Elon Musk has said an Axios report that the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had concluded there was no evidence of a Jeffrey Epstein client list was the “final straw”.

The report also said the agencies had concluded there was no credible evidence the disgraced financier and pedophile blackmailed high-profile and prominent individuals, and confirmed that surveillance footage showed Epstein had killed himself in prison.

“So… umm… then what is Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for?” Musk posted to his X platform, referring to Epstein’s former girlfriend and associate who procured underage girls for him to abuse.

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    c’mon do it, you jilted sycophantic cuck. you were born to engage in political corruption, get burned by people better at it than you, than lash out at them in a tantrum fueled by your delusions of having conflicted morals. just do it

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    Bullshit.

    This is all hoked-up drama to distract the masses while they push us into working poverty.

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      Agent Krasnov and whatever KGB names Elon and his father have been given would agree.

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    As a Republican this Leaves me ANGRY because I THOUGHT the CLINTONS were on that List but if Trump, who was Epstein’s Best Friend, says there is No List then that means the CLINTONS never Raped kids either!

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    “I know for a fact there is a client list, because we both are on it”

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      I wonder where they’re all flying these days. Who’s keeping the current list? How many years from now does someone come forward to tell the same story

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        It’s a ridiculous thing to imagine that only the US possesses intel about Epstein. I’m sure a foreign government will leak more about Trump’s involvement with Epstein. Virginia Giuffre named Trump in addition to others and she recently “committed suicide.”

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          I’m sure a foreign government will leak more about Trump’s involvement with Epstein.

          So?

          Imagine the entire UN (bar the US) put their stamp of approval on video evidence. What difference would it make?

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          Why haven’t they leaked or better yet prosecuted based off of this information they have?

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            Because is probably Israel, and the US and other western powers are doing exactly what Israel wants them to do.

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          What would be the point? It won’t change US politics and it will just incriminate “allies” like prince andy et al.

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    No one ever asks why Epstein was allowed to kill himself. Who gave the order to take him off suicide watch? I remember people at the time screaming that it was a bad idea.

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      That would be Bill Barr. Look into it yourself but Bill probably had Epstein killed, he’s the guy who knows what happened.

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      I think the onus ultimately falls upon the head of the DOJ at the time (Barr, if I recall correctly), who was appointed by trump, and at the time loyal to him.

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          He continued his lifestyle while he was still in jail.

          He only had to spend nights at the jail and he still had women visit him constantly. No one knew what they were doing because the guards were not allowed to guard him.

          Epstein was also allowed out of the stockade for up to 12 hours a day, six days a week on work-release after agreeing to pay off-duty deputies to guard him at his office at 250 Australian Ave. On workdays, Epstein’s driver picked him up at the stockade and drove him several miles to his office — just steps away from Goldberger’s office — at a nonprofit he founded seven months before he pleaded guilty.

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        I didn’t hear too much about the first time. I don’t remember it. I know he was on suicide watch. Then he suddenly wasn’t with every medical professional saying he needed to stay on suicide watch. Was he on suicide watch the first time?

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        I suspect because they didn’t have all his video files. Couldn’t kill him if those files could get leaked after his death.

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    The title of that article should be “Elon Musk Gets His Name In Print Again”

    Because there’s nothing there, really. I’m reading an old book (“old” meaning twenty years which is not old but- ) it has used Newsweek as a source of truth several times. Because there was a time it was considered to be so.

    It is not now. Whoever owns it is playing a bad game of chicken with journalism.

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        Oh the list exists, of course. I’m not saying they’re making up things necessarily - just that they’re making “news articles” out of tweets and other low-effort so-called-journalism which wasn’t really the case a long time ago.

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          No need to single out Newsweek, then, as basically all publications opted for this sort of cheap content to inflate their pages…

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            Newsweek, given it’s history and the crass purchasing of the branding is especially egregious.

            business insider, for example, can do what it wants and yeah it’s just regular terrible.

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      If they report on the old things: “this isn’t new news! Stupid media”

      If they don’t, “ugh 24 hour news cycle, they report on it once then forget about it. Stupid media.”

      I’m giving this one a pass if it keeps the files in the limelight and/or pisses off Trump.

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        Yes it serves our purposes, sure. It has nothing to do with whether or not the news is “old” or “new”. At least not for me. For the mods of c/news perhaps.

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    there is zero reason for anyone to believe Epstein killed himself even if we are given direct evidence from the state itself. everything from them is suspect and should not be trusted regardless of the quality provided. why would anyone listen to the words of a government that inherently distrusts its citizens and wants, objectively, the worst for them? even if Epstein actually did kill himself we are never going to accept that as a society and honestly, we shouldn’t, because this is absolutely something those in power would do and we should never forget that or become complacent to it.

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    Honestly occam’s razor says that there is likely no amazing smoking gun detailing all these people and all the terrible things they did like the right (and beyond but hear me out) has been claiming without evidence for years, but rather there are probably just some travel logs that hint or imply if you squint hard enough and aren’t really that interesting or damning on their own. So now the conspiracy theorists control the White House and with it the flow of information, they have the opportunity to release the information they swear exists, and yet the conspiracy doesn’t work anymore because they can’t claim “the powers that be” are protecting anyone without attacking Trump now.

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      The beflief is that Epstein collected and kept evidence that he could use to blackmail his wealthy and powerful clients, either on behalf of an intelligence agency which he had claimed to have ties to, or just to protect himself and gain personal influence and power.

      This isn’t a right wing conspiracy, it cuts across the US political spectrum

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        I know what the conspiracy is, and I’m bringing up the right specifically (and I made sure to preface that I was doing that and that this conspiracy extends beyond them but I guess you missed it) because the far right currently controls the government and a lot of the right wing political grift hinges on things like “Trump is going to release the truth about Epstein and all the people who were part of his network.”

        When Biden was president and the democrats controlled the senate, the right screeched for years that Biden and his administration were protecting the pedophiles. Now they have control, and nothing has changed. They can’t explain it without attacking Trump. Which they’ll never do directly because 1) he’s critical to their income and 2) look how well that’s gone for Musk

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      but rather there are probably just some travel logs that hint or imply if you squint hard enough and aren’t really that interesting or damning on their own

      Right. They had videos from Diddy and couldn’t take him down beyond the smaller charges. People seem to forget you need proof beyond a reasonable doubt for a criminal conviction.