Much of the fallout of the Jeffrey Epstein "pedophilia among the powerful" scandal has fallen onto Prince Andrew of the U.K., an insignificant second son of Queen Elizabeth II.  The pervert's suicide, though, and the increasingly suspicion-arousing circumstances, point to much more important people.  As I've argued before, the media scrum around Andrew seemed to be an attempt to deflect attention from more powerful players involved with Epstein as the story burns out and the public loses interest.

Beneficiary number one remains Bill Clinton, whose associations with Epstein are pretty astonishing.  He's been listed on the flight logs of more than two dozen Epstein "Lolita Express" flights.  He's been a regular at Epstein's "cowboy village" in New Mexico with its group showers, which, based on the word of maintenance staff, seemed to be all about perversion out of the public eye.  He's been seen with all those candy-stripers.

Well, now the lid's starting to bounce on that boiling pot, and maybe too soon for Bill's taste.  The Sun of the U.K.'s new U.S. edition now has an astonishing series of photos of Clinton livin' it up on Epstein's airplanes, Clinton posing with Epstein's accused pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Clinton whooping it up with underage staff, generally partying hearty on the pervert's dime.  Yet to this day, he claims to know nothing about what Epstein was about, never noticed a thing.

BILL Clinton poses side-by-side with suspected pimp Ghislaine Maxwell — as the pair board pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious private jet.

The former US President is seen smiling on the steps of the plane — dubbed the Lolita Express — next to Maxwell, in astonishing pictures exclusively obtained by The Sun.

All it can do is raise suspicions about whether Epstein's prison "suicide" was in any way authentic — a question that even (tick, tick, tick) 60 Minutes gave credibility to, given the mounting evidence — and what Clinton might be trying to hide.  It's possible there are still pictures and cell phones and other paraphernalia out there if it's not been pre-emptively destroyed.  (After all, if someone could have taken Epstein out to keep him from talking, how much more likely would he be to break and enter into some of Epstein's redoubts to destroy the evidence?)  It's conspiracy stuff, sure, but it's linked to a strange chain of events. 

Why on earth would Clinton hang out with a revolting human being like Epstein anyway?  As Andrea Widburg has noted here, it's almost as if the world's elites have some kind of power racket going, given that pedophilia is all about power over the powerless.  Clinton himself was out of power when he started associating with the monster, and his wife Hillary had it while he didn't.  She even blithely ignored him when he warned her to go to Wisconsin in 2016, which cost her the election.  His association had some kind of roots in power.

What's really strange is why the media are so intent on protecting Bill.  Shouldn't he, and for that matter, his longtime enabler, Hillary Clinton, be answering a few questions from the press?  To date, they are amazingly incurious.  Yet as pictures like the Sun's get out, the clock is now ticking. 

Photo illustration by Monica Showalter with use of public domain sources.