NY Times Finds "No Evidence"Implicating Trump in Epstein's Sex Trafficking

So Pretends to Be Offended by Trump's Playboy Lifestyle

You would have to read deep into a lengthy December 18 New York Times article misleadingly titled, ‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women, before getting to the only finding that mattered: “An examination of their history by The New York Times has found no evidence implicating Mr. Trump in Mr. Epstein’s abuse and trafficking of minors.”

One can only imagine how disappointed the Times editors were to concede that point. The article suggests that a massive amount of manpower went into reviewing files, combing through emails, and tracking down sources, at least 30 of whom were interviewed, most of whom anonymously.

To justify their efforts, reporters Nicholas Confessore and Julie Tate drowned exonerating details in a sea of innuendo, for example: “Over the years, Mr. Epstein or his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, introduced at least six women who have accused them of grooming or abuse to Mr. Trump, according to interviews, court testimony and other records. One was a minor at the time. None have accused Mr. Trump himself of inappropriate behavior.” (Italics added)

Almost all of the specific allegations of bonding between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein date back to the 1990s before Trump’s marriage to Melania in 2005. The reporters pretend to be shocked that during this period Trump enjoyed the kind of lifestyle rich men have enjoyed since the beginning of recorded time.

What the reporters fail to understand is how the Times and other liberal media helped popularize this lifestyle by purging it of shame or even the need for discretion. Historically, two men played oversized roles in this devolution, both of whom the Times celebrated. One was “sexologist” Alfred Kinsey. In his 1948 bestseller Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Kinsey laid out the thesis of his godless worldview: “Society tries to restrict all sexual activities to monogamous relations. And moral codes put a taint on many sorts of sexual gratification.”

On January 4, 1948, the day before its release, the New York Times gave Sexual Behavior its imprimatur with a lengthy and laudatory review. Other publications quickly fell in line. Wrote the reviewer at Harpers, “Age old ideas about sex embedded in our legal and moral codes are revealed as myths and delusions under the searchlight of this important investigation.”

Among the biggest fans of Kinsey’s pseudo-science was a graduate student at Northwestern named Hugh Hefner. He promptly wrote an extensive report applying Kinsey’s findings to U.S. laws. “I said that the laws were inappropriate and should be changed,” said Hefner. “I had these dreams.” In 1953, Hefner converted those dreams into big dollars when he launched Playboy magazine. “The sexual revolution began with the Kinsey Report,” he observed. “I’ve said many times that Kinsey was the researcher and I was the pamphleteer.”

By the time the movie Kinsey was released in 2004, it had become well known that Kinsey recruited perverts and had them record their sexual interactions with children, including infants. No one seemed to care. Hell, in 2003, Hollywood gave fugitive child rapist Roman Polanski a standing ovation and an Oscar in absentia.

Times reviewer A.O. Scott knew of Kinsey’s evil. “Sometimes [Kinsey’s] scientific zeal shaded into obsession, and his methods went from the empirical to the experimental in ways that remain ethically troubling.” One hopes that the Times would find state-sponsored pedophilia and child torture “troubling,” but apparently not troubling enough to deter the Times from headlining the Kinsey review, “Where Darkness Ruled, He Shone a Bright Light.”

As to Hugh Hefner, he died just in time to get a hero’s send off from the Times. A month later, October 2017, The Times and The New Yorker broke stories detailing decades of sexual abuse by producer Harvey Weinstein. But in September 2017, Hefner still represented “an escape from American priggishness and wider social intolerance.” Wrote Laura Mansnerus, “Mr. Hefner began excoriating American puritanism at a time when doctors refused contraceptives to single women and the Hollywood production code dictated separate beds for married couples.”

With the Times blessing America transcended its priggishness and puritanism. For the 70 years between the rise of Kinsey and the fall of Weinstein just about anything went in America, including pedophilia. Epstein exploited this moral vacuity. Bill Clinton and others succumbed to it. No saint, Trump avoided its worst excesses, and the media are besides themselves that he did.

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