How Epstein groomed America's corrupt elite

[Kid Berwyn]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, venture capitalist Joi Ito, and others dined with Epstein in 2015, as pictured in this photo from the Epstein files. / Department of Justice

I know how Epstein groomed America’s corrupt elite

Story by Erkki Forster
The Daily Beast, March 17, 2026

Excerpt...

“Everyone is talking about what’s in [the Epstein files]. Here’s what’s not in there. We have all these emails. We have all these people emailing about everything. There’s no breakup emails,” Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, said.

Giridharadas continued, “There’s no one saying, ‘F---, I didn’t know, but I read the story now. You are despicable. Never call me again.’ Not one email that I’ve seen.”

Giridharadas, who has written extensively on the “Epstein class” on his Substack The.Ink, told host Joanna Coles that Epstein’s crimes were “enabled by the silence and complicity and overlooking and looking away of a much larger number of people. And I don’t think you get the former without the latter.”

The best-selling author argued that Epstein exploited a “lack of courage” that he said defines “the age of hyper-connected networks,” where connections in elite circles is the ultimate currency.

“Your wealth is your connections and the density and breadth of your connections to all these other people,” he explained.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-know-how-epstein-groomed-america-s-corrupt-elite/ar-AA1YN956

"Connections" -- plus Epstein's "Leverage" to move them into action or non-action.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

1. Bullseye!

This is all we need to know about those scoundrels: "where connections in elite circles is the ultimate currency."

AMEN!

[Kid Berwyn]

2. "Conspiracy Theory"

“One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.” — Catherine Austin Fitts

[malaise]

3. K & R

for truth