[This post is very personal. I think it needs to be said, because I am not the only one feeling this way. I posted it at Lawyers, Guns & Money and immediately got a jocular response. So I deleted it. I’m not allowing comments here. Just please read and think.]

Reading about Jeffrey Epstein through one more round of media coverage makes me very tired. It is a heavy tiredness, the tiredness that comes when you have heard the same things again and again, the tiredness that comes when one day looks like the one before looks like many years ago.

None of the things being pulled out of the latest tranche of many thousand emails is new. They have been reported on and have slipped away and reported on and slipped away. Each repetition adds weight, not a weight that leads to resolution.

The repetition is tied to political ends – the hope that something will be ugly enough to take down Donald Trump. He seems worried this time, but he seemed worried about E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuits, lost them, and is now appealing them to the Supreme Court.

Women who were exploited and injured by Epstein and his clients, friends, have continued to press their cases. It’s been a decade or more now. If I am tired, how must they feel?

We know what Epstein did. He was almost punished for it, and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison, with the growing possibility of having her sentence ended. A great many other people seem to have been involved, but they slip away. Prince-no-longer Andrew has had his titles stripped, and there has been public humiliation, if indeed he can feel humiliation.

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