Honey traps and blackmail

In the American Thinker, Thomas Lifson writes,

...It strikes me as quite unlikely that Jeffrey Epstein's motive for allegedly inviting powerful figures from the U.S. and Europe aboard the Lolita Express on a trip to Orgy Island was mere fellowship — as if they were playing a round of golf together. My dominant hypothesis is that he was video-recording highly illegal and morally reprehensible rapes for use as blackmail material. It might have been insurance against serious prosecution for his indulging in his own perversion, which would explain why his punishment the first time he was prosecuted was laughably light:

...But a man who made serious money on Wall Street might well appreciate the utility of being able to blackmail people into sharing secret information, or rendering government decisions that favor him, among many other possibilities.

...Back when Ralph Nader wrote his first book, Unsafe at Any Speed, criticizing the Chevrolet Corvair as an alleged safety hazard, General Motors hired a woman to lure him into a compromising situation. He turned it down and blew the whistle, forcing General Motors to publicly apologize to him and making him into a hero. The fact that GM was at the time the largest manufacturer in the United States implies that even the mighty and powerful, not just the weak and desperate, resorted to the tactic.

There is absolutely no way to scientifically research the topic of the pervasiveness of honey traps, because the people who know have no incentive to talk. But after a lifetime of work and study, I sadly conclude that honey traps in all sorts of forms are part of our political, governmental, and corporate life to a degree that we simply do not want to believe.

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