Last week, Donald Trump tried to frame Epstein as a “Democrat problem,” but that won’t wash. Befitting a figure who embodied the sinuous ubiquity and pliability of financial capital, Epstein’s network of contacts crossed political as well as geographic boundaries. His world extended from Wall Street, where he started out in the nineteen-seventies at Bear Stearns, to Silicon Valley; Washington, D.C.; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Hollywood; Israel; London; and Paris. Among the individuals he corresponded with or entertained were Trump-aligned techno-libertarian billionaires (Elon Musk and Peter Thiel); billionaires who have contributed to Democratic causes (Bill Gates and Reid Hoffman); a member of Trump’s Cabinet (Howard Lutnick); a leading MAGA figure (Steve Bannon); former Democratic officials (the economist Lawrence Summers and the lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler); and prominent foreign politicians (including Ehud Barak, the former Prime Minister of Israel, and Peter Mandelson, a former British Cabinet minister).