The wife of left-wing American intellectual Noam Chomsky has said he was encircled and ensnared by the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Files released by the US Department of Justice revealed last week that Chomsky, now 97, advised the disgraced financier in February 2019 - just months before Epstein was found dead in a New York prison cell - on how to respond to "the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public".
The renowned linguist and philosopher advised Epstein, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a minor, to "ignore" the criticism.
Chomsky added: "That’s particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder."
The files also revealed that, in 2016, Chomsky told Epstein he was "fantasising about the Caribbean island" and asked to meet Steve Bannon, the White House's former chief strategist.
