The liberal Democrats specifically targeted fatherless underage girls from broken families for recruitment into child prostitution. Always the Leftist, Epstein played the victim and pointed out {{quotebox|"that criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration and that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable. He pointed out that [[homosexuality]] had long been considered a crime and was still punishable by death in some parts of the world."<ref>[https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/08/13/nyt-epstein-compared-having-sex-with-underage-girls-to-being-gay-n2551630?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=08/14/2019&bcid=d53ee45cf8bf91fd2ba8c23ef9d774a9&recip=28571320 NYT: Epstein Had No Remorse, Compared Having Sex With Underage Girls To Being Gay], Timothy Meads, ''Townhall, Aug 13, 2019.</ref>}}
In 2015 at the [[CPAC]] convention Donald Trump told [[Sean Hannity]] that he thought Jeffrey Epstein would have a lot of trouble in the near future over his "orgy island." In May 2016 former [[John McCain]] campaign manager Steve Schmidt told [[Joe Scarborough]] and Mark Halperin (who later went down in a [[MeToo]] scandal) on [[MSNBC]], <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6RoytU8MsQ</ref> that there has "always been specific guardrails" in a campaign and that "the media has policed it," but that Trump was "intent to go there" in exposing the Clinton/Epstein/Liberal Left relationship.<ref>[https://freebeacon.com/politics/msnbc-clintons-jeffrey-epstein-connection-could-blow-up-campaign/ MSNBC: Clinton's Jeffrey Epstein Connection Could ‘Blow Up’ Campaign].</ref>
In July 2019 Senate Democrat Leader [[Chuck Schumer]] called for the resignation of [[Secretary of Labor]] Alex Acosta, <ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/24/secret-lefkowitz-meeting-epstein-case/</ref> who was limited by the [[intelligence community]] as to what remedies he could pursue in negotiating a plea deal with Epstein defense lawyers [[Alan Dershowitz]], Ken Starr and others; according to opensecrets.org,<ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=jeffrey+Epstein&order=asc&page=2&sort=Dhttps://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=jeffrey+Epstein&order=asc&page=2&sort=D</ref> Schumer was one of the very first recipients of campaign cash that Epstein gave to Democrats over the past 20 years.
[[File:Epstein-bill-clinton-1200x630.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Epstein and Clinton. Clinton made sexual aberrations and perversion central to his candidacy, presidency, and post-presidency.]]
==Mainstream media coverage of Epstein==
:{{Main article|Mainstream media}}