Tina Brown

But I think if he did it now, there would be a real uproar.

They didn't.

I mean, when we published...

Conchita Sarnoff, who was a campaigner for sexual trafficking, she brought the story to us.

We were the very first to run the piece about the sweetheart deal between Acosta in Florida, the DA, with Jeffrey Epstein, where he got a sort of light slap on the wrist punishment.

Who then became, of course, Trump's labor secretary in the first term.

And so we run that piece.

And then we run these other pieces.

And Epstein, as I write, came in to the offices of the Daily Beast and tried to stop me running it.

I never know to this day how he got past security because nobody said Jeffrey Epstein's coming up.

But I got back from the art department where I was working.

And there he was sitting there with his very cold, dead eyes.

And I said, what are you doing in here?

And he just looked at me and said, just stop.

Just stop.

And it was a very chilling encounter.

I said, you know, Jeffrey, if you have something to say, you know, say it to our lawyers.

You know, we escorted him out.

He didn't follow up.

Why didn't he follow up?