Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive
Our beloved Associated Press tells us that “far-right influencers and conservative internet personalities” question the Trump Administration’s about-face this week on the Jeffrey Epstein mysteries.
Let me assure you, it’s not just the far right with questions. Anyone half-way paying attention is saying: “Huh?”
Look, one of the consistent themes in the Trump Comeback of 2024 is the idea that there is a sinister “deep state” out there covering up for friends and inventing crimes to eliminate foes. And one of the big cases swirling around in the “deep state” theory involves Mr. Epstein.
As the story goes, he had a bunch of sick-o clients in a sexual predator cult, and he, along with a wink-wink, nod-nod from several spy agencies, was blackmailing them for mutually beneficial purposes. When Mr. Epstein got too hot for comfort, the “Deep State” had him jailed and “suicided.”
So now the Trump Team rides over the horizon in a cloud of dust — FBI director Kash Patel, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, and Attorney General Pam Bondi — talking big about how there’s a new sheriff in town and by-gawd the varmints in that rat’s nest called the “deep state” best start a-runnin’.
For years, Team Trump told us there’s something to see in the Epstein files. This week, they told us that “upon further review,” there’s nothing to see here. Move along. citizens.
Mr. Patel: “You know a suicide when you see one, and that’s what that (Epstein) was.”
Mr. Bongino: “I have seen the whole file.“He killed himself.”
Just a few weeks ago, Ms. Bondi said she had the Epstein “client list” on her desk, ready to release.
This week, she said it didn’t exist. The unbelievable explanation from the White House on that disconnect is that Ms. Bondi didn’t fully understand the question.
She didn’t fully understand the question?
Well, you can see how all this doesn’t exude confidence, and leads inquiring minds to wonder whether the Trump Administration has become its own “deep state.”
All this was made more fishy by how the president shut down questions on Epstein. A reporter at a White House Cabinet meeting asked Bondi about the “client list” switcheroo.
The president jumped in and, according to the AP, “Scolded the journalist: ‘Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years.’”
C’mon, Mr. President. Yes, we are still talking about Epstein. And, you, sir, just ensured the Epstein mysteries will live on … and on … and on.
No other way to see it.
Read the full “Properly Subversive” column here.
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