Editor’s note: No one buys the DOJ’s garbage about Epstein, and “institutional reputation” could be easily repaired. After all, it happened 62 years ago. “We’ve reformed!!”. By far the most likely explanation is that Mossad is involved and that simply can’t be broached in today’s Washington any more than it could under Biden. We know that’s the case with the USS Liberty scandal, and I suspect the same for the JFK assassination. Re the latter, no one from the CIA is alive who was involved, but the revelation that Israel was involved in killing a U.S. president would be a disaster for the Lobby.

The Justice Department’s claim that Jeffrey Epstein had no clients, facilitated no blackmail, and engaged with no third parties deserving of prosecution has the billionaire sex criminal back in the news, and for good reason. The story is just so absurd.

To begin, the document released over the weekend is a direct contradiction of what the people who wrote it said in the not-so-distant past. It was less than six months ago when Pam Bondi stood on the White House lawn and told the country that she had the client list. It was sitting on her desk, she said. That was music to the ears of the millions of Americans desperate for a transparent government. For a moment, they thought they were getting one.

Then there are the document’s specific claims. The sex trafficking operation had hundreds of victims and untold numbers of tapes, but the only people who did the victimizing were Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell? No one else? Then why did Prince Andrew settle with Virginia Giuffre?

And we can’t forget the “suicide.” Take a look at the video the document highlights. According to the FBI and DOJ, it proves without a shadow of a doubt that Epstein killed himself. But it doesn’t. Epstein’s cell door isn’t even in view. And why can’t we see what happened when the prison removed his body from the cell? And why the hell is a minute cut out?

Despite the establishment’s desperate wishes, Americans are not dumb enough to buy this charade. As Saagar Enjeti said on yesterday’s Tucker Carlson Show, it’s complete bulls**t.

Now for the most important part. Why is this happening? As far as we can tell, there are two main possibilities.

The first is that the cover-up exists to protect Donald Trump. He was one of Epstein’s clients, and his administration wants to prevent the world from knowing. But that doesn’t check out. Firstly, the president simply is not the kind of guy to have sex with children. We say that with enormous confidence, having known him for years. Beyond that, if Trump had committed pedophilic crimes with Epstein, wouldn’t that information have gotten out by now? Why would the people who perpetrated the Russia hoax and spent years obsessively trying to throw Trump in prison have turned a blind eye to him being a sex criminal? They obviously wouldn’t have.

The second and overwhelmingly more plausible explanation is that intelligence agencies are at the center of this story. Did Epstein work for the CIA? What about Mossad? The attorney who gave him his generous 2008 plea deal said he belonged to intelligence. One of his victims once claimed he bragged to her about being a secret agent. And a self-proclaimed former Mossad spy has asserted that Epstein and Maxwell worked for the agency. That should probably be looked into, no? How come Washington, no matter which party is in charge, never seems interested in unpacking that allegation? 

Everyday Americans have mistrusted their government for decades, and stories like this remind us why. Who really runs our country? If the people were in charge, the truth about Epstein would be out.