The administration does not want to throw the baby out with the bathwater
It needs the votes of the Republicans on the list and chief Justice, John Roberts cooperation
Otherwise, the administration is toast
Why would there be an actual “client list”?
There is more here than the public knows.
I feel like there is a parsing of words:
“There was no client list”: Means he didn’t have a ‘list’ of people he was doing business with, but he had lists of people who he was ‘contacting’ but that is different.
“We have no credible proof of blackmail” Means that they don’t have hard, irrefutable evidence, that he was blackmailing people. There is tons of soft evidence, but you need hard evidence and people willing to ‘admit’ and/or complain with a money trail.
So, they are using the above ‘parsing’ to avoid ‘releasing’ because they are getting something for holding it back.
Bondi has lost her credibility. From the list sitting on her desk to there is no list. Sadly the hedonism, perversion and decadence that permeates American culture has not left powerful people unaffected. These are not the sort of people who will humbly apologize and yield their power. Bondi may have been overall a good AG but it is hard to see how she will now be taken seriously.
3 degrees of separation. Its not a theory.
there is always a way to tie anyone you choose to a bad guy— somewhere or some time in their past.
this includes all people up to and including anyone 3-4 generations back.
If any one in the trump team prosecutes or exposes the list... trump who admittedly paid politicians and ran with the “billionaire” jet set crowds for decades... would be implicated by hook or by crook.
someone anonymous and non extraditable would have to “leak” the irrefutable list... say a snowden or the wikileaks guy... Not blondi. my guess is, the wikileaks guy has the list or knows who does. what WAS his name???
OR— God’s invisible hand.
So there’s no “credible evidence” that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals.
This is almost impossible to accept. Epstein was, of course, a depraved person. And we are supposed to believe that he did nothing with all he knew about his “guests”?
Oh, well. I suppose we’ll learn the real truth in about 100 years, when some historian stumbles on some forgotten papers in some archive somewhere.
Then we all have to ask why did Bondi lie?
“NEVERMIIIIIIND”
My guess is that enough Republican Congress critters are on the list to alter the majority in democrats favor, so they feel they have to back down, plus other very influential men on the world stage must also be on the list. It’s disgusting to think that Trump’s presidency can be compromised by the need to protect scum bags, in order to keep the majority in Congress. Anyway, that’s my opinion.
On the other side, of course, is the magical cameras that don't work at the exact times that they are needed, that someone on suicide watch was easily and quickly able to commit suicide, and that many girls have already given their stories about the parties...
I'm very disappointed in Bongino for the utterly pathetic "we will release the videos just as soon as we have "cleaned them up", so that nobody will ever trust what the "new and improved FBI" will ever release.
This divisive “civil war” is being fought by only a small numberer of partisans who love to attack the motives of those who have other, equally beneficial priotities.
From the growing magnitude of this, I’m dreading the next “Squirrel!” distraction that’s inevitable unless Trump gets this quickly under control. The “Squirrel!” is going to have to be massive!
As usual, everybody out of the loop screaming for evidence already “knows” everything. No evidence needed then.
The Epstein list/tapes/photos are too useful to release.
I’m not saying bribery, but, well, an imagined REAL threat is as good as an actual threat.
Too many Republican votes to lose. TRUMP NEEDS THOSE VOTES!
Its as simple as that folks.
-PJ
Wonder how many people would die if Epstein’s list of names are exposed?.
Powerful people don’t play games they play for keeps.
The names are very useful to the feds.
It's what has kept the CIA out of the Kennedy Assassination for over half a century.
There have been bad actors and good actors in a lot of administrations, mostly bad, since the JFK assassination.
All have towed the institutional gatekeeping line.
They were convinced by those in the shadow gubmint which is the military intelligence complex that it would harm the country to shine a light on what the CIA knew and when it knew what it knew. That and the elitist condescending attitude that the American people cannot handle the truth.
Well the JFK assassination was so long ago and most decision making parties are dead, that some minor stuff is leaking through the cracks although one has to believe all the substantive stuff has been shredded and scrubbed.
The problem here is that all this Epstein stuff is relatively fresh and there are significant parties still living and holding significant positions that are vulnerable.
All roads now lead to Trump and that place where the buck supposedly stops.
Has he fallen into the trap of being an institutional gate keeper?
I fear he has.
He wants this to go away, but in some ways it was Trump who put legitimate questions back in the national dialogue although Elite Stream Media has tried to dismiss such questions as "conspiracy" theories.
Not with Epstein but with JFK and even a few vague references to 9/11.
Well, he's hunky dory with the Saudis now which I'm not altogether against, but as I remember it was him in his 2016 campaign that made those vague references in what I believe was the South Carolina primary debate.
I have seen this movie before.
It seems those of us in the MAGA movement are being told what Jake was told at the end of the movie Chinatown, The last line of the movie Chinatown is: "Forget it, Jake; it's Chinatown." The line emphasizes the futility of Jake's actions and the corrupt nature of the world he inhabits, suggesting that some things are best forgotten.
In other words move along, nothing to see here.