His is already one of the most infamous names in recent US criminal history. Now it is also a populist war-cry as the “Epstein class” establishes itself as the newest addition to America’s political lexicon.
The phrase, a shorthand for unaccountable elites, was coined last year by Ro Khanna, a Democratic lawmaker from California who co-authored a bill forcing the Department of Justice to publish all documents in its possession related to Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex offender.
“It’s this sense that this is an elite class who has been responsible for creating one of the most lopsided and unfair economic and political systems that America has had in our history,” Khanna told the FT.
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