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The belated release of three million Epstein-related documents is having major repercussions on both sides of the Atlantic, but starkly different ones. In the UK, a high government official, the Ambassador to the US, has been outed as sseverely Epstein-adjacent, and those connected to him are, as they say in Blighty, “considering their positions”—up to and including the Prime Minister.

In Norway, a member of the royal family—yes, they have one—has been named and shamed, threatening the existence of the monarchy itself.

And over here, two high-ranking members of prestigious law firms have had to resign. The latest, a prominent lawyer at Goldman Sachs, was revealed to have had a cozy relationship with Epstein, saying, in one of thousands of entries in the files, per the NYT, that she was ““totally tricked out by Uncle Jeffrey today!” as she was hired by the financial firm.

On one continent, negative consequences are hitting government officials. On the other continent, ours, the reverberations have magically stopped, repelled as if by a force field, at the boundary of Washington, D.C.

Pam Bondi’s desperate performance before a House Committee this week suggests the campaign to protect high officials in our nation’s capital has, on the scale of defense, just reached “frantic”.