hold the conflation please.

act alone? epstein was not serving in a role as his only client. if the clients are nobodies, then why are they not jailed?
i think trump is now forced into a path for distraction via 'the greater crimes of others'; and nabbing some gop is all the better for him to tout impartiality.

ptheland is on the right track regarding credibility of what happened, versus evidence.
i believe there isnt, and never can be any level of evidence that exists to convict trump. the gop cannot afford repudiation of a decade of undying support, it is absolutely identity-destroying to their false moral superiority.

let's run some scenarios :
- client list : if there ever was one, individuals named would immediately demand receipts that prove cash\favors transacted, of which of course there never would be.
- preparation of public victim testimony : how soon would the rightwing smear train discredit what they say? as noted elsewhere, it may be very unusual for clients to have provided their actual names and titles. how does your 2-3 decade memory hold up under stress?
- direct video evidence of trump attempting acts with a minor : well, it was the pre-smartphone era.
but i point to such an event that happened to MAGA parasite rudy guiliani, and has been completely dismissed because it was part of a mockumentary. (if interested, dont just watch the clip\movie which are always edited, but dig deeper into the followup.)
you can be certain if rudy can get way with this, so would trump.
SBC, who has an uncanny talent to extract true behavior from powerful people, glibly stated :
"I here to defend America's mayor Rudolph Giuliani. What was an innocent sexy time encounter with a consenting man and my 15-year-old daughter has been turned into something disgusting by fake news media."


so now it comes to credibility. why would trump, famous for reneging when not threatened, provide leniency to proven pedophile maxwell?
this goes against every tough-on-crime gop hypocrisy.
in the end, the decades of undisputed socializing with epstein, and circumstantial evidence of criminal acts, will probably sink many other long before\if it ever gets to trump. and buying time is as good as a win.