“But now they are saying there was no crime?”
They aren’t saying there was no crime.
What they are saying is that Epstein Island was not a CIA/Mossad operation to entrap or blackmail foriegn heads of state or US opposition party politicians.
And if it wasn’t a blackmail operation, there would be no point in Epstein keeping a list or preserving evidence of pedophilia.
Quite the contrary - if it was not blackmail, but simply a service for rich and powerful pedophiles, the whole point of flying to a private island was the privacy - NOT being on a list, and NOT being recorded or identified.
The only evidence I would expect might exist would be the testimony of underaged girls who were abused, or testimony of any others who witnessed a crime.
As for contact lists, passenger lists or guest lists - they would be entirely meaningless because it’s not a crime to have been there.
I think with regard to this “Epstein list”, MAGA influencers were victims of their own vivid imaginations - and some of them joined team Trump and over promised.
Now they are embarrassed and need to be let off the hook before MAGA implodes. Arguing about this only helps the Democrats.
this guy was a financier for arms dealers. He was involved in Iran Contra. An israeli spy involved with Iran Contra said Epstein was a spy.
Even if Epstein was not part of an intelligence honeypot operation (israeli spy said he was) it does not make sense that he would just ignore all the people that came to his island and their sexual perversions.
Think J Edgar Hoover files.
Of course, Epstein was going to keep information in case he could use it later on for some purpose whether it be an arms deal or blackmailing someone to get what he wanted.