Alan Dershowitz was Jeffrey Epstein’s attorney in his 2008 Florida trial. As such, he probably knows more about Epstein’s personal affairs than anyone else. In a recent discussion with Glenn Beck on the latter’s podcast, he frankly admitted the perversity of his client’s exploitation of 15 and 16 year old girls, while nevertheless asserting that he was not a “trafficker” seeking to profit by selling their services to his many wealthy friends. There is, he said, no “client list.” As Trump was one of those friends, of course, the FBI’s mid-July announcement that no more files related to the Epstein investigation would henceforth be released, sparked the suspicion that the President was trying to hide something. At the same time the Biden administration’s handling of the issue led some Republicans to believe that individuals such as Bill Clinton were being protected. While I have no doubt that both Trump and Clinton would have delighted in violating one of Epstein’s girls, I have no evidence that either of them did so and would certainly never make such a charge without incontrovertible evidence. The problem in today’s radically divided world, of course, is that those on both sides of the political divide seem perfectly willing to brazenly lie out of allegiance to to those who share their world view.
In his discussion with Beck, Dershowitz expressed his disdain for the fact that CNN had on more than one occasion asked a virulent anti-Semite, Maria Farmer, for her views on both himself and the the Epstein story in general. In a Newsmax entry of 2020, he had cited multiple statements made by Farmer in which she had demonized most Jews as privileged, self-serving degenerates and indeed had suggested the Holocaust to be in many ways a grossly exaggerated myth. Why, Dershowitz wondered, would a media outlet supposedly committed to the objective truth, ask one such as she to comment on a story so crucial to so many Americans?
At the same time, of course, one might ask why Donald Trump reacted so violently to those among his own followers who expressed concern upon hearing that the Justice Department and FBI would be releasing no further information on the Epstein case. In various statements he suggested these people were pathetic weaklings, simpletons who had naively bought into the “Epstein hoax.” Yet these same people were no doubt reacting to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s statement that: “It’s a new administration and everything is going to come out to the public.”
Bondi’s affirmation of Full Disclosure would seem an essential element of any healthy Democracy. This past Monday FBI Director Kash Patel stated that: “For years, certain officials used their positions to selectively leak classified information to shape political narratives.” While I fully understand Donald Trump’s outrage with a media and political opposition willing to violate the Truth to their own political advantage, I am equally disappointed that he would vilify his own followers for simply seeking the Truth. To me a “conservative” is a Rational Humanist for whom Objective Reality is the ultimate arbiter. Cold, hard Facts rather than sentimental drivel are the basis of their world-view.
Typical of those whom I admire is Megan Kelly who stated on the one hand that if Biden’s Democrats had mined anything incriminating from Trump’s 15 year relationship with Epstein, they surely would have used it against him, while she also criticized Trump for mocking fellow conservatives who were simply following their conscience in asking why the FBI would not put an end to the Epstein controversy by publishing all the information available to it. For Kelly, the Truth rather than Political Bias is her guiding principle. No doubt she, like myself, while fully aware of Trump’s many flaws, would nevertheless support him in any confrontation with the Woke Left simply because of the superiority of his conservative values. But she will not, like myself, betray her fidelity to the Truth by supporting him when he behaves like a belligerent, self-centred jerk! Sadly, he frequently does so. Such is the dilemma of today’s American, voting public.