The Parade Of Meat

UNEARTHED: Donald Trump judges the 1991 Look of the Year modeling competition organized by Elite Model Management, featuring participants as young at 14-years-old.

A 2020 Guardian investigation into Elite's Look of the Year competition uncovered allegations from former… pic.twitter.com/tgwoMqjf8Y

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) July 18, 2025

This video is making the rounds: young women (some only 14) parading around a room of fully clothed adults, so they can be assessed and graded like pieces of meat. It reminds me of the picture of Roger Vadim in a Playboy article: he was sitting, fully clothed, surrounded by naked women. Nobody reading the article really wanted to look at Vadim, anyway.

The clear point of publicizing this is to show Trump 34 years ago, ogling barely dressed children, along with the Guardian story about his actions there (no surprise. It’s already known he sponsored a “Miss Teen USA” pageant just so he could walk into the dressing room freely.). This isn’t porn, there’s nothing especially lewd about it. And I understand the political purpose of posting it.  But then we have this:

We know that Bondi’s carefully crafted memo claiming that there is no Epstein “client list” — the quotation marks are in the memo— is also nonsense. There might not have been a “client list” in the FBI’s Epstein files, but the FBI certainly has compiled a list of clients.

When the FBI raided Epstein’s New York mansion, they seized a vast amount of material. In a court memo filed on July 8, 2019, two days after his arrest, the Department of Justice outlined some of the evidence they had seized. This included stacks of compact disks labeled “Young [Name] + [Name].” In short, Epstein kept a carefully curated library of videos showing various people having sex with underage women. Even if Epstein was not actively blackmailing anyone, he sure seems he had plenty of insurance at the ready.

"Insurance”? What did it insure Epstein against? It makes the suicide a more likely explanation, because this stuff is child pornography. Whether or not Epstein imagined it was blackmail material (i.e., “insurance”), he knew it cooked his goose.

And release them? First we have to think of the victims.  How do we ptotect them? Can their identities be deduced from circumstantial evidence? Will they be? Will the wrong people be identified? Is there justice in that? There are actual privacy law issues here; and there should be.

Trump got himself into this shit with his insane conspiracy theories, built on his blunt stupidity. And I have no problem seeing him hoist on his own lies. But MAGA wanted this “client list” exposed because that’s the way it works in the movies, and their connection to reality is tenuous already. In movies, crimes only affect the guilty; or at most leave corpses behind. Murder mysteries classically reveal secrets of everyone touched by the crime, but they all deserve the revelations, and in the end the survivors are better off for it.

Reality is a great deal messier, and besides, the victims won’t be better off for being exposed as the children in those home porn videos.

Bad enough we’re reviewing them parading around for the leering approval of a 45 year old man admiring half-naked children.