From: Robert Trivers Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 1:37 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: US idiocy re your comment on predicting Trump, there is HL Mencken&R=9;s famous phrase: "It is IMPOSSIBLE to underestim=te the intelligence of the American people." and then from Richard Hofstadter's=1964 book on Ant-intellectualism in American Life: "There is a cult of ignorance=in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intell=ctualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political =nd cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that m= ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." <=pan style="color:rgb(21,37,91);font-family:helvetica,verdana,arial,sans-=eriffont-size:14.699999809265137px"> all best 1 EFTA_R1_01434144 EFTA02399290