Steve Fernlund and The Long Way Home

Last November, Congress overwhelmingly passed, and the President signed, the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The Act was spurred by the delay, despite the Trump administration's campaign promise to make it all public on day one.  If you haven’t been paying attention, Epstein was a wealthy financier who had a hankering for young girls. He was also very effective at cultivating relationships with many rich and powerful people whom he invited to his pleasure islands. People generally assumed these cohorts, but maybe not all, also partook in the nubile flesh his top recruiter, Ghislaine Maxwell, convinced or coerced to visit the islands. Attracted as we are to scandals involving the rich and powerful, Americans of all persuasions demanded an accounting of the government's actions in Epstein’s case. They also wanted to see their evil political and cultural opponents skewered by publicly shaming their involvement, if not actually seeing criminal justice done. On July 6, 2019, Epstein...