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The Sad Saga Of The Epstein Files Ends

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by blueapples
Monday, Jul 07, 2025 - 4:34

The premise that Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself entered into the cultural zeitgeist following the disgraced pedophile's supposed demise in August 2019 in a manner that unified the American public at a time where it was divided like never before. Despite that enormous schism between the left and right of the American political spectrum, the idea that Epstein committed suicide was so laughably unbelievable that the meme "Epstein Didn't Kill Himself" was even embraced by leftist NPCs who had vilified conspiracy theorists as an existential threat to democracy. While the second coming of the Trump administration used that shift in the Overton Window as a political vehicle to rally its supporters on the campaign trail under the premise that a return to the White House would mean the truth about Epstein would come to light, it has failed to live up to that promise in a manner so disappointing that it has disenfranchised even the most ardent supporters of President Trump's base.

Although some have still clung to the hope that the Trump administration would release the Epstein Files™ and expose the vast criminal network built by the sex trafficker, that faint ember of hope has been completely extinguished following the leak of an internal memo issued by the DoJ and FBI in a report issued by Axios. In the memo, the axis tasked with bringing justice to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein has officially and unequivocally determined not only that Epstein did kill himself but that he did not keep a client list, was not part of a vast blackmail operation linked to any intelligence agencies, and that no other charges would be brought against anyone associated with his criminal network. The joint FBI-DOJ memo concludes that no further disclosures of the evidence they promised to provide to the public would be appropriate or warranted, bringing an end to the charade that the release of the Epstein Files™ has been.

The findings of the memo should come as no surprise as both the DoJ and FBI have shifted away from the rhetoric that Attorney General Pam Bondi along with FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino espoused to cultivate popular support for their respective appointments. However, since initially being posted to the report, the memo hosted on Axios' website has returned an error which makes it inaccessible. This error has led to speculation regarding its authenticity and raises doubts about the credibility of Axios' report. Neither the FBI nor DoJ have confirmed the authenticity of the memo at the time of the report's publication.

While Axios publishing an unconfirmed report would come as no surprise, neither would the memo's legitimacy given the trajectory that the investigation into Epstein has taken. Since taking office, the actions of the DoJ and FBI have spoken resoundingly louder than the words from the mouths from Bondi, Patel, and Bongino's mouths as they have consistently debased themselves before the public by offering brazen contradictions to the claims they initially made about their determination to shed light on the inner machinations of Epstein's criminal enterprise. AG Bondi's orchestration of the first "disclosure" of the Epstein Files™ into the hands of a carefully curated selection of sycophantic right-wing social media influencers was the first nail in the coffin for any hopes that Epstein's victims would finally find the justice they had been deprived of for so long. That PR disaster was followed by an utterly embarrassing display put on by Patel and Bongino in which they somehow were each able to keep on a straight face when the duo reaffirmed the official narrative that Epstein actually killed himself during an interview with Fox News.

While those troubling developments signaled that the truth about Jeffrey Epstein's supposed death would likely never be brought to light, the outcome that his accomplices beyond Ghislaine Maxwell would get off entirely unscathed adds insult to injury upon a public that has been completely misled. Despite this clear dereliction of duty, the joint FBI-DOJ memo shamelessly takes the tone that depriving the public of the truth about Epstein is being done in the interest of protecting his victims from reliving the trauma they endured for the decades the sexual predator was at large, a narrative that FBI Director Kash Patel repeated on his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience during which Elon Musk alleged that the reason the Epstein Files™ hadn't been released was because President Trump was included in them. The tone deaf memo declares that the DoJ and FBI "have labored to provide the public with maximum information regarding Epstein and ensured examination of any evidence in the government's possession." Yet, despite that "thorough examination" of over 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence, the braintrust behind reviewing the massive troves of evidence they admit to have somehow has come to the conclusion that no other suspects merit so much as an investigation about their complicity in Epstein's sordid network of sexual abuse.

The lone promise that FBI and DoJ have lived up to is fulfilling Deputy Director Dan Bongino's pledge to release video evidence (from cameras that were reportedly turned off at the time of Epstein's "suicide") that would incontrovertibly prove that Epstein was not murdered. The memo concludes by offering 2 different links to surveillance taken from cameras in the common area of the Special Housing Unit where Epstein was being kept that they state show that no one entered into his cell overnight before his body was supposedly found in the early hours of August 10th, 2019, when the farce that Epstein had been found dead after hanging himself began. Despite its desperate attempts to conjure compelling language about the FBI's painstaking efforts to enhance the footage to provide exculpatory evidence against the idea that Epstein was murdered, that effort does little more than prove cynics who ridiculed Bongino with the prediction that his long-awaited video evidence would be another nothing-burger as prophetic.

While the seemingly sad conclusion of the Epstein Files™ melodrama will not result in any further charges, it does serve as a damning condemnation of the failures of the Trump administration to follow through on its fundamental promise to expose the corruption that has long festered within the federal government. The outcome that no further charges will be brought against accomplices of Epstein's stands to reason as the conduct of the DoJ and FBI proves that taking those measures would be an indictment of themselves as they have shown they are just as complicit in his crimes.

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