https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/deferred-armageddon-thursday-may

I find corporate media’s newfound curiosity and criticism to be completely inauthentic. Where was all this investigatory interest during the Biden years, when the Epstein files were buried in concrete under the FBI’s swimming pool?

All I know for sure is that the Trump Team knows full well what we really want to see, which is justice. Unlike corporate media, both Bondi and Kash Patel spent years criticizing the Biden Administration’s inaction. They know. But it is far too early to conclude that Trump’s people are now part of the cover-up.

If charges were to be brought against some of the world’s most politically powerful people, those cases must be airtight. Airtight cases don’t appear overnight.

And even if this calculus is morally indefensible, from a political perspective, holding back the Epstein files makes strategic sense. At this early moment in his second term, Trump is trying to negotiate with the same world leaders who probably fear disclosure. They are much more likely to cooperate if they think there is some chance they could escape the prosecutorial net. Given that incalculable political advantage, why rush something that shouldn’t be rushed anyway?

Why telegraph anything at all about the pending investigations?

On the flip side, if those same bad actors at the highest levels of global governance fear imminent disclosure, they will likely make non-negotiable demands for immunity and confidentiality, setting all other considerations aside. The more that people like Bondi or Patel ratchet up the rhetoric, the more likely it becomes that Trump will get bogged down in backchannel demands for Epstein investigation protection.

My point is not to defend any action or inaction from Trump’s DOJ. Rather, I’m simply pointing out that the situation is a hopelessly complicated plate of competing incentive spaghetti. We don’t know, and they can’t tell us, everything that is involved in the investigations.

But expecting some kind of frantic, poorly thought-through dump of the FBI’s Epstein files is naive at best.

Not everyone will agree with me. But I suggest we remain patient. The FBI has plenty of work to do to save this generation of children. And for Heaven’s sake, don’t take corporate media’s bait; their new fascination with the pace of the Epstein investigation is fake and ghey.

We must continue the drumbeats of demand for accountability. But let’s not throw our own team into the wood chipper along with the perpetrators. Be angry, but be wise.