[bbanyc]

When Ito turns out to have covered for some of Epstein's "customers", or to have been one himself, will you stop defending him?

[natalyarostova]

Respond to this comment if that happens, and I'll stop defending him and admit everyone was right, and I was totally wrong. I feel like there is only about a 5% chance that's the case, but who knows.

[erikpukinskis]

He took money from this guy after going to prison for rape, attended multiple events where underage prostitutes almost certainly were present... where do you get 95% confidence that his intentions were good?

Here’s a question: if we had a list of everyone who ever attended one of those parties, would you estimate 95% of them had good intentions?

[natalyarostova]

I think this is some special pleading though, since you could make similar statements about any of the many many high-profile people who commingled with Epstein. Is it all one large conspiracy? Or were they all just chumps?

[erikpukinskis]

I feel quite certain there is a large conspiracy? Do you have some doubt that he was at the center of a large conspiracy?