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Comment by frankwiles | Hacker News Reader

Jesus. Who lets a guy get away with that for so freaking long?

It’s the same with Harvey Weinstein and it was the same with Jimmy Saville in the U.K. Everyone know, but they made rich, influential people richer, so they were covered.

Just look at who Epstein and Weinstein have been photographed partying with over the years...

An entire system that incentivizes and absolves this behavior at all levels. I’m serious. This is what power and wealth do: they allow you to break the rules that the rest of us plebs have to abide by.

    "I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. 
    You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."

-- future President of the United States, Donald Trump.

> “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

That same future president being quoted in an article about Epstein in 2002.

Great! Now do the one about Bill Clinton taking 27 flights on the Lolita Express!

Or the one about Trump banning Epstein from Mar-a-Lago in 2008 when he started to suspect...

A cabal of child traffickers/rapists operating in government doesn't need to a partisan issue.

Additionally, Trump and Epstein appear to have split up after Trump got the upper hand during a property sale.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-and-jef...

We should indeed be focusing on Bill Clinton too, but one of them is president now, and the other is not.

You mean the one when Trump banned him from Mar-a-lago because Epstein pissed Trump off in a business dealing?

I'm too lazy to research this, can somebody trustworthy give us a quick summary of what actually happened here?

Obviously, either way, it doesn't discount any of the current Epstein stories.

Could you dig up some Bill Clinton quotes for us? Didn’t he frequently fly on Epstein’s jet?

And he lied about the #. In other news, -totally unrelated I'm sure- Skippy's email is worth reading.

Most people would if it’s normalized. Not long ago Saudi Arabian money and PRC money was just fine. It’s hard not to take it when it’s about survival.

> Not long ago Saudi Arabian money and PRC money was just fine

Wait, did something change this morning? AFAIK it's still fine and dandy to take Saudi money (esp. if you're the US government) and Chinese too.

If you work in tech you have to launder the Saudi money through Softbank but otherwise it's fine.

Isn't "taking Saudi money" Uber's current business model?

No, it's "Burning Saudi money", so maybe morally OK in the end?

The problem isn’t “taking Saudi money”, the problem is “giving Saudis equity” (i.e. influence and potential future profits). Donations solve this.

To certain values of "survival" which apply to people in no physical danger.

HN is less of a broad community than say reddit. Not all, but many of the perspectives are going to be from a tech startup POV

He knew he was comprised, so he had no choice but to continue digging himself deeper.

Remind you of anyone?

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