{"id":26569,"date":"2025-07-11T07:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=26569"},"modified":"2025-07-11T07:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:33:46","slug":"jeffrey-epstein-had-1000-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=26569","title":{"rendered":"

Jeffrey Epstein Had 1,000+ Victims<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Industrial scale abuse enterprise far larger than previously believed is revealed in new document<\/h3>\n

Ken Klippenstein<\/p>\n

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Twenty years after Jeffrey Epstein was exposed for his child sex abuse enterprise, the Justice Department this week made a startling revelation. Rather than the \u201cdozens\u201d of victims previously alleged by the government and media, Justice now says that there were \u201cover one thousand\u201d victims.<\/p>\n

Everyone is talking about Epstein again, from MAGA types furious that the Trump administration is not producing a supposed client list, to the mainstream media, which is giddily mocking just about anyone critical of the Justice Department here as conspiracy theorists.<\/p>\n

One person who doesn\u2019t want to talk about it is Donald Trump, who told New York Magazine in 2002 that his buddy Epstein was a \u201cfun\u201d guy who \u201clikes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seldom one to shy away from blurting out whatever, when asked this week about the Epstein memo, Trump uncharacteristically changed the subject. He admonished the reporter,\u00a0telling him<\/a>\u00a0that the question was a \u201cdesecration\u201d to the lives lost in the Texas flood.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy\u2019s been talked about for years. We have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things \u2014 and are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable. Do you want to waste the time? I mean, I can\u2019t believe you\u2019re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this where we\u2019re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump, of course, hung out with Epstein and feasted on his legendary get togethers in New York and West Palm Beach, so he probably isn\u2019t keen on there being too much transparency here. But before this becomes a conspiracy theory itself, I note that former President Bill Clinton was also a frequent flier, especially on the Lolita Express which took prominent guests to Epstein\u2019s private island. Those guests included financiers, billionaires, lawyers, and even a British prince.<\/p>\n

The names of the hundreds (and now indeed possibly thousands) of johns involved \u2014 Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s clients \u2014 have never been revealed by the government. Pam Bondi\u2019s Justice Department evidently doesn\u2019t have the stomach or the inclination to delve much deeper into the matter.<\/p>\n

The new figure of over one thousand victims appears in a Trump administration\u2019s\u00a0review<\/a> of FBI holdings concerning Epstein, a summary of which was released in the form of a two-page memo earlier this week.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties,\u201d the undated and unsigned memo says.<\/p>\n

Justice says it reviewed \u201cmore than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence,\u201d including \u201cover ten thousand downloaded videos and images of illegal child sex abuse material.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is no client list, Justice says in its memo; this despite Bondi herself implying in February that such a list was on her desk. (She now says she was referring to files more generally.)<\/p>\n

There are so many explanations and unanswered questions raised by the release, which also says that there is \u201cno credible evidence \u2026 that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions.\u201d That means that the theories alleging Epstein was operating some kind of operation to collect incriminating information for a foreign government (most notably the Israelis) has also been dismissed by the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

Oh, and the memo says that because of this \u201cexhaustive\u201d search, there\u2019s no need for Justice or the FBI to disclose anything further. This is a reversal of Trump\u2019s promise to his voters that he would \u201ctake a look at\u201d the Epstein case as president.<\/p>\n

When the Justice Department indicted Epstein in 2019, it repeatedly\u00a0referred<\/a>\u00a0to \u201cdozens of minor girls\u201d that he had abused. Federal prosecutors\u00a0reportedly<\/a>\u00a0identified 36 underage victims in Florida, in line with the \u201cdozens\u201d described in the original federal indictment.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsistent with prior disclosures,\u201d the Justice Department memo said this week, \u201cthis review confirmed that Epstein harmed over one thousand victims.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was no such prior disclosure that Epstein\u2019s victims were so numerous.<\/p>\n

When I read the \u201cover one thousand\u201d phrase, I was genuinely shocked by the number, and then even more so when no one in the major media reported it. So I reached out to the FBI to ask about the discrepancy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FBI declines to comment,\u201d an unnamed Bureau official responded in email. (The Justice Department has not even responded to my request for clarification.)<\/p>\n

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There are some bizarre theories about Epstein out there, my personal favorite being the notion that Epstein never actually died in prison and that the man who did was a body double.<\/p>\n

But you don\u2019t have to be a conspiracy theorist to see there\u2019s more here than we were told before. You just have to read the Justice Department\u2019s review carefully \u2014 which the media evidently did not.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s as if no one in power wants to deal with the substance of this scandal: that an industrial scale child abuse operation was taking place right under the noses of the countless household names with whom Epstein socialized. Now those same household names are ever so happy to cast the battle as a war between conspiracy nuts and the sober-minded adults, completely gliding over the obvious indictment here of the very high society of which they are a part.<\/p>\n

What the Epstein case shows is that powerful men preying on the very young is condoned by high society, whether they\u2019re a Republican or Democrat, an American or an\u00a0Afghan warlord<\/a>. And that\u2019s why prominent people, from the government to the news media, seem to want this to go away.<\/p>\n

As for Trump\u2019s law enforcers and self-styled truth tellers who claim to be ending an era of politicization of the FBI and intelligence? It is entirely possible that in all the material they possess, there is no information about the johns. That\u2019s because decades ago, they weren\u2019t told to go after the men, or they decided not to. Either way, that\u2019s the true cover-up, that no one was predisposed to investigate the perpetrators beyond Epstein and his staff, not in the Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden or Trump administrations.<\/p>\n

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\u2014\u00a0Edited by William M. Arkin<\/em><\/p>\n

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