Steve Bannon Was Much Closer to Epstein Than You Realize
Steve Bannon’s whole pitch is that he’s leading a movement against a decadent, borderless elite. Except according to newly released messages and emails, that movement has been heavily reliant on the most decadent, borderless elite of all: Jeffrey Epstein.
Newly released documents show that Steve Bannon’s supposedly working-class rebellion against a decadent elite had as a sounding board the most notoriously decadent and criminal elite of all: Jeffrey Epstein. (Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images)
There’s a famous scene in the 1974 film Chinatown where protagonist Jake Gittes confronts the film’s puppet master villain, Noah Cross, the wealthy tycoon responsible for a greed-driven water shortage in the San Fernando Valley, and who — spoiler — raped and impregnated his own teenage daughter.
“How much better can you eat? What could you buy that you can’t already afford?” Gittes asks him.
“The future, Mr. Gittes,” Cross tells him.
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