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      5 days ago

      The trial is important. Being on a list isn’t a crime. Being photographed with or knowing someone isn’t a crime. Trafficking and sexual abusing children is. I would assume there are people who knew Epstein and are on the list but were/are not traffickers/abusers. It’s up to the justice department to prove who was a criminal. I suspect the files weren’t released before because there is insufficient evidence. Now they’re not released because certain people are worried they might be on the list.

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        I would assume there are people who knew Epstein and are on the list but were/are not traffickers/abusers.

        Epstein’s book with contact info for friends and acquaintances was released years ago. We already have that. That sparked a bunch of stuff when it came out.

        All the hubbub now has nothing to do with innocent people, it is specifically about his client list. AKA the guilty ones he helped. Not just the people he knew.

        Shroedinger’s Epstein List. It simultaneously was on the AG’s desk for review a little while back and also never existed.