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

What about the general cast of – matched

celebrity politicians, figures like that who, you know, rode on his plane or supposedly rode on his plane, ended up on his island, people at the level of Tony Blair, Bill Clinton. matched

we'll get to the Donald Trump connection in a little while. matched

But are these these people are also just sort of pulled in by, you know, the normal reality that rich people like to hang out with famous people and vice versa? matched

Like, what's what's your sense of how how that worked? matched

And so let's make these timelines overlap. matched

At what point does he become connected with Ghislaine Maxwell, whom you've already mentioned, his paramour for a while, and then ultimately his accomplice in predation? matched

When do they first start hanging out? matched

Very suspicious circumstances on a boat. matched

So it's 1991 that Robert Maxwell passes away in suspicious circumstances. matched

Epstein is there to help his family. matched

Here it's worth noting that Maxwell himself had. matched

ties to the Israeli government and to Israeli intelligence operations, I believe. matched

And that's a thread that then also connects to the conspiracy theories. matched

But so you said that Epstein and Maxwell date. matched

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And then at some point she transitions into this role as procurer for him. matched

At what point does Epstein actually become a serial sexual predator? matched

So there's clear overlap. matched

Epstein is the playboy financier hanging out with intellectuals and politicians in Florida on private jets on his private island. matched

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