{"id":12602,"date":"2025-07-08T07:45:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=12602"},"modified":"2025-07-08T08:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:31:20","slug":"the-epstein-memo-is-a-joke-and-the-jokes-on-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/the-epstein-memo-is-a-joke-and-the-jokes-on-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Epstein Memo Is a Joke \u2014 and the Joke\u2019s on Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You’d have to think you could include Epstein with Diddy in running sexual extortion, influence schemes. Epstein seemed to be working for intelligence, maybe going beyond orders for personal schemes leading to the arrest and seizing of materials. Perhaps the arrest and murder was to ratchet up the pressure on people that could be implicated? And Diddy in the same light might have crossed the wrong person, though he could have been someone’s asset as well. Needless to say, the government and their OCGFC overlords have that blackmail material now, and people that aren’t compliant will be shown a photo and asked, “what’s that in your mouth?” (a joke from The No Agenda Show<\/a> for sexual blackmail used to get people back to following instructions). All of it is about control so the world goes the way the billionaire elites want it to go, and remember Trump is a member of that club, the Owners and Controllers of Global Financialized Capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/columns\/opinion\/the-epstein-memo-is-a-joke-and-the-jokes-on-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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By Mike Howell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FBI and Justice Department promised full transparency \u2014 and delivered a Sunday-night shrug that insults the public and shields the powerful.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Late Sunday evening, the Department of Justice and the FBI quietly dropped a two-page memo<\/a> on Axios \u2014 a pathetic attempt to bury the Jeffrey Epstein scandal once and for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, they lit a fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the goal was to rebuild trust, this failed spectacularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even longtime Trump supporters are furious<\/a>. The memo offers nothing new. It doesn\u2019t present fresh evidence. It doesn\u2019t announce new investigations. It simply reviews old files and claims to find nothing of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first sentence tells the tale: The Justice Department and FBI \u201cconducted an exhaustive review of investigative holdings relating to Jeffrey Epstein.\u201d In plain English: They looked at what they already had. That\u2019s it. No digging. No subpoenas. The Federal Bureau of Investigation simply acted as the Federal Bureau of Review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They may as well have stamped the two-pager: \u201cNothing to see here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No client list. No blackmail ring. No suspicious circumstances surrounding Epstein\u2019s death. According to the memo, none of it exists \u2014 at least not in the files current political leadership received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what happened to the promise of transparency? Of real oversight? If reform means letting the same entrenched bureaucrats investigate themselves, then nothing has changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FBI and Justice Department officials have spent years turning a blind eye to crimes committed by the ruling class \u2014 crimes that threaten national security and corrupt the very institutions charged with upholding the law. Just ask anyone who remembers the Clinton email scandal<\/a>, the Alfa Bank<\/a> hoax, the Biden family\u2019s foreign cash pipeline<\/a>, or the Uranium One<\/a> deal swept under the rug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we\u2019re supposed to believe they took Epstein\u2019s crimes seriously?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shifting the blame \u2014 with vague suggestions that \u201cEpstein belonged to the intelligence services<\/a>\u201d \u2014 doesn\u2019t cut it. It\u2019s a dodge, not an explanation. Jurisdictional excuses don\u2019t fly when public trust is on the line. Americans want answers from the people who once claimed they would deliver them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entire premise of public skepticism surrounding Epstein was that the U.S. government never truly investigated him. He was widely believed to be an asset. If that\u2019s the case, why would the FBI have a smoking-gun confession just lying around in its files?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And even if someone had written down every sordid detail, would we really expect a mid-level bureaucrat to produce it on command?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The memo only accounts for one corner of the federal government. What about the intelligence community? What about foreign actors? What about the rest of the system?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The choice to give this exclusive to Axios is equally baffling. This is the same outlet to which the Trump administration handed the Biden-Hur audio tape<\/a> \u2014 the story co-authored by a reporter who collaborated with Jake Tapper on a book abetting the cover-up<\/a> of Joe Biden\u2019s cognitive decline. That release was botched too: dropped on a Friday evening, selectively edited, and spun to discredit critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why trust Axios with another political bombshell?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Predictably, Axios buried the lead and used its piece to promote a tangential swipe at President Trump, implying \u2014 via Elon Musk\u2019s speculation<\/a> \u2014 that Trump might be named in the Epstein files. That\u2019s the kind of media framing the Justice Department and FBI just handed to the American people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And let\u2019s not forget: This wasn\u2019t just a Justice memo. It was a joint DOJ-FBI release. In Washington, that means one of two things. Either both agencies want credit, or both want cover. This reeks of the latter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing in the memo aligns with public statements from political leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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