(Washington) The American linguist Noam Chomsky, one of the most influential intellectuals of recent decades, close to Jeffrey Epstein, expressed his solidarity with him in 2019 for the “horrible way” in which he was, according to him, treated in the media and public opinion.
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In an exchange of emails included in the mass of documents published on January 30 by the US Department of Justice, dated February 2019, a few months before his suicide in prison, Jeffrey Epstein asks advice from his friend, accustomed to finding himself at the heart of fierce controversies.
“I would really like to have your opinion on how to manage my nauseating media coverage, it is going completely wrong,” wrote Jeffrey Epstein to the linguist and radical left-wing intellectual, then aged 90.
Noam Chomsky recommends that he keep a low profile, deploring “the horrible way in which (Epstein) is treated in the press and public opinion”.
“It’s hard to say, but the best way to react is to ignore it,” he explains, saying that he himself “experienced it extensively, but of course not on this scale.”
“What the vultures want is a public reaction, which thus provides a public opening for a wave of virulent attacks, many of them motivated by the search for publicity or hoaxes of all kinds,” says Noam Chomsky, referring to the media.
“This is especially true now of the hysteria that has spread around the exploitation of women, which has gotten to the point where simply questioning an accusation is a crime worse than murder,” he says.
Photos published in December illustrated the proximity between Jeffrey Epstein and personalities like Noam Chomsky, Steve Bannon, former advisor to Donald Trump, and the filmmaker Woody Allen.
Considered the founder of modern linguistics, Noam Chomsky has become a central figure of the 20the and XXIe centuries especially for his role as a committed intellectual, in his radical criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and Israel, as well as the media.
He has often played devil’s advocate in the face of an American society whose duplicity he denounces, through radical positions which have sparked controversy.
