Somewhere Out There

“A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States. The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social elites — dominating headlines, ending careers and spurring political and criminal investigations.” Epstein revelations have toppled top figures in Europe while US fallout is more muted.

+ NBC News: Why the Epstein scandal is Keir Starmer’s most perilous moment yet after chief of staff resigns. (Yet, it doesn’t seem perilous at all for certain other world leaders who were best friends with Epstein.)

+ The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass.

+ Ghislaine Maxwell pleads the Fifth in House Oversight Epstein investigation