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It’s never been a secret that the deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein moved in the rarefied circles of wealth and power in the U.S. — even after his 2008 conviction in a child prostitution case.
But in a report on Sunday, The Wall Street Journal revealed names that appeared on Epstein’s busy meetings schedule between that conviction and his death behind bars in 2019 — and they include some major names in Democratic politics even besides Epstein’s well-known relationship with former President Bill Clinton.
The Journal reported it had reviewed “thousands of pages of emails and schedules from 2013 to 2017.”
The names, according to the Journal, include:
William Burns, the current head of the Central Intelligence Agency who was sworn in in the first months of President Joe Biden’s administration. (Five months before Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan.)
Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College in New York’s Catskill Mountains who has made no secret of his political leanings. In a December 2016 piece he wrote that was published by Time magazine, he attributed then-President-elect Donald Trump’s successful presidential campaign to “not merely anger against elites in general but targeted resentment against the recent history of success by Americans of color.”
In other words, as Time headlined the piece: “The Election Was About Racism Against Barack Obama.”
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