The ongoing Jeffrey Epstein matter passes neither the eye test, nor the smell test.
We refer to the traditional, nonscientific – but exceeding useful – standards of common sense formerly employed widely to discern truth. These tests are the sort of thinking long ago neutered in a disturbingly large percentage of the populace by gaslighting.
For the rest of us, in times such as these, the tests continue to be useful tools
Simply put, Epstein’s convenient suicide, while in prison and supposedly under close surveillance, just doesn’t look like it could have happened as portrayed. This is the eye test failure.
More recently, insistence from Donald Trump and his administration that, despite all the promises and innuendo about total disclosure, Epstein was no more than a disgusting sexual pervert who killed himself in shame, has the stench of a whitewash job. It reeks, plain and simple.
We are told to accept that there is (was?) no Epstein client list, ostensibly rife with recognizable names. This is what we now are being told, in direct opposition to what we had been told to expect. This is not going over well with MAGA crowd, nor should it.
We’ve been promised names and instead we’re getting a rubber stamp of previous vague public disclosures. Never mind, is their message. Old news. Nothing to see here.
Yet, a March interview has resurfaced with famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who once represented Epstein legally. In it, Dershowitz insists there is a client list, he knows the names and who is suppressing the release. But, Dershowitz said he can’t go public with details due to confidentiality dictates from judges.
And the conspiracy crowd rushes to fill an information void.
Was Epstein part of a multi-national intelligence operation designed to get the dirt on prominent members of the world community, to be used to control them down the line? A New World Order blackmail game?
Was Epstein silenced the old-fashioned way, with an alleged suicide enabled by cameras failing and guards falling asleep, seemingly on cue?
What about the one-minute gap in the tape?
Has this absence of promised disclosure led to a falling out between Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI chiefs Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, with Bongino reportedly saying either Bondi goes or he goes?
There was a widely distributed interview a few weeks back in which Patel and Bongino, seeming to display the body language of little boys fibbing to their parents, both endorsed the current contention that Epstein committed suicide. Now we have the thing going a step further, with the assertion there is no client list.
Watching Patel and Bongino squirm while repeating the new party line was yet another eye test failure. It seemed as if even they didn’t believe what they were saying.
Now, reporting on the matter indicates at least one – Bongino – and perhaps Patel, too, are upset with Bondi and on the verge of showing themselves the door in protest.
Donald Trump needs a cleanup on the justice and intelligence aisle, immediately if not sooner.
This Epstein case is the sort of coverup he promised to undo if re-elected. He’s been re-elected and, despite all his other followthrough on campaign promises, this is a big issue that will tend to counterbalance that good work he’s done on matters ranging from illegal immigration to cutting off governmental funding for left-wing causes.
Trump and Bondi need to come up with a better explanation than the equivalent of a the-dog-ate-my-homework story.
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