The Epstein case came to public attention when the mother of a 14-year-old girl alerted Palm Beach, Florida police of what her daughter endured inside Epstein's Palm Beach estate.
The liberal Democrats specifically targeted underage girls from broken homes for recruitment into the child sex trafficing ring. Always the Leftist, Epstein advocated played the [[Cultural Marxist]] view that victim and pointed out {{quotebox|"that criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberrationand that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable. He pointed out that [[homosexuality]] had long been considered a crime and was still punishable by death in some parts of the world."<ref>[https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/08/13/nyt-epstein-compared-having-sex-with-underage-girls-to-being-gay-n2551630?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=08/14/2019&bcid=d53ee45cf8bf91fd2ba8c23ef9d774a9&recip=28571320 NYT: Epstein Had No Remorse, Compared Having Sex With Underage Girls To Being Gay], Timothy Meads, ''Townhall, Aug 13, 2019.</ref>
In 2015 at the [[CPAC]] convention Donald Trump told [[Sean Hannity]] that he thought Jeffrey Epstein would have a lot of trouble in the near future over his "orgy island."