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Bill Clinton allegedly contributed to Epstein birthday book, letter among other documents (cbsaustin.com)

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

From report on birthday book tributes, compare

tributes to lechery

One friend compared him to the main character in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea,” except instead of fish, Jeffrey Epstein caught women, “blonde, red or brunette.”

“So many girls, so little time,” wrote a third associate of Mr. Epstein.

the book contained everything from a handwritten letter from Mr. Epstein’s mother, to photos of scantily clad young women, to a cartoon drawing of Mr. Epstein lying in a beach chair getting what appears to be a nude massage from four topless women.

Most notably, the book contains the now well-publicized poem to Mr. Epstein that bears Donald J. Trump’s name.

Elsewhere there is an oversized check that purports to be Mr. Epstein jokingly selling a “fully depreciated” woman to Mr. Trump for $22,500.

The venture capitalist William Elkus described how Mr. Epstein managed to conjure a beautiful woman out of thin air during a visit to a farm town in Iowa

Another person, named Leslie wrote, “I wanted to get you what you want,” so “here it is.” The brief, scrawled note is accompanied by a drawing of breasts. And another contributor, who said he “agonized long and hard about what to write,” added photos of zebras and lions having sex, adding that the images “seemed more appropriate than anything I could put in words.”

In one letter, a person who signed only “Nick,” recounted an evening in London that left Mr. Epstein “howling with laughter.” That night, the contributor said, an “old man smiling sweetly” pulled down a woman’s panties and put his hand on her privates, only to find another man’s hand already there. Another letter alludes to when Mr. Epstein, in the mid-1970s, first “discovered the Maxwell teen-age daughter.”

Another poem ends noting that somehow at age 50, Mr. Epstein “has avoided the penitentiary.”

and One submission attributed to former President Bill Clinton focused on what he described as Mr. Epstein’s “childlike curiosity” and his “drive to make a difference.”

Right, positive evidence of crime!

Anyone else annoyed these stories don't link to the book?