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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account | Our national project of elite impunity
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The current owner of The Atlantic, Laurene Powell Jobs. Spouse of Steve Jobs:
Is that gislaine? (sp is fucked up, I know)
It is, yes
Do we know it's real? I can't find any source for it besides blogs.
I see a lot of these types of photos shared around as a gotcha, but it makes me genuinely wonder: is there any reason to believe that everyone who visited the island was involved with sex trafficking minors, or even "just" skeevy barely-18s in bikinis type stuff? Obviously people like Prince Andrew (and likely Trump) were implicated in some heinous shit, and plenty of others willingly associated with Epstein even after his original conviction, which is disgusting even if they didn't do anything criminal themselves. But it seems like he and Maxwell would logically keep the worst aspects of their operation under wraps and only "initiate" people that they wanted to blackmail. At least, as long as it's plausible that they used the island for regular rich-people-hobnobbing in addition to the criminal stuff, it feels bad to use a photo of them with someone as evidence that person is guilty (absent corroborating evidence of at least the fact that the photo was dated after Epstein's first conviction).
That's assuming the photo is real/accurate of course. I tried searching this one to see if it was before or after the conviction, and the only provenance I found linked it to some alt-right/4chan sites years ago.