Chinny rub of the day...

Here war criminal Alastair Campbell explains his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.  

Apparantly, they only bumped into each other when he worked for her dad and he felt sorry for her because "her father was such a monster". Although Campbell didn't have any scrupels about Robert Maxwell at the time. Indeed, when Robert fell off his yaught in 1991 in circumstances that are to this day still not fully explained, Campbell punched Guardian journalist Michael White after he told him a joke about "Captain Bob, Bob, Bob...bobbing" in the ocean.  Leaving that aside,... Why should he feel sorry for Ghislaine anyway? 

By all accounts Robert Maxwell doted on and spoiled his daughter. By one account I heard someone heard him talking on the telephone and he kept saying "meow, meow" etc. Turned out he was talking to Ghislaine. That's how close and affectionate they were. Robert Maxwell may have been a fraudster but he didn't take his work home with him. He seems to have been a devoted family man. Ghislaine didn't end up the way she was due to abuse, she ended up that way because she was brought up to believe she had an absolute right to power over other people. 

Anyway, further along this laughable explanation we're supposed to believe that Campbell just happened by coincidence to be on a plane where he bumped into Ghislaine again by accident as you do when you're the international jetset like something out of the 1963 film "The V.I.P.s" and that's the only other time they met. 

She then said "Come meet my boyfriend" and Alastair said "As it happens I have nothing better to do as I'm not that busy being Tony Blair's Press Secretary and my wife decided not to come on holiday with me so as I just happen to be on this plane alone with nothing better to do ... Yes, I'll pop along."

And he just toddled off to Epstein's house (the one Prince Andrew visited) for something to do and found it all a bit odd and nothing happened. 

Now it could be that all of this is true. But as Sam Spade would say look at the number of other people who only met Epstein on one occassion "found him creepy" and never saw him again....  It's remarkable that they all had the perspicacity to quickly remove themselves from his & Ghislaine's orbit.

The story of when Alastair met Epstein... pic.twitter.com/EuFrizeJv0

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