Ross Douthat

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293 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 2 Dec

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The Ezra Klein Show · Interesting Times: She Exposed Epstein and Shares MAGA’s Anger · 2 Dec 2025 podcast

the case that it was just Epstein. matched

Do you think it was just Epstein? matched

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What did what what did happen to Virginia? matched

they ended up... In fairness, I mean, in fairness to Alan Dershowitz, she had accused him of sex crimes. matched

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But so from your perspective, then, though, it it is likely that there is some set of men. matched

In the world of men who move through Epstein's mansion, Epstein's Island and so on, who are guilty of essentially having girls traffic to them in part, you know, having sex with minors and so on, whose names whose names have have not who have not been successfully accused in a court of law. matched

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So the next question, what do you think about the evidence and speculation that Epstein intended to blackmail people? matched

Because that, again, is sort of the next phase of the sort of theorizing is that – matched

Epstein wasn't just trying to sort of woo and, you know, befriend these men, but he also liked the idea of having dirt on the people who had done bad things around him. matched

this, you know, and he knows that, you know, matched

So then that leads into the next sort of open question, right, which is Epstein's alleged ties to intelligence agencies, meaning, I think, in practice, either American intelligence agencies or the Mossad in Israel. matched

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We were talking earlier about Epstein's lenient plea deal and why Alex Acosta ended up giving him the plea deal. matched

There is a now famous secondhand quote from Acosta where he is reported by someone else. matched

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