Making sense of Epstein report; another toxic judge pushes the envelope even farther
Here is another example of a TDS-infected judge so full of herself that she thinks she has more power than the President.
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“If this is the first time you’re hearing this, it’s gonna make your head explode.”
That was Scott Adams in his Monday morning podcast, introducing his discussion of the Justice Department’s new memo about the Jeffrey Epstein case, along with the release of approximately 11 hours of video of what they say is Epstein’s jail cell showing that no one went in or out during that time. “Therefore,” Adams said, “they have concluded that he must have taken his own life…”
As the DOJ’s announcement was made late on Sunday and had us scratching our heads, we said we’d need to apply our 48-hour (or longer) rule to let it shake out before reporting. So far, it’s been only 24 hours, but we can at least offer something preliminary, subject to change as more facts emerge.
Hadn’t you been under the impression that there WAS no video? As in, none at all? Recall that this is what we were told in the aftermath of Epstein’s death. The security cameras for his cell weren’t working, they said. So now we’re given video from the ONE CAMERA that supposedly WAS working, OUTSIDE the cell.
As Adams described this, “It wasn’t a video of the cell --- it was a video of the access to the cell.” Yet it’s impossible even to tell, just looking at the video, what door this is.
Others have weighed in after seeing the video, and for what it’s worth, the consensus seems to be that there’s no way to know what entrance this is. Some say there also appears to be an edit “of about a minute,” though we would think that with any editing, it would be difficult if not impossible to determine how long the missing piece was. Observers also note that there’s no way to tell with certainty when the video was even taken, so it might even have been after Epstein’s demise.
“No,” Adams said. “The video that they’re showing us has no persuasive value to any of us.”
It gets worse. The DOJ says that according to their “systemic review,” there was no indication of the existence of “an incriminating client list.”
Of course, it might be true that there never was an actual client list. As Adams observed, “Maybe he didn’t write that stuff down.” (We said weeks ago that Epstein likely was too shrewd to keep a nice, comprehensive, leather-bound list of clients.)
The DOJ also says there’s no evidence Epstein blackmailed “prominent individuals.” Well, that pretty much dispenses with the whole case, doesn’t it? It seems to be the DOJ’s conclusion, as their memo says, that “We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged parties.”
They’re saying they have no evidence at all that anyone --- besides Epstein, of course, who has presumably met his eternal punishment, and Ghislaine Maxwell, who is already behind bars --- could be prosecuted for a crime. Any “uncharged third parties” can apparently rest easy.
Recall that in 2019, the FBI raided Epstein’s New York home, with agents reportedly discovering hidden safes containing computer discs and stashes of video. These apparently...”went missing.”
Ah, that explains why there’s nothing to see now.
Adams was confused about what, exactly, they had convicted Maxwell for, if there was “no evidence of any crime.” Did investigators talk with the many young women who had been victimized on the island? Did not one of these victims name a name?
He quoted one particularly sharp post on X: “I can’t believe Epstein killed himself right before he was about to be acquitted due to a complete lack of evidence.”
Also, Mike Benz posted that Alex Acosta, the DOJ official who gave Epstein his original “sweetheart” plea deal that kept him out of jail in 2008, was quoted as saying he’d been told at the time to “back off of Epstein” because he “belonged to intelligence.”
Here’s a little something from the archives: a report by Katie Pavlich at Townhall on Acosta’s resignation, dating from 2019, a week after Epstein was arrested (again), for trafficking underage girls...
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/07/12/acosta-stepping-down-n2549970
By the way, 11 months of Acosta’s emails from this period also “went missing.” Imagine if we could find the room containing all the records and videos from various high-profile cases that over the years have “gone missing.” Wouldn’t that be great?
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou is one who thinks documentation got destroyed. He doesn’t blame Patel and Bongino, but rather “that layer beneath.” If they report that such records never existed, ‘I’m sorry, I just don’t buy it,” he said, “because I know how these people operate.”
Adams called the lack of transparency “a crime against the public.” There’s something to be said for intuition (based on experience), and it’s telling us something is being hidden.
Mark Levin, in his Monday radio show, still expressed confidence in Director Patel and deputy Director Bongino and couldn’t come up with a reasonable motivation for them to cover up this story. Scott, too, believed Patel when he said the FBI would “release everything.” He also knows Bongino to be “an honest guy” and thinks he meant it sincerely when he talked about releasing it all. He reminded his audience, though, that he had predicted that “we’ll never see the Epstein stuff.”
Here’s what might be the key take-away from Adams: “It’s almost so clownishly obvious what’s going on. It’s almost as if Kash Patel and Bongino want you to know the truth.” In other words, they’re saying this KNOWING you’re not going to buy it. Scott’s hypothesis is that someone “got to them” and “explained” why they can’t tell the whole story. There might be a huge national security reason, he thinks.
“As in, it might take down a government,” Adams said. Not necessarily ours, but somebody’s. He doesn’t know if we’re protecting our own or perhaps one of our allies. But he suspects this issue has “touched an electrified rail” and that we should give Patel, Bongino and Bondi “a little bit of cover.” There might be reasons for not releasing this that are potentially so serious that even they would decide not to. Adams went so far as to speculate they might even have been threatened with assassination if they continued to push for releasing it.
He doubts we’ll ever know the real, full story, just as we still have major unknowns about the JFK assassination.
RELATED STORY: Before moving on, let’s take a look at what is actually a good example of government transparency. The Director’s Initiatives Group (or “the DIG”), headed by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, is apparently quite busy interviewing whistleblowers. As reported in Breitbart, these are people who “could expose Russian collusion hoaxers, [analyze] previous election processes to expose vulnerabilities, and more…” The goal of the task force: to rebuild trust in the IC (intelligence community). Good luck with that.
This piece is a must-read; very encouraging signs of swamp-draining here…
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We’ll have another update on the Epstein case as soon as there’s something even a bit more definitive. In the meantime, here’s another example of a TDS-infected judge so full of herself that she thinks she has more power than the President.
Wait, that’s not going far enough to describe the ego of this low-level judge. She thinks she has more power than the President and Congress, COMBINED.
To this point, district court judges have only defied the President and Supreme Court. But on Monday, Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani broke new ground by defying Congress, issuing a 14-day temporary restraining order (TRO) directing the Department of Health and Human Services to “take all steps necessary to ensure that Medicaid funding continues to be disbursed” to Planned Parenthood. As reported by CBS News, this was her decision in a case that had been brought by Planned Parenthood and her ruling doesn’t apply to any health care providers other than PP.
The problem here is that she took aim at one part of the “Big Beautiful Bill” that Congress has just turned into a big beautiful LAW. It was signed by the President and is presumably in force. Congress happens to be in charge of funding and defunding --- not Judge Talwani. And she offers no legal back-up for a ruling that violates this law.
In a follow-up report, Matt Vespa explains in more detail what this idiotic (our word) Obama-appointed judge has done. “Let’s be clear,” he writes. “This wasn’t a rogue executive order or some bureaucratic sleight of hand. Congress passed a law. The people’s representatives, accountable to voters, made a decision to defund Planned Parenthood as part of the One Big, Beautiful Bill. That’s how our system is supposed to work. If you don’t like it, you organize, you vote, you persuade your fellow citizens and change the law. That’s democracy. But apparently, that’s not good enough for the activist bench.”
“This isn’t just a technicality,” he writes. “It’s a direct assault on the separation of powers and the legitimacy of our system.” Indeed, why even bother electing a President and representatives, when a lone judge can render their decisions null and void?
Like us, Bonchie at RedState is not a lawyer, but in layman’s terms he says this judge’s ruling “seems patently insane.” How can she call for the Executive Branch to violate a law that was passed by Congress without offering any explanation for why that law is somehow deficient?
“If politicians can’t get elected by voters and pass laws to defund things they disagree with,” Bonchie writes, “then essentially nothing contentious can EVER be defunded.” Exactly; that’s the point of what these judges are doing! And if they can establish legal precedent for this, that’s the country we will have.
Surely, this TRO will be stayed and overturned on appeal. Even so, as Bonchie notes, “every time a judge does something like this, it takes another bite out of the credibility of the judiciary.” Chief Justice Roberts, are you listening? And, Congress, you might want to think about impeachment proceedings when it gets this bad.
It’s hard to believe all the craziness going on right now. From judges trying to change laws and lots of evidence going “missing “, crazies shooting up Border Patrol agents and lefties blaming Trump for the weather, we really need a miracle to keep this country afloat. There’s nothing new under the sun but there sure is a lot of insanity going around. Thanks for shedding some light on the issues!
Read this article, "DOJ lands legal victory as federal judge allows $800M in grants to be clawed back", https://www.foxnews.com/person/s/stephen-sorace, which represents a real departure in "run of the mill" judicial rulings, where the judge expressed dislike of the administrations action but understanding that it's lawful. That said he did bring up Congressional responsibility for appropriations, which while true, only provides money and general objective for the administration, not how to get the job done. Implementation programs can have the right intention but wrong or inadequate results. DOGE identified many of these and so far only a fraction have been or are being acted on. In this case the judges ruling is correct his opinion about the "claw backs" and Congress is nothing more than that of a private citizen and should not have been expressed as part of his ruling. Another form of judicial interference.