Tonight’s Eyrie submission casts a jaundiced eye upon the Trump admin’s self-beclownment via unforced error concerning the too-conveniently phantasmagorical, now you see it-now you don’t Epstein client list. Coinky-dinkally enough, our bigly esteemed blog-colleague Ken Layne posts a bit of relevant meme-ology over at his crib. To wit:
Mo’ bettah.
The not-subtle, courteous-to-a-fault complaint tacitly made in that second meme above—using a sotto voce which reeks of hopelessness and despair as the realization sinks in at last: there will never be a reckoning for any of the well-connected frequent fliers on the Lolita Express—is sure to leave a powerfully bitter taste in the mouths of even the most placid, steadfastly unflappable Real Americans.
Those folks are a decent, justly proud albeit unassuming breed—endowed as individuals from birth, seemingly, with inexhaustible reserves of equanimity—whose interest in, patience for, and/or willingness to put up with ceaseless torrents of breathlessly gushing Hot Breaking News!!© reportage (despite the aforementioned equanimity) are in the main so grudgingly extended, greedily infinitesimal, and short-lived as to be undetectable using any method, process, or device known to modern science.
Or, to lay a-holt of a hoary, innocuous blogospherical catchphrase we’ve all heard a blue million times already and stand it on its head, so to speak:
This time, it AIN’T funny ‘cause it’s true.
Update! Looks like it is ON.
BONDI OR BONGINO: Bongino Won’t Remain At FBI If Bondi Keeps Job, Source Says
Dan Bongino and Pam Bondi have sparred over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.Dan Bongino, the Deputy Director of the FBI, is threatening to leave the bureau if Attorney General Pam Bondi remains on the job, a source close to Bongino tells The Daily Wire.
Bongino is reportedly furious with Attorney General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which has led many to believe he could walk away from the job that he took in February. The source close to Bongino said that he’s effectively issued an ultimatum, saying he won’t work alongside Bondi.
Bongino left a lucrative career in broadcasting to take the job in the Trump administration. He was not present at the FBI on Friday, after a reported spat with the attorney general earlier this week over the Epstein situation.
The rift between Bongino and Bondi intensified on Wednesday, days after the Department of Justice announced there was no evidence to prove that child rapist Jeffrey Epstein had a client list, had blackmailed powerful people, or had been murdered. Bondi had promised to reveal major details in the case five months ago, when there were no massive revelations to bring forward.
The deputy FBI director, who raised questions about Epstein’s death before he was in the Trump administration, said in May that his review of the file and hours of video recording from Epstein’s jail proved that the child abuser committed suicide. FBI Director Kash Patel also said that the evidence the bureau has reviewed shows that Epstein was not murdered.
A source close to the Justice Department told The Daily Wire that Patel also wants Bondi gone, and that he would consider departing alongside Bongino. The source also said that Patel wants Bondi to unseal more documents.
I have to say, this whole shit-circus has left me mighty damned disappointed in Ms Bondi. Which, I hate that, actually; I had terrifically high hopes for that gal back when Trump first picked her for AG. Now, though? Not so much, sad to say.
Of course, we don’t know the whole story here, possibly never will. That said, though, I’m thinking Trump’s people are going to find it extremely tough to reconcile the fact that Bondi explicitly stated back in February that she had the client list sitting on her desk among a bunch of other heretofore unreleased material and that she’d be releasing the whole kit and kaboodle the following Monday, IIRC, with the current admin claims that there IS no client list; that there never WAS any client list; that all the hinky aspects of Epstein’s purported “suicide” never actually happened, etc.
So what goes on here, anyway? As pretty much everybody knows by now, or should know at any rate, the clumsy “Epstein committed suicide” ploy didn’t pass the smell test; right from the beginning, there was evidence aplenty indicating something entirely Else, great interlocking. mutually-supporting heaps of it. Now, though, the Trump team tries to tell us that there’s “no evidence?”
Sorta calls to mind Praetorian Media’s continually repeated refrain, from mid-November 2020 on, sniffily dismissing “Trump’s baseless claims” of election jiggery-pokery, a rousing Halleluja Chorus of “no evidence” for fraud, tampering, ballot-box stuffing, phonus-balonus absentee/early ballots, &c—the list goes on from there, and it is by no means a short one.
Sorry, Mr President sir, but anybody who’s even half-heartedly paid attention to the Everest of clear, documentary evidence in support of contentions of massive, systemic fraud rife before, during, and after the 2020 Presidential “election” knows better.
This just might be the most unappetizing tidbit from the whole rancid, offputting shit-sandwich.
“In February, I did an interview on Fox, and it’s been getting a lot of attention because … I was asked a question about the ‘client list’ and my response was, ‘It’s sitting on my desk to be reviewed, meaning the file, along with the JFK, MLK files as well,” Bondi said during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. “That’s what I meant by that.”
During that same Cabinet meeting, President Donald Trump blasted a reporter for asking Bondi about the Epstein case.
“That is unbelievable. … I mean I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this when we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas,” Trump said. “It just seems like a desecration.”
“Desecration,” my withered, baggy ass. You say you want to drain the Swamp? Well, I can’t think of a better way to demonstrate just how serious you really are about it than by shining a bright light upon the sloppily-concealed facts surrounding the murder, by Swamp rats, of one of their fellow Swamp-dwellers who had was too much on them for their own comfort.
Deny it all you want to; play along with the Deep State éminences grise to your heart’s content. It doesn’t amount to a hill of beans at this point—they still won’t trust you, they’ll never trust you. Before long, they’ll decide it’s necessary to remove the threat you represent to them in their own minds. This, they will assuredly do, or hire it done, rather, only next time it won’t be some cognitively-impaired, maladjusted teenage whackjob on whom the Secret Service and/or FBI “security” personnel will helpfully turn their backs and avert their gaze from; preposition ladders, rifles, and/or other essential equipment; unlock doors, switch off interior lighting, and close blinds/curtains. After all those preps are done, “security” will spend whatever time remains before the scheduled first pull of the trigger on shrugging off credible reports of suspicious persons, movements, and/or behavior given by alarmed locals who witnessed what was going down at firsthand, in real time.
No, no more of that amateur-hour clowning around. Next time, the contract will be offered to none but seasoned professionals, who will preferably have extensive military sniper training and field expertise. Afterwards, the shooter will police up the general AO—cigarette butts, candy/gum wrappers, boot-prints, empty water bottles, spent brass (assuming he didn’t just rig one of those fancy-schmancy brass-catcher thingamabobbers over his weapon’s ejection port before heading out for the field, thereby making his life a heck of a lot easier). This is NOT the sort of task on which a true professional would ever dream of doing less than a one hundred and ten percent perfect job; after all, it’s his own ass he’ll be saving (or endangering) by it. As such, he will leave no traces of his physical presence behind for investigators to find layer, nor will there be any slightest hint of his ever having been in the vicinity at all.
Unless something goes horribly awry, the shooter’s name will never be known, his true identity a fanatically guarded secret shared only betwixt the three to six FederalGovCo bureaucreeps behind the whole op, ie the small cabal of secret plotters responsible for choosing, recruiting, hiring, and briefing the members of the hit team (a shooter, a spotter, a cpl of gear-humpers who will later double as back-watchers and perimeter guards—probably four (4) support personnel all told, five at most, the fewer the better. As an important codicil from the Hells Angels’ charter says: three can keep a secret only if two are dead).
The treasonous original conspirators will pay their SpecWar field operatives with cold, hard cash money, half in advance, half on completion of their mission: wrinkly, crinkly, tattered, battered, well-traveled US greenbux with nonsequential serial numbers in various denominations ranging from one-hundred dollar notes, then fifties, all the way down to a smattering of lowly double-sawbucks, said currency having been passed along, around, through, and among hands beyond counting.
Once the operators have been paid off in full, all involved parties will disappear like a thin fog wafting off the surface of a lake, this spectral condensation quickly cooking off into nothingness by the heat of the rising summer sun—a damp, chilly mist that vanishes faster than a cockroach caught square in the middle of the kitchen floor when you turn on the light. Same-same with the assassination-provoking, power-obsessed cock-a-roaches on two legs who, if they’re anything like as smart as their more-admirable Neopteran cousins, will likewise vanish, never to be seen or heard tell of again by we lower-caste denizens of the overt world.
Believe it, Mr President: you’ll never know what hit you.
- Entries
I see this entirely different, and for damn good reason.
#1 – Many people thought one thing only to find out when they reviewed the actual docs on hand that it was something else
#2 – In this country when justice works as it should, we go to great lengths to protect the innocent from prosecution and conviction, and that high standard allows many that are guilty to get away
#3 – The “deep state” intelligence apparatus is made up of rather intelligent people that have spent billions of your money enhancing and testing their tradecraft, and they know exactly how to make the innocent look guilty in order to throw off the trail to the guilty.
#4 – These people that generated the data we have will plant false flags
#5 – The people that ran Epstein are damn smart, and more than smart enough not to make a “list” to help the prosecution along when the shit hits the fan. These people have spent entire careers obfuscating the truth and it is not going to be written down in some nice neat little package.
#6 – The documents that the Trump administration has were all generated by the very same people that generated the “Trump Russian Collusion” documents. Are you going to trust any of that shit?
I don’t know what the truth of the matter is. I do know that President Trump is the first president since Ike that truly cares about the country and the middle class, and acts upon that in a very big way. Trump didn’t create Epstein, Trump didn’t go around molesting under age girls, Trump has no reason to protect the guilty but every reason to protect the innocent. That is what we do in America. Making this your “make or break” item is ludicrous.
#7 – I guarantee you that the deep state actors are up to their eyeballs in trying to create problems for this administration. They can and do plant false evidence, add names of innocent people, remove the truly guilty, and a million other things including sowing dissension and leaking lies they make up.
Don’t fall for it. This is part of their plan. It’s clear as a bell.
Re #6 Trump basically said as much. He stated the documents they have are Deep State Fakes.
All of them? Maybe. But even if it’s just 30% of them, who’s to say which 30% that is?
How could anyone take this to court if the docs also show discrepancies between them? The Defense would shred the case faster than the guy who got OJ off and with more validity.
Further, why would Deep State, knowing Trump has won the Election, leave all the evidence, untouched, for Trump’s Team to take over on Jan. 20, 2025. Chances are much of it is destroyed or salted away, leaving a crap pile of Fake Stuff in it’s stead. Stuff they’ve had years to create.
Finally, why would Bondi promise that there was a List and she would Release it if she KNEW there wasn’t one and/or would never release it.
She’s not blameless here, but I believe she believed she had “the List” and spoke before she verified any of it because she was feeling the pressure to “produce something”.
A bad mistake, unfortunately.
Don’t over promise and under deliver.
“But even if it’s just 30% of them…”
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
I agree with you on Bondi except that I never thought she meant she had an actual “list” of names. I know the question she was asked referenced “the list”, but I thought long before she clarified it that she simply meant she had what she believed were the files on her desk.
Imperfection is normal, and when you are dealing with massive complexity imperfection is going to be higher than normal.
I agree you shouldn’t overpromise, but I just don’t think she thought she was doing that at the time.
Yes I saw that.
She said she had files on her desk to review.
It’s another case of “Trump said …” which applies to anyone around Trump.
It goes back to Sarah Palin, who never said she saw Russia from her porch.
They lie all the time about any America First person even before Trump. Like about Reagan.
The issue of the clients list is irrelevant as the Feds must know who all, or most, of Epstein’s actual clients were.
They don’t need a written-out list of names.
Meanwhile, Ghislaine Maxwell is willing to spill all to Congress:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14901591/Jeffery-Epstein-Ghislaine-Maxwell-trump-congress.html
Someone just brought up a good point. Even with a List if they can’t prove a person was engaged in criminal acts (btw the word pedo is thrown around too much. I am pretty sure almost all of the minors were post pubescent. It was statutory rape then, not pedo) they are open to being sued.
Everyone on this List we just made Public is a sex offender criminal.
Prove it!
I can’t.
See you in court. Bring your checkbook.
“as the Feds must know”
I have no doubt there are federal officials that know. But if you think they are going to give you the information to hang their selves for being complicit in a criminal enterprise then your brain is non-functioning. OTOH, given the past criminal conduct of those feds that have handed over documents purportedly pertaining to Epstein, why would you ever believe anything they have? They have been after Trump for 10+ years and released NOTHING while they were in office, so they have nothing of consequence regarding Trump or his administration. Given that, why would Trump withhold the documents? Easy, Trump is protecting the innocent, and knows the docs they have are created by the enemies of America.
I’m pretty sure these “feds” inserted innocent people in the docs to throw off any investigation. There are a thousand ways to create chaos for the administration, derailing the real work being done, derailing stopping what is certainly a crime against children that occurs as a result of allowing tens of thousands to illegally cross the border, many being trafficked, and it is Trump that is shutting that down. But epstein.
Imagine if they did something so innocuous as to change some dates on some documents.
Suddenly the documents are released and the people start providing ironclad alibis to refute it.
There are so many ways to taint a document without altering much at all.
I never said they were going to provide the info, just that they must have it.
Also, everything you’ve said above indicates to me that Kash Patel and Pam Bondi aren’t doing a good job clearing out the entrenched criminals and traitors.
Yes, I know, still early days, but keep the faith.
I have no clue what it is you are trying to say.
The Trump administration is attempting to right a sinking ship without sinking it first, and given the depth with which they found it, it is a monumental task, one that very few people I read have any understanding of.
So, you define what a “good job” is and we can go from there.
Arrests and perps walks for the Deep State criminals and traitors.
Everybody who has paid attention going back many years knows who the worst offenders are, as do Trump and his cabinet picks.
I can tell you this – Trump is not worried about revenge or even retribution, he has one goal, to make America the greatest place on earth. Part of that will be bringing criminals to justice and I suspect we’ll see some of them charged soon enough.
It takes time to build a prosecution that can stand up in court against billion dollar law firms.
Of course this has little to nothing to do with epstein, and epstein is just the latest deep state distraction. It too shall fail.
They’re firing people left and right.
They’re investigating a criminal conspiracy with Clapper, Brennan and Comey and others that is expanding.
This is all a distraction/hit job to divert them from doing anything about the real criminals.
“They’re investigating…” During the 4 years Trump was out of office I would think that he had his team gathering information and evidence about those three and others, so as to have it ready to hand over to the DOJ and FBI.
I mean why wouldn’t he prepare as much as possible for his hoped-for return.
If indeed that was the case what more investigating needs to be done before the arrests and perp walks.
Here’s Sundance’s take on the so-called investigation:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/15/tick-tock-co-pilot-john-solomon-says-fbi-currently-investigating-conspiracy-involving-obama-comey-brennan-and-clapper/#more-274107
Sundance is often wrong. He is going on past dealings with the media. He has no inside information for all the pretending.
I have no clue what the investigation will bring. I go by results, and the results are that in the first six months in office Trump has done more than any president in history, and it is all for the good of the country. In fact, in his first six months in office Trump has done more good than 90% of every president in history has done in four years.
There are many people trying to STOP-Trump. They continue to fail. Trump has one goal and that is to make America the best country on earth and the best it has ever been. He is persevering in spite of opposition from 90% of the federal government. He perseveres in spite of assassination attempts.
Americans are damn lucky to have a Trump come along at this time in history because there is no one else that could have done this.
Under what authority do you think a former president that holds no office can conduct investigations into anything?
All the investigation has been done by the FBI, the corrupt to the core FBI, the same people that create fictional evidence.
The entire federal government is a criminal enterprise but you think Trump can clean it up in a few months.
What team of investigators does a former president have that are legally empowered to conduct criminal investigations?
How does Trump investigate inside the DoJ of ANOTHER Administration?
Being able to present a proveable court case is a different story as well.
As I said, once it was apparent Trump was going to win the Deep State started shredding and disappearing evidence.
Or altering it just slightly to make it a minefield .
I’ve noted that all they need to do is change date and time stamps so that the ‘perp’ is able to present an ironclad alibi and not only is that evidence now unusable and useless, but if made public it taints ALL evidence as possibly tampered and tainted.
And yet they didn’t really change anything significant about the contents, just the date and time stamps .
The Deep State is smart.
“The Deep State is smart.”
To be fair, you don’t have to be very smart to fool the morons of the world.
Barry, I agree with what you said about what Trump has done. He has accomplished a heck of a lot since he was inaugurated. So have most of his cabinet picks.
And yes, he has a whole host of malfactors working against him.
None of that is in any doubt.
As for carrying out investigations, what I called gathering information and evidence, no one needs special permission or authority to do that. There are still some good reporters and internet types who do just that. James O’keefe comes to mind. Daniel Greenfield is another.
Trump’s great wealth, coupled with any top-notch investigators he may have on the payroll, could dig up a lot of dirt, much of which is already in the public domain in one form or another.
I mean who in his right mind doesn’t know that Clapper, Brennan and Comey are first-class scumbags, and know why that descriptor fits.
Finally, I never suggested that Trump can clean up the entire criminal enterprise in a few months.
But the worst of them are still out there, and it’s only now that some of them are being investigated.
I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
Trump cannot be an “O’Keefe” and remain a viable president. It’s not what a president does.
Whatever, fuck. He’ll never do enough for your type. All he’ll ever get is bitching from somebody, which is why he should just tell them go Fuck their selves.
It should be rather obvious that Trump didn’t sit around doing nothing for the four years. There has never been a president in history, not even close, so damn ready to go after election as this one.
But hey, epstein, and Trump didn’t dig up the dirt…
75% of the country doesn’t deserve Trump.
He wasn’t a president during the four years out of office and I never said anything about him personally doing any investigating, he would have others doing that.
My whole point boils down to that Trump had to know that to have a successful second term he needed to be able to identify who the worst bad guys were and have enough ammunition to use against them.
Why would he wait for inauguration day to start that process.
You have no clue.
How many years did it take to get Capone or Gotti.
They didn’t have the resources Deep State does.
I am a professional forensic consultant, and I have a fair number of clients. But I do *not* have a “client list.” If a law enforcement agency were to investigate me, they would have to get my billing statement, emails, etc. and construct such a list from those. I think that folk misunderstood what Bondi said. She didn’t, as I remember, say she had a “list” on her desk. She said she had the *files* on her desk. That would be the equivalent, in my case, to having a stack of bank statements and emails and tax returns, etc. which would provide the information to construct the list.
Thus, I think Bondi thought there was so much stuff that it would be easy to make a “list.” But it may not be.
Now we are hearing that there are 10,000 porn vids, most of which are child porn. That’s a huge problem. The first problem is that if Epstein was a fan of child porn, then many, if not most, of those vids do not involve him or any of his supposed “clents.” People who like child porn are usually collectors, and have huge stockpiles of vids they have downloaded. Thus, many, if not most, of those vids are not of Epstein or his clients. They are just child porn.
For the subset of vids, etc. that *do* involve guests on his island, there is then the problem of releasing the information without the consent of the victim. It sounds great to say that Bondi et al. should stand up and say “We have a vid of so-and-so banging a 13-year-old.”. However, unless you are willing to expose the victim, it’s nothing but libel.
If you bring charges, then there’s discovery. If you aren’t bringing charges, then it’s just propaganda unless you provide the video and expose the victim. The bottom line is that you can’t say that stuff until you are ready to bring charges, and you can’t bring charges until you have *all* your ducks in a row. The right to a speedy trial means that you, as the prosecution, can’t bring charges with great fanfare and then say “but we won’t be ready for trial for a year.”
Thus, it is very difficult to be as transparent as folk want them to be and *also* respect the rights of both the victim and the accused. My suspicion is that this is like all these kinds of investigations. I looks like a slam dunk from 10,000 feet, but once you get down in the weeds, it’s a procedural nightmare.
I think you are 100% correct and you said it extremely well.
Thanks!
Probably correct and I’ll also repeat what I said.
If the date and time stamps are altered on the video, as Deep State and the IA can probably do pretty easily, then you run the risk of this happening:
The AG: I have video of so and so doing such and such to a person, who has agreed to release of the video, and it occured on such and such a date.
Next thing you know you have a letter from a lawyer for so and so, and the Media clued in and all over it, saying that so and so on such and such a date was on a different continent giving a speech to 1,000 people at a three day conference and he has plenty more witnesses that will testify that he never left the conference.
Then what?
Everything is tainted and suspect now, the government has to eat a Slander/Liable Judgement and Trump and Co have a REAL problem.
Trump has already stated the simple truth. This is a Deep State Fake Op just like Russia Russia Russia.
And lo and behold, the WSJ “Letter” has a FusionGPS connection through the “journalist” that broke the story.
Starting to see where this is all going?
Just be patient and wait. They tried to Trap Trump and Trump seems to be about to turn the tables on them.
But…THIS TIME FOR SURE!
My personal opinion, backed by nothing but personal experience in other areas, is that Bondi was set up by her subordinates. This doesn’t mean that her subordinates *meant* to do it — they could just have been overenthusiastic or incompetent. Or maybe they did mean to. I think back to my days as an Army officer. I relied a *lot* on my noncommissioned and junior officers. They’d look at stuff and give me a synopsis. Eventually I’d look at the stuff myself of course, but until I had the time to do so, I relied on them to keep me from making a major mistake. There’s an old trusim that if a noncom wants to destroy the career of a young officer, the easiest way to do it is to follow orders exactly as given.
I suspect, but don’t know, that a lot of people were telling Bondi what they thought she wanted to hear, and then it fizzled. Some time ago, there was a picture showing up on the internet of some Navy Captain holding a rifle with the optics attached backwards. Sure, the officer should have picked up on that — but what it really showed was some noncoms or junior officer aide who either f’d up or sabotaged him. *My* noncoms would have never let that happen to me. I think Bondi was set up.
Anyone that has ever served at a high level in a large group should understand that the leg work is done by subordinates, and the boss is at their mercy.
I suspect you are correct.
Certainly a possibility and I suspect done on purpose.