When Mockery Replaces Justice: Scott Jennings and the Art of Epstein Minimization (1/21/26)

Scott Jennings’ remark that people shouldn’t get their “knickers twisted” over Jeffrey Epstein was a textbook example of elite minimization dressed up as pundit smugness. By framing outrage over Epstein as emotional overreaction, Jennings reduced an industrial-scale sex-trafficking operation—one protected by wealth, power, and institutional failure—into a nuisance topic people should simply move past. His comment treated Epstein not as the epicenter of a still-unresolved criminal network, but as an inconvenient media obsession that distracts from more “serious” political discourse. In doing so, Jennings implicitly scolded the public for caring too much about unanswered questions, uncharged accomplices, and a justice sy...