They Want You To Forget About Epstein. Don’t.

It was inevitable that, after returning from a two-week vacation, I would discover that I had missed a lot of major news stories and outrage cycles. That comes with the territory when you go offline for any significant period of time.

What I didn’t expect was to come back and feel like someone who had been in a coma for the past five years, only to awaken and realize that the world is apparently a very, very different place than I thought it was. I didn’t expect that some of the most basic facts that we all took for granted — things that no serious person would dispute — would suddenly become the stuff of “conspiracy theories,” all in the span of just 14 days or so.

But indeed, more or less, that’s what’s happened.

As I returned from vacation the other day, quite unexpectedly, I learned that Jeffrey Epstein was not, in fact, an international sex trafficker — even though he was arrested for being one, and his closest associate was convicted for trafficking children. I also learned that there is no Jeffrey Epstein client list, even though the attorney general said she had one on her desk.

Additionally, I discovered that Jeffrey Epstein did indeed kill himself, even though the video supposedly proving this point was edited multiple times, and omits an entire minute for no apparent reason. Furthermore, I learned that no prominent or powerful people were implicated in Jeffrey Epstein’s underage trafficking operation in any way, even though dozens of them flew on his plane to his creepy sex island. And on top of that, I was informed that the whole issue doesn’t matter, and that it’s weird to care about any of this, and we should all move on and discuss far more important topics, even though literally all of the people now saying that it doesn’t matter all agreed that it did matter as recently as two weeks ago.

This is the kind of inexplicable and shameless pivot that the Left historically specializes in. In service of their ideology, without even a hint of hesitation, Leftists will eagerly denounce the very same facts and ideas that they were parroting just five seconds earlier. And they see no problem with it. They’ll tell you “my body, my choice,” then turn around and destroy your life if you don’t get an experimental shot. They’ll tell you Russia isn’t a threat and that Mitt Romney needs to stop being so paranoid about Vladimir Putin, and then the moment Donald Trump wins an election, they’ll insist that hackers in the Kremlin are capable of mind-controlling millions of voters. They’ll explain that only women can have opinions on abortion, then they’ll tell you that actually, men and women are the same thing. And on and on.

“Hypocrisy” isn’t the right word for this kind of behavior. That would be underselling it. Really, this is zealotry. These people are willing to suspend reality, along with their own common sense, because they believe it will benefit them politically. So in order to remain a viable political movement — and in order to appeal to sane voters, who remain a slim majority in this country — conservatives have to reject this mode of thought, or lack thereof. We can’t blindly follow commands that contradict everything we’ve been told (and everything we’ve observed) for many years. Practically and morally and politically, it’s wrong.

And yet, when it comes to Epstein, it has been people on the Right engaging in this kind of behavior. So let’s talk about Epstein, and what this administration has been saying about him, and what they’re saying now, and what kind of sense we can make of all of this.

Here’s an interview from February 21, in which the attorney general, Pam Bondi, was asked directly about Epstein’s client list. Watch:

????PAM BONDI: “The Epstein client list is on my desk right now to review.” pic.twitter.com/HHEwUvfhzb

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It’s sitting on her desk right now. What’s sitting on her desk? The Epstein client list. She says that specifically. She doesn’t say that this list might be out there somewhere. She doesn’t say that she’s still looking for the list. She doesn’t say that she sent Indiana Jones out on a mission to find the list deep in a cave in the jungle somewhere. No, she says it is sitting on her desk at that present moment.

Less than a week later, on February 26, Bondi was back on Fox. This time, she was there to explain that she was about to release “flight logs” and other information about Epstein. She also said that Epstein had hundreds of victims, and that the DOJ has been slow to release information only because it wants to protect the privacy of those victims:

Pam Bondi teases the release of Epstein flight logs.

Trump’s probably saying ‘The flight logs were rigged. Totally rigged.’ pic.twitter.com/AictKIQyB8

— The Vivlia (@TVivlia) February 27, 2025

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Tomorrow, she says, you’re going to see a lot of names, along with lots of other information. But that was back in February. “Tomorrow” has long since come and gone. So what happened with all of those names that she explicitly, on camera, promised?

Well, nothing. There were no names released. Instead, several influencers were invited to the White House and handed large binders entitled, “The Epstein Files: Phase 1.” Reporters were ready outside to take pictures of the influencers triumphantly holding the binders as they exited. This was obviously a coordinated stunt. They made a big show of releasing the files — or at least phase 1 of the files. But within a few hours, it became clear that the binders didn’t contain any new information at all. Everything in the binders had been published before. They didn’t actually release anything.

WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show

This development posed an obvious problem for Pam Bondi’s credibility. She hadn’t told Jesse Watters that the DOJ was about to release old information that everyone already had access to. She hadn’t promised to repackage previously released documents in a fancy new binder. I didn’t hear that part of her Jesse Waters interview. Did you? Did you hear her say: “Well, you know Jesse, we actually don’t have any new information about Epstein, but what we do have are some fun new binders.” No, instead, she said she had “breaking news” that would make people “sick.” And she specifically told John Roberts (and the audience at CPAC) that the information related to the names of Epstein’s clients. But none of that materialized.

So instead, on February 28, Bondi sent a letter to the FBI director, Kash Patel. We’ll put that on the screen:

Essentially, Bondi claimed that the FBI had thousands more documents in its possession. She demanded that the FBI turn over those documents. Then, in early March, the head of the FBI’s New York Field office was forced to resign after Bondi accused him of withholding the documents. But around the same time, she said the FBI had finally produced the documents.

Here’s what she told Sean Hannity on March 3: “”I gave [the FBI] a deadline of Friday at 8 a.m. to get us everything,” Bondi explained. “And a source had told me where the documents were being kept, Southern District of New York. … So we got them all by Friday at 8 a.m. … “Thousands of pages of documents. I have the FBI going through them…and Director Patel is going to get us a detailed report as to why the FBI withheld all of those documents.”

For the next several weeks, Bondi would repeat variations of this statement. She would claim, over and over again, that the DOJ had received “truckloads” of new documents. She also said the DOJ possessed, “tens of thousands of videos” involving Epstein — videos that were never referenced in any of Epstein’s previous cases.

At a minimum, after all this, you’d expect some form of accounting from the Attorney General and the DOJ about what exactly is contained within these “truckloads” of documents. And given that “tens of thousands” of videos are involved, and Epstein was clearly involved in sex trafficking — which is why he was in prison in the first place — presumably a lot of people are implicated in these videos. That’s especially true since Bondi was explicitly asked about a “client list” and stated directly that the list existed and she had it in her possession.

But instead of any explanation whatsoever, instead of any form of transparency to make sense of all of this, we instead got a memo from the DOJ and the FBI explaining that, after reviewing all of the new information, there was actually no client list, no one else is implicated, Epstein did kill himself, and there’s nothing else to report on the subject. And then we were treated to this performance in the White House. Watch:

BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi addresses Epstein memo questions after reporter grills her on missing prison footage and intel rumors.

During Trump’s cabinet meeting, a reporter put Bondi on the spot:

“Your memo released yesterday on Jeffrey Epstein left some lingering… pic.twitter.com/77jgVDhsOH

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There’s simply no getting around the massive, crater-like hole that the administration dug for itself here. Let’s assume everything Pam Bondi says in that clip is true — which I don’t believe it is. She still hasn’t explained why the DOJ released “Phase 1” of the Epstein files, implying that more were coming. Keep in mind, that was before she allegedly discovered that the FBI was hiding “truckloads” of additional documents. They had always contemplated a “Phase 2.” Why was that? What’s in those “Phase 2” documents? And more to the point, how exactly is it remotely plausible that Jeffrey Epstein could have possessed tens of thousands of explicit videos, without implicating a single other individual?

Here’s what the DOJ could do right now. They could unseal all of the relevant search warrants and affidavits for the raids on Epstein’s properties. They could unseal and un-redact all of Epstein’s financial disclosures. They could also explain, document by document, what was in the “truckloads” of files they just recovered at the FBI. Even if it’s irrelevant, they can explain why it’s irrelevant. Instead, they’re just telling us to shut up, essentially. 

And it’s not a particularly convincing effort. At the end of that clip, Bondi didn’t even respond when she was asked whether Epstein was an intelligence asset. She said she would have to get back to us on that. This has been the “go-to” response to bury this question in Washington for many years now. Rather than say “yes” or “no,” they evade in the most suspicious and incriminating way possible.

Back during the first Trump administration, Alex Acosta, the former US attorney who handled the Epstein case, basically did the same thing. Instead of addressing the question directly, he stalled — which of course, basically confirms that indeed, it’s true that (as The Daily Beast first reported), Epstein “belonged to intelligence.” Watch:

Listen to Alex Acosta’s response when asked if Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset in July 2020. pic.twitter.com/BCmSMrhKOF

— Stella (@clairdestella) February 28, 2025

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There are, I’m afraid, only two possible scenarios to make sense of all of this. As a Trump supporter and a big fan of much of what this president has done so far this term, I don’t relish having to say this. But I will always shoot you straight and tell you exactly what I think. So here are the two — and only two — options.

Option one is that the Trump administration played into the Epstein “conspiracy theories,” knowing they were false, until the moment when it no longer benefited them. They were drumming up Epstein conspiracies before the election, and then once they took power, they didn’t know what to do. So they lied about having possession of a client list, strung everyone along for a while, until finally they dropped the pretense. That’s one theory.

The second is that the “conspiracy theories” are true, and now this administration is — for one reason or another — participating in the cover up.

There is no Door Number Three here. Those are the two possibilities. It’s not a good situation either way. Pam Bondi needs to go, at a minimum. She either lied and said she had the client list on her desk when she didn’t, or she’s lying now and saying she doesn’t have the list when she does. Again, there is no third option. She’s lying either way. You can’t get around it. And we can’t have an Attorney General who lies to us about something as important as this.

Personally, I don’t know the full truth about Epstein and now I seriously doubt that any of us will ever know. But I do certainly believe that he was a global sex trafficker with high-profile clientele. That was pretty much unanimously agreed upon until 10 seconds ago. It’s also the reason he went to prison, and why Maxwell is currently in prison. I also don’t believe that he killed himself. An apparently edited surveillance video from outside of the prison cell isn’t nearly enough to convince me otherwise. It shouldn’t be enough to convince anyone.

At the moment, if we’re going to get any transparency, it’s probably not coming from Pam Bondi’s DOJ. Instead it’s likely to come from Epstein’s closest associate, convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Late last night, The Daily Mail reported: “Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell is ready to reveal ‘truth’ of the pedophile client list, say insiders. … Ghislaine Maxwell is willing to speak in front of Congress about the Epstein Files.” … Now a source said: ‘Despite the rumors, Ghislaine was never offered any kind of plea deal. She would be more than happy to sit before Congress and tell her story. No-one from the government has ever asked her to share what she knows. She remains the only person to be jailed in connection to Epstein and she would welcome the chance to tell the American public the truth.'”

Of course, we have no idea what information, if any, this sociopathic and evil woman will ultimately reveal. But the fact remains that, especially after the humiliating display by Bondi and the DOJ that we’ve all just witnessed, it’s probably worth listening to Maxwell’s testimony. If a “client list” exists, at this point, she’s the most likely person to tell us. Yes, it’s an indictment of Pam Bondi and the DOJ that we’d see any reason to listen to a ghoul like this. But that’s where we are. Millions of Americans aren’t satisfied with what we’ve been told, because it’s been contradictory and insulting to our intelligence every step of the way. So now we’re looking elsewhere. This is what inevitably happens when people are deceived and strung along for years, only to be told that they’re not entitled to any kind of transparency whatsoever. People won’t just move on with their lives, no matter how badly you want them to.

There’s a reason for that. And I want to make this very clear to those on the Right — including the president himself — who are telling us to just drop this subject and move on: We can’t drop it. We can’t move on. Because what we want is justice. We have a deep desire for justice, down in our souls. We see how the corrupt and the powerful are never held accountable. We see violent criminals running rampant in our streets. We want these evildoers to be punished. We want the innocent to be defended and vindicated. We want justice. It’s one of the most basic and most honorable of all human desires. We want to see that justice is done. We want to know who else was in those awful videos that Pam Bondi told us about. We want them dragged in front of us, weeping and begging for mercy. We want them exposed, humiliated, shamed, and punished in the harshest and most painful way. That’s justice. And we won’t drop this subject until we get it.

So unseal everything, including the search warrants and the financial disclosures. Tell us what exactly was in those “truckloads” of documents that you recovered in New York. Show us the “Phase 2 Epstein Files” that you told us about, just a few months ago. In other words, don’t give us any more excuses from bureaucrats on Fox News. Don’t give us any more stonewalling and doublespeak. We’ve seen more than enough of that, in this case and so many others. Instead, for a change, give us something we’re not used to seeing from the federal government and the DOJ. Give us justice.