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Thomas Massie’s defeat brings the odious Epstein Era to a humiliating end

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Rep. Thomas Massie’s defeat at the hands of a Republican primary challenger backed by President Trump marked the merciful end of the wretched Epstein Era.

The Kentucky congressman’s involuntary retirement represents not just a notch in the belt of the MAGA political machine ahead of November’s high-stakes midterm elections, but a massive step out of the fever swamp for the country as a whole.

By giving the conspiracy theorists bipartisan cover, Massie bears much responsibility for keeping their circus on the road.

Jeffrey Epstein was an execrable man who used his money, fame and power to commit terrible crimes.

But in the years since his death, scores of similarly execrable actors have committed terrible sins of their own under the guise of pursuing justice for Epstein victims.

Chief among them was Massie, the gadfly who, alongside Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), championed the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

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A lot of good that’s done: Their grandstanding and circumvention of a legal process designed to protect innocents resulted in the amplification of smears against countless people,........

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