The Trump Administration Claimed They'd Release The Epstein Files, Now They're Saying There's Nothin

The Trump administration played themselves. 




After all of this hoopla and grandstanding about releasing the unedited Jeffrey Epstein files, including giving Epstein binders to influencers at the White House, the Trump administration is now saying that the deceased sex offender didn't keep a client list and his death in 2019 was a suicide. 




The whole Epstein-White House saga is in many cases an example of Trump's time in office: Make a bunch of promises and don't fulfill any. And all of this could've easily been avoided if top brass at the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation just came out and said from the beginning that there was nothing new to present in the death of Epstein who was famous for kicking it with extremely wealthy men and underage girls. 




Axios published a two-page memo, Sunday night, from the DoJ and FBI that claimed after an "exhaustive review" of Epstein-related "investigative holdings," conducted by "teams of agents, analysts, attorneys, and privacy and civil liberties experts," both agencies determined that there was nothing more to release. They added that there was no "client list" and there wasn't any evidence that needed more investigation into the pedophile's powerful friends, NYMag reports. 




From the memo:




... Through this review, we found no basis to revisit the disclosure of those materials and will not permit the release of child pornography.




This systematic review revealed no incriminating "client list." There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not




uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.




The FBI also "concluded that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City," on Aug. 10, 2019. 




The memo says:




The conclusion that Epstein died by suicide is further supported by video footage from the common area of the Special Housing Unit (SHU) where Epstein was housed at the time of his death. As DOJ's Inspector General explained in 2023, anyone entering or attempting to enter the tier where Epstein's cell was located from the SHU common area would have been captured by this footage. The FBI's independent review of this footage confirmed that from the time Epstein was locked in his cell at around 10:40 pm on August 9, 2019, until around 6:30 am the next morning, nobody entered any of the tiers in the SHU.




The memo included two video links that showed surveillance footage from the hallway outside Epstein's room, which supposedly confirms that no one entered his room during the time of his death. 




In 2023, we were told that Epstein was left alone with a "surplus of bed linens" and that the guard on duty fell asleep and all cameras on his unit didn't record. 




Even current FBI director Kash Patel and deputy director waded in the conspiracy theory waters before joining Trump who asked them to bend the knee and join his administration. And now, they've been claiming that Epstein wasn't killed and that there is no there there. 




Attorney General Pam Bondi has been using the Epstein documents like an album rollout or a sneaker release. During "Phase 1" of declassifying the Epstein files, conservative influencers were given binders of what many believed to be new Epstein information. Those lucky enough to be invited to the binder buffet walked out of the White House, showing them off as if they had the golden ticket to Willy Wonka's house. Turned out that the only thing in those binders was a bunch of old information, most of which was redacted. Bondi even claimed on Fox News, in February, that she had the Epstein client list on her desk "right now to review," and now the Trump administration is claiming that it doesn't exist. 




"Where is the Epstein info the American people were promised? You handed us a notebook and promised more was on the way," Chad Prather, who got an Epstein binder in February posted on X. "You told us it existed and now you say it doesn't? America deserves answers."



via: https://hiphopwired.com/2767433/trump-administration-epstein-files/