Dropsite is doing a lot of work on Epstein's voluminous background as a fixer/dealer/'consultant' around the world.

that exchange seems to reflect a partnership of sorts, something beyond a sleazy reporter working an unsavory source. a consigliere/fixer role. complex and ugly.

He didn't say he doesn't have an idea why.

It's interesting to me how little is known after all this time about Epstein other than the sex trafficking/Trump connection. His attainment of a great fortune is murky; a lot of people seem to have only cared about him as a funding source/philanthropist; etc. etc.

And then Tapper goes to, of all the maladroits and mediocrities in the pundit world he could hit up for an Epstein take, Jonah Fucking Goldberg, who gives it a big "eh" — because Jonah Goldberg is an idiot.
B-bye, CNN. Again.

Picture of health here.

And cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires.

Liquidity is what you want when there's an EMERGENCY. That's when you use it.

Trump is shutting down plane travel and starving low-income Americans to make sure he can throw people off their healthcare insurance.

Seriously? This era started with Newt Freakin' Gingrich. The Republicans have done nothing but divisiveness since the '90s — and that term is totally inadequate in capturing the the full measure of their wedge politics and bad faith.

Amazing. Bari Weiss takes over CBS News and all of a sudden they land Dear Leader for a sit-down.