Rightwing influencers in the US who are often aligned with Donald Trump are angry that a joint justice department and FBI memo has dismissed the existence of a “client list” in the case against late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The disgraced financier killed himself in a jail cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City in 2019 while awaiting prosecution on child sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.

Almost ever since, Epstein’s death has been the subject of conspiracy theories on the right, including a supposed “client list” that he purportedly used to blackmail wealthy co-conspirators.

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      4 days ago

      While I didn’t actually say that, yeah, I would agree the Panama Papers are probably more important, and yeah there’s probably worse shit going on.

      Hell, personally I’m still convinced the CIA killed Kennedy, one could argue thats uh… rather important.

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        4 days ago

        Sorry, misread. Incompetent. Yes. But damn that’s a crowded field these days. All the spy dudes being mormons who were raised on ultra campy james bond films does not breed general competence. You need either some fucking color (which can’t hapoen, obviously) or more ice chewing fun hating hypernationalist puritanical esoteric fascists mixed in for a competent intelligence service.

        Do you remember the signal chat from like 3 months ago?