The first episode of this week’s raft of Spectacle podcasts has Melissa and I discussing the disappointing manner in which the Trump administration seeks to dispose of the Jeffrey Epstein mess. Obviously the two of us have a lot to say about this, and I’ll preface the column below by saying that I take a back seat to no one in my level of bitterness over how this thing has played out and what it tells me about the self-appointed elites who will, by all indications, have gotten away with statutory rape and who knows what else as part of Epstein’s hifalutin pedo ring.
President Trump’s approval rating ticked downward in Rasmussen’s tracking poll released Wednesday. His dismissal of the Epstein mess as unimportant, in the wake of the Justice Department taking a powder on releasing anything of substance on the case after key members of DOJ and the FBI had promised to get to the bottom of it, is surely a key reason.
What people fail to realize, understand isn’t about the Epstein files, this isn’t about how Epstein died. That’s trivial compared to what the people truly want. Justice for the children. Justice to those kids that were taken and groomed to have sex with prominent people around…
— TonemanLives ???????????????? (@TonemanLives) July 9, 2025
The Left, which is a collection of people with very little interest in Epstein’s pedo ring when it was obvious a bunch of their heroes and financial backers were involved, have now come out of the woodwork to claim that the reason for the demurral by Attorney General Pam Bondi and others is that Trump himself was on the Epstein list.
I don’t believe that for one minute, and I’ll tell you why: If they actually had the goods on Trump, and could prove he was a guest at Epstein’s pedo island, or his ranch in New Mexico, or his mansion in New York — all places where it’s alleged Epstein pimped out underaged girls to the rich and powerful — they would have used that to discredit him rather than the idiotic Steele dossier they settled on.
And no, it doesn’t matter that there would have been substantial blowback on the Democrats to accuse Trump of participating in the Epstein affair — for two reasons. First, it is a chronic pattern with today’s Democrat Party to engage in projection of the most laughable and obnoxious kind, and we see this again and again. Maybe the best current example of this is Tish James’ mortgage fraud; there are countless others, and it wouldn’t have mattered that there were lots of Democrat honchos who could be touched by a full disclosure of Epstein’s client list.
And second, the Obama machine, and the corporate Joe Biden, had control of the Epstein files. As such, they could have carefully curated a release of those files in order to cover Trump in Epstein sleaze.
Instead, they tried to make the world believe Trump, a known germophobe, was paying Russian hookers to give golden showers on a luxury Moscow hotel bed.
And yet Trump, and Bondi, and the duo of Kash Patel and Dan Bongino at the FBI, all of whom had made promises to fully divulge everything that was known about Epstein’s foul deeds — which included an implicit promise to air out the members of the pedo ring who sampled Epstein’s wares — have now pulled back and are claiming there’s no “there” there.
It’s an insulting, and embarrassing, spectacle. And it’s disappointing.
And destructive on a number of levels.
I’m not going to make excuses for this. I want the truth to come out and the guilty punished. I’ve suspected for a very long time that the elites, particularly on the east and west coasts who control so much of our culture, politics, and economy, are shot through with a shocking, Late Roman Empire–level moral decay and wickedness which ultimately will bring down our civilization just like it did the Romans.
And I’m not alone in that sentiment. It’s the reason the Epstein mess can’t be swept under the rug as Trump and his people are trying to do. Because people see Epstein, just like they see P Diddy and a host of other scandals (NXIVM, John Podesta’s Pizzagate emails), as evidence of that civilizational rot.
But if you consider the implications of this, what you realize is that the Epstein mess is even more toxic than we’ve given it credit for.
I think it’s telling, for example, that Virginia Giuffre is the only one of Epstein’s victims who ever came forward in any major way. And Virginia Giuffre, who outed Prince Andrew as an Epstein client engaging in the sexual abuse of a minor, finally obtaining a legal settlement on that matter in 2022, ended up committing suicide in Australia earlier this year.
The rest of the Epstein victims were either scared off from talking or satisfied with the checks they’re getting. They aren’t throwing names around and they certainly aren’t pushing for more disclosure.
In the attention-whore mass media culture we currently have, that’s conspicuous.
So you don’t have victims dropping tell-all books, and you don’t have them running around demanding accountability for the famous, rich, or powerful johns that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked them to. And without the victims willing to come forward and testify that they were raped, statutorily or otherwise, by Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, or whatever other alleged Epstein clients whose names have been circulated or not, to engage in prosecutions of any of the Epstein johns means you’d have to go off the files.
And what makes anyone believe the Epstein files weren’t sanitized long ago?
“Barely 18 months ago, Kash Patel said there was a list, Bill Gates is on it, that he was lobbying the government to not disclose the list, and that Republicans were feckless for having a majority and doing nothing.”
18 months ago Patel was not the Director of the FBI, did not… https://t.co/uC9KYCAb2R
— Andrew Branca Show (@LawSelfDefense) July 9, 2025
Bondi, Patel, and the rest of the Justice Department would have to have real evidence in order to prosecute these cases. You can’t just hold a press conference as attorney general and read off a list of people you think might have raped little girls — not without getting an indictment of those people. And if the girls in question aren’t willing to make the accusation, exactly where are you?
You’re nowhere. We were never going to get to the bottom of the Epstein thing.
And it’s worse than that, because the flip side of this is the likelihood that Epstein was a Mossad asset, if not agent, and so were both Maxwell and her father, and this entire enterprise was an exercise in gaining kompromat on rich and powerful figures in culture, politics, and economics — probably for Israel, but if so, almost certainly for others as well. If you think Epstein was working for Mossad without the CIA’s knowledge, assent, and participation, you’ve got an uphill climb in explaining your position.
And once this thing leaves the realm of law enforcement and enters the realm of intelligence, the mess deepens in a way that is grossly inconvenient to anyone tasked with airing it out or cleaning it up.
But I’ll say this: from a PR standpoint, and to look around the internet and see that the Epstein demurral is doing this is undeniable, it’s probably worse for American Jews that this whole thing gets pushed under the bed than it would be if everything came out and it was confirmed to the world that Epstein and Ghislaine were working for Mossad. At least in the latter case, you’d have fallout and eventual acceptance. With the way this is being handled, all you’ll have is suspicion — and that seems to be settling, in disturbingly larger circles than just the “alt-right” fever swamps, on everybody who’s Jewish whether they have any attachment to Epstein or not.
I’m not saying that’s how it should go. At all. But this thing being covered up means nobody knows either the extent of it or, more importantly, the limits. And without knowledge of the limits, there are no limits and the suspicion becomes never-ending.
So — rich Jewish guy in New York? Obviously one of Epstein’s people. And all the usual blood libels apply.
The natural response to this is “let’s just air it out.” That’s what I’ve demanded for years. I’m still demanding it.
But the problem is, and it’s obvious that Trump and his people now recognize this whether I like it or not, the amount of collateral damage you get from outing Mossad in the Epstein case quickly becomes more than anybody can bear. Because if you think Mossad won’t retaliate for getting hit on Epstein by divulging God knows what about the CIA, or MI6, or whoever, you aren’t paying attention.
And then comes a reckoning so large, and so long in coming, that it threatens the foundations of who we are and what we’ve become.
You can see that Trump has chosen to do other things rather than take us through that ugly reckoning. Which might be disappointing, but you should probably think through what you’re asking and whether it’s really want you want.
Especially when all those other girls not named Virginia Giuffre, who have the most to gain by pushing for full disclosure, are very silent.
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The Spectacle Ep. 242: The Real Truth Behind the Epstein Client List