Yup. I see Epstein as the key to the Deep State around the world. Corruption, blackmail, human trafficking, foreign intelligence agencies working too closely together for bad reasons. It’s all a nest of vipers and it looks to me like Trump (”Drain the swamp”) has decided to just walk away from the fight.
Trump has learned from his first term. The Swamp was able to kick him out of the White House.
That said, perhaps the appropriate strategy is to have Patel, Ratcliffe and Gabbard replace everybody in our intelligence agencies. And you do it through attrition.
Patel can relocate all of his FBI employees to Alabama. Most of them will resign because they're not going to want to leave the Swamp.