"These two artifacts represent two ends of the evidentiary spectrum: a seemingly explicit indication that somebody was abusing kids and getting blackmailed and threatened for it, and a dispatch from the most fevered corners of the conspiracy-minded internet. You would think the conspiracists would be thrilled by the blackmail stuff, but for the time being they have focused their attention on the pizza."
"An April 2018 message from a redacted sender says, "lets go for pizza and grape soda again. No one else can understand. Go kno." Cryptic! Some of it is scrutable: "Go kno" appears to be a rendering of go know, an English derivative of the Yiddish expression geh vays, which is roughly equivalent to "go figure." The claim that "no one else can understand," on the other hand, is a creepy element that echoes Donald Trump's allusion to "wonderful secrets""
The Department of Justice documents contain 842 mentions of the word pizza, 190 mentions of hamburger, and 20 instances of the phrase "sex with children." Items include a tract with an inflammatory title and a photograph provided by Epstein's brother Mark in 2020. The materials range from apparently explicit indications of abuse and blackmail to conspiratorial tracts from fringe corners of the internet. Conspiracy attention has concentrated on repeated pizza references. Some pizza-related messages are cryptic, such as a redacted April 2018 line about "pizza and grape soda" and the phrase "Go kno," a rendering linked to Yiddish geh vays meaning "go figure." Certain phrases evoke secrecy and invitation to speculation, leaving some questions answerable and others tantalizingly unresolved.
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