Epstein timeline

[billvon 3,111]

Paraphrased list of events in the Epstein list saga, with dates so I can keep track of what happened when:

 

Mar 14
Pam Bondi: the Epstein client list is "sitting on my desk right now."

USA: So release the client list.

May 15
Pam Bondi tells Trump he is in the Epstein files she has.  Trump keeps this secret.

Jun 5 
Musk: the "@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public."

USA: Release the client list.

Jul 7
Justice Department releases a video "proving" Epstein killed himself in his cell.

Trump: Talk about THAT instead!

USA: The video was edited and parts removed.  Release the client list.

Jul 8
Trump says that asking questions about the client list or the edited video is a "desecration."

USA: So release the list and we won't have to ask any more.

Jul 12
Trump: Bondi is doing "A FANTASTIC JOB"

USA: Release the list

Jul 13
Trump: Rosie O'Donnell is a "Threat to Humanity" and I will be "taking away her Citizenship!"  Talk about that!  Not Epstein!

USA: Release the client list

Jul 17
WSJ releases a card Trump sent to Epstein for his birthday.

Trump: Not mine!  I never do drawings!

USA: Here's a dozen drawings you did for auctions.  Release the list.

Trump supporters: He doesn't know the word "enigma" that was in that letter

USA: He used it twice in political speeches.  Here they are.  Release the list.

Jul 18
Trump: The Epstein files were written by "Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan" so even if I am in them it's a lie

USA: release the list

Trump: If I was on the list democrats would have released by now so I'm not on it

USA: release the list

Trump: There is no list

USA: Release the list

Trump: All you supporters of mine who want the list are "weaklings and stupid people."

USA: Release the list

Trump: Look!  Obama is a traitor!  Arrest him!

USA: You tried that already.  Release the list.

Trump: "We caught Hillary Clinton!  This is treason!"

USA: Nope.  Release the list.

Trump: Hunter's laptop

USA: Tried that too.  Release the list.

Trump: Stolen election?  Russia Russia Russia hoax?

USA: RELEASE THE LIST.

Jul 22
Trump: OK.  Here are the files.

USA: Nice try.  Those are the MLK files.  Release the EPSTEIN list. 

[normiss 892]

In a February 27, 2025, letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, Bondi stated that in response to her request for all Epstein-related files, she received approximately 200 pages of documents, primarily consisting of flight logs, Epstein's contact list, and a list of victims' names and phone numbers. However, she later learned that the FBI possessed thousands of additional pages of documents related to the Epstein investigation that were not initially disclosed to her, according to The Washington Post. Bondi accused the FBI of withholding these files and demanded their release. She tasked Director Patel with investigating why her initial request for the full files was not followed. 

Bondi also made public statements ahead of a planned release of some Epstein files, promising to reveal "a lot of names" and "a lot of flight logs." However, the initial release in February 2025 mainly included documents already publicly available through previous legal proceedings, such as those in the Ghislaine Maxwell case. The Department of Justice subsequently stated that their review of the files "revealed no incriminating 'client list."

[billvon 3,111]

1 minute ago, normiss said:

The Department of Justice subsequently stated that their review of the files "revealed no incriminating 'client list."

Which is why Bondi just directed 1000 FBI agents to comb through them and remove any mention of Trump's name.  Per off the record interviews, his name has been found (and deleted) at least once so far.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/trump-epstein-fbi-durbin.html

[wmw999 2,587]

I hope this doesn’t turn into a “Epstein didn’t kill himself” meme

Wendy P. 

[billvon 3,111]

1 hour ago, wmw999 said:

I hope this doesn’t turn into a “Epstein didn’t kill himself” meme

It's likely, given the minute or so of video removed from the jail recording used to demonstrate he killed himself.

[Phil1111 1,176]

18 hours ago, billvon said:

Which is why Bondi just directed 1000 FBI agents to comb through them and remove any mention of Trump's name.  Per off the record interviews, his name has been found (and deleted) at least once so far.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/trump-epstein-fbi-durbin.html

Or why Trump's ex-defence lawyer Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, filed an appearance in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell. He is going to make an under the table offer of a pardon in exchange of a couple lies regarding the US president. Eric Adams being the precedent for such corruption.

In case nobody noticed we are just six months into the term of the most corrupt leader in the history of the western world.

[JoeWeber 2,938]

4 hours ago, Phil1111 said:

Or why Trump's ex-defence lawyer Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, filed an appearance in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell. He is going to make an under the table offer of a pardon in exchange of a couple lies regarding the US president. Eric Adams being the precedent for such corruption.

In case nobody noticed we are just six months into the term of the most corrupt leader in the history of the western world.

Sure, but what is truly fascinating for me is the continuing lack of integrity by his enablers who comprise a very large number. Anyone with a moral compass that tends to point in the direction of truth and honesty should, at a certain point, be able to say enough. But it's not happening. You'd think Gabbard would have more integrity than to pander to Trumps desire to deflect from his actual association with Epstein by crafting a nonsense accusation of treason against Obama, but no. The list goes on. 

[JerryBaumchen 1,466]

42 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

Sure, but what is truly fascinating for me is the continuing lack of integrity by his enablers who comprise a very large number. Anyone with a moral compass that tends to point in the direction of truth and honesty should, at a certain point, be able to say enough. But it's not happening. You'd think Gabbard would have more integrity than to pander to Trumps desire to deflect from his actual association with Epstein by crafting a nonsense accusation of treason against Obama, but no. The list goes on. 

Hi Joe,

Re:  You'd think Gabbard would have more integrity than to pander to Trumps desire to deflect from his actual association with Epstein by crafting a nonsense accusation of treason against Obama

A lacky is a lacky and will always be one.

Jerry Baumchen

PS)  Integrity?  In Trump 2.0; surely, you jest.

[GeorgiaDon 379]

1 hour ago, JoeWeber said:

Sure, but what is truly fascinating for me is the continuing lack of integrity by his enablers who comprise a very large number. Anyone with a moral compass that tends to point in the direction of truth and honesty should, at a certain point, be able to say enough. But it's not happening. You'd think Gabbard would have more integrity than to pander to Trumps desire to deflect from his actual association with Epstein by crafting a nonsense accusation of treason against Obama, but no. The list goes on. 

I see Rubio as the personification of people's willingness to debase themselves to Trump for the sake of power.  Perhaps I missed the memo, but at one time I thought he had a decent amount of integrity, even if I disagreed with many of his policy ideas.  However he has completely capitulated to the MAGA world, to the point of taking a leading role in condemning millions of people to death from AIDS, malaria, starvation, etc to enhance his own power.  I suppose it's the same with every would-be dictator, they are only powerful because there are so many people willing to jump on the train to benefit themselves, even at the expense of any shred of integrity or decency.  Sometimes I regret that I don't believe in hell, because I can't even enjoy the delusion that they will get their "just desserts" in the afterlife.

[JerryBaumchen 1,466]

40 minutes ago, GeorgiaDon said:

I see Rubio as the personification of people's willingness to debase themselves to Trump for the sake of power.  Perhaps I missed the memo, but at one time I thought he had a decent amount of integrity, even if I disagreed with many of his policy ideas.  However he has completely capitulated to the MAGA world, to the point of taking a leading role in condemning millions of people to death from AIDS, malaria, starvation, etc to enhance his own power.  I suppose it's the same with every would-be dictator, they are only powerful because there are so many people willing to jump on the train to benefit themselves, even at the expense of any shred of integrity or decency.  Sometimes I regret that I don't believe in hell, because I can't even enjoy the delusion that they will get their "just desserts" in the afterlife.

Hi Don,

I could not agree more.

Back in 2016, I said to some friends that anyone who joins the Trump admin would end any hope of a future in politics.  That is exactly what happened with Mike Pence.

It is going to happen with Rubio, also.  And, all of the rest of the MAGA fools.

Jerry Baumchen

[Phil1111 1,176]

2 hours ago, JoeWeber said:

Sure, but what is truly fascinating for me is the continuing lack of integrity by his enablers who comprise a very large number. Anyone with a moral compass that tends to point in the direction of truth and honesty should, at a certain point, be able to say enough. But it's not happening. You'd think Gabbard would have more integrity than to pander to Trumps desire to deflect from his actual association with Epstein by crafting a nonsense accusation of treason against Obama, but no. The list goes on. 

Yep evangelicals for a start. Oh well they bought the entirety of the Trump ship and knew Lucifer was the captain. Not a peep from stinkpublicans and all his big donors. 

Trump has seemed to have perfected the art of the shakedown. Paramount buyout approved today after the $16 million dollar bribe was paid. Columbia university paid a $200 million dollar bribe/shakedown. 

Imagine what a year from now will be like. 

[Phil1111 1,176]

1 hour ago, GeorgiaDon said:

I see Rubio as the personification of people's willingness to debase themselves to Trump for the sake of power.  Perhaps I missed the memo, but at one time I thought he had a decent amount of integrity, even if I disagreed with many of his policy ideas.  However he has completely capitulated to the MAGA world, to the point of taking a leading role in condemning millions of people to death from AIDS, malaria, starvation, etc to enhance his own power.  I suppose it's the same with every would-be dictator, they are only powerful because there are so many people willing to jump on the train to benefit themselves, even at the expense of any shred of integrity or decency.  Sometimes I regret that I don't believe in hell, because I can't even enjoy the delusion that they will get their "just desserts" in the afterlife.

Well we are now at least able to define their integrity. That does count for a little.