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David James

‘Your childlike curiosity…’: Nausea as Bill Clinton’s Epstein birthday book message almost as bad as Trump’s

The Jeffrey Epstein birthday book has now gone public. It makes for a truly nauseating read: wall-to-wall references to sexualized underage girls, threatening and bizarre images, and little jokes that underline that everyone involved knew what Epstein was doing behind closed doors.

The headline reveal is that Donald Trump’s birthday message – the message he insisted didn’t exist and launched a $10bn lawsuit over – is exactly as described. It may even be worse, as the female torso the “wonderful secret” missive is written over is clearly intended to be an underage girl.

However, Trump isn’t the only president who has darkened the pages of this book. Bill Clinton – long known to be an Epstein associate – also contributed to. And, frankly, his message is just as damning.

“It’s heartening, isn’t it, to have lived so long, across all the years of learning and knowing, adventure and work, and still to have your childlike curiosity, the drive to make a difference, and the circle of friends.”

Many of the messages in the book contain gross little winks to Epstein’s pedophilia. In other circumstances, you might be able to dismiss Clinton referring to someone’s “childlike curiosity” as a normal turn of phrase. But when it’s in a birthday message to the world’s most famous pedophile? You don’t need to be Poirot to untangle this mystery.

Clinton and Epstein

None of this should come as much of a surprise. Clinton, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell had been friends since the early 1990s, with Epstein and Maxwell attending a donors’ reception at the White House in 1993 (and Epstein going on to make several other visits to the White House).

Clinton would go on to repeatedly fly on Epstein’s private jet on at least 26 occasions, publicly praise Epstein as a “committed philanthropist”, and visited his private properties. A truly bizarre painting of Clinton in a blue dress and high heels was displayed in Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse until at least 2012.

If any MAGAs want to accuse me of double standards in prioritizing Trump’s Epstein connections over Clinton’s, let me underline that the former president seems like an absolutely disgusting human being for his close connections with Epstein. Like everyone caught up in this perverted web of sin, Clinton has questions to answer about how much he knew and the extent of his participation.

Heck, maybe Clinton and Trump can one day share a cell. It’d certainly cut down on the Secret Service protection budget if both presidents were in the same place.

The truth will damage both Democrats and Republicans, but it must come out in full so we know the kinds of people running the most powerful nation on Earth.

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