This stinks something fierce, to me.
This reporter has sat on this for years, and releases them now. Why now? Obviously, timing is very important to him.
So why, then, release them on a Friday? Bombshells dropped on a Friday tend to quickly evaporate, as the public forgets them over the upcoming weekend. Maybe he purposely wants them to serve as a late election cycle surprise, to the detriment of Donald. So he's releasing them just days before election day. But if that's the case, then why release them so close to election day? It's 100 hours worth of tapes. If you spend 10 hours a day listening to the tapes, nonstop, it will still take you 10 days to finish the job. There isn't enough time between now and then. So the timing only makes sense if you don't want people to have enough time to listen through. So what purpose would there then be at releasing them now? The only reason could be that he wants their existence to shock people and hopefully spur them into unfavorable assumptions about what they might contain, but doesn't want people to have enough time to see for themselves that they don't actually contain any such thing.
If there really was anything newsworthy, why wouldn't he come right out and tell us? Why not specifically tell us "Epstein admitted that he and Donald Trump roasted a live puppy on a barbeque grill as a Halloween sacrifice in 2009," then point us to the specific time stamp on the tapes where it happened? I mean, the guy has had five whole years to annotate things.
So I really doubt there will be anything substantive here, that is not already known. It's likely more performative than anything. Good for generating clicks, in turn fueling some ad revenue, but probably offers nothing to inform the public.
