[hcmama]

Trump does not want the files released. That much is clear.

[Soul of the South]

“Trump does not want the files released. That much is clear.”

Then he should never have promised to release the files during his campaign.

[Drew68]

Trump does not want the files released. That much is clear.

There are no Epstein files. Anything incriminating was destroyed the moment Trump clinched Bucks County, if not long ago.

This being said, the issue was handled poorly, particularly that silly publicity stunt with the MAGA influencers and their binders of nothing.

[madison10]

Trump was President when Epstein disappeared. If it wasn’t for the fact that the alphabets were super dirty and Trump haters then, I would say Epstein was in witness protection from the Clinton’s and a few others and our alphabets got him out. Maybe Mossad got Epstein out, not any of US people. That would explain some of the mess.

Makes a decent book, but not so good reality.

[glennaro]

I am furious that the child rapists on that purportedly "non-existent Epstein List" are not going to be identified, prosecuted and imprisoned as the disgusting felons they are, as I have proclaimed vociferously on this forum all week ... BUT ... after thinking on this during a rare quiet moment, I think I understand his reasoning and, albeit tepidly, support President Trump's decision to make this matter "go away".

I think this because should the purportedly "non-existent Epstein List" be released, the reputation of every person named on that list stands a realistic chance of being ruined -- or at least damaged -- in a flash of publicity.

Understand that I could not care less about the reputations of the child rapists being -- as they damn well should be -- destroyed completely -- but there's likely no way we can identify them specifically as the rapists. Some of the names on the purportedly "non-existent Epstein List" may be guilty of making the exceedingly poor decision of being associated with a cretin like Epstein ... but I expect that some of us -- if not many of us still so angry about the rapes will find it difficult to give anyone named on the purportedly "non-existent Epstein List" any "benefit of the doubt" ... and that includes yours truly who will turn a jaundiced eye in the direction of anyone on that purportedly "non-existent Epstein List".

So, for me, this thing boils down to either not punishing a bunch of child rapists or to likely ruining the reputations of those who didn't participate in the Epstein abomination. A distasteful choice I should think.

Anyway, this is where I'm at one week from the day the "Epstein list" Bondi said she had "on my desk" could not -- according to the FBI and DOJ, anyway --have actually been on her desk because it "never really existed, you see".

(Could it be simply that Bondi thought that her Costco shopping list she absentmindedly placed next to the pile of child porn videos the FBI sent to her was the much-rumored Epstein List?) Inane, I know, but it's no less believable than the story the administration has been running with all week.

Cheers! ... Nearly time for a well earned dram of a fine single-malt on a Saturday night!