Jeffrey Epstein →
Event Description
The Daily Beast article reported that Lawrence Krauss provided a public statement defending Jeffrey Epstein, quoting Krauss as saying Epstein 'surrounded himself with beautiful women and young women' ages 19-23, and that Krauss presumed Epstein innocent based on lack of personal observation of wrongdoing.
Quoted Evidence
“"Jeffrey has surrounded himself with beautiful women and young women but they're not as young as the ones that were claimed. As a scientist I always judge things on empirical evidence and he always has women ages 19 to 23 around him, but I've never seen anything else, so as a scientist, my presumption is that whatever the problems were I would believe him over other people."”
Trafficking Assessment
Likelihood
70%
Confidence
85%
Thread Prior
65%
Indicators
Reasoning
The quoted statement exhibits classic grooming/procurement pattern language-specific focus on surrounding himself with 'young women' in narrow age range-and defensive framing that implicitly acknowledges prior trafficking allegations. This is reportage of an allegation (Epstein's pattern), not a denial, so the underlying alleged pattern scores high.
Metadata
Date
2011-04-01(exact)
Thread
Re: Statement in the Daily Beast?
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