Posted on 07/15/2025 12:15:43 PM PDT by Angelino97
The late billionaire pedophile and former FOB (Friend of Bill) Jeffrey Epstein had no client list, according to Pam Bondi's Dept. of Justice and Kash Patel's FBI.
Really? No 3-ring binders, no Rolodexes, no paper trail, no computer records, no emails or phone numbers, nothing pertaining to any clients?
The DOJ does acknowledge it has thousands of hours of lurid, revolting video depicting underage girls being sexually abused by men.
So are we to understand none of the men's identities can be made out on video?
If, hypothetically, there were videos depicting a former President, or the former CEO of a software company, or a retired baggy-eyed goon from a federal intelligence agency engaging in the sexual abuse of minors, would the DOJ even tell us?
Why hasn't the DOJ offered Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's decades-long procurer, confidante, and fixer, a reduced or suspended sentence in exchange for naming names other than the preternaturally pathetic Prince Andrew?
The various videos in circulation showing Patel, Bondi, and Dan Bongino deflecting and dissembling about the Epstein case look bad. One doesn't have to be an expert in deciphering body language, facial expressions, and elocution to note their profound discomfort.
In the early months of the Trump 47 administration, conservative voters expressing unease about the lethargy of the DOJ and FBI were admonished to be patient.
It takes time, we were told, to divulge all the known information about Epstein's clients; similarly, it takes time to build a criminal case against repulsive cloven-hoofed insurrectionists like John Brennan and James Clapper.
Progressives have a superpower called magical thinking. It enables them to change facts, change reality itself. Progs view the world in simplistic terms — if an event or action benefits the progressive cause, it is good and will be fiercely defended and protected. COVID, for example, was great for the progressive cause; ergo, COVID was great (indeed, a gift from God).
As we approach the six month mark of Trump's second term in office, it appears the Bondi-led DOJ has itself been co-opted into magical thinking.
Remember a little toady FBI lawyer named Kevin Clinesmith? In the ten years the government has been pursuing, framing, charging, convicting, and otherwise persecuting Trump, his surrogates, and his voters, the servile patsy Clinesmith was the only government official convicted of a crime for the Trump frame-up (convicted in 2020; Clinesmith only altered an email, did no jail time, and did not even lose his law license).
Barack Obama and his administration were the real ringleaders behind the government-wide insurrection against Trump, in cahoots with the Intelligence Community. Yet, don't expect a single "truth to power" reporter to ask Obama about how he personally thwarted the peaceful transfer of power, nearly crippled the incoming Trump administration, and wrecked America's democracy for good measure. Yamiche Alcindor? Kristen Welker? Anybody in blue media willing to speak truth to blue power?
All talk from the Bondi DOJ of finally holding malefactors accountable is cheap when we can all see nothing is being done.
No predawn raids with guns drawn. No perp walks in leg irons with the media's cameras rolling. No indictments. No convictions. Nobody going to prison.
It's why an incitement-minded Stalinist like James Comey can play "8647" games with his seashells on social media; he knows he has nothing to fear from the DOJ, FBI, Secret Service, or anybody else.
The FBI's surprise announcement on July 8 of a possible criminal investigation into Comey and Brennan invites skepticism when viewed in the context of similar empty public relations gestures in the past.
The conservative base is exhausted by all the broken promises and losses on the legal front. Tired of moving in for a breakaway dunk only to have our coach call timeout to undercut our success. Tired of the useless complaining about the unfair officiating (district court judges with their universal injunctions, for example) but doing little about it.
No matter the happy talk and spin, we can all plainly see Democrats are not being held accountable for their brazenly insurrectionary crimes over the past decade and more. In some cases, we also notice the statute of limitations is being allowed to lapse without a charging decision.
The DOJ might be in a let "bygones be bygones" mood, or experiencing a failure of nerve, but the current passivity is very reminiscent of the Bill Barr years.
Recall that Bill Barr's DOJ and FBI knew a full year before the 2020 election that the Hunter Biden laptop was real. Yet, they allowed 51 IC spooks and Biden to plunge headfirst into election interference by lying that the laptop was just another Russian fake. Bill Barr's silence was complicity. And debunked blue media worms hysterically insisted the 2020 election was by far the safest and most secure election in American history.
Unpunished and undeterred, Democrats will unapologetically triple down on their seditious and nation-destroying agenda once they regain political power.
Say what you will about the likes of Democrat Attorney General Merrick Garland, but he had a single-minded, fanatical focus on destroying the political opposition (his perceived Republican enemies) to the point of entrapping and framing them with ludicrously false charges, bankrupting many while throwing thousands of peaceful dissidents into prison.
Unlike Garland and former FBI Director Chris Wray, Bondi, Patel, and Bongino have real crimes and real criminals to pursue on the other side of the political aisle.
Sorry/not sorry for noticing, but if the trio fail to execute their duties, they risk becoming an axis of irrelevance.
Most of them could probably be identified if such videos do exist.
Kash has made it clear if we want serious action on a wide range of issues we can forget about it...
https://x.com/Kash_Patel/status/1944101148903760317
...as long as he leads the FBI.
Bondi needs to resign.
Trump 1 had the list just as much as O and deficit Joe
Trump 1 made a LOT of mistakes.
When Blondi pulled rank and called case closed which one has to believe was at the behest of her “superiors”, then Kash and Bongino understood their credibility was cooked.
Kash was able to accept that his credibility was irreparably damaged and released the statement you linked to.
Bongino has went radio silent.
The only reporting that I have seen is by CNN which makes it suspect.
But CNN reported he was back at his post on Monday although he has not made any public comments as did Patel.
I would speculate that Bongino cut a tenuous deal with Trump in which he wouldn’t resign for the time being and he would not make any public statements in support of Blondi.
I’ve never seen so much mixed messaging from either Trump administrations as I have on this issue.
Still don’t know what to make of Lara Trump’s statement.
At first I thought she had cleared it with Trump, but now I’m not so sure.
On the 2Way podcast Halperin nor more importantly Sean Spicer didn’t know what to make of it either.
Both of those guys are seasoned observers of DC politics.
Bottom line is, it has irreparably damaged the credibility of the DOJ and FBI.
There is “the list” and then there is “the files”.
“The list” could be cooked but that would not preclude “the files” from being valid.
Anything is possible at this point.
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