From the BBC,
Trump calls on House Republicans to vote to release Epstein files.
USA Today reports,
House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide.
Trump and the Republicans have nothing to hide because there are no “Epstein files,” at least not in the sense understood in the fever swamps.
What is imagined to exist is a list of names (in Epstein’s handwriting? Notarized?) of guilty persons, and videos of unspeakable acts. No such items currently exist, if they ever did, beyond what is already in the public domain.
The subterranean vault and Hanger 18 both sit empty. Occam’s Razor prevails again.
But the government will spend weeks/months chasing this chimera, and years/decades in court afterward arguing over the release of the nonexistent. You can’t prove a negative, so this saga will never end. Resources, time, and energy that could be spent improving America will be spent on this effort instead.
Like JFK, Jimmy Hoffa, and the Roswell aliens, the mystery will never be solved, nor will the mystery ever die.
