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Opinion: Epstein list: Something happened on the way to transparency

File photo/Evan Vucci/The Associated Press / Conservative political commentator Rogan O'Handley, also known as DC Draino, from left, social media content creator Chaya Raichik and conservative political commentator Liz Wheeler hold up binders with a cover titled "The Epstein Files: Phase 1," with Jack Posobiec at the White House on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in Washington. This week, the DOJ said there was no Epstein file.
File photo/Evan Vucci/The Associated Press / Conservative political commentator Rogan O'Handley, also known as DC Draino, from left, social media content creator Chaya Raichik and conservative political commentator Liz Wheeler hold up binders with a cover titled "The Epstein Files: Phase 1," with Jack Posobiec at the White House on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in Washington. This week, the DOJ said there was no Epstein file. File photo/Evan Vucci/The Associated Press / Conservative political commentator Rogan O'Handley, also known as DC Draino, from left, social media content creator Chaya Raichik and conservative political commentator Liz Wheeler hold up binders with a cover titled "The Epstein Files: Phase 1," with Jack Posobiec at the White House on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in Washington. This week, the DOJ said there was no Epstein file.

It was supposed to be a slow news week. I was going to write about the opening of Alligator Alcatraz and the excitement it has brought to this isolated part of swampy middle Florida. Jobs, a deportation center and commerce were stirring that sleepy place. Even the area alligators were excited; they heard a new Mexican place had opened near them.

Then, the news broke that our government did not find any Epstein Island client list, and would not be releasing, as promised, the “Epstein client list” it found. It certainly raises more questions than it answers, especially since it answers no questions. Except, should you ever trust your government? The answer remains: no.

Days after our clandestine B-2 bombing raids, Washington leaked an assessment report on Iran’s nuclear plants to The New York Times, proving yet again that the Epstein client list was, and remains, the only secure document in Washington, D.C.

If I were Ghislaine Maxwell, I would be mad about sitting in prison for 20 years for trafficking underage girls — apparently, to no one.

Ghislaine could help. She knows a lot and has said nothing. She is either under Deep State threat or sitting on the biggest-paying Netflix documentary of all time.