how can you say "if" when something has already occurred for sure?

I see it as Q asking the question in the manner that he/they did because they already knew the answer and they wanted the reader, that may or may not know anything about the topic, to dig into it and discover the answer for themselves. It would be like one of us asking someone that is totally in the dark about Epstein: "What "if" Jeffery Epstein had a painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress and another of G.W. Bush flying paper airplanes into to jenga towers that resemble the World Trade center?"

how can you say "if" when something has already occurred for sure?

I see it as Q asking the question in the manner that he/they did because they already knew the answer and they wanted the reader, that may or may not know anything about the topic, to dig into it and discover the answer for themselves. It would be like one of us asking someone that is totally in the dark about Epstein: "What if Jeffery Epstein had a painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress and another of G.W. Bush flying paper airplanes into to jenga towers that resemble the World Trade center?"

how can you say "if" when something has already occurred for sure?

I see it as Q asking the question in the manner that he/they did because they already knew the answer and they wanted the reader, that may or may not know anything about the topic, to dig into it and discover the answer for themselves. It would be like one of us asking someone that is totally in the dark about Epstein: "What if Jeffery Epstein had a paiting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress and another of G.W. Bush flying paper airplanes into to jenga towers that resemble the World Trade center?"

how can you say "if" when something has already occurred for sure?

I see it as Q asking the question in the manner that he/they did because they already knew the answer and they wanted the reader, that may or may not know anything about the topic, to dig into it and discover the answer for themselves. It would be like one of us asking someone that is totally in the dark about Epstein: "What if Jeffery Epstein had a picture of Bill Clinton in a blue dress and another of G.W. Bush flying paper airplanes into to jenga towers that resemble the World Trade center?"