An artist who first accused Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of sexual assault almost three decades ago has told the New York Times that she had urged law enforcement officials back then to investigate powerful people in their orbit – including Donald Trump.
The artist, Maria Farmer, was among the first women to report Epstein and his partner Maxwell of sexual crimes back in 1996 when, according to a new interview with the Times, she also identified Trump among others close to Epstein as worthy of attention.
Farmer repeated that message, she told the Times, when she was re-interviewed by the FBI about Epstein in 2006. She raised Trump’s name specifically because of an unsettling encounter with him late one night in 1995 in Epstein’s offices – which she said she told law enforcement agents at the time and has since recounted publicly.
I don’t understand the interest in these calls for justice, given that Trump has probably raped over a thousand people by now, over the decades, and he is untouchable whether he is president or not. And the only way to prosecute him is by revolution.
What I think is happening is that people are trying to prod the failed USA justice system to show some spark of life, and a lot of the rage here is more about impotent fury over the protection of these thugs, as much as over the crimes
Let’s get it started then.