As IF Times

link: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-department-scrambles-defend-its-about-face-release-epstein-files-2025-07-08/

One of the hallmarks of American culture is the notion of the ‘conspiracy theory’. At every decade since the early sixties, there have been numerous events, often tragic, but not always, that have an official narrative, but whose facts didn’t stand up to intense scrutiny. People, especially Americans like to question things.  Not everyone will be satisfied the ‘official narrative’.

In fact, according to some theorists, the very moniker ‘conspiracy theory’ was coined by a member of the CIA in addressing the skeptics of the events surrounding assassination of JFK in 1963. Those of us alive at the time remember vividly the chaos and events of that day in Dallas, but just as significant were the unknowns as to who was responsible for his death. Sure, Lee Harvey Oswald was convicted of the shooting, but then from various quarters came the suspicion of the involvement of others, giving rise to the ‘grassy knoll’ and other theories of what really happened.  What gave credence to alternative views of the official narrative was that the JFK files were sealed until just recently.  Someone kills the leader of the most powerful nation in the world and they want to seal the facts for 75 years?  Sounds logical.

Another popular event with lots of controversy was the famous Moon landing in 1969. The official narrative is pretty much there for everyone to see since the networks all carried the event live ‘as it happened’.  Until recently, no one doubted this ‘greatest step for mankind’.  Now, with the aid of technology and some sober reflection of the events and technologies, the veracity of the event has come under great suspicion. The official footage of the event looks like very bad AI renderings today. The official narratives and the review of available technology at the time have fed into a growing pool of skepticism.

We all remember the events in New York in September of 2001.  The nation witnessed in real time the destruction of the two World Trade Center towers that day as 2 planes crashed into them.  There was little reason to question the official narrative; we all saw it. Except that while 2 planes crashed into 2 buildings, a third building, the Salomon Brothers tower 7, also collapsed spontaneously. As the years progressed, many professional engineers have cast doubt that aircraft alone would have caused the buildings to essentially implode, much less spontaneously.  But they’re sticking to the official narrative: 2 planes, 3 buildings, a virtual 7-10 split in bowling.

In 2020, a global pandemic emergency was declared in which a deadly virus was loosed upon the world that was so dangerous, that one of the symptoms was that there were no symptoms.  Masks became mandatory, sequestration was enforced upon the public and mandatory vaccinations were imposed on entire populations, except politicians. The official narrative was that only a 14 day containment was necessary and the virus would be contained.  They were only off by 3 years as the segregation and confinement became part of daily life.  One vaccination became two, then three, then a series of boosters to make sure. Common sense and rational thinking disappeared faster than crab legs at a cruise ship buffet. After almost 4 years, the charade could no longer be maintained and the edicts quietly died off.

Some may recall the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017. A man opened fire from his suite at the Mandalay Bay hotel onto a music festival below, killing 60 people and wounding over 400 others. He was later found in his room dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.   The motive for the shooting was officially undetermined.  The logistics of how this one man could have moved so much weaponry and ammo up 32 stories came into question and of course, gave rise to various conspiracy theories.

Not to be outdone, Jeffrey Epstein, a well-known wealthy party guy to the jet set and politically connected, was arrested in 2019, accused of being the mastermind of a massive global honey-pot operation involving sexual activity with young children, murder, spying and political intrigue.  His partner Ghislaine Maxwell was tried and convicted and received a 20 year sentence.  After his arrest, Epstein apparently committed suicide in his high security jail cell.  So said the official narrative.  Just a few days ago, after the most publicized outrage and promise of justice for the children by all chest beating politicos-in-charge, it turns out that Epstein had no client list and the case was closed.  Thus, Epstein must have un-alived himself out of hysteria. The conspiracy theories will write themselves on this one.

Source: Trump’s retweet of a Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory is part of a dangerous cycle that Twitter makes worse – The Washington Post

The mainstream media is sadly predictable and predictably sad. You cannot even raise suspicion about the most laughable circumstances surrounding the death of Jeffrey Epstein, officially declared a suicide by those in charge, without accusations of propagating a conspiracy theory.

Here’s a guy who is arguably the highest profile prisoner on the planet, but nevertheless was found dead in his cell which had been under a 24 hour ‘suicide watch’ regime. There are accounts of guards being called away from duty to allow ‘maintenance’.  The cameras in the cell of this high value prisoner somehow didn’t work.  He was denied a belt, shoelaces, dental floss and hard candy.  His bedsheets were made of a paper-like substance which is unable to sustain any weight.  The cell is likely free of any hooks or knobs.  Yet somehow, this resourceful guy was able to end it all just as he was to give testimony and evidence against a virtual who’s who gang of international politicians, bankers and assorted heavyweights, including of course many parties tied to the Clintons.

If none of this seems even a bit iffy to anyone out there, I have some headlight fluid for sale at cheap prices to anyone interested.  Epstein’s death is as suspicious as gas station sushi.  Contrast this to the last 3 years of expensive and intensive investigations of the Donald Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russian interests in influencing the last presidential election.  After probing everything and everyone ever connected to Donald Trump since the second grade, there was no evidence found of any collusion on the part of the Trump campaign.  On the other hand, there are dozens of smoking guns emanating from the investigators who were charged with finding wrongdoing; some of whom were fired and many of whom are now under intense investigation for their roles in the manufactured conspiracy.

But getting back to Epstein, he was widely known to have consorted with some pretty big league individuals and revelations of their relationship and activities with Epstein could have proved not just embarrassing but even criminal if some of the allegations are proven.  The highest profile figures happen to be the Clinton family.  Here again, we’ll hear protests of conspiracy theories regarding the former first family and of course, they’ll be dismissed as just that; partisan muckraking.  Coincidences happen of course, but they seldom seem to line up like arrows pointing to magnetic north as in the case of the Clinton family.  It has become internet legend and even a semi vocation for those adding up the list of individuals who have met their untimely demise coincidently as they were to give information on Clinton activities.

Now we can add Jeffrey Epstein to the roster of unlucky individuals.  It may still be possible that they conclusively demonstrate that he offed himself, but something tells me that the person most surprised by Epstein’s death was Epstein.