No. of Recommendations: 7
Not exactly. I was under the impression that [I forget her name] as part of a plea deal provided a list based on her personal journals. This has then been augmented by documentation of flight records, and so forth. So, Epstein didn't keep a list. But a list was generated based on the above. And the boxes you mention are just the supporting documents.
Nope. I think you're thinking of Maxwell, and she never cut a plea deal. So it's exceedingly unlikely she ever provided prosecutors with a "list" of anyone (or that she had personal journals, for that matter). Nor would that "list" have likely been a document that she herself generated as a single list of names on a piece of paper, rather than (say) a prosecutor generating a list and asking her questions about it.
If someone other than Epstein is generating a list based on other documents, then there's no reason that the government official generating that list can't generate a partial list based on some of the documents. Or why bother with the list at all? Just release the documents that have Trump in them, and no other ones. Even if Trump joined Epstein in any criminal behavior, it's beyond unlikely that he would have done so at the same time as another high-profile person - if there were incriminating documents about Trump at an event, there's virtually no chance that those documents also have another high-profile person in them.
Plus, it's unlikely in the extreme that Trump would ever engage in this kind of criminal behavior with someone like Epstein able to observe or document it: the man has always run his life a bit the way you would imagine a mob boss would. He's cautious about getting his hands dirty in a way that can blow back on him. He's paranoid about not leaving paper trails, speaking in hyperbole so he can't get nailed on his claims, not doing things himself if he can have others do them, never letting people get a handle on him unless they're absolutely loyal to him, etc. If Trump wanted to engage in underage sexual activity, he'd never let a random guy like Epstein get the goods on him doing it.
