Epstein and the billionaires

No mention of blackmail on behalf of a foreign nation.

Saagar Enjeti is a fleshly argument for permanently ending all immigration from the Asian subcontinent or whatever part of the planet his parents came from. Surely there is nothing he does or has ever done that cannot be done as well or better by someone with a face that bespeaks western European Christian ancestry. What’s more, his mush mouth, tedious attempts at irony, arm-waving, and cracking voice all make him seem like a would-be standup “comedian” doing an impression of Tucker Carlson on a bad night (perhaps a typical one).

As for Leon Black, I’d be grateful to anyone who can enlighten me as to what dog the Times has in this race. It is not the habit of its editors to break a story about a rich Jew with a disgusting lifestyle unless they have a much bigger target in their sights. I just don’t see what that target can be. Could Black be a big donor to the Trump campaign? If not, what?

On a not entirely unrelated matter, I still recall the fuss surrounding the suicide of Black’s father, Eli, back in 1975 (I think). He was on the board of several of the component organizations of Lincoln Center, where I then worked, and as every one of the large number of people at Lincoln Center involved in “development” (= fund-raising) had had contact either with him or with one of his flunkies, the gossip engine went into overdrive lickety-split. Black the elder also became something of a posthumous hero to New York’s plate-glass vendors: every pane of glass in the Pan Am building on Park Avenue was either replaced or reinforced to prevent another millionaire whose corner-cutting was about to go public from breaking a 44th-floor window and hurling himself through it.