Yesterday afternoon, Chris Cuomo and I shot the breeze about Epstein, Trump, The Idaho Four and much else.
He and I wondered aloud why both the President and Attorney General, Pam Bondi didn’t do what they are, in fact, now doing, and ask the Court to un-redact grand jury material. It was, we agreed “a head-scratcher’.
Until, it wasn’t.
When I read the Wall Street Journal piece that was published online hours later, about Ghislaine Maxwell’s folder containing alleged birthday messages from Trump, Leslie Wexner and Alan Dershowitz to Jeffrey Epstein, I immediately did a google-search for the one thing that was missing from the piece: the year of his fiftieth birthday.
I discovered that Epstein’s 50th birthday was January 20th 2003.
That gave me chills. Why? Because it was around that date that my piece on Jeffrey Epstein, in the March edition of Vanity Fair hit newsstands. (The magazine always hit newsstands weeks before the month it was published in).
I am talking about the same piece from which the Farmer sisters allegations against Epstein were “removed” at the eleventh hour, following a visit to the offices of Vanity Fair by Jeffrey Epstein.
Given that context, you can imagine that I perused this part of the WSJ piece several times:
It was tough to read this, given that just a few days after Epstein’s birthday, on February 8th 2003, I gave birth to my twin sons at just 30 weeks gestation. My ex-husband and I went through hell, not just because our sons were fighting for their lives in the NICU, but because of worry as to whether a furious Jeffrey Epstein would make good on his threats, and would try to harm our tiny babies.
This has all been documented before.
Nonetheless, it’s never fun to get confirmation about something that I have long suspected: that a deeply traumatic, painful experience for me, was just a punchline and a joke for Epstein.
One wonders if my Vanity Fair article was so amusing to him, what on earth was said about his actual victims behind their backs.
That doesn’t bear thinking about.
Meanwhile, Steve and Kristi Goncalves are doing everything they can to try to find out exactly what happened to their daughter, Kaylee, in her last minutes on the night of November 13th 2022, when Bryan Kohberger stabbed her and her best friend, Maddie Mogen to death, along with their two house-mates, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. They know that she woke up and experienced being choked.
Steve talked about this last night on Ashleigh Banfield’s show on News Nation, right before I did a hit with Ashleigh about The Idaho Four. He was clearly exhausted and despondent about the fact that Kohberger will get to sentencing next Wednesday without rendering any explanation or account of his awful actions.
Steve has got to make a victim impact statement in court and he’s wondering how to best do that, without all the information about Kaylee’s death. And how best to do that, without conceding defeat.
It’s an awful conundrum.
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