Fascinating!!-----Special Edition: yesterday's Jeffrey Epstein non-event was bigger and wilder than anyone realized. Let's connect some crazy dots, C&C style.

Let’s try to make some sense out of yesterday’s Epstein catastrophe. Newsweek’s headline blared, “Jeffrey Epstein file release "debacle" unites both sides.” - Jeff Childers 

Was the disastrous non-disclosure an unforced error —case not closed— or are there pieces we should try to connect into a fascinating flex by the Trump team?...

• First, who ran Epstein? 

Nobody believes that the shady prep school science teacher suddenly became a billionaire “international man of mystery” through his own genius...
Was Epstein run by CIA? Mossad? The Mafia? All three, working together?

• Second, what was he really up to? 

Epstein’s wing-woman and deputy sex wrangler —his handler?— was Madame Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of British media scion Robert Maxwell. Daddy Maxwell was deeply tied to British MI6, the CIA, and Mossad. 

• In her spare time, Ghislaine also ran a bunch of bizarre “international charities,” including one intended to build a giant underwater city (a joint venture with the Clinton Foundation). She even had a submarine driver’s license. 
• I am not making that up. It’s classic Bond villain stuff. And I would bet a year’s salary —plus my kid’s bicycles— that Maxwell’s charities were funded with USAID money, one way or another...