There is a slim possibility that Jeffrey Epstein did actually kill himself, but what possibility is there that he wasn’t running an elaborate blackmail/spy endeavor — a “honey pot” scam — for major Deep State outfits, foreign or domestic?
Or both.
So when Axios scooped everybody, Monday, with the story that the FBI had closed the Epstein case, most rolled their eyes. Not that they didn’t believe Axios. They didn’t believe the aptness of judgment in closing the case.
Even if Epstein did actually commit suicide, it was still a huge criminal justice failure for that act to not have been prevented. And for the notorious Epstein files (remember that the Attorney General had said she had them on her desk) to suddenly go poof! … does not inspire confidence.
Frankly, there’s no reason to trust the government. Especially on this.
Why? We all pretty much believe the initial reports. We remember the image of Bill Clinton — it is surely seared into many a brain, alas for those brains — posing in a blue dress, portrait hung up prominently in Epstein’s trap, I mean, townhouse.
The ties to Israeli intelligence and politics and U.S. spymasters has been fairly well established — at least Whitney Webb’s readers seem certain — and that brings us to the bottom line:
Donald Trump is not shining light upon the Stygian Deep State here, nor “draining the swamp.”
“I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein,” the president said, interposing himself between a reporter and Attorney General Pam Bondi. Trump eagerly added context: all the “successes” and “tragedies” of the current day. Videos? Computer files? Victims? Lolita Island? Brushed aside.
As if unimportant.
Thus America’s unexpected encounter with the dark, Deep State. They insist we blithely accept that there is nothing to see here.
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7 replies on “The Devil and the Deep Blue Dress”
Excellent entry illustration.
The most pathetic people at thus stage of l’affaire Epstein are the Trump loyalists who insist that, indeed, the Epstein List is a figment of mistaken imaginings, that Epstein had no clientele, that he and Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell somehow sexually trafficked minors, yet not to anyone. A novel crime, that. If only the defense wouldn’t prove fatal, Ms Maxwell ought to argue her innocence on such basis.
The demonstrators of 6 January prove themselves fools, not by having demonstrated then, but by failing to demonstrate now, after giving their votes to a man who has betrayed them so terribly.
Are you finally getting the picture?
We’ve always known the risks associated with Trump. You, on the other hand are still blind to the horrors of your preferred gang of morons/lunatics/psychopaths/war-mongers.
Which is why you and your idiot friends should be nowhere near the levers of power.
Pam, I’ve repeatedly made clear that I’ve never voted for Trump; and, prior to the General Elections of ’16, ’20, and ’24, I made clear well in advance that I wasn’t going to vote for him. But I’m not going to embrace lies of one sort to oppose lies of another.
You remind me of those religious fanatics who insist that only willing agents of the Devil oppose their beliefs and practices. We know people who say such things about us to be insane.
Your words believe your other words!
It’s just the latest coverup in a long line of Deep State coverups. Why is anyone shocked? Haven’t we learned by now that the Deep State protects its own? Like it or not, Jeffrey Epstein, along with Thomas Crooks and many others, was expendable.
What if the Deep State really is MUCH deeper and much worse than we had previously supposed, and exposing it really would result destabilizing a lot of the current structures in the world and result in multiple power vacuums. A little insurrection goes a long way. A lot of insurrection everywhere could destroy things for a long time. Notwithstanding, recalling Hayek’s musings that eliminating much of our current administrative situation may result in a pressing, overwhelming national or worldwide organizational needs that vastly exceed anyone’s ability to even formulate, let alone to actually install. And the attempts to do so would inevitably be done poorly and violently.
So we are left with a situation much like the purported massive sexual endowment of Milton Berle, who would place bets on size with the uninitiated. One of his confidents expressed shock that he might have fully revealed himself. He, like the Deep State, reassured that he only exposed enough to win. Showing smart folks in power the terrible consequences of pursuing routing them out.