Trump Used the Epstein List to Get to the White House. Now He Wants Us All to Forget About It.
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On July 6, the FBI and Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed Jeffrey Epstein's death was a suicide, dispelling beliefs he was murdered. The Department of Justice stated that Epstein left no client list and emphasized that further disclosures are unnecessary due to sensitive information involving over a thousand victims. Speculation abounded regarding Trump's past associations with Epstein, as Trump's distancing from Epstein reportedly cleared him among his supporters. The ongoing fascination surrounding Epstein largely persisted among Trump's base despite his known associations.
On July 6, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a public memo, in conjunction with the FBI, officially declaring that the notorious financial broker and serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had, in fact, died by suicide, contra the widespread assumption that he'd been murdered.
The Department of Justice added, he kept no blackmail-ready 'client list' of rich and famous friends, and 'no further disclosure' regarding Epstein was warranted, since it was interspersed with 'sensitive information' from the 'over one thousand victims' whom Epstein had sexually assaulted or trafficked.
Tucker Carlson repeatedly asked the candidate whether he thought Epstein could have been murdered, even as the former president demurred on a clear answer.
Trump consistently distanced himself from his past associations with Epstein, which sufficed to clear him in the eyes of Epstein-curious right-wingers, who simply ignored allegations that Trump groped a model in front of Epstein in 1993.
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