Last time: crypto grift, foreign jets, Cabinet seats for cash, no blind trust, pardons for donors.
This time: pardons for everybody, war trades, prediction market felonies,
a pool painted blue on a no-bid contract, and a UAE sovereign fund
pumping money directly into the president's personal cryptocurrency.
We kept notes. The hits kept coming. So did we.
Fourteen categories of documented and alleged misconduct. New in Volume II: The Pardon Racket, Iran War Insider Trading, and Government Property Grift. Plus: the page we wish we didn't have to write.
Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody in August 2019. The official finding was suicide. The facility's cameras malfunctioned. His cellmate had been transferred. The guards were asleep, or said they were. Two federal corrections officers were later charged with falsifying records. The forensic pathologist hired by the family concluded the injuries were more consistent with homicide. The official finding has not changed.
For years, advocates, journalists, and members of Congress demanded the release of the full Epstein client and contact files — flight logs, the "little black book," the sealed civil depositions, the documents held by the DOJ and FBI. The current administration came to office having promised transparency. What followed was selective.
Some documents were released. Others — particularly those touching on individuals currently holding or adjacent to power — moved more slowly, or not at all. The released material confirmed what partial reporting had long suggested: Epstein's network included prominent figures across finance, politics, academia, and media on both sides of the aisle. The documents do not prove crimes by named individuals beyond Epstein and his convicted associate Ghislaine Maxwell. What they do show is access, proximity, and a network that operated for years without serious scrutiny.
The corruption angle is not in the conspiracy. It is in the documented record of what was released, what was not, who benefited from the opacity, and who currently has the power to change that. That's a factual question with a factual answer. We are still waiting for the full answer.