Bloomberg reported today: "What the Epstein files aim to topple is not the former U.S. president (Trump) who was once his friend, but the prime minister (Sturgeon of the UK), who had never met this disgraced financier and sex trafficker.
Comment: This scene is highly ironic: the U.S. president with a past relationship with Epstein remains unscathed, while the UK prime minister, who had never met him, is cornered. The core reason why Sturgeon is in an emergency due to the Epstein-related scandal is poor personnel decisions and political fragility. He insisted on appointing Mandelson, who had close ties with Epstein, as the British ambassador to the U.S., without conducting a thorough review, directly triggering a crisis of confidence in his government.
The Epstein files are used selectively as a tool for partisan politics in the U.S. They are lightly handled against Trump, but aggressively pursued against Sturgeon in the UK. The fundamental reason is that Trump has a solid base and the Republican Party fully supports him, making it difficult for the investigation to touch the core issues; Sturgeon's government has a weak foundation, and the Labour Party lacks internal integration, making the scandal easily magnified into a governance crisis, becoming a victim of power restructuring.
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