The Unacceptable Outcome
The Jeffrey Epstein file fiasco of 2025 continues dominating the news cycle. Every indication points to one particular outcome that cannot be accepted in any capacity whatsoever, and it seems abundantly clear this is what they’re trying to do.
Let’s start by clearing up critical misconceptions that derail further discussion by misunderstanding critical factors.
Misconception #1: The Mar-a-Lago Ban
Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump were friends – very close friends. They referred to each other that way on multiple occasions, attended exclusive parties together, and rode on Epstein’s private plane approximately 8 times per the manifest. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump even gave Epstein a birthday card intimating they share “wonderful secrets” together.
The biggest misconception is that Trump found out what Epstein was – “the worst scum on earth” – and after learning that, banned him from Mar-a-Lago and severed all connections. This is entirely incorrect per Trump’s own statements.
The banning of Epstein from Mar-a-Lago only occurred because: “He did something that was inappropriate. He hired help. And I said don’t ever do that again. He stole people that work for me, and I said don’t ever do that again. He did it again, and I threw him out of the place.”
The Recruitment Connection
This is wildly different than taking a moral stand. It gets worse because Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell would sometimes recruit their victims from Mar-a-Lago. While Trump openly states the split occurred because Epstein was “stealing help,” what he’s actually saying is that even though Epstein was grooming victims from his resort, the real reason for the ban was servants being poached.
From his own mouth, the ban only occurred because Epstein “hired help,” which was “inappropriate.”
The Changing Story
The story keeps changing. According to a Miami Herald article from 2021: “Trump publicly disavowed Epstein a day after the financier’s arrest on July 11, 2019, saying in the Oval Office that the two hadn’t spoken in 15 years after a falling out. He has also claimed that Epstein was never a Mar-a-Lago member.”
But according to other club members in “The Grifters Club,” Trump “kicked Epstein out after Epstein harassed the daughter of a member.” Investigative reporter Sarah Blaskey noted “such an act could irreparably harm the Trump brand, leaving Donald no choice but to remove Epstein.”
According to Trump campaign official Sam Nunberg cited by the New York Times in 2019: “Mr. Trump assured Mr. Nunberg that he had barred Mr. Epstein from entering his clubs after Mr. Epstein had tried to recruit a woman who worked at Mar-a-Lago. ‘Trump said, ‘I kicked him out of the clubs when this stuff became public, and I made sure NBC knew.””
This insinuates Trump only banned Epstein after public revelations of his crimes in 2005. The constantly changing story suggests the real answer is something he never wants to discuss truthfully.
Misconception #2: File Availability
You can’t discuss Jeffrey Epstein without hearing: “Well, the Democrats had the list for 4 years. Why are we only hearing about it now? Don’t you think if they had anything they could use against Trump, they would have already done it?”
There’s one problem: there were two cases (Epstein and Maxwell separately), so the bulk of files were under court-ordered seal until 2024. Even then, Maxwell continues filing appeals, meaning a huge amount of what we colloquially call “the Epstein files” were not actually available to the prior administration across branches of government.
These were sealed files, part of an active criminal investigation, only now reaching the point where public release can be seriously discussed. That’s how the system works.
The Unacceptable Outcome: Pardoning Maxwell
What can’t happen is pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell. Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson believes her sentence was a “pittance” – she deserves life in prison, not just 20 years. There were as many as a thousand victims.
Yet when repeatedly asked about this, Donald Trump has consistently said “I’m allowed to do it” in reference to a presidential pardon. Of course the president is allowed to pardon people, but this is a situation where he should not and politically cannot without doing irreparable self-inflicted harm.
The FBI Flagging Operation
According to the New York Times, 100,000 pages of Epstein files were being frantically combed by the FBI specifically to flag Trump’s name when it appeared, along with other prominent individuals.
A letter from Senator Durbin’s office states: “According to information my office received, Attorney General Bondi then pressured the FBI to put approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division (IMD), including the Record/Information Dissemination Section (RIDS), which handles all requests submitted by the public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act, on 24-hour shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records in order to produce more documents that could then be released on an arbitrarily short deadline. My office was told that these personnel were instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned.”
The Maxwell-DOJ Meetings
The Epstein files are being held back on purpose and frantically dissected to flag every single time Trump’s name appears. Meanwhile, Ghislaine Maxwell is meeting with the DOJ under a “limited immunity” agreement to give “more information” about her and Epstein’s crimes, while the president repeatedly says “I’m allowed to pardon her.”
The person she’s meeting with is Deputy Director Todd Blanche – Trump’s former lawyer from the hush money criminal trial in New York. The president’s former lawyer, now deputy at the DOJ, is meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, a woman Trump has said “I wish her well” about on multiple occasions.
The Perjury Element
Ghislaine Maxwell, per the 2020 indictment in the Southern District of New York, didn’t just face charges of sex trafficking – she also faced multiple perjury charges, only dropped as a result of conviction on more serious charges.
The DOJ is meeting with a sex trafficker who has twice perjured herself, inflicting untold harm on as many as a thousand victims, but the president “wishes her well.”
The Shifting Narrative
We’ve cycled through multiple iterations of the argument:
- “The Epstein files need to be made public” – with White House PR stunts
- FBI/DOJ memo saying “there’s nothing to see here”
- Officials flip-flopping between “files are on my desk” and “files don’t exist”
- Memos about FBI withholding files that don’t exist but have Trump’s name
Additional New York Times reporting indicates Trump was specifically informed by Pam Bondi that his name is in the Epstein files, which he denied before claiming the files do exist but are a Democrat hoax.
Trump stated: “Well, I haven’t been overly interested in it. You know, it’s a hoax that’s been built up way beyond proportion. I can say this: Those files were run by the worst scum on earth. They were run by Comey. They were run by Garland. They were run by Biden and all of the people that actually ran the government, including the autopen. They can easily put something in the files that’s a phony.”
The Clear Pattern
The files don’t exist. The files do exist. The files are a Democrat hoax. The files have fake names. Let’s meet with the sex trafficker who perjured herself and get to the bottom of who’s in the files, which are a hoax, which don’t exist, and the president personally wishes her well.
Trump’s name is in the files. Trump was close friends with Epstein. Maxwell is saying whatever she can to get immunity, and it appears Trump is about to pardon her in a desperate attempt at shifting the narrative.
In Trump’s mind, the convicted sex trafficker and her accomplice responsible for horrifying crimes against hundreds of children aren’t the worst scum on earth – he wishes them well. The worst scum on earth are the Democrats.
The Bridge Too Far
This cannot happen. Trump is already pardoning multitudes of criminals who don’t deserve it – white collar criminals who donated millions to his campaign, bank fraud perpetrators, and securities violators with tens of millions in damages where pardons deny victims restitution. He even pardoned a company, HDR Global, to help them avoid a $100 million penalty.
All of that pales in comparison to pardoning perhaps the worst child sex trafficker alive today just to dodge a scandal.
It is painfully obvious this administration is mishandling the Epstein situation, but pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell is a bridge too far. No rational person can see this as anything other than obvious corruption. Not even the most politically captured cult member can witness this without squirming as the narrative contorts itself, contradicting and reshaping what we’re told to think in such a blatantly obvious way.
The situation unfolding appears to be soft preparation for a presidential pardon or Supreme Court decision releasing Ghislaine Maxwell to obfuscate uncomfortable scrutiny currently directed at the President.
