Stephen King: Here's the takeaway, simply put:

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26. Time and the jury will tell

if he does. If Epstein can take down the rich and powerful to get a better deal, he will do so. But, even if he has the goods on Trump, Clinton, Prince Andrew, Dershowitz the underpants lawyer, and others, he can't cut a deal if the people in power fear his testimony will disrupt there own money carts. It's simple dilemma: if you nail the leaders and prominent citizens of the international power structure, all the wealthy and powerful lose. It's one of the reasons why so many international banks have been permitted to get away with laundering drug money in the 100s of billions of dollars for decades. Remember HSBC? And do you think Deutsche Banke's criminality was unknown until Mueller's people scrutinized it?

Epstein's biggest hope, at this time, is to escape from prison using the same methodology that the criminal but less-evil Chapo did. (And, yes, I believe that Chapo, despite the murders and ruined lives he brought about, is not as vile and filthy a pig as Epstein.)