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Credibility summary
Of the 647 claims in Politics with evidence either way, 86% held up.
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There’s an unfiltered nature, especially in some of the correspondence, that I just found unrecognizable.
It is hard to believe that after all that has been said, there is still much to learn about Epstein and his network.
Investigators received dozens of leads related to Trump.
Trump has a troubling history with women, including being found liable for sexual abuse, and so I understand the instinct on the part of some readers to assume that similar allegations should be treated as if they are likely true.
The Justice Department published dozens of unredacted nude images as part of the document release.
We reported that these files contained more than 38,000 references to President Trump.
Epstein often exchanged emails where he or his contacts mentioned Trump; they would also send links to articles mentioning Trump.
Almost anything about the president was going to be newsworthy.
One of the big theories out there is that Epstein was collecting the secrets of powerful or wealthy contacts for blackmail or to gain other leverage.
Another important question was whether there was hard evidence of other criminality.
When that dream has to confront reality, it’s a hard bridge to cross.”
“It’s not just politics — small p — as in delegates and votes.
“In his best imagination, he saw himself as someone who could bring the country together, appeal to working-class whites as well as poor Blacks, unite them around economic change.
But that’s been a dream in American politics for as long as there has been American politics.
“He was really a moral leader rather than an elected leader, but we now look to elected leaders to address our problems.
“My mission has been to transform the mind of America,” he told a convention of Black lawyers in Washington in 1988.
“But it was not the kind of heroic struggle as in the 1960s.
You’re not going to get a Nobel Prize for what Jesse Jackson did, but it took a lot of talent, initiative, energy, imagination and charisma, and he had those in full supply.’’
In helping to kick down racial barriers to electoral success without winning office himself, he was left with limited political options.
A picket line is not going to change the voter laws in Florida.”
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