“there was no justification, knowing what he knew, for appointing him as ambassador” (03:22)
I disgree with Ian Hislop there. The justification was pretty obvious: appoint a friend of Jeffrey to work with the friend of Jeffrey that is US president and maybe spare us some of Trump’s strange attacks. It’s not a great justification and probably shouldn’t have been enough, though. The way his appointment insults Epstein’s victims should have been enough to stop it, and the risk of it failing like it has was just a cherry on the cake.
Aliktren@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ian Hislop is a national treasure, as is private eye