Over the weekend, a memo leaked from Donald Trump’s Justice Department and FBI effectively said “move on” to anyone who believes that Jeffrey Epstein kept a “list” of compromised individuals the government should investigate and/or that the disgraced financier was murdered. And in response, one very vocal person effectively said, “no!”
In the memo, the administration said it found “no credible evidence” that the convicted sex offender “blackmailed prominent individuals” and no “evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.” The DOJ will also reportedly release hours of footage it said confirms that Epstein died by suicide in his jail cell in 2019, contradicting claims that he was murdered by powerful people who feared he would name names at trial. (The idea that Epstein did not actually kill himself was once suggested by none other than the current president; commenting in a 2020 interview, Trump said, of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, “Her friend or boyfriend was either killed or committed suicide in jail.” Other people who once embraced conspiracy theories concerning Epstein: current FBI director Kash Patel and deputy director Dan Bongino, though they later changed their minds.) As a result of the lack of evidence, the Justice Department and FBI wrote in the joint memo that no one else will be charged. And that is apparently not sitting right with former Trump backer Elon Musk, who took to X to post a series of memes relaying his thoughts on the matter:
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He also shared a post that read: “If the entire government is protecting pedophiles, it has officially become the government against the people. I hope you all understand that.”
The current government is, of course, controlled by the guy Musk spent more than $250 million to reelect. That relationship began to deteriorate last month when the richest man in the world became vocal in his criticism of Trump’s spending bill and, during a market-moving feud with the president of the United States, wrote: “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!” Though Musk later deleted that post, and nonspecifically apologized for some of the things he said, the détente between the two men was brief. Musk has called for a new political party and Trump has told his followers, “I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks.”
Anyway, it seems likely that Musk will have more to say about the Epstein memo, and probably soon!
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