Wednesday, July 9, 2025

The Epstein debacle

 

It was not too long ago that super-conservative firestarter Dan Bongino called upon his ‘army’ to keep their eyes on the Epstein drama. Then he was appointed to the federal office of Deputy Director of the FBI. From the moment on, he dropped his old podcast and flung himself into his new job. A number of months later, Bongino, with Kash Patel, the FBI Director, announced that there was nothing conspiratorial to Epstein’s death and that he had committed suicide. We were told that the hard evidence would be produced to that end. Accountability, open-book, honesty, were terms Bongino and Patel were calling for before they were elected, and they continued to use them now in power. 

 

Recently, the DOJ released video footage of Epstein’s cell prior to, and at the time of, his death. This was Patel and Bongino’s incontrovertible evidence.  Certainly, I assumed from the video that the two cell doors on camera, one of those was Epstein’s. Which one? Presumably again the one that did not have someone go in and out of it. There were other folks walking around on a lower floor that we could see. The fact that I had to presume all these things was rather frustrating. It was 11 hours of footage. Why was there no description of the cell number, no comment on that fact that prison staff did go in and out of one of the cells, and, why, oh why, oh why, was there no explanation of the missing minute of actual video footage at 11:59pm, as it suddenly jumps straight to 12:00am without counting down that minute in-between?

 

Enter Pam Bondi. She had previously referred to “tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn, and there are hundreds of victims”.[1] By law, she couldn’t release any video footage of minors. This is only right. So, the info that she did release was concerning the flight logs to Epstein island.[2] Bondi was also directly asked if she was going to release the list of Epstein’s clients. She said that, “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review”.[3] Subsequently, however, she commented that she meant that she was referencing the Epstein file in general, not a client list, for there is no such smoking-gun list.[4]

 Ben Shapiro believes that Epstein was entirely innocent of all charges. Shapiro says that the key witness to the whole case was a nutjob money-grabber woman who brought up false charges.[5]  

 

This whole ‘investigation’ has been, from the first second, a fiasco, farce, dog’s dinner, and a disaster. Not just from the side of the Democrats, but also, and especially, in the hands of the Republicans. The MAGA firestarters have their fair share of the blame to bear, too. Sadly, ‘justice’ is being buried in all of this, and the ‘evidence’ is slipping down a sink hole.  



[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g3kteCpwmkw.

[2] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-pamela-bondi-releases-first-phase-declassified-epstein-files.

[3] https://www.facebook.com/reel/1076746531088379

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkg4Oka3PWE&ab_channel=ScrippsNews

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJUKy8pbFeY&ab_channel=BenShapiro. Edit: originally I had put Tucker Carlson on here, but I had misinterpreted his comment. [See https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xC0hEyddJSc]

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