There are plenty of serious questions to be asked about Jeffrey Epstein.

Where did he get his money?

Why did so many major figures hobnob with him long after his plea agreement on sex charges with minors?

But when it comes to the ongoing Epstein fallout, there’s something else going on: an enormous amount of cynical politicking.

Let’s begin with the figures who are supposedly deeply concerned with the Epstein scandal — and who have been promoting evidence-free conspiracy theories. Take, for example, Steve Bannon. Bannon, who has spent his adult life as a political parasite finding new and larger hosts, glommed onto Epstein in the middle of 2018, by text records. As The Guardian reports, “the pair were devising responses to the gathering storm of public outrage about Epstein’s criminal

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