Rightwing influencers in the US who are often aligned with Donald Trump are angry that a joint justice department and FBI memo has dismissed the existence of a “client list” in the case against late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The disgraced financier killed himself in a jail cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City in 2019 while awaiting prosecution on child sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.

Almost ever since, Epstein’s death has been the subject of conspiracy theories on the right, including a supposed “client list” that he purportedly used to blackmail wealthy co-conspirators.

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    https://epsteinsblackbook.com/names/donald-trump

    Donald Trump is listed in Epstein’s black book on page 80.

    Epstein recorded 10 phone numbers and 2 addresses under this name.

    The main address for this entry is in New York, US

    Uh, erhrm, yep, nope, just a coincidence, or something.

    Also, fuck you, shut up, stop asking about it.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=dwAGUbpHPBY

    This is the most incompetent cover up of all time.

    There is a mountain of evidence, and indeed literal legal rulings pointing toward Trump being a serial rapist, that he’d walk in on 15 yo girls in the changing rooms for Miss America paegants, that he was very good friends with Epstein for over a decade…

    The first time him and Melania had sex was on the Lolita Express, on Epstein’s jet.

    Trump is so fucking extremely obviously in the Epstein files that, after this, this fucking farce of 180 about face, I am now inclined to believe that Trump is the one who ordered Epstein be killed.

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      It’s not incompetence.

      It’s indignant.

      They know they are getting away with it and there isn’t a fucking thing anyone can do to stop it. None of his followers are going to stop worshipping him as a result.

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        Technically yes, indignant is more accurate…

        But that does also kind of loop back into being an incompetent cover up… if one assumes the concept of a cover up is to actually make the entire issue just go away.

        And… I do actually disagree that none of the magats will snap out of it.

        Its actually causing quite a lot of chaos and anger.

        Will all of them suddenly realize they’ve been duped, and then magically become better people?

        No.

        But … this whole Epstein thing, its a pretty big fucking deal to a lot of the people that got on board with Trump largely due to QAnonsense conspiracy theories…

        Its now actually breaking the cognitive dissonance of a lot of them, who’ve been waiting for Trump to finally rout the Deep State of pedos… who are now either realizing that Trump just is another powerful pedo, or at least covering up on their behalf.

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        This website has existed and been up for the better part of a decade now.

        If you were unaware of this, then uh, you are not immune to propoganda.

        This has all been known for years, publically available for years, its just that right wingers invented an entirely fake media environment and narrative universe all built on denying every single well documented connection between Trump and Epstein.

        Also, technically… this is a contact book, an address book.

        It doesn’t 100% mean everyone in it went to pedo island, went on the pedo plane… but its a very obvious starting point to connect to other more specific kinds of evidence.

        Specific evidence that obviously exists, becauss it was used and cross referenced in Ghislaine’s trial… but most of that evidence was never released to the public.

        This unredacted copy of the contact list was also not supposed to be released to the public in an unredacted form… but someone leaked it, and someone (else? presumably?) made this website.

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        While I didn’t actually say that, yeah, I would agree the Panama Papers are probably more important, and yeah there’s probably worse shit going on.

        Hell, personally I’m still convinced the CIA killed Kennedy, one could argue thats uh… rather important.

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          Sorry, misread. Incompetent. Yes. But damn that’s a crowded field these days. All the spy dudes being mormons who were raised on ultra campy james bond films does not breed general competence. You need either some fucking color (which can’t hapoen, obviously) or more ice chewing fun hating hypernationalist puritanical esoteric fascists mixed in for a competent intelligence service.

          Do you remember the signal chat from like 3 months ago?