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What makes you think Epstein was stupid? I'm asking genuinly. I always thought it was a clever scheme to get all the leverage on influential people, but I don't know that much about him.
Go scratch the surface of his resume.
He was a cutout used by more powerful people, and placed into roles he wasn't remotely qualified for.
Basically, his hedge fund was a front. Rich people would park their money there, and in return, get access to the underage girls he provided.
Which gave him more access, and more influence, to other elites e.g. politicians and aristocrats, which was used by his handlers in the intelligence communities to unclear ends.
There's a reason why that tapes the FBI discovered at his properties have gone "missing", at least from public view.
As for why I said he's a moron, start here:
His plan to cryogenically freeze his head and penis, to be reanimated in the future and repopulate the Earth.
Oh, and just for the lulz.
Other accounts dispute that Donald Barr actually met Epstein, but not that he was the headmaster at the school that hired Epstein, nor that he wrote that book.
I'm not sure if this is another piece of damning evidence of him being placed in positions because of his proclivities, or just a darkly hilarious wtf fact.
The cryogenic freezing is superstupid indeed if meant seriously and not just as a kind of kink. The rest of it is just immoral and/or perverted but kind of clever?
He was a cutout. Someone who was used because he was controllable and disposable. If he was clever, he wouldn't be dead, he would have had safeguards in place to protect his life using the influence gained from his organization/racket.
But it wasn't really his racket, he was just a face of it. A body used to fill a recurring role that intelligence agencies find very useful.
And clearly, They learned their lesson from the Franklin scandal I linked above. That was a true clusterfuck that took a lot of effort to clean up and mitigate the fallout from, which is why they put so much effort into making sure it's smeared as a hoax, overblown, and fake news.
They even indicted at least two victims of that particular ring, and at least one was sentenced in prison for "perjury" refusing to recant her testimony.
Another book on the topic from a primary source, a lawyer involved from the beginning with the Franklin scandal.