Jeffrey Epstein was not a self-made man.

Jeffrey Epstein was in possession of a number of very expensive assets, homes in particular.

He had two homes in Aspen, and I've been told by service providers in Aspen, an electrician, a plumber, a hairstylist my wife uses, a bartender.

At least four different people have told me, maybe more over the years, that Epstein had two homes or had control of two homes.

Exactly who owned all the things that Epstein, that people believed were Epstein is in some

dispute. And that makes the story even more troubling.

If Epstein was a self-made man, he wasn't, a self-made billionaire, then at least he was indulging his own perversions, and he might have chosen to share access to these

indulgences, perversions, crimes, with people he liked. Some people do do that.

They like to show off. I have this thing. And now you may share in this thing with me, like a backyard

pool or a private jet, except this was sex with children, which is always rape. And of course,

you remember, we call it statutory rape because it is rape by statute. And the reason that's

important, well, isn't every rape a violation of a statute, a state law?

Yes.

But what makes statutory rape important and special and unique is it is in and of itself rape.

You don't get a defense that you would normally have.

You don't get to say, well, she begged for it.

Well, she asked for it. Well, she seduced me. Well, she told me she wanted to do it.

Well, whatever else. She performed the act willingly, voluntarily. I didn't ask her, she asked me. All of those things that could be

used as a defense in a rape. It was consensual. A child cannot give their consent. So if an adult

has sex with a child, it doesn't matter if there was a seduction and how that came about.

If there was romance, if the child wanted to do it, none of those things matter.

A child cannot consent because they are a minority. I'm sorry, a minor. They are a minor. A minor may not make decisions. It's also why a

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