Amazingly, it was also the kind of thing he could've vaporwared away, just by (mostly) following policy. All he had to do was claim (from the beginning) that there are ongoing investigations, agency policy is to not release info about those investigations, and then lie that there are going to be arrests really soon.

He was the one pushing the conspiracy theory, and running on the promise of releasing them.

He was on the gravy train of Pizzagate from way back in 2016 and he's been dining out on it ever since. But to say he was pushing it? No, he was just echoing all the talk radio goons who wanted to smuggle in transphobia under the banner of "Save The Children".

Trump's just along for the ride on so much of this shit. He's a bagman with a serpent's tongue, but he's not really guiding any of these decisions except to take his own slice.

So anyone who’s name is in the files can blame Trump for them not getting away with it.

Name one person who hasn't gotten away with it, other than Epstein himself and Maxwell if you're being generous.

Larry Summers didn't even quit his day job teaching at Harvard. This is a freak who has been dining out lavishly as Economics Svengali since Mark Zuckerberg was in college. He's been nailed dead-to-rights getting PUA advice from Epstein as recently as months before Jeff unalived himself. He's "stepping away from public life for a little while". Dude's set his social media to mute and hoping this will all blow over in a few months. And he's probably right. Good chance he gets bookings on MSNBC and CNN to denounce Zohran Mamdani's far-left socialist mayoralty right alongside Steve Bannon before the end of next year.

The joke of the "Epstein Files" is that you absolutely could put up names, addresses, and lurid details about each and every one of his friends and nothing would happen to any of them. Maybe another Luigi Mangione proves me wrong. That's the best anyone can reasonably hope for.