https://www.emptywheel.net/ Bookmark it.
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Somewhere in the recent EmptyWheel posting Wheeler links here.
That's the first Crabgrass learned - very, very recently - of that online resource.
Sidebar YouTube tracking led here, here and here, which are posted links even before being viewed. They just looked interesting from the sidebar noting. The one of somebody on the stairs got wide coverage, but to Crabgrass body language stuff rings a bell as speculative surely, but more likely sound analysis than being wrong. It's opinion that way, but have a look. Now that it's posted for readers, I will view it all.t
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After viewing those links, I am less convinced they matter than antricipating they mattered.
The person on the stairs at the prison, the orange, and then the picture of the tier there are orange items at the foot of one door. How, in the middle of the night would you deliver? Put them outside the door and in the morning when full day staff is there, they retrieve items outside the door. As to the body language, it is vague, other than Epstein and Trump together in the one video, Epstein did look introverted as the narrator said. How long ago, I have no guess, except each looked younger than now. In the '90s?
In the video where Bondi says, ". . . on my desk," it was in context with other files - exactly as she clarified. The noting that at the presser a question was asked and a diversion/evasion happened, isn't that a norm? The feeling is of knowing nothing not known before.
The easiest way to resolve things, Bondi told Trump he was mentioned in the Epstein files, then release that information - what the mentioning was - and move on. Unless she also told him context and he said noting beyond the first thick binder will be released, end of story. That is what they did. And they now are stonewalling.
Maxwell? Hew lawyer and Blanche conferred before she was recorded, and there were two noteworthy breaks taken. She tied herself to a story that neither Trump nor Clinton did any wrongdoing, nobody did, and she got transferred to a country-club prison. Tied to a story best seen as making it all go away, and a perk. If there is a pardon or commutation of sentence, what is to be inferred that cooperation and nature of the story she told was no problem to Trump. But the lawyers conferred in advance, settlement discussions are confidential, and there were breaks the one video noted.
I think the Epstein situation is now as dead ended as Epstein himself. The FBI/DOJ said in an unsigned emo, "No list. No more." And that's how it will be. Michael Wolff has said Epstein showed him such and such, but he can produce no item, so forget it. Unless something tangible surfaces, the story is over. Deep fakes can be done now, AI is to that point, and if a tangible item surfaces, "fake" would immediately be claimed.
Door shut. Move on. Maxwell's life got easier, the "$25 can buy a snuffing" statement in the one video clip about where she was when testifying made prior digs sound pretty bad. I expect it was hyperbole.