"Trump's DOJ Says Epstein Had No Client List!" - but did they? (Anatomy of a PSYOP)
Too may inflooencers are falling for the headline with no due diligence
The last 12 hours have been a great examples of lazy alternative media influencers falling for headlines without investigating source material and running with a sensationalist, emotionally driven narrative. The group think still be strong in the “truth movement”.
Let’s dive in.
Last night Axios published a story with the headline, “DOJ, FBI conclude Epstein had no client list, committed suicide”.
But did they?
Instead of kneejerk reacting to the headline, let’s look at what Axios is claiming.
And mind you, this is Axios - a propagandist outlet which is commonly full of crap.
“President Trump's Justice Department and FBI have concluded they have no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a "client list" or was murdered, according to a memo detailing the findings obtained by Axios.”
Oh, a memo? Is that our new “anonymous sources familiar with the matter” trope?
That brings up many questions - who wrote this memo? Is the memo even real? Did Kash Patel or Pam Bondi know about this memo and agree with what was claimed in it? How did Axios obtain said memo?
Let’s take a look at this memo, Axios published it within their article.
I’m no FBI memo expert but that looks incredibly fake.
No heading, no date, no signatories. The whole thing reads weird as well, as if it’s more of a narrative setting letter than anything legitimate an FBI agent would write as a memo.
Although it does appear someone within the FBI actually fabricated this, because at the end there is a link to two justice.gov URLs where 11 hour footage from inside the jail were published.
And I’m no FBI URL expert, but it also seems weird to me that these URLs for the videos are such basic root links. "/video-files/video1"
As for the 11 hour footage you can view here, the claim within this “memo” is that, “well, if anybody were to get to Epstein we would have seen them in the footage from the common area”.
Not sure I’m buying that. There could have easily been a small portion of this clip edited or cut, along with the fact that this is not footage from the important camera that went off, the one overseeing Epstein’s cell and hallway.
This whole op smells like some mole/leakers in the FBI slapped together a meaningless video and an unsanctioned memo, dumped the video on some obscure justice.gov webpage while leaking that memo to Axios.
Now it looks like Trump Admin is “covering up Epstein” and “omg Trump must be involved!” - putting them in a tougher predicament over disclosing Epstein details because an “official narrative” is being established.
This is similar to the Russiagate nonsense - have some shill in the FBI write a memo and leak it to the media in order to set a narrative and further an agenda. It appears “official” because it appear to have “come from the FBI”, when it reality it’s a bunk memo a part of an elaborate op. This has been done a few times over the years, such as this “FBI Intelligence Bulletin” warning of “QAnon extremists” that came from a random FBI field office - not the FBI leadership. So we can’t take these things as “official government statements”.
And unfortunately the alternative media “truther” brigade is jumping to the conclusion that this memo is the official statement of Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, or Trump.
Running with the headlines instead of doing any due diligence with the story.
Sensationalism = emotions = clicks = cash.
Alternative Media has it’s own groupthink/parroting problem just like mainstream media.
Some of us are still out here questioning things with level headed, critical thinking though.
Thanks for following along and discerning with me.
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Thanks for the level-headed analysis and critical thinking. That's what I come to you for. I'm leaning in the direction of this memo being fake, but not just a Deep State misdirection play. What if it was put out by the FBI's own operatives as a psyop / kayfabe / Art of War move. This memo has now been taken up by Elon, who conveniently is now sufficiently separated from the Trump Admin in the public mind that he can push hard for arrests and Epstein disclosure in a way that the government cannot do. This push can't come from within the Administration, which has to preserve a neutrality - after all, they're the government, they're supposed to be non-political and above the fray. Now all the evidence and narratives supporting Epstein's activities is going to be circulating by outraged anons and influencers on X. Meanwhile, the Deep State actors are maybe believing that they're safe for now and Trump isn't going to pounce. What better setup for the trap to be sprung? - Also don't forget that Kash Patel started setting up this narrative weeks ago on Rogan's podcast, when he said Epstein killed himself, sorry. When we all know he knows full well, he did not. Not sure about the recordings. We were told by the Barr DOJ that the recordings didn't exist, because the camera footage was "accidentally destroyed."
I think Epstein lives. I think he was an asset for CIA, MI6, Mossad, and others with a LOT of money. I speculate that he is at some undisclosed location, maybe with a few facial changes, doing what he does best-being their asset. He had no list? LOL Nah. Someone mentioned in an article that it makes the best blackmail material ever at an international level. I could buy that hypothosis. Thanks for the article.