🇺🇸📁 This is bleak.
From the Epstein Files. February 3, 2014. The day after the Super Bowl.
Jes Staley, CEO of Barclays, one of the largest banks in the world, emails Jeffrey Epstein:
"you want to know why we are not São Paulo, watch the TV adds on the Super Bowl. Its all about hip blacks in hip cars with white women. The group that should be in the streets, has been bought off. by Jay Z"
In 2013, millions of Brazilians took to the streets against corruption and inequality. Staley is telling Epstein: that won't happen here. Americans are too distracted. Pop culture has done its job.
A banking CEO, writing to a child sex trafficker, explaining why neither of them will ever face consequences. They think you're bought, they think you're asleep, they think the commercials worked. Were they right?