What the Epstein Files Reveal About How Elite Worlds Work | The Ezra Klein Show
From The Ezra Klein Show
At the end of January, Trump’s Justice Department released what it said was the last tranche of the Epstein files: millions of pages of emails and texts, F.B.I. documents and court records. Much was redacted and millions more pages have been withheld. There is a lot we want to know that remains unclear. But what has come into clear view is the role Epstein played as a broker of information, connections, wealth and women and girls for a slice of the global elite. This was the infrastructure of...
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- Anand Giridharadas (person)
- Donald Trump (person)
- JP Morgan Chase (company)
- New York, New York (location)
- Winners Take All: the Elite Charade of Changing the World (book)
- Kathy Ruemmler (person)
- Sean Bannon (person)
- Larry Summers (person)
- Goldman Sachs (company)
- The New York Times Magazine (company)
- Nobody’s Girl (book)
- Virginia L. Giuffre (person)
- Jes Staley (person)
- Elon Musk (person)
- Harvard (company)
- Bear Stearns (company)
- TED (event)
- Man in the Mirror: Hopes, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City (book)
- Manhattan (location)
- Davos (event)