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Posted on 08/08/2025 6:44:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber
CIA Director John Ratcliffe told the press that officials from the Barack Obama administration—including former CIA chief John Brennan and FBI Director James Comey—may be charged for their role in Russiagate, the spy operation designed to topple the first Donald Trump administration. With FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly overseeing a criminal conspiracy case involving Brennan, Comey, and others, there’s reason for optimism that those who targeted the president, his aides, and supporters from 2016 to 2024 will finally be held accountable.
Naturally, those with the most to lose, such as former Obama officials implicated in the biggest political scandal in U.S. history, and the media that served as their willing accomplices, are playing to block. And the instrument they’ve chosen to protect themselves is another anti-Trump conspiracy theory, this one holding that the administration is hiding information about Jeffrey Epstein to protect Trump from being implicated in his crimes. Call it Epsteingate.
Perhaps the most senior former Obama official pushing Epsteingate is Susan Rice, the onetime national security adviser whose Jan. 5, 2017, email may implicate Obama in the anti-Trump conspiracy. In an X post over a New York Times op-ed by Brennan and Obama’s director of national intelligence, James Clapper, she wrote that the Trump administration’s Russiagate disclosures are a “shameless, dishonest, defamatory scheme to distract from EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN.” She also reposted an interview with author Michael Wolff who claims that after he published Epstein’s comments on Trump in his 2019 book, Siege, the financier called to say he was worried he might have said too much. Wolff suggests that Trump had Epstein arrested.
The media has a substantial corporate interest in obfuscating the Trump administration’s efforts to bring Russiagate to light, since it may also illuminate the role of the press in publishing leaks of classified intelligence to advance known falsehoods undergirding a criminal conspiracy. The specter of civil suits alone is enough to keep media executives up at night. And thus, according to The New York Times, the administration’s release of documents showing the FBI supported a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign plot to smear the president as a Russian agent comes “as the Trump team seeks to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein files.”
The president says Democrats started what he calls the Epstein hoax, but that’s not entirely right. They’re using it to defend themselves from Russiagate, but it was a MAGA-aligned cohort led by Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon who weaponized the Epstein narrative, and now parts of the right are as giddy with anti-Trump animus as first-term Never Trumpers are.
“This Epstein thing is probably going to bring President Trump down,” said Douglas Macgregor, a prominent figure on the MAGA podcast circuit who worked in the Pentagon during Trump’s first term. The problem then isn’t just that Russiagate revelations aren’t breaking through to the rest of the electorate but also that podcasters ostensibly aligned with Trump are employing the ghost of a dead sex offender to fracture his base and hobble him, with help from Democrats, after the 2026 midterms, just as Russiagate hobbled Trump’s first term.
After Trump ignored Bannon and Carlson’s warnings against joining Israel in a campaign against Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities, they seized on the White House’s clumsy rollout of the Epstein case to target the president. The administration had promised too much regarding the Epstein case. As civilians, Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino told podcast audiences there was lots more to what Epstein was up to—but it turned out there wasn’t. In February, Attorney General Pam Bondi hosted an Epstein event at the White House and promised the full scoop. When she instead handed MAGA influencers thin binders containing nothing new on the dead sex offender, Trump supporters were rightly upset.
The problem is that nothing the administration produces now will satisfy this faction of MAGA, because Bannon and Carlson are not interested in transparency or accountability. Rather, they’ve rigged the Epstein story to damage Trump. In their telling, Epstein wasn’t just a predator; he was also a spy, an operative using American teenagers as bait to compromise powerful liberal elites on behalf of the Mossad. They’ve framed the affair so that only confirmation of their mad conspiracy theory will put Epstein’s ghost to rest.
“It’s extremely obvious to anyone who watches that [Epstein] had direct connections to a foreign government,” Carlson told a Florida audience last month in one of his most public perorations unfolding the Epstein conspiracy theory. “No one’s allowed to say that that foreign government is Israel because we have been somehow cowed into thinking that that’s naughty.” Bannon is also given to manful straight talk: “The Epstein story leads to the intelligence services of this country and of Israel,” he told his podcast audience last month. “Let’s be blunt. That’s why all the Israel First guys say there’s nothing to see.”
The logic is that if Trump doesn’t release the evidence that he’s shielding Israel, it’s evidence that he’s owned by Israel. The setup is as crazy and destructive as Russiagate because it’s the Russiagate playbook, except in this reboot, Netanyahu plays Putin’s part, and it’s not Moscow that controls Trump’s brain, but the Jews.
Trump indicated in a Truth Social post that he’s cut off his “past supporters”—presumably meaning Bannon and Carlson—and in another said his polls have gone up since the Epstein hoax. But other polls suggest he’s been hurt by it. A Rasmussen poll found that 56 percent of likely voters don’t believe the FBI and DOJ are telling the truth about Epstein. According to a The Economist/YouGov poll, 67 percent of Americans believe the government is covering up evidence related to Epstein, including 59 percent of Trump voters.
For Bannon and Carlson, Epsteingate is part of a larger effort to drive down support for Israel among younger Trump voters. After all, if the Israeli government violated U.S. sovereignty to traffic girls and steal American secrets, it can’t be a good ally. Maybe GOP youth want to believe in an American version of an Arab-world style legend—look out for the Mossad dolphins!—to distinguish themselves from the traditionally pro-Israel GOP establishment. But Bannon and Carlson’s gambit also puts them at odds with the president while aligning them with the party that pushed the Russia collusion hoax.
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From the democRAT statements pushing for the Epstein list to be released, it looks to me that they altered documents to remove democRAT names and added Republican names.
It was Pam Bondi who weaponized the Epstein matter with her “notebooks” that she handed out to MAGA influencers—as well as endless Fox appearances making promises about the Epstein files/list whatever.
If Bondi had kept her big mouth shut this would have been a non-event.
Author Lee Smith has been digging into Russia Collusion Hoax for years. I have read his material.
“[Carlson/Bannons] seized on the White House’s clumsy rollout of the Epstein case to target the president.”
No. The did not, they have not. This writer is either stupid or deep state plant.
I agree 100% with this breakdown. READ it all to make sense of all this Epstein-Mossad-CIA propaganda that comes from the Tucker Carlson factions, and from the Democrats.
Sadly, the isolationist wing of MAGA is doing the Democrats dirty work of hobbling Donald Trump. Trump bombing Iran to help out Israel pissed them off royally.
FReepers fell for it completely. Epstein will be exposed and is not going anywhere but the Russia coup is.
Yes it did. It did not matter that it was done at night to avoid harming workers and that there was no military escalation.
Lock up Brennan, Clapper and Comey.
There has been no cessation.
They're still struggling--trying one thing after another.
They are so stupid and so morally bankrupt that they cannot see, imagine, or even believe the truth about Trump, his brilliance, his fundamental benevolence, his love of truth and mankind, and the puissance that brings him to dance circles around them and their silly, mediocre "morality" and intelligence.
They simply cannot believe it! Even when it's right before them. That's delusion and how it works.
If it were not for their appalling malevolence and scorn of truth, truth for its own sake, their foibles might even be funny.
Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, Trump have an Epstein issue.
Either he was blackmailing all of them or Epstein was some kind of asset.
Perhaps access agent. A former Spook said it has the hallmarks of access agent.
““Let’s be blunt. That’s why all the Israel First guys say there’s nothing to see.””
Mike Benz is very curious on this topic. Adamant Epstein looks like connected to intelligence but very obviously leaves Israel out of it. He gets called on that in a lot of his posts.
Something isn’t right about the Epstein story.
Trump Admin can and should scrutinize the treasury Epstein files and at ,a minimum, look at the banks involved.
Explain to me why the banks should not be investigated in the Epstein matter?
Trump is trying to have Leon Black’s son nominated to run the Ukraine Slush fund.
Why shouldn’t Bank of America’s late SARs be investigated?SARs are meant to alert law enforcement about things like trafficking, money laundering and terrorism.
170 million of Leon Black’s money was red flagged and tagged
BOA didn’t file those SARs until US Virgin Islands filed a civil racketeering against Epstein’s estate.
Yet, here you are trying to claim there is nothing to investigate
He never said there is nothing to investigate, he said you have to separate the real from the fake. Much of it was made to hurt Trump and hide the Clintons etc. We need to be patient to find the real truth and work our way up the chain.
The Russia coup is more damaging to the Communists.
It’s a BS excuse. There is plenty to investigate. For example, 4700 wire transfers to just one bank involving women and underage girls. Not all of wire transfers but some of them.
For Trump to say the whole thing is a hoax is demeaning to the victims and those in Law Enforcement that saw the red flags.
And now we find out that Epstein docs were in the burn bags.
Bondi-bashers pretending to be disillusioned Trump supporters seem to be the only ones interested in keeping this Epstein nothing-burger alive.
Anyone with a speck of common sense knows if there was anything that could hurt Trump it would have been used long ago.
Nobody said it is all a hoax but there are parts that are such as Trump going to the island which the Dems are pushing. You ok with that being reported if it is fake?
They have interviewed Maxwell and trying to release her transcripts. Give it time. It will all be revealed.
My post was very clear—without Bondi’s big mouth there would have been no Epstein issue.
That is a simple fact.
Mine was clear too:
You Bondi-bashers are either trolls or you’re being trolled.
And another thing:
If you really believe without Bondi’s big mouth there would have been no Epstein issue - then you’ll agree there’s no substance to it.
And if there’s no substance to it - why are we still talking about it?
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