There Was No Epstein!

Look, you've just got to let go of this Epstein nonsense - not only is there no so called 'Epstein List', but Epstein wasn't murdered, nor did he commit suicide.  Because there is no Jeffrey Epstein.  There never was.  He was just some kind of media construct created by the liberal media in an attempt to discredit Trump.   Never mind all that media reporting about all those liberals who were supposedly on that (non-existent) list - it never happened because there was no list and there was no Epstein, There certainly wasn't an 'Epstein Island' either, chock full of underage girls for those liberal bastards to rape (and worse).  You imagined it all.  You know something else, even if that list, not to mention Epstein himself, ever existed, Trump's name wouldn't have been on it - as all that stuff about him being an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon were just misinformation.  None of it ever happened.  All of which is the logical conclusion of Trump and his administration's current attempts to wriggle free from the conspiracy theory which they themselves had nurtured when it suited their purposes.  That's the trouble with these things, they have a nasty habit of taking on a life of their own and attracting armies of crazies who won't be happy until they get more and more 'evidence' to support their demented views.  Once you start trying to shut it down because it has outlasted its usefulness or, worse, looks as if it can be turned against you, then you, in the eyes of the crazies, become part of the conspiracy to suppress the 'truth'.  

But what conclusions can we draw from Trump's attempts to disown the whole Epstein business?  The most obvious is that there really is an 'Epstein List' and his name and/or those of people close to him, are on it.  Which means that he was taking a huge risk in trying to ride the whole business for political advantage for so long - he surely must have known that, eventually, his own supporters would demand its production, which would discredit him, rather than his opponents.  Of course, he might simply have thought that his supporters were so dumb that they'd go along with anything he said.  After all, he does seem to be regarded as some kind of Messiah by many of them, his word sacrosanct.  There's always the possibility that there never was a list of Epstein clients - I mean, outside of paperback thrillers and movies, do people actually compose such lists, then hide them away for future blackmail purposes, (only to have half the world's secret agents searching for it in plots involving double and triple crosses galore, if I'm to believe Robert Ludlum-type novels)?   Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what is meant by the 'Epstein List' - perhaps we're supposed to believe that it is a list composed by investigators going through his records and other evidence?  In which case, why wasn't it acted upon?

 Whatever the truth, Trump finds himself boxed in, unable to reveal the list if it does exist for fear of incriminating himself, or because it doesn't exist.  So he does what he always does in such situations - he goes into hard denial mode.  Facts are denied, new narratives fabricated and wild accusations flung around.  The ultimate conclusion being the denial of Epstein's very existence.  Face it, Trump is pretty shameless when he comes to this sort of thing - Ukraine started the war Russia, it was Biden who appointed the current chair of the Federal Reserve and Biden who signed that trade deal with Canada and Mexico, to spotlight just a few of his recent attempts to rewrite history.  If anyone questions his version of the narrative, producing actual facts, then it is denounced as 'Fake News'.  You'd think by now that people, even his own supporters, would be wise to this - yet they continue to lap up his lies because they reinforce their own warped and deluded world views.  That said, it does seem like the Epstein denials might be a bridge too far for at least some of his followers.  Still, I can't help but feel that we should be grateful to be living through these times as we're getting first hand an example of how things like the Third Reich were built upon lies and false narratives - for many, it seems incredible that so many people could have willingly gone along with it.  But now we are privileged to have front row seats to a repeat performance in the contemporary US.