And Then There Were Three: Real Proof Accountability Is Coming

People are asking whether today’s overwhelming Epstein-files vote actually means anything.

They see the 427–1 tally, the easy Senate assent, and they wonder if this is another Washington gesture that will evaporate on contact with reality. It isn’t. And we know it isn’t because the exits have already begun.

Here is the deal. Accountability shows it is working not when institutions speak like they did today, but when powerful men start running for the door. We now have three such men/moments — Andrew, Trump, and Summers — and together they form the clearest through-line yet that the Epstein kompromat network is cracking apart.

1. Prince Andrew: the first collapse

The first defection was Andrew. When he was stripped of his military titles and his royal duties, it wasn’t just scandal. It was the monarchy admitting that the Epstein network had reached too close to the throne to ignore.

Andrew didn’t leave by choice; he was pushed. That was the first signal that even the highest-born could fall.

2. Donald Trump: the pre-defection

Then came Trump’s idiotic confession on Air Force One— the moment he said, with a candor he rarely uses, that he wasn’t a good person and wasn’t going to heaven. That was the second signal. It showed a man who understood the walls around him were weakening, that the secret world of favors, blackmail, and protection was no longer airtight.

Trump knew. I saw it. You heard it. And millions did both it.

3. Larry Summers: the newest exit

Now, with Larry Summers stepping back from public life after his Epstein emails dropped, we have the third and clearest confirmation.

Summers isn’t resigning because he feels bad. He’s exiting because he knows the old shield — reputation, access, institutional prestige — no longer works. He is doing exactly what Andrew did: getting out before the files, the news cycle, and the public turn the lights on.

The through-line is unmistakable

You don’t measure the power of a scandal by how loudly Congress talks. You measure it by how quickly men who once felt invincible start to retreat. Sure the Epstein vote matters, but only because it highlights that the era of impunity is ending.

One collapse could be a fluke. Two collapses form a pattern. Three is the start of a cascade.

Andrew fell. Trump signaled he knew he could fall. Now Summers is falling.

This is how accountability begins — not all at once, but through unmistakable defections at the top. And now there are three, just as I predicted there would be.

So now it is just a matter of time before number four high-tails it out the rotten fucking door.

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