Pam Bondi – In the Name of Transparency

It was an act of almost literary purity: an Epstein document package so clean, so free of incriminating names that even high gloss kitchen cleaners would be jealous. No Trump trace, no shadow, no speck of dust. A miracle of file maintenance, somewhere between political minimalism and administrative Harry Potter magic. If silence is golden, an entire Fort Knox was just poured.

Pam Bondi, guardian of this pristine blank space, now stands at the center of a new discipline in American politics: absence management. A lot is released, little is said, and exactly what everyone is looking for is carefully left out. Transparency, reimagined as frosted glass through which everything can be guessed but nothing can be seen. An Epstein without Trump is like a crime novel without a perpetrator - formally present, substantively an insult to intelligence.

Meanwhile, Democrats publicly sharpen their knives, with the force of people who know they will probably once again run into a wall of procedures, committees, and postponed hearings. The big word impeachment hangs in the air, that political bogeyman that reliably produces headlines but rarely results. And yet this time something feels different, a mix of anger, mockery, and the sense that this was not simple incompetence but deliberate manipulation.

The Justice Department, meanwhile, resembles a magician who, after the trick, insists in mock shock that everything was shown - except the rabbit, which is on vacation. The public is expected to cheer in blissful delight even though the hat is empty. And anyone who asks questions is met with the serious look that says: trust us, that was really everything.

In the end, what remains is a farce so obvious it almost hurts. An Epstein stunt with political weight, a justice apparatus on the gentle cycle, and an outrage that feels like an alarm without a stop button that eventually no one takes seriously anymore. This is barely satire at this point. It is simply the moment when the Brothers Grimm decided to take over the job themselves. The sentence that flips everything comes, of all people, from a Republican: Thomas Massie says a future Justice Department could convict Pam Bondi for illegal redactions in the Epstein files - transparency as a criminal offense.

To be continued .....