Jefferson saw life as a conflict between the few and the many. And he cast his Republican Party as for "the many," though in the central moral issue of his time, he clearly was of the few.

The conflict now:

It's "I've got your back" (freedom) v. "Watch your back" (fascism).

13. In 2007, Trump said anonymously that “a masseuse about 18 years old, [Epstein] tried to get her to do things.”

That wasn’t Giuffre, but the point is, he knew.

And according to Epstein, that’s why Trump asked Maxwell to stop.

12. But aboard Air Force One back in July, the president acknowledged that Giuffre was one of the teens taken from the club. In 2000, Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her, Giuffre said.

11. It’s true enough that Giuffre had said under oath that she didn’t believe Trump had any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes. In her memoir, she said she met Trump once. Giuffre did not accuse him of any wrongdoing.

8. But the Page 6 item suggests he knew more was going on – that there was a longstanding pattern to “use the spa to try and procure girls.”

This latest revelation in Epstein’s own words is a further incrimination. “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”

3. That anonymous source, Lindsay said, was almost certainly Trump. He “was notorious for laundering his version of reality through Page 6, either anonymously or under the pseudonym ‘John Barron.’” she said.

10. They said that by hiding the name of the late Virginia Giuffre, the panel’s Democrats were just trying to smear the president with selectively leaked emails.

7. As Lindsay wrote, Trump made it sound like their falling out was due to Epstein “hiring away valued employees with in-demand skills.”

6. Trump: “People were taken out of the spa, hired by him. … When I heard about it, I told him, ‘Listen, we don’t want you taking our people, whether it was spa or not spa.’ I don’t want him taking people. And he was fine. Then not too long after that, he did it again and I said, ‘out of here.’”

5. Lindsay had dug up that item, because of something Trump said on Air Force One last July. He said the reason he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago was because he was poaching spa workers. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

4. Here’s what that source (Trump) told Page 6 about Epstein: “He would use the spa to try to procure girls. But one of them, a masseuse about 18 years old, he tried to get her to do things. Her father found out about it and went absolutely ape-[bleep]. Epstein’s not allowed back.”

2. In July, Lindsay had dug up an old Page 6 gossip item from the October 15, 2007, edition of the New York Post. In it, an anonymous source explained Epstein’s exile from Trump’s Florida club, Mar-a-Lago.

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