At least one member of Congress has lost hope that pedophile and suspected sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s client list will ever see the light of day — at least not in its complete form.
Tennessee’s Republican Congressman Tim Burchett recently told right-wing commentator Benny Johnson, “I don’t think it exists anymore. I think they’ve doctored it and we shouldn’t trust what comes out.”
“Phase One”
On February 27, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released “phase one” of the Epstein files, only to quickly learn it was 200-plus pages of already known information. This sent America’s brand new attorney general, Pam Bondi, scrambling. She rattled off an intimidating-sounding letter to another recently confirmed Trump Cabinet member, FBI Director Kash Patel, demanding that all Epstein files be delivered to her office by the next day.
Bondi also said a source told her the FBI Field Office in the Southern District of New York was holding thousands of pages of Epstein documents she didn’t know existed. The head of that office at the time was James Dennehy, who has since been forced into retirement.
The next day Bondi said she received “thousands of pages of documents” by the deadline she imposed. She said Patel was going through them and that he would soon release them. She said he would also provide a “detailed report” as to why the FBI withheld them in the first place.
However, Bondi, in a subsequent interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity, made comments that cause many to believe that no matter who’s in power, the meat of the matter — Who were the powerful people Epstein blackmailed with underage sex? — will never be known. In addition to redacting the names of hundreds of victims, Bondi said, they’ll also redact information related to national security. However, she reassured Hannity, “if something is redacted, you will know the line and why it’s redacted.” Before that, Bondi told Hannity multiple times that the Trump DOJ believes in transparency.
Bondi “Implicated”?
Despite such assurances, skepticism abounds. Interestingly, there’s an Epstein-Bondi connection. As radio commentator Kim Iversen noted:
Pam Bondi is implicated in all of this. There’s a reason why she’s the attorney general, in my opinion, and this is one of those reasons. Back in 2016, Pam Bondi was the attorney general of Florida. She took office as the attorney general in 2011. Now, she was not the attorney general when Epstein got his sweetheart deal, but she was the attorney general later, when a lot of the victims started coming forward and attorneys were saying, “Pam, reopen the investigation into Epstein. You got all these victims, this is bad, he got a sweetheart deal, it wasn’t good, reopen the investigation.” In 2016, Pam Bondi declined — declined to reopen the investigation for all of these victims, many of them underage. This is the attorney general of the United States now.
Well-connected
Epstein hobnobbed with some of the most powerful people in the world, including Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Duke of York Prince Andrew, and even President Donald Trump. According to the New York Post:
Trump reportedly banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago in 2007 over an incident with a club member’s teen daughter. (Trump was not named in the contact list, though some of his family members were.)
Epstein owned several properties, including his own island, where he was suspected of conducting blackmail operations on high-profile people with the use of underage sex slaves.
In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges in Florida of soliciting prostitution from a minor. It was part of a suspicious plea deal that granted immunity to potential co-conspirators and resulted in a ridiculous sentence of 13 months in a work-release program.
Another Trump connection was the federal prosecutor whose team negotiated that sweetheart deal. Alexander Acosta would later serve as labor secretary during the president’s first term. Reports suggest Acosta went easy on Epstein because he was told the pedophile “belonged to intelligence.”
In 2019, Epstein was arrested on charges of orchestrating a child sex trafficking ring. In August 2019, he was found dead in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City. His death was ruled a suicide, but hardly anyone believes that’s what happened.
Investigative journalists posit that Epstein was almost certainly involved with intelligence, probably Israel’s Mossad, possibly the CIA, or even MI6. The prevailing theory is that he ran honey traps to blackmail powerful people for the ultimate purpose of influencing U.S. foreign policy.
