Seems like the most reasonable explanation

Poor Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for sex trafficking to nobody.
- Dude, seriously? This is the biggest whoosh I've seen one a good while. How the fuck did you not realise they were making a joke?
  
  Whoosh
  
  aChuAlly

I'm struggling to reconcile this with the previous reason given for not releasing the files, that they were a national security risk. So, releasing no evidence would have been a risk to national security after Epstein was dead?
- Trump probably collected millions in extortion money from everybody on that list
- The government lies.
  It doesn't matter when or where you read this, it's always true.
  
  Yes and no. It depends on the part of the government in question.
  Take the Government Accountability Office. I pretty much trust anything they put out. The same goes for NASA, and until this year, NOAA.
  OSHA also tends to get a pass.
  Homeland Security or the FBI? My sodium intake becomes dangerously high.
  And that's even before Trump returned to power.
- Were they a risk because they were dirt on politicians? We could have resolved that by getting rid of those politicians.

Trump is a pedo...
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

Its crazy how Pam Bondi the Attorney General says there was no epstein files client list when a few months ago she said on live tv that she was currently reviewing the epstein files client list
- She tried to walk back the comments about the file being on her desk, except she made those comments multiple times on different shows. She promised results within days, then nothing. Suddenly there is no list, and right wing news shows are now even saying Epstein wasn’t a bad guy and was set up
  
  Next itll be that there was no Epstein. He was made up by the Democrats who are secretly in cahoots with China or some shit
  
  It will be technically correct. As in, no one has put all Epstein's client's names together in one group, so there has never been a (master) list.
  We know that Prince Andrew is somewhere so there can't be zero clients.
- It's sketchy but also feasibly explained by incompetence. "Oh yeah I just started on that homework assignment last night" tier of bullshit.

The FBI raided his estate and seized all CCTV video footage. Release the video!
- Not exactly true. The FBI opened the safe then left the Manhattan property. Epstein's lawyer then recovered the contents of the safe and delivered it to the FBI a few days later.
  
  Not exactly true, on the news, I personally saw videos of FBI agents walking out with clear bags of video recording equipment and videos.

Well thats why alex acosta is so highly regarded in conservative circles. Getting epstein to take a deal with zero evidence against him is mind flayer level lawyering.

As soon as Epstein died, it was clear that the public statements about the circumstances surrounding his death was absolutely sketchy. One of the most high-profile people to be held in prison, and they completely botched it? It was absolutely a coverup. Would not be surprised if the info he would give up would put any presidential hopefuls at the time at risk of winning the election either.
- It would have caused international scandals too. I think they had to cover it up… anything to save face of the leadership/the .01%
  
  The leaderships face is not being saved. Epstein was an intelligence honeypot.

I fear this is becoming a joke, because it is hard to cope with the concept that the leaders of this country (from both parties) as well as very powerful and influential people are literal pedofiles who raped children.
there's a "yes minister" sketch about how to be a politician you can't have a clean criminal record, you must have done corruption case to show you have experience in the system. nowadays that sketch should be about how normalised pedophilia is in the government.

Then there's still two possibilities:
He was murdered to cover up $thing (innocent or not)
All/most of it was true and he wanted an "easy escape"
Because of 1. I'm not sure if this would stop any arguments, though.
- He killed himself. But his top clients still hold top positions in government.
  
  There are too many inconsistencies and coincidental 'mistakes' in the suicide story.
  As if the guy who had dirt on a huge part of the rich and powerful of the world, dirt that could absolutely destroy them couldn't get murdered.
  Witnesses have been murdered for a lot less.
  But no, it's all a conspiracy theory.
  
  Notably Donald Trump, who shit his diaper when asked about it.
  
  Or maybe he didn't kill himself. That video, that doesn't even show his cell door, is pointless. It's the wrong area of the prison! And it's missing a minute of time. You can be sure the guards and prisoners knew of that 11:59-midnight safety window.
  We don't need a big conspiracy theory here. All it takes is one rich person brining one or two guards. A small conspiracy, that gives you murder.
- There has been evidence against him since the early 2000s that he abused girls and young women. He wiggled his way out of a case in 2008, but he knew it was over this time. It is absolutely thinkable that he killed himself in order to not have to actually go to prison.
  
  And notably, the AG that let him off with a wrist slap plea deal was appointed by the current president to be Secretary of Labor.
  
  In 2008 he was protected by his influential clients. Second time around he was enough of a liability they instead got the evidence suppressed and made sure he couldn't make good on his blackmail threat.

@cm0002 hah!
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I can't believe Epstein killed himself right before he was about to be acquitted due to a complete lack of evidence.)

Trump is blackmailing at least one other person on the client list. It's the only way I can make sense of the fact they said they were going to release it and then didn't.
- So not because trump is implicit in his closest friend for decades actions?