The claim that Epstein had a client list and was running an international child abuse and blackmail ring among the world elites came from the QAnon board. Not the FBI, not an investigative journalist, it was a bunch of boomers gaslighting each other and irresponsible Youtubers and social media influencers ran with it, just like the claim that Dominion voting machines were hooked up to the internet and rigged the 2020 election. The primary source for the "epstein client list" existing was a post on the QAnon board. If you look at Donald Trump's approval rating, it's gone up since his administration denied "the client list" existing, not down. To him it's in the same boat as the JFK files, there is information of public interest in there but no bombshell like QAnon claims there is.

If you see people bitching and moaning about "we have to keep the pressure on" or "Trump is handing us rope to hang him with" you are talking to someone who has been had by QAnon, either directly or indirectly, and that includes a lot of Youtubers. Epstein was guilty of kidnapping abusing young girls and so were a few of his friends, but the claim that he had blackmail footage of every world leader and top 1% elite is a bunch of wishful thinking bullshit started by QAnon. Just like with January 6, Trump had no idea that a portion of his base was more invested in conspiracy theories than his own word, and when the QAnon crowd started making noise there was a massive culture shock and Trump is now distancing himself from the fringe.

You can call me a shill or a mossad agent or whatever, I don't care. In the near future you are all going to be climbing over each other to distance yourselves from QAnon and pretend you never believed there was a client list. I'm not an insider or even from 5 minutes in the future, I just know how to use a search engine and I thought there was something extremely fishy and inorganic about the hysteria surrounding Epstein and the grand claims about his crimes.