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First Rule of Epstein Files - Don't Talk About Epstein Files [1]

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Date: 2025-07-18

Trump did not stop talking about the Epstein files, last night, or this morning.

As we await for all the Republicans, MAGA, MAGA influencers, conservative news media and pundits to stop turning themselves into pretzels, let's talk about the safe, and even what's on top of the safe and leaning up against it.

If you look at the top of the safe on the right side, you'll see what looks like two blue three ring binders. Several girls who were witnesses in the case against Ghislaine Maxwell said that there were multiple blue and black books that had lots of people's information in them. Some of them had 2,000 entries. That can't possibly be the client list, but clients could be in there.

On top of binders are some objects that look like 3.5 inch floppy disc drive cases. There's no way to tell. The sizing looks correct. But no, I think we've got a bunch of small boxes like for jewelry, looking to have plush outsides. Then shorter wider black plush boxes as well. On the floor to the left are more, larger black plush boxes.

They had to use a saw to get into the safe. What they found there, were hard disk drives, CDs, and DVDs. There could have been more types of objects, but they weren't described.

Box full of hard disk drives NY raid.

It's those hard drives and DVDs and CDs that are the really interesting evidence that we don't know about. You don't put things into a safe unless you have a very, very good reason.

Two lawyers who represented Jeffrey Epstein have said that there is no client list and he had no intention of blackmailing anyone. If you were Jeffrey Epstein, would you tell a lawyer about this? Granted, there is the lawyer-client privilege, but still.

His mansions and his island, Little St. James, were wired for sound and video. That wasn't installed for no reason. I don't think that he would take videos of clients and then give them a copy, without them thinking that he still had a copy that he could blackmail them with. I'm surmising he took the videos without anyone's knowledge, neither the girls nor the clients. He had central video rooms in the mansions and on the islands where he could watch it in real time and for playback.

I think this is what was in the safe on the hard drives and the CDs and DVDs. This was his backup. This could be his tool for blackmail. Also insurance against powerful people who were clients. The insurance angle only works if the powerful people knew about them. In other words, for Jeffrey to keep from being killed, it had to be one or the other or both.

What we don't know anything about, is the raid by the NYPD and the FBI on Little St. James on August 12, 2019, two days after Epstein was found dead in his cell. The raid found similar evidence like at the New York mansion with hard disk drives, computers, DVDs, CDs, and books of photos. But there's no list of it I can find, unlike the New York raid. The Virgin Islands had a lawsuit against Epstein's estate in 2020. Where did all that evidence go? There was video from a drone and a still shot while FBI were going through one building, but then the FBI spotted the drone and covered the windows. The video is no longer available. There are a dozen buildings that the FBI had to go through.

Still shot from the drone footage.

Little St. James.

Only other photos available are variations on this shot and ones from a different angle.

Some of the buildings.

There is still one other property that no one has talked about. In New Mexico, he had a property called Zorro Ranch. Girls were raped and trafficked there, too. This property did not get a formal FBI raid. New Mexico authorities did go through the ranch and shared evidence with the FBI. Again there is no evidence list to let us know what they found.

Zorro Ranch, New Mexico.

So, what did Donald Trump do this morning? He talked about the Epstein files again, breaking the rule.

"If there was a 'smoking gun' on Epstein, why didn't the Dems, who controlled the 'files' for four years, and had Garland and Comey in charge, use it?"

Well, it's because the files were collected in July of 2019. That's when Trump was in office. They were both working for Trump, and maybe they thought they should keep it quiet. Epstein was dead. Maybe they thought it was a closed case and they didn't need anymore exposure. But then came the Ghislaine Maxwell case.

"BECAUSE THEY HAD NOTHING!!!"

I'm going to say, they must have something after all I've delineated about Epstein's operations and recordings.

Trump wasn't finished. Now he's looking with glee at going after the Wall Street Journal and Murdoch.

"I look forward to getting Rupert Murdoch to testify in my lawsuit against him..."

Aren't you forgetting that you'll have to testify too, under oath? He's still threatening, but most likely he is a toothless tiger. We're still waiting for a photo of the letter, his drawing and his signature in that special place.

"... and his 'pile of garbage' newspaper, the WSJ."

Takes a pile of garbage to know one.

"That will be an interesting experience!!!"

It most certainly would be an interesting experience. Maybe we can get into a courtroom where the judge will allow live video. We haven't had that pleasure yet. I think you owe it to the American people.

The leather bound album/book that contained the Donald Trump happy birthday letter to Epstein is not in the New York raid evidence list. Neither are all those plush boxes.

So, we're missing evidence not even on the New York list that we can see in pictures with our own eyes. The FBI had to haul that safe out of a closet, so they put those things on top and around the safe for evidence photos. We're missing evidence and photos from the Little St. James raids and a complete lack of anything about Zorro Ranch.

There are Epstein files nobody has seen, but with the letter coming out, there must be a leak, as Merlin196360 has postulated in his diary. There must be piles of more evidence available, if you're in the FBI.

I don't think Trump would have considered the Epstein birthday letter "relevant." He said for Pam Bondi to release Grand Jury transcripts. We don't have those yet and Congress, at least the Democrats, are trying to force a release of everything.

Donald won't stop talking about the Epstein files on Truth Social. And now, at least one reporter is asking at every opportunity. He can't walk away from it this time.

"... may every day be another wonderful secret."

Enquiring minds want to know what that secret is.

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