Trump’s Epstein Strategy: Ryan Grim on Why ‘Chaos is the Point’

Ryan Grim, co-founder of Drop Site News, dissects the Trump administration’s chaotic handling of the Epstein files. After Attorney General Pam Bondi’s bizarre House Judiciary Committee hearing — where she infamously shouted, “The Dow is at 50,000!” — Grim explains why the administration is “flooding the zone with nonsense” to bury the scandal.

He argues that the “total lunacy” is a deliberate strategy to protect powerful U.S. figures from consequences, contrasting the lack of accountability here with the political fallout currently rocking the UK and Europe. Grim also discusses the deep, under-reported connections between Epstein, Israel, and the UAE.

After Pam Bondi’s circus-like Epstein hearing, @ryangrim says Trump’s playbook is simple: create chaos. He warns the spectacle is deliberate — meant to drown out scrutiny of “the actually powerful figures who are involved in this.”