One benefit for Trump from the Epstein scandal: it diverts attention from the burgeoning surveillance state and CBDCs. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:

While most everyone is talking about the Epstein Thing, fewer are talking about the Palantir Thing or the Genius Thing, which may be one of the reasons for the Epstein Thing. As in, it’s another distraction from the important things.
Certainly it is important to know whether there is a high-level blackmail regime that leverages complicity in sex crimes the way the mafia leverages crimes such as murder. In order to become a made man the applicant must first do a piece of work; i.e., kill someone. That way, the mafia knows he can be trusted . . . not to squeal on the other mobsters.
This Epstein Thing seems to operate on the same basis. A person who wants to become one of the Special People – one of the people who gets inexplicably elevated to high station despite no particular talents – must participate in something grotesque first, which is easy for them to do because most of them roll that way anyhow. Stanley Kubrick gave us normies a window into this in his last movie, Eyes Wide Shut. If you have not seen it, you ought to. It depicts how it probably works.
It also serves more than just one purpose. The titillation of what-might-be-going-on keeps the normies’ attention where they want it to be, which isn’t on other things of more consequence, ultimately, than the hidden-from-sight rights and rituals of the Special People.
Around the time of the Stupor Bowl there was a AI video showing all at the masquerade ball.
All world leaders, tech titans and Hollywood stars or fantasy detached from reality.
Go influence yourself and Ghislaine should go free if it is all a CPUSA (D) hoax.
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