But see, he knows Joi. And naturally, nobody he knows would be the type of person to do something as terrible as enable a notorious abuser of children for profit!

This is the deep rot at the heart of the American elite system: once you're in the club, it's effectively impossible for anything you do to get you kicked out of it. You become anointed as the Right Sort of Person, and everybody accepts that when the Right Sort of Person does something terrible, it's not because they're actually not the Right Sort of Person. It's just an oversight, an oopsie, an opportunity for Learning and Growth. You're operating among friends, and standards among friends are more forgiving than they are among the public at large.

(Even worse, not only are you anointed as the Right Sort of Person, but your children automatically are as well. And they have even less justification for being treated that way than you did.)

Which is why a lot of people are misunderstanding the root problem in the Epstein case. It's not that Epstein corrupted everything and everyone he touched, it's that an Epstein could only exist in an environment where everything was corrupt already. Epstein was the symptom, not the disease.