Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap':

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36. "If they were not paying him, didn't they get suspicious?"

I don't think we can judge these people based on our own life experiences. Nearly 100% of these people were born into privilege and have never known anything but. They have always gotten what they wanted and when they got into trouble somebody always paid somebody off, so they have all literally been above the law their entire lives.

Yes, if somebody invited me to a private island to hang with the most powerful people in the world and have as much booze, sex, and drugs as I wanted and it is all on Trump on Epstein, I would certainly be suspicious. But not these people.

I don't think Gates is a stupid man, but he obviously got very deeply into this. I wonder how far in Gates was before he realized, "Hey wait. There seem to be an awful lot of Russian oligarchs and Russian women here."

Prince Andrew is more understandable because such arrogance is the very definition of royalty. Robert Kraft and Lex Wexner? Probably just horny old guys, already well on the path to dementia.

Most of the rest are probably explainable as ambitious assholes who would jump at any chance to be seen in a powerful crowd.