Familiar Names Among The Epstein Files

This past weekend, the U.S. Justice Department dropped a massive release of Epstein files, nearly 3 million pages' worth.

As you can imagine, people spent the weekend digging through them, looking for familiar names. Sure enough, one name familiar to Montana residents popped up.

Epstein Reached Out To Everyone

Dr. Jack Horner, the famous paleontologist and retired Montana State University professor, is mentioned in the files after thanking Jeffrey Epstein and “the girls” for time spent at one of Epstein’s properties back in 2012.

I am not going to speculate about what happened during that visit. What I will say is this. When you read through these emails and see the kind of people Epstein surrounded himself with, it becomes pretty clear that he did not care who you were. If you had name recognition, you were valuable to him.

Epstein collected people the way kids collect Pokémon cards: "Gotta catch 'em all." Politics did not matter. Status did.

HOLLYWOOD, CA - JUNE 09: Paleontologist consultant Jack Horner (L) and actor Peter Fonda attend the Universal Pictures'
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Questions That Need To Be Asked

What really sticks with me, though, is the timing. These emails are from 2012, which is four years after Epstein was convicted in Florida for procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.

I am not accusing anyone of anything, and I do not believe in guilt by association. Still, it is fair to ask why so many people continued to associate with Epstein.

That is the most uncomfortable part of all of this. Not the conspiracy theories or accusations, but the reminder that all these people continued contact with someone who should’ve been radioactive by then.

The Epstein files do not answer every question, and in some ways they raise even harder ones. Maybe that was the point of releasing them in the first place.

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