>>510232492I hate this whole situation and despise them so much, but there actually is a (fucked up) legal basis for the handling of this whole situation.
What they nabbed Epstein and Maxwell on, at the most basic level, is trafficking and securing girls and young women AT MINIMUM for themselves.
The specific criminal charges for Maxwell work even on helping secure and traffic these girls and young women SOLELY for Epstein.
Now, when it comes to Epstein, he was at minimum also arrested and jailed for this, and the charges at minimum included this (to have the girls trafficked for himself)( and also the PLAN may’ve been to charge him for trafficking to others as well … but he “killed himself.” Or “died.” So they don’t do a court case with a dead defendant.
Regardless, even though I know this isn’t true - that they were just doing it for themselves - THEORETICALLY it could’ve been just Epstein and Maxwell in as a duo on sex trafficking (including underage sex trafficking), and the charges and arrests could’ve strictly come from that alone, if JUST these two were getting these pretty 15/16/17/18/etc. year old girls and the like through modeling agencies, then bringing them to places like his island, and having Epstein (alone, at minimum) fuck them.
I’m not defending them, I’m playing devil’s-advocate or running a steelman argument.
The only reason I do this is because I think the more intelligent, nuanced, knowledgeable and careful we are in our arguments and criticisms, the more power we have.