Jeffrey Epstein seen at a table with lawyer Alan Dershowitz and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers in 2004. Alamy Stock Photo
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know — even if you may have committed terrible crimes.
That was Jeffrey Epstein’s version of the famous line about success in business.
The massive tranche of emails from Epstein released by the House Oversight Committee didn’t reveal any smoking guns about Donald Trump, but did highlight a vast conspiracy to help the disgraced financier thrive despite his guilty plea to sex charges involving a minor in 2008.
This conspiracy wasn’t the work of the Deep State, or Israel, or the Jews.
No, it was more pedestrian and damning than that: A wide-ranging element of the American elite at the time embraced Epstein as on

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