General Discussion

I think it's a mistake to view much of anything seriously fucked up that he does through the lens of "Epstein Distractions", as I've shared many times, probably with you more than once.

The "good news" is, launching wars is often a gambit to prop up the dictators sagging popularity, and it doesn't always work.

Clearly he's worried about SOMETHING related to Epstein, but I think it's a mistake to set the bar at "he was part and parcel of Epstein's giant pedo ring" such than anything LESS that emerges appears like failure. Hell, the "Epstein as head of powerful cabal of rich pedos" storyline is still not proven and is IMHO best viewed as a conspiracy theory until there's real evidence thereof.

I'll also say again that it's very possible there's other things he's done wrong related to Epstein besides sexually abuse minors himself (of which there remains zero publicly-available proof of, a sitch that will almost surely not change with Bondi in charge of the files). For example, there's good reason to think Epstein knew Trump was laundering Russian money through his FL properties. Maybe he tried to blackmail Epstein using his abuse of minors to keep him quiet?