I posted this theory in the USPG2 Thread, but figured I'd cross post it here and see what people thought.
Have you guys ever considered the possibility Trump is now in the files, and the reason he didn't release it is because he knew he wasn't in them before?
Trump has already seen everything on Epstein. He has all the documents. He already knows what's in there from when he was President. However, now the files go from Trump's DOJ, to Biden's. Biden's DOJ has 4 years to shred, seal away, and dispose of anything they don't want out. What do I think they did? Probably nothing with it for those first couple years. Then Trump starts campaigning and he says he wants to release the Epstein files. The DOJ goes "Oh shit. We better do something about that". So they shred important documents and make mountains of fake ones.
It's probably not just of Trump. There's probably dozens of fake documents accusing Elon, Clarence Thomas, Kavanaugh, Gaetz, MTG, Bannon, Navarro, etc., and everyone the Deep State doesn't like, of all diddling kids on Epstein's Island. They make hundreds of deep fakes and fraudulent documents accusing Trump and MAGA of being on Epstein's Island. So when Trump says he wants to release the files on his campaign trail, the Deep State smiles and says "Go for it".
Let's get into the timeline then. Trump gets in, assigns Bondi. Pam goes on the news and does her "They're on my desk" bit. She realizes this is only the public portion and the rest is gone. She panics, tries to hunt down everything with Kash. He finds out about the NY office. Bondi gets her literal truckload of evidence about Epstein, and her people start going over it. That's why she suddenly shut up about it and we got radio silence for so long. They realized "Oh shit, this stuff is all fake. They poisoned the well". Bondi eventually breaks the news to Trump. They have no way of realizing what way is up. They eventually decide to say fuck it, just go with the current story and bury it. Also, since Mossad is probably implicated, maybe Bibi asked for him to drop it since it's a poison pill anyway when they did the treaty in addition to all of this. Trump now has no motivation to publicize it. Dan and Kash are forced to do that awkward interview. That eventually brings us to now. It's nobody's fault and there's no recourse for them to do. Now Democrats want the files to be released because not only are they bullshit nobody would believe, they also implicate Trump which will give them infinite smear ammunition.
It would explain everything and everyone's behavior. Trump can't release the files. He knows they're fake. Everyone knows they're fake. It's a catch 22. Burying it implicates him protecting people. Releasing it publicly destroys multiple people. Everyone will claim their side's politicians being in the documents as the real ones. It'll bring down the whole MAGA movement in one fell swoop because the media will have infinite ammunition to smear and call MAGA pedophiles forever. Whereas if they bury it, the only one blamed is Trump. It's why he's calling it a hoax now and posted that cope n seethe tweet.
It makes perfect sense to me. The Democrats flat out won. Now the Republicans HAVE to oppose the second bill by Kann and Massie. The Democrats are all aging out and dying. They don't need PR anymore. The party is destroyed anyway. The PR couldn't be lower and they're looking at major reform anyway. They can happily burn the reputation of all the old guard to the ground because it can't possibly get any lower. It's remarkably easy and the results are devastating for Trump. We all built up the Epstein case so much, it's become an Internet myth and behemoth. The FBI, NSA, and CIA are not stupid. They're aware of this. It's only logical that the Deep State would use that to their advantage.