used for? Men raping children, that’s what.

What about Trump’s Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick? The newly released raping children files reveal that Lutnick and his family went to lunch on Epstein’s island in December of 2012, four years after Epstein’s plea-deal conviction for raping children in Florida. Is that why, every time he has been asked, Lutnick has denied a friendship with Epstein? So, Lutnick not only went to lunch with Epstein, he took his family along. Was Lutnick unaware that Epstein’s island had been where Epstein and others raped children? How could Lutnick, a billionaire who ran the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald, not know that Epstein’s island had been paid for, directly or indirectly, with money that came from raping children?

Lutnick has spent the last couple of days distancing himself from Jeffrey Epstein. British Billionaire and owner of his own private Caribbean island, Richard Branson, has been distancing himself from Epstein, too, after the recent raping children document drop revealed that he had visited Epstein in 2013, five years after his Florida conviction. Branson later emailed Epstein, “Any time you’re in the area would love to see you. As long as you bring your harem!” The New York Times was told by a “Branson representative” that his meeting with Epstein had been about “business” and that the reference to a “harem” had been about adult women, and that the women had not attended the “business” meeting between the two men.

Glad that’s all straighten out. Distancing, it seems, has to be rather specific after the DOJ dump of the child rape files.

Why all the wiggling and squirming and distancing by these powerful men, these billionaires, these men who have run major companies, some of whom now serve in Donald Trump’s cabinet?

The major problem with the three million documents that were just released is that the names of Epstein’s co-conspirators are redacted. But do you know what the DOJ did not redact? The images of more than a dozen children who were raped by Epstein and others. They are in a part of the files that reveals photographs of what are referred to as “Epstein victims.” Their ages are given. All are under 18 years of age. But their faces are right there, unredacted. Aaron Parnas reported today that he found a document with a list of 32 “Epstein survivors,” 31 of whose names are unredacted.

It’s not about having lunch or investments in the Middle East or even harems or wildest parties. It’s about men raping children. These powerful men – Musk and Branson and Lutnick and Donald Trump himself, whose name is all through the files -- don’t want to be associated with raping children. Because that is what the so-called Epstein files are about. It’s why Trump feels it’s necessary to tell the lie that the files “absolve me.” They’re about men raping children. The files absolve no one. Don’t let anyone tell you any different.