Conspiracy Island

I understand that there is a lot of frustration and anger over the fact that Pam Bondi and Trump’s Department of Justice have not released the list of people connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s Pedophile Island. For four years, we witnessed Joe Biden’s DOJ go to extreme lengths to identify, track down and arrest anyone who stepped foot in the Capitol on January 6, 2021, but for some reason, the same DOJ cannot identify one politician or celebrity who visited Epstein’s infamous island. Ghislaine Maxwell was sent to prison for 20 years for trafficking underage girls to that island, yet we cannot know who those girls were trafficked to? How could Maxwell have been found guilty of child trafficking if there was no one those children were trafficked to?

In April, Attorney General Pam Bondi very confidently told Jesse Waters on Fox News, that she was going to release the list. She referred to it as a “sick list” and there would be names and flight logs that would be revealed. Yet three months later, nothing has been released which has many people asking the question, why? Did the deep state get to Pam Bondi? Is she now part of the cover-up? Is she protecting Donald Trump? Maybe. But if Trump is on the list, why wasn’t it released when Joe Biden was President? The Democrats did everything else to get Trump thrown in jail for life, if there was evidence that he committed pedophilia on Epstein’s island that would be significantly more damning than a clerical error on a loan application. Trump may be on the list; he may not be on the list. Maybe that’s the big secret. If Trump is exposed, then everyone else on both sides of the aisle on the list would also be exposed. So, everyone is covering it up. Maybe that’s how our intelligence agencies keep control over all of Washington.

But if a list of names did exist of powerful people in Washington committing child rape that our intelligence agencies have used to blackmail them, does anyone think that former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director Jim Comey would have allowed that list to fall into the hands of Donald Trump’s DOJ? Those two were behind the Russia hoax. Do you think they said, “here Pam Bondi, this is a list of all the most powerful people in our government who are proven pedophiles, start arresting them on day one, and while you’re at it, arrest us as well.” That list would implicate FBI and CIA and their previous directors who not only had the list and covered it up, but used the threat of releasing the list to bribe and extort public officials? Do you think they would give Pam Bondi or Matt Gaetz the evidence that would be used to send them to prison? Do you think Brennan and Comey would have even kept an explicit record of all of their crimes?

Mafia bosses never use a telephone, never communicate by mail, never use email or cell phones. They never leave evidence of their crimes. Does anyone believe that if the intelligence community was using damning evidence from Epstein Island against powerful people in Washington to control them, that they would leave that evidence in some intelligence file that could become public someday? These are the intelligence agencies. They understand the power of evidence as much as anyone. What took Nixon down? The White House tapes. Do you think anyone in the intelligence community would be so stupid to leave evidence lying around which implicated them in these crimes. They can deny everything if there is no evidence against them.

Maybe the entire story is that Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked children for him to molest, and that’s it. I don’t know. Where are all the testimonies from women testifying that they were raped by certain politicians or celebrities as young girls? Wouldn’t that be more damning evidence than a name on a list that was written by the US intelligence agencies? What’s more compelling; A 30-year-old woman testifying in court, “I was 12 years old and [unnamed politician] took me in a room and raped me repeatedly”, or that [unnamed politician’s] name on a random list compiled by the FBI. What is more compelling and damning to a jury? In ten minutes, I could create a piece paper with FBI letterhead and type out a list of prominent names on it. But we are infatuated with “the list”. Who first told us that there was a list? When was that created? How did the Epstein list become part of the national dialogue?

For a half a century, we have been told that the JFK assassination was a conspiracy, that he was not killed by a lone gunman, that Lee Harvey Oswald was working for the CIA, that he had ties with Castro, that he was an agent of the Soviet Union, that he was the patsy of organized crime. The JFK files have been released, who has been arrested? Who has been implicated? What is the name of the second shooter? Where is all the evidence that supported the conspiracy? Apparently, nowhere. The JFK files have been teased in front of the American people for the last 60 years. Did we believe that if there actually was a conspiracy that our intelligence agencies would have left all the damning evidence in some file that we can now read? What B-movie do we think we are living in? If there had been evidence that there was a conspiracy and our intelligence agencies were in on it, that evidence was destroyed 62 years ago. There is no evidence. They may be evil, but they’re not stupid. Does anyone think our intelligence operatives were going to keep damning evidence of their conspiracy to murder the President around for posterity?

Has anyone considered that the biggest psyop of them all may be the continual planting of enough bits and pieces of false evidence leading people to believe in conspiracies that do not exist? Think about the conspiracies that we chase down every day: 

• The JFK assassination.

• The US government killed Martin Luther King. 

• The Holocaust was a hoax. 

• Princess Di was murdered. 

• UFO’s are real and aliens live among us. 

• Area 51. 

• Aliens built the pyramids. 

• The Mandela effect. 

• The Illuminati rule the world. 

• We never landed on the moon. 

• 9/11 was an inside job. 

• Jeffrey Epstein was murdered.

• Jeffrey Epstein’s list. 

And while we are using a lot of our bandwidth on those, our country has fallen $37 trillion in debt. And that happened with less outcry from the public than what we witness with any one of these conspiracies. Maybe conspiracy theories are created by the very people who are robbing us blind, so we don’t pay attention to them robbing us blind. The government says to the people, ‘chew on all of these, while we add another trillion dollars to the national debt.’

Maybe these conspiracy theories are the red herrings the government puts out there to distract the most inquisitive in the population from connecting the dots to the more basic crimes that they are actually committing right in front of our faces. If you are arguing with a keyboard warrior on social media about how the shadows on the surface of the moon fell during the moon landing or why building 7 collapsed or which politician flew on Epstein’s plane, you will not notice that during your 20-minute digital debate with some mother’s basement dweller, the US government went another $150 million further into debt, and all of the oligarchs and politicians got much richer. Maybe the most valid conspiracy theory is how and why the powerful created all the conspiracy theories in the first place. But that’s just a theory.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.