>In fairness, it really must take a quite lot of story-telling creativity to successfully conflate these “adult grooming victims” with bonafide child-sex predation — because the latter is of course what the public has been primed to assume these “Epstein Survivors” must have endured, since they’re being endlessly trotted out by their PR handlers for dopey network TV interviews, dopey documentaries, dopey podcasts, and now, dopey press conferences in front of the US Capitol. Meanwhile, journalists have almost universally decided that their proper role in this story is to simply serve as another PR vehicle for the purported “survivors” — if only so they can get in their daily quota of cheap shots against Donald Trump. Certainly, 99% of journalists would never dream of rigorously investigating the claims of “survivors,” or god forbid clarifying for readers and viewers that a large portion of these “survivors” do not even claim that they were ever involved in any sort of pedophilia operation. Distinguishing the “adult grooming victims” from actual children would be seen as deeply offensive, and probably bring unwanted attention to the journalist’s possibly foul motives. (ARE YOU DEFENDING PEDOS? ARE YOU DEFENDING EPSTEIN? HOLY SHIT, ARE YOU DEFENDING TRUMP?) So instead, we get these constant unchallenged claims from people like Thomas Massie, who says he is “convinced” that there must be “hundreds of victims” — although he can’t say who they are, or what happened to them.
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