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Kid Berwyn

(25,390 posts)
Thu Jun 11, 2026, 06:01 PM Thursday

Epstein was ESSENTIAL for the Epstein Class

If he wasn’t, he wouldn’t be represented by Alan Dershowitz and chumming around with Lawrence “Goodbye Glass-Steagall” Summers.



To get to the constitutional expert’s fee level, the serial child sex criminal and Glorious Traitor’s best friend would need about $4 million.

That’s what it cost to get a sweetheart deal from US Attorney Alex Acosta and Baby Doc Bush.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-lawyer-admits-many-millions-114542749.html

Great Moments in Bi-Partisanship: The Signing of Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12512201368

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Epstein was ESSENTIAL for the Epstein Class (Original Post) Kid Berwyn Thursday OP
you think Dershowitz does this for money rampartd Thursday #1
That too malaise Thursday #3
If Dershowitz didn't have the dough, he wouldn't get no massages. erronis Thursday #4
"Integrity is for paupers." -- NBC newsman Tim R. Kid Berwyn 18 hrs ago #6
The shit is about to hit the fan malaise Thursday #2
NYT is making out Epstein killed himself. Kid Berwyn 18 hrs ago #5
M$Greedia malaise 10 hrs ago #7

erronis

(24,836 posts)
4. If Dershowitz didn't have the dough, he wouldn't get no massages.
Thu Jun 11, 2026, 08:58 PM
Thursday

Last edited Thu Jun 11, 2026, 10:46 PM - Edit history (1)

It's not like anyone wants to touch him unless very well paid.

Kid Berwyn

(25,390 posts)
6. "Integrity is for paupers." -- NBC newsman Tim R.
Tue Jun 16, 2026, 11:09 PM
18 hrs ago

The professor and acclaimed Constitutional scholar with appropriate hourly pay level practice and he threw it all away for the right to bare grandmas.

Stakes:

Some critics, such as Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, have long seen the changes to Glass-Steagall as a major factor in the 2008 crash. By bringing "investment and commercial banks together, the investment bank culture came out on top," Stiglitz wrote in 2009. "There was a demand for the kind of high returns that could be obtained only through high leverage and big risk-taking."

But others, like former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, have said the focus on Glass-Steagall is misguided. They argue other factors were more important in causing the 2008 crisis, such as bad mortgage underwriting, poor work by the ratings agencies and a securitization market gone crazy. All of that would have happened no matter the size of the big banks.


Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/14/448685233/fact-check-did-glass-steagall-cause-the-2008-financial-crisis

Reality: “The homeowners were sacrificed to foam the runway for the banks,” Tim Geithner is reported to have said.

Kid Berwyn

(25,390 posts)
5. NYT is making out Epstein killed himself.
Tue Jun 16, 2026, 11:02 PM
18 hrs ago

Which is bullshit, no matter how many column-furlongs they find fit to print otherwise. It’s in the best interests of the Ownership Class to bury their relationships to Epstein and Trump’s sexcapades for so many decades. Saying Trump's best daily gross criminal serial sexual assault friend did himself in skips the Jack Ruby-Richard Nixon connection aspect for the sake of the Epstein Class’ story.

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