Let’s be clear.
In the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking story the girls are being referred to as “under aged women”, implying that that they were and are older than they were and are and have an implied guilt through knowing cooperation, and are just barely legal, when they were actually children and nowhere near being legal.
They were and are, in fact, not legal at all.
We should be honest and call them what they were, children who have been subjected to statutory rape.
The second and equally disgusting reaction is the joy that Trump supporters and apologists are showing because Bill Clinton’s name is connected to Epstein. The horror of the whole business gives way to the happy thought that he is a pervert, and this discovery and the ability to use it against him is more important than what makes him one.
Regardless whose names are connected with this, this being done to under aged girls is the sex trafficking of young girls, some in their early teens, and that is what should be getting the attention.
Ironically, as they celebrate Clinton’s inclusion, they ignore that Trump’s name is also connected regardless of his attempt to distance himself, and these people should not ignore this.
If they salivate that Clinton’s name being connected implies a lot, the same applies to Trump.
If it is bad that Clinton, or anyone else people feel satisfaction with for their being included, it is just as bad that Trump is.
The way the story of Epstein is being treated reveals that when people say “this is not who we are”, when it comes to horrendous behavior, we are not being honest.
It IS the way e are.
We do not care about the girls and how this has affected their lives because we have names of the men who may have abused them, and that is a great political tool.