You're making the assumption that everything the DOJ does goes directly through the attorney general. If Trump went to someone, or someone else went to someone and got it done without the attorney general having any knowledge, perfectly possible.
The FBI ordered the NYPD to not investigate Epstein any more (I mean, he was dead, BUT THERE WAS A CASE FOR THOSE LIVING TO BE FOUND).
The most comprehensive timeline to date of the publicly available record on New York law enforcement authorities’ action and inaction with regard to Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and other potential co-conspirators.
www.justsecurity.org
Barr said "Justice Department officials would thoroughly investigate "serious irregularities" at the Metropolitan Correctional Center"
However, "As Barr received more information surrounding Epstein's death, however, he came to believe it was only "a perfect storm of screw-ups"."
Where was he getting his information from? Or WHO was he getting his information from? The AG can only do what people who work for him, tell him.
en.wikipedia.org
Perfectly plausible that Barr knew nothing of what was potentially going on.
Jumping to conclusions? I'm not.
My previous thread on the Epstein files was about too many coincidences. And there are just so many coincidences that NOBODY could believe that they're coincidences at all.
Do I think Trump had Epstein killed? I don't know. Is it possible? Yes. Is it possible someone else in the files, more connected to Epstein did it? Yes. Is it possible that Trump was used by someone who wanted Epstein killed? Yes. Lots of possibilities because we don't have a lot of the information.
What we do know is this:
1) Epstein was given a very, VERY light sentence in 2008. This was 12 years after someone had reported him for child porn.
Apparently Acosta was unhappy that Epstein would go back to state level and only get prostitution charges, so at federal level they got him for soliciting a minor for prostitution.
The difference was no time v. 18 months and being on the sex offenders' register.
But it closed the case down and got Epstein the sweetest deal ever.
2) They went after him again, and it all disappeared AGAIN because he "killed himself"
Coincidences?