Jeff Childers on the Epstein Files

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I found it most fascinating that, instead of highlighting the predator arrests, yesterday’s corporate media focused more on Bondi’s ambiguous comments about the Epstein files. For instance, the UK Independent ran a skeptical story headlined, “Pam Bondi dismisses claim Epstein info is missing and defends delays in releasing files.”

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Nobody is more eager to see the Epstein files and prosecutions than I am. But as I’ve said many times before, I have serious doubts whether the blackmail evidence will ever be publicly released, at least in full. Frankly, I think it’s more likely that Nancy Pelosi will fly to the moon on a broomstick. In other words, it’s possible, but devilishly hard to suss out the mechanics.

I would love to be wrong.

The Administration is not signaling any imminent full disclosure. For example, yesterday Attorney General Bondi said FBI was diligently reviewing “tens of thousands” of Epstein videos “or child porn” that are by definition illegal. The government must protect victims. How could the DOJ in good conscience release that kind of material in any public way, without extremely careful and meticulous work beforehand?

Disappointing many conservatives, Bondi suggested the “tens of thousands” of Epstein videos included only Epstein himself and hundreds of underage victims. She did not mention his blackmail targets. So even if these videos were released, they are unlikely to satisfy anyone. Bondi said nothing about what we’re all really waiting for— the list.

Bondi’s comments included only one or two sentences, But they still made sneering headlines. And her comments responded to relentless questions from reporters about the status of the investigation. I find corporate media’s newfound curiosity and criticism to be completely inauthentic. Where was all this investigatory interest during the Biden years, when the Epstein files were buried in concrete under the FBI’s swimming pool?

All I know for sure is that the Trump Team knows full well what we really want to see, which is justice. Unlike corporate media, both Bondi and Kash Patel spent years criticizing the Biden Administration’s inaction. They know. But it is far too early to conclude that Trump’s people are now part of the cover-up.

If charges were to be brought against some of the world’s most politically powerful people, those cases must be airtight. Airtight cases don’t appear overnight.

And even if this calculus is morally indefensible, from a political perspective, holding back the Epstein files makes strategic sense. At this early moment in his second term, Trump is trying to negotiate with the same world leaders who probably fear disclosure. They are much more likely to cooperate if they think there is some chance they could escape the prosecutorial net. Given that incalculable political advantage, why rush something that shouldn’t be rushed anyway?

Why telegraph anything at all about the pending investigations?

On the flip side, if those same bad actors at the highest levels of global governance fear imminent disclosure, they will likely make non-negotiable demands for immunity and confidentiality, setting all other considerations aside. The more that people like Bondi or Patel ratchet up the rhetoric, the more likely it becomes that Trump will get bogged down in backchannel demands for Epstein investigation protection.

My point is not to defend any action or inaction from Trump’s DOJ. Rather, I’m simply pointing out that the situation is a hopelessly complicated plate of competing incentive spaghetti. We don’t know, and they can’t tell us, everything that is involved in the investigations.

But expecting some kind of frantic, poorly thought-through dump of the FBI’s Epstein files is naive at best.

Not everyone will agree with me. But I suggest we remain patient. The FBI has plenty of work to do to save this generation of children. And for Heaven’s sake, don’t take corporate media’s bait; their new fascination with the pace of the Epstein investigation is fake and ghey.

We must continue the drumbeats of demand for accountability. But let’s not throw our own team into the wood chipper along with the perpetrators. Be angry, but be wise.