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Rick Wilson Makes Cogent Points About MAGA's Response To DOJ's"There Is No Epstein Client List." [1]

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Date: 2025-07-12

I have tried not to jump into the news about the DOJ announcement that there is no Jeffrey Epstein client list. Most are aware that there was supposed to be a list of Epstein’s clients who also were pedophiles and that Epstein pimped out his victims to. There was all this talk from MAGA podcasters and others about how Trump was going to bring that information to light. It’s the Qanon bullshit that Trump is some kind of messiah who will take down some gigantic but secretive ring of powerful pedophiles who just happen to be all Democrats. Well, Pam Bondi of the DOJ is not releasing anything with regards to what the DOJ has on Epstein, except that he committed suicide and the case is closed.

There is no there there, according to Trumpian flak Pam Bondi.

Now, why I wasn’t that interested in this case is that I believe that if there was anything else in the Epstein case files it would never be released. And what I mean by that is none of the other material may have risen to a high enough standard to be used in a prosecution. Remember what happened to former Congressman Matt Gaetz and reports that he has sex with a 17 year old girl.

NBC News had reported in October that the investigation into Gaetz had stalled, according to attorneys who have represented witnesses and people who have been subpoenaed or have spoken to investigators. The attorneys briefed about aspects of the case said the probe stalled over concerns about the credibility of two key witnesses or a lack of direct evidence implicating Gaetz, who has denied all wrongdoing.

Forget that members of Gatz’s own party found enough of a fire about these allegations to say that Gaetz did pay for having sex with that girl.

From Epstein’s suicide in 2019 to January 2021, the DOJ was run by Bill Barr, and we all know how protective Barr was of Trump. Then, we all got to see Merrick Garland INACTION. Garland was quick on the draw to appoint special prosecutors for Biden and Democrats, but he dragged his heels when it came to Republicans;this is because Garland wanted to show the world that the DOJ was independent, so he bent over backwards when the slightest hint of partisanship or politics was involved with investigating Republicans like Trump.

We all saw how that worked out in the end.

But Garland still came under attack from Congresional Republicans, and the MAGA propaganda outlets worked double overtime to convince their base that Garland was holding back on releasing anything on the Epstein case because it would incriminate Democrats like Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill and Hillary Clinton in this massive pedophile ring that Epstein ran. Garland got it from both barrels. He was both weaponizing the DOJ against Trump (what a laugh) and protecting pedophile Democrats.

Nevermind that Trump’s own DOJ had “the goods” on Democrats in his first term in office.

Well, we now have MAGA world in an uproar, supposedly, with regards to the mythical Epstein client list. I still think this may not come to anything because how MAGA influencers are reacting tells me everything I need to know. And this is where I let you see a cogent telling of MAGA lies and hypocrisy on Epstein and his victims by Rick Wilson.

Wilson goes through all the COPIUM that MAGA is inhaling right now over this issue.

I agree with Wilson that there is plenty of evidence that Trump and Epstein were tight for many, many years. There are a plethora of photographs, video, and public statements that Trump hung out with Epstein.

Trump is a RAPIST. And does anyone think for one moment that he didn’t rape one of those young girls at an Epstein party?

Wilson thinks there that is some more damaging evidence of Trump’s association with Epstein in the case files. And I imagine that this may be true.

However, does any of that evidence rise to the level for a criminal prosecuation? And this is where lawyers go, “I cannot indict and go to trial on circumstantial evidence...blah, blah, blah” that I think blocked the release of any dirt on Trump, at least during Dudley Do-Right’s reign at the DOJ. [ My apologies to Dudley Do-Right fans. Dudely at least got his man by accident. ]

] The most critical point that Wilson makes is that Bondi and the FBI don’t have a laundry list of Democratic pedophiles, cannibals, or witches to criminally charge. And this is what MAGA cannot accept.

Finally, what about Epstein’s victims? We hear next to nothing from MAGA about the young girls raped by Epstein, or what can the government do to help any of them. In fact, Bondi UNDERSOLD the number of Epstein’s victims when she announced DOJ’s findings (she says 250 victims, while the FBI actually says over a thousand).

So to recap, Trump who is a rapist and was friends with a pedophile for years. Epstein gets a sweet heart deal from a Republican prosecutor. The out cry over this forces the first Trump Adminstration to arrest Epstein and add new charges of sexual trafficking. Epstein manages to commit suicide while in federal custody.

Trump and his cronies do what they do best: projection. It’s the Democrats who are the pedophiles! Qanon spreads the word that Trump will finally stop the Democratic ring of perverts! Once again, avoiding the obvious fact that Trump already had the DOJ case files on Epstein from his go round in the White House.

Once back in the driver’s seat, Trump says, “Sure, I’ll release the Epstein case files!” MAGA is estatic! Here come the trials of all those Democratic pedophiles!

Then, “Sorry. We got nuthin’ for you all.”

And here is why I think this will all fizzle out in the end. The next step when it comes to critical thinking when you have been shown to be a chump is to say, “Why did I EVER BELIEVE THIS?” And the next step might be, “WHO TOLD ME THESE LIES?”

And the answer should be rather obvious, but instead, who is being blamed for the dashing of this conspiracy theory that Democrats are literally in bed with Epstein? Pam Bondi, Dan Bongino, and Kash Patel. Notice who is missing from that list?

And this is where all the bullshit COPIUM comes in for MAGA. None of those average morons who support Trump are ever going to say, “Oh Fuck Trump! He LIED TO ME!” They’re worse than kids who believed Santa Claus was going to bring them a new Schwinn bike only to wake up to a lump of coal instead. They imagined they would run over Democrats with that shiney new bike and scream, “DIE YOU WOKE BASTARDS!”, but all they got was a sedimentary rock they can’t ride anywhere.

Most kids go on to discover from older kids, “Psst. There is no damn Santa Claus. Mom and Dad were too cheap to buy you a bike for Christmas.” But for MAGA, they seem to have never have grown up, or they don’t bother to listen to others who worn them about fairy tales.

Still, I could be wrong, which I frequently am. But I try to never underestimate the fierce power of human denial. As a sinner, I recognize that sin in myself in past. And denial is a very powerful type of “thinking.” It is a defense mechanism for many, and it’s going to be used quite a lot over the next 3.5 years by Trump’s base.

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