'Idiotic genre of degeneracy': 'Maggot-crawling depravity' of Epstein birthday book revealed

With all the warranted focus on President Donald Trump's cartoon contribution to the 50th birthday book of the late, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, The New Yorker has pointed out that what has been overlooked is much, much worse.

"But this framing may actually undersell the book’s hideous, maggot-crawling depravity. Reading it from start to finish — there are two hundred and thirty-eight pages, with redactions throughout, in the PDF that the House committee released — is to immiserate oneself in a uniquely cheap and idiotic genre of degeneracy," the magazine says.

This book, cobbled together by Epstein's convicted sex trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who, like the president feigned ignorance on its existence, is, says the magazine, a "semi-confession of sins" that's "cultish," "strange and twisted."

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In the voice of legendary Saturday Night Live character Stefon, this book, The New Yorker says, has everything.

"Sometimes it reads like a catalogue raisonné of outsider art by registered sex offenders. Sometimes it’s like you’ve stumbled into the masked ball in 'Eyes Wide Shut' and everyone is wearing Shein, and smells like Burger King, and there’s that tacky gold s—— that Trump likes all over the walls. Sometimes it’s like you’ve discovered a rich man’s contract with the devil, and, next to his signature, he’s drawn a little penis cartoon."

But the most eye-opening discovery was this one:

"Some of the richest and most influential men on the planet—billionaires and leaders of the known world—helped out with Maxwell’s book, which includes a section titled “CHILDREN.”

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"It appears to have four entries (and is significantly redacted). One kid contributed what amounts to an extended poop joke. There’s a colorful drawing of sad-faced little girls out of a Henry Darger nightmare, with accompanying text that reads, 'here comes the bride all dressed in whit were is the groom he’s in the lady’s room.' There’s a photo of a toddler-age child holding a stuffed toy. And there’s a group of photos of what appears to be a prepubescent girl."

Besides Trump's, the names appearing in this book is a who's who of boldfaced type: "Another grateful former employee lists the men of wealth and taste whom she has met through her work with Epstein: [former President Bill] Clinton, Trump, Prince Andrew, the Sultan of Brunei, Kevin Spacey, Michael Jackson, and so forth."

There are violent images, too.

"A friend imagines threatening girls at knifepoint to strip off their bathing suits. In another snapshot, Epstein is masked and holding what appears to be a gun; the caption refers to a 'first victim' who will 'be attacked and brutally plundered.' Everyone surrenders to him. It’s wonderful and terrible," the New Yorker reports.

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