If Epstein's unexplained wealth were the proceeds of blackmail, Trump is now the one who holds enormous leverage over this paedo club. Whether he himself is implicated or not, it could be worth the political heat.
If Epstein's unexplained wealth were the proceeds of blackmail, Trump is now the one who holds enormous leverage over this paedo club. Whether he himself is implicated or not, it could be worth the political heat.
What value this “worth”?
Trump has inherited the power over the members of Epstein's paedo club. Perhaps the monetary value of that is worth the political heat he's taking now over the affair.
I got that. My question was naively highlighting the cost to his humanity and morality.
Easy, he has neither. In any case, deflection has always worked for him in the past, so perhaps the calculation is that people will move on before long.