Thread by @QuasLacrimas

/u/maxwellhill has not posted on reddit for 5 years (as of last Wednesday). He or she made his final post the day before Ghislaine Maxwell's arrest, after being possibly the most prolific redditor (and reddit power mod) since joining in 2006

Btw, I consider it likely Jeffrey Epstein never had any actual connections to intelligence/Mossad. It was all Ghislaine: she was glow-in-the-dark royalty. When her boyfriend got arrested, she simply called in favors, and moron Acosta bought the ruse that "he ish valuable asshet"

This might seem unlikely, but remember her father Robert Maxwell had been with MI6 since the 1940s and Mossad since the early 1970s. Mossad was once kind of a dumping ground for right-wing Irgun affiliates who Israel's socialist government hated and made unemployable

These people grew up in kind of unpleasant circumstances because of socialists persecuting them, and as a result are all unnaturally loyal to one another. That's supposedly how Likud took over Israel. Maxwell was close enough to them that he almost bought their soccer team, Betar

Anyway, it seems quite likely that Ghislaine had the pull to ask for one phone call, whether or not she was ever involved in intel wetwork or "massaging" public opinion (one of her media-mogul father's specialties). Was Epstein blackmailing people for her? Well... probably not.

I'm not claiming to know for certain one way or the other, but as the years pass it looks more probable Epstein was blackmailing people on a freelance basis, for his own extremely petty personal reasons.

Jeffrey Epstein was very, very rich by most people's standards (he had hundreds of millions of dollars when he was on trial), but not billions like he claimed. And he wasn't a titan of finance, he managed the money of a single billionaire, Lex Wexner, and probably in a weird way

My best guess is that Epstein realized at some point that most rich people donate far more to poverty/development and disease research than to basic science research. So by making million-dollar donations to prestigious scientists, he could make himself look like a billionaire

He was also simultaneously a prolific party animal; maybe because he enjoyed it, maybe b/c it was another good way to inflate his image. Mild obligation to a good host will keep people from badmouthing you or confirming rumors. If that host knows about bad behavior, even more so

It's clear from news reports and other documents that Epstein was also using this social pressure to press people to donate to his scientific causes. Basically, becoming a bundler of big donations was cheaper than making them himself, for only slightly less clout.

IMHO there may have been a natural progression from lubricating party shenanigans, to enabling his guests' extramarital affairs, to bringing in adult women who were not-quite-escorts, to finding the 17-and-11-months girls who were absolutely perfect blackmail material

I think this is all the scheming there is any evidence for, after all this time. Maybe there was a massive network that got away with the perfect crime, but it's at least as likely that the secret of Epstein's billions was he wanted people to think they existed