Dakota Beacon

“And that’s it on Epstein.”  And with that flourish and a flippant smirk, AG Pam Bondi thought she could dismiss one of the key motivators in the election of Donald Trump.

Ah, no.  That won’t do.  It’s not that we want to see footage of child porn.  Far from it.  But we DO want to know who the “clients” were/are.  And why?  Because a lot of us know by now that our country, and indeed, the world, are being run by unseen operators who take and exercise control through blackmail.  People whom we do not elect, in other words, the ones who DO have the “client list”, are directing the people who cast votes in Congress, perhaps those who issue executive orders - they decide who bombs whom, who pays whom how much, what kinds of trade deals are done, our banking and commerce, our public policies with regard to the pharmaceutical industry, labor, you name it.  The people we elect are taking their orders from people we DON’T elect, and that bothers a lot of us.  

It also bothers us a lot that the means of this control relies on sacrificing innocent children.  And this is where we need to part company with Donald Trump.  When Bondi was asked about the supposedly convincing footage of the security camera - the sole working camera, that is, the one that does not even show Epstein’s cell door - Trump jumped in, clearly agitated by this pursuit of information, with “Are you still talking about Epstein?  We’ve been talking about him for years . . . “  Of course we have.  Trump has been using this issue to garner votes because he was aware that the public’s fear of and disgust with the Deep State, personified by Epstein and his “clients” was a big factor in returning him to office.  Trump, back then, was the one raising the issue and asking the questions.  And it was Trump who was promising “transparency” and holding people to account.  

Most of us were disgusted, then, when Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, late of internet podcast-dom, did an interview with Maria Bartiromo, wherein he gulped and visibly distressed, claimed that “Epstein killed himself.”  It looked like a hostage video to most of us.  And Kash Patel’s assertion that we are all entitled to our opinion, but the right one, his, was that this was a suicide.  And they both promised us the video of the one working camera, the one that would be irrelevant to establishing what happened that fateful night when Epstein slipped the surly bonds of earth for whatever destination was his.  It was this video that Bongino found so convincing that he did a 180 degree turn on the past two or three years of his podcast career, to turn on himself and try to feed us this story.  One theory that doesn’t seem way outside the park is that Trump picked the very people who have been doing the most damaging talking about Epstien.  Why not?  It would be the only way to neutralize them.  And it worked, very, very well - so far.

The most obvious conclusion, and one pushed by the smirking Left, is that the story had to be quashed because one of the key clients, Epstein’s old party buddy, Trump himself, was on that client list.  Now, many in the MAGA crowd would dispute this and point instead to other important figures who would be compromised, key people in world politics, the glitterati, kings, queens, prime ministers, important and influential people that we “need” to protect.  Why?  Because they purport to be on “our” side?  Because revealing their identities would embarrass us?  The next question, then, if you answer yes to that one, is just who do you want to decide our policies and our laws?  People who are controlled by the secrecy of this client list?  Who do we hold accountable for our own government?  

Arguably, those who would protect the identities of those controlled by espionage and covert operations agencies want us to be controlled by those agencies.  Because this is the result.  

And just what kind of people are these?  People who get their jollies by abusing helpless children.  Abusing and perhaps killing them.  Leaving survivors destroyed.  

We could have anticipated a result like this a couple of months ago, when Virginia Giuffre was offed.  She had accused Prince Andrew, and no one seems to be stepping forward to shield him or even excuse him.  He seems to be a given, and is also more or less oblivious, claiming he has no memory of the 14-year-old girl he wrecked and moved on from.  If this is disgusting to us, and it should be, we should keep asking questions.  

Pam Bondi has for months dangled this bombshell information before us and the press.  At one point she summoned the press - particularly the MAGA-supporting press - and ceremoniously presented them with binders supposedly full of revealing information and details about who was involved in this.  Instead, they contained . . . absolutely nothing new.  She was just having them on, apparently.  Or trying to put off the inevitable shock that there would be no information released in the end.  

Karoline Leavitt, at a recent press conference, deflected questions about this issue by referring to pictures of child porn.  We don’t want to see child porn.  We want to see flight logs, client lists.  We want to know who preys on these poor kids.  And we should want to be rid of them in our government and public policy making.  What the Epstein situation means is that we are being forced to accept governing by the kind of people who need to be protected from our knowing what they have been doing.  Hardly a healthy prospect for freedom.  

Some of us were not in the least surprised by this failure of the Trump administration.  Some of us totally expected it.  It is one of the reasons we were disappointed that Trump was on the ticket instead of Ron DeSantis.   We probably do have some people who were not regulars on the Lolita Express and guests at the Island.  And they might at least be free to do the work of the people, the voting public, instead of some mysterious, faceless, un-elected agency somewhere in the world.  And this is why we’ve been saying that character matters.  The norm now is to believe that everyone in positions of influence and power is into child SA.  This isn’t and shouldn’t be “normal”.  It’s not.  We deserve better. America deserves better.  And whether Trump was on that list or not, he is protecting those who are.  It is certainly suggestive.  

Well, we’ve seen it all before.  Remember when Trump campaigned on “Lock her up!”, meaning Hillary Clinton?  People actually voted for him believing this.  Once comfortably settled in the Oval Office, Trump confided that this was just hype.  “It plays well on the campaign,” he condescended.  “We can’t really do that.”  And because we all accepted this, he assumes that whatever he does is going to be ok and he’ll get a pass on whatever false promise he makes in order to get elected.  

And just when we look back to remember why we voted for this guy, to remember that well, he has done something about the border and illegal aliens, he follows up by proposing mass amnesty - for farm workers and those who work in “hotels, restaurants and leisure” businesses, like his, in other words.  Another way of re-introducing indentured servitude, soft slavery.  While depriving Americans of jobs.  

What else is new?  RFK disappointed a lot of us by softening his attitude toward the vaccine industry.  We seem to have lost the plot with regard to holding Fauci and Bill Gates to account.  Those of us who wanted an end of foreign wars saw Trump on one day stopping shipment of arms to the Ukraine and the next resuming such shipments.  Is this the famous “4-D chess”?   It looks more like a big fold on all counts.  And not a surprise to sober conservatives.  It is what separates them from cult members who will support populists instead of people with core principles.  

We are supposed to stop asking questions that Trump finds objectionable.  We are not even supposed to know why he finds them objectionable.  Just shut up now.  And Pam Bondi, following her declaration that this was “it” on Epstein, smirked.  And Patel and Bongino were just collateral damage.  Used up and stepped over.  Bongino will never have his credibility back.  Patel will never be taken seriously again.  

Now the latter are calling for Bondi to resign.  So what?  The damage is done.  Whether they stay or leave, they are permanently destroyed in public life.  Trump will blunder on, with or without Bondi, breaking every promise, lying to us.  And some of us, fewer all the time, will be shocked and disappointed.  But some of us will have come to expect it.

Trump doesn’t play 4-D chess.  He is basically good at only one thing - making real estate deals, to his advantage, most of the time.  Beyond that he is relying on the law of averages and a lot of forgiveness by his cult.  We can fully appreciate the cleaning up of our military, if it is happening, we can applaud the decline of DEI and “rainbow culture”.  But we don’t have to shut up and we shouldn’t, about issues that really matter - Epstein continues to dominate the conversation because it is an important issue.  Abandoning justice for these children and protecting “important people” so as not to upset the current flawed structure are unworthy choices for free people with a free press.  We want the truth we voted for and that we are paying for.  We are only a few months into this term, and it seems like a lifetime. 

Trump is a man without any moral compass.  This is why one day he encourages Tom Homan to round up illegals and points with pride to his success, and the next he proposes mass amnesty for these illegals at the expense of American employment.  He is able to put on a great performance of throwing Zelenskyy out of the White House one day and then send “defensive” arms to the Ukraine to keep that war going at the expense of the people of the Ukraine.  He will one day promise transparency and justice and the next say, in feigned disbelief, “Are you asking about Epstein?”  His erratic behavior, his failure to follow through on promises are dismissed by his sycophantic cult members as “4-D chess”.  It is merely derangement.  Now he is acting out in anger and attempting to stifle the press insofar as he can.  He is like an angry kid who realizes that he made all of the trouble he is in.

Some of us voted for him knowing all of this, which made it a very hard sell, in order to stave off communism as long as possible, in the hope that we could hang on and live another day and try to restore the freedom we have lost.  We know that we are spending ourselves into oblivion and the “Big Beautiful Bill” is another thousand miles down that road.  We knew it but we had no recourse at the time.  Let us hope that there will be fewer cultists and more who have learned from this next time around.  

I don’t pretend that anyone is perfect.  But maybe we could hope for a Nixonian resignation at some point and the accession of JD Vance to the office.  While it would probably put an end to DeSantis’s future in politics (thanks to the lunacy of term limits in Florida), it might be better than trying to hold on with Trump.