I don’t mean to fuel the conspiracy theories that have been going around on the Internet over the last couple of days, but the recent sudden closure of the Jeffery Epstein case by the DoJ and the statement saying that there was no client list to begin with, indeed sounds quite suspicious. I can appreciate the possibility that Epstein did not himself compile a client list in a single document. So, when the AG Pam Bondi says there was no client list, I can accept it with some stretch of imagination. Although, it goes directly against what she said back in February in an interview with Fox News, when asked about a potential client list. At that time, she said that it was sitting on her desk for her review. Now she says by “it” she didn’t mean a client list, but the entire file. Okay, that’s fine. She also said at that time that there were over 250 victims, and thousands of hours of video. I guess we can safely assume that this part of her answer regarding the large number of victims was accurate. Then it’s hard to imagine that the entire operation for which Epstein was tried, convicted, and prisoned, with so many victims and so many hours of recorded videos, was only about Epstein himself and no one else was involved; that Epstein committed all the crimes himself and recorded them too, just in case.

So, my question is, was that really impossible for the DoJ and FBI, with Pam Bondi and Kash Patel at their helms, to compile the client list themselves based on the contents of Epstein’s file and videos? After all, the AG and the FBI director had been talking about Epstein and the government coverup for so many years. Now would be the time for them to do what they had championed for so many years as being the right thing, and to release all that information to their MAGA base to satisfy their thirst for truth. It really doesn’t matter whether the client list existed from the beginning (compiled by Epstein himself) or if it is compiled by the DoJ and FBI agents. There was no need to play with the semantics. They can say there was no client list, but I doubt they can say, with the same certainty, that there was no client. So, why not just compile the damn list yourselves and release it to your base?

But probably even more interesting were two other developments: the reaction of the president to a reporter’s question regarding the Epstein files, and the sudden announcement that the DoJ is opening an investigation against the former FBI director, James Comey, and former CIA director, John Brennan. The president’s feeling of unease and frustration could not be more obvious in his response to the reporter’s question, basically saying that why we are still talking about this, and that we should move on. On the new investigation against Comey and Brennan, although the announcement does not specify any specific charge, one can imagine that it is related to the investigation of Russia’s involvement in 2016 presidential election. But that was already investigated and concluded by a special counsel appointed by the first Trump administration itself. The Republican led Congress also conducted a similar investigation, and the chair of the Senate Intel Committee at the time, Marco Rubio (yes the current Secretary of State), famously said, at the end of the three-year investigation, that “no probe into this matter has been more exhaustive.” So, what is really the new investigation meant to uncover that was not already uncovered by those previous investigations? If there was a charge recommended by either investigation, then they can just move forward to indictment and trial. There is no need to spend taxpayer money on a new and potentially lengthy investigation. Especially when the administration touts fiscal responsibility and fight against waste. Unless, this is just meant to be a new shiny object to distract the MAGA base from the disastrous end to the Epstein case.