WASHINGTON

CNN anchor Jake Tapper repeated the conventional wisdom Monday when he referred to the “sweetheart deal” federal prosecutors made with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2008. Tapper’s disdain fit nicely with the narrative the media have embraced about the Epstein saga — with girls as victims, the media as heroes and Republican-appointed prosecutors as the bad guys.

But the only part of the narrative that rings true involves the victims, who spoke during a Capitol Hill news conference last week about how small they felt when they met the rich and politically connected financier, who was found dead in a jail cell in 2019.

You see, while an 18-month sentence seems like a too-good-to-be-true deal for a sex trafficker, the Epstein case would have been nearly impossible to prosecute

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