Structural Scheme
So, a long time ago, I promised myself that I wouldn’t get into the Jeffrey Epstein stuff. It’s too salacious, and too irrelevant to the real damage Trump is doing to our Nation, to spend much time on. But, from my standpoint, you’ve got to love the imbroglio Trump’s henchmen find themselves in now. They promised for years to reveal the “Epstein Files”. They dangled names of Trump opponents like Bill Clinton as “click-bait” to build their careers; podcast flame-throwers like Dan Bongino, Alex Jones, and Charlie Kirk.
The “Epstein rumors” fit nicely into the “structural scheme” of the founding ideology of the far-right QAnon group. They always “knew” there was pedophilia going on among those “elite” Democrats. If the kids weren’t in the basement of that pizza shop in Washington, then maybe there were all on Epstein’s island. And, “of course”, that’s where the “adrenochrome” came from, the magic elixir made from the “stolen blood harvested from youth”. This all goes farther back then QAnon. It’s part of the ancient anti-Semitic tropes, pivoted to attack Democrats and liberals. Epstein was Jewish, so that all balances out nicely.
Promises Made
Finally we would find it all out, now that Trump was President, and Bondi Attorney General, and Patel Director of the FBI, and Bongino himself now an FBI Assistant Director. Trump, Bondi, Patel, Bongino all promised to reveal the “the truth”. That is — until they didn’t. On the Saturday evening of the Fourth of July holiday (when they hoped no one was listening); The Department of Justice issued an unsigned memo, saying, essentially, “never mind”. There is no list, there’s no coverup or conspiracy of silence. As Obi Won Kenobi says: “There’s no droids to see here, move along, move along”.
We know that’s not true either. There has to be a file as long as my arm on Epstein. Interviews, tapes, evidence gathered (like the plane passenger log). And then there’s Ghislaine Maxwell, the literal keeper of whatever list there is, still alive. She’s a “guest” of the Federal government, the Justice Department the Trump cohort controls, for the next twenty years. She’s even in an honors dorm in Tallahassee Federal Prison, with a near-private room (Tallahassee Democrat). Why isn’t Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, making a “deal” with Maxwell, say a year off for every ten names. It just seems so logical.
Known, Knowns
There is a list of names, of those who trifled with under-age women provided by Jeffrey Epstein. The FBI had to compile one to have a case, first against him, then against Maxwell. We even know some names on it: like Prince Andrew the son of Queen Elizabeth, and Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Professor and attorney to Donald Trump. Of course, Dershowitz claimed he “only” got down to his underwear. No private parts (or under-aged parties) involved with him; just an “old Russian woman” he told us (Above the Law).
Bondi is treating all Americans, but particularly her fans in MAGA-world, like they are stupid. Trump is letting her do it. And there’s only one logical reason that I can think of for the “Obi-Won treatment”. Somebody’s name is on that “list”, a named participant; that Trump doesn’t want released.
Kompromat
Now you can infer anything you want. Is Trump on the list? Maybe, though I think he’s smarter than to get drawn into underage kids. But think of the great “kompromat” (compromising material) the investigative report is to whoever has control of it. The “302’s”, those written reports by FBI agents, would rival the legendary J. Edgar Hoover files that kept him as Director of the FBI for forty-seven years. No one knew what Hoover knew. The inferred power of that information protected his directorship through eight different Presidencies. Only death itself could remove him from office.
Joe Biden (or Kamala Harris) never promised us Epstein’s files, or who killed President Kennedy, or what’s going on at Area 51. But Trump did. And while there probably is nothing new about the assassination, and Area 51 really needs to remain secret, clearly there is stuff about Epstein. I don’t personally care about it: any charges against “participants” are far past the statute of limitations. But I do think it’s interesting that the “Trump folks” have now decided to pretend there’s nothing to see here.
They are not very good a governing. They seem to be even worse at covering up.
