The latest addition to the canon of lore on Epstein, Maxwell and rich and powerful social circles they moved in comes from the veteran British journalist Vicky Ward, who is launching a 13-part podcast based on hours of unpublished interviews with Epstein. It’s telling that power doesn’t necessarily come through Congress or boardrooms, but through small, private gatherings,” she added. Epstein, Ward says, was a master of providing powerful men with what they wanted. But where the Epstein story drifts in the worlds of ultra-conspiratorial QAnon territory is hard to mark, Ward concedes. Amid this, Ward says, the podcast shows that Epstein was, at root, a con artist.

Source: The Guardian July 11, 2021 09:00 UTC