Opinion by James Kirchick on August 22, 2025.

IT ISN’T JUST MEMBERS OF THE MAGA FAITHFUL WHO ARE FEELING LET DOWN.

When the F.B.I. released a memo last month stating that it could find no evidence that the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein possessed a “client list” of prominent individuals for whom he procured underage girls, nor that he had blackmailed said men, the response from sections of the right was livid. “I just think that it’s a punch in the gut when regular people go to jail all the time, when they mess up and do something wrong, and then it always seems the rich, powerful elites escape,” Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the loudest conservative critics to decry the Trump administration’s refusal to release more documents related to the cas

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