The Epstein client list on Pam Bondi’s desk committed suicide

Why is MAGA angry with Trump, Pam Bondi over Epstein files?

On Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump and US Attorney General Pam Bondi evaded questions from reporters on a recent government review about the accused sex trafficker and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) concluded that Epstein died by suicide in 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell. However, questions are coming from right-wing conspiracy theorists, many of whom are part of Trump’s MAGA [Make America Great Again] base, who have long posited widely circulated conspiracy claims that Epstein was murdered because he possessed sexually compromising material on powerful figures and a “client list”.

Here is what we know about how the Epstein case is causing a MAGA split.

Why have MAGA conspiracy theories about Epstein resurfaced now?

A memo, released on Monday by the Justice Department and the FBI stated that a government review had found no evidence that Epstein had a specific “secret client list”.

The memo also reaffirmed that Epstein had died by suicide, stating, “This conclusion is consistent with previous findings, including the August 19, 2019 autopsy findings of the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the November 2019 position of the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in connection with the investigation of federal correctional officers responsible for guarding Epstein, and the June 2023 conclusions of DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General.”

However, right-wing Americans and online sleuths have long posed conspiracy theories that the government covered up the truth of Epstein’s death. The latest memo has sparked these back into action.

Besides the memo, the DOJ released a video on Monday of Epstein’s jail cell on the night he died, showing that no one entered Epstein’s jail cell during that night. In the video, however, the time code jumps by one minute and two seconds just before midnight, further inflaming the conspiracy theorists.

The man accused of having a client’s list of sexually compromised political figures dies in custody while one of those political figures was running for Office you say?

How could there possibly be a conspiracy out of that?

Watching MAGA tear itself to pieces over the sudden claim of ‘nothing to see here’ after Pam Bondi specifically said she had the Client’s list on her desk is a joyful event akin to watching your average sectarian schism turn on itself by razing each others town squares.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer cult.

There are two explanations.

The first is that the whole thing was a false accusation and Epstein was just your average pervert doing rich pervert stuff.

The other explanation is a tad darker. Some independent journalists and former intelligence officers (like Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence officer) have claimed that Epstein and Maxwell were part of a “honey trap” operation to blackmail powerful individuals.

Maxwell’s father was also suspected of  being a Mossad asset.

Epstein had close ties with high-profile individuals (Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Donald Trump, etc.) and amassed a fortune of unclear origin. His compounds were heavily surveilled, and multiple people, including victims, described being recorded.

There is 61 seconds missing from the 10 hour video released, we won’t ever know what happened in those 61 seconds, but the idea that Trump would release the true details of what happened to Epstein was never going to happen.

Ever.

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