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Newly released files shed new light on Chomsky and Epstein relationship

Latest communications undermine Chomsky’s earlier claims that he primarily had financial dealings with Epstein

The close friendship that Noam Chomsky maintained with Jeffrey Epstein continued being detailed extensively among millions of investigative records pertaining to the late convicted sex offender recently released by the US justice department, including Chomsky “fantasizing about the Caribbean island”.

In Friday’s tranche of documents, which built upon earlier disclosures of their close social ties, there is no specific indication that the famed academic and linguist was referring to his friend’s private Caribbean island where children were sexually abused. But the personal familiarity between the two men in that exchange is palpable, as it is in numerous other emails between Chomsky and Epstein aimed at planning more mundane social gatherings.

The Convergence of Epstein and Chomsky

“Men are more inclined to choose evil than good when they are free to choose.” Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy, Book I.

“Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant; and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.” Jesus of Nazareth, Gospel according to Mark 10:43–44.

The court-ordered declassification of files linked to the Jeffrey Epstein case has shaken global public opinion not only because of the scale of the documented abuse, but because of the nature of the material released: complaints, testimonies, and private correspondence that remained under seal for years and that now allow us to observe, within a single corpus, the extremes of contemporary power. In these documents, the girls allege that Jeffrey Epstein organized sexual auctions of minors within closed circles of power. The testimonies describe practices of extreme objectification and recount direct intimate bodily “inspection” of the minors at the hands of Donald Trump, today the most powerful man in the world, before their assignment to one of the oligarchs present. This is not an ongoing trial or a verdict: these are files declassified by court order, containing allegations formally entered into the record, and whose publication has produced international shock because of the rawness of what is described and the names associated with it. There have been thousands of documents, and reading them is hard.

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