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

And he's bringing all of these girls through his house, through his life and taking advantage of them. matched

And this presumably both of these things continue happening at the same time, up to the point that we already talked about. matched

the point at which he is actually charged and convicted in a very limited way in 2008. matched

What happens to the social world, all his high-flying connections, after he gets out of that Club Med-style stint in prison? matched

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But it was also plausible to people because they knew that he liked to hang out. matched

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And there's, you know, there's matched

famous this now famous line that Donald Trump himself has that appeared, I believe, in a piece in New York magazine. matched

Before long before Epstein's first conviction, right? matched

Anything like that, where he's talking about Epstein's social life and he says something like he likes women as much as I do, but he likes them on the younger side. matched

So that it seems like that was that was always part of his reputation. matched

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OK, so and this is as you're reporting it. matched

One thing to say, right, because this is now a story that's just been taken up into the vortex of, you know, Trump and MAGA and everything else. matched

But this was a me too story. matched

Just Epstein's behavior alone looks like a version of the Harvey Weinstein story where you have this rich and powerful man who has all this misbehavior and people sort of tolerated over a long period of time. matched

He gets away with some stuff legally because he has all these connections. matched

And then finally, because of your reporting, because of a changing climate, it comes crashing down. matched

I'm also interested in that because I'm interested in basically the space between matched

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