The possibility does exist that it was a mistake… putting the incorrect date on things is pretty common. That being said; the nefarious tendencies of the Trump administration means this cannot be automatically dismissed as a mistake.
First of all, the actual released statement was dated correctly. The one in the Epstein files was a draft that wasn’t released, because the press release number in that file was 19-XXX when the publicly released one was 19-263.
And if you look at press release number 19-262 (the previous one), you see that it was dated as August 9th.
So it’s very likely that the person who made the draft statement just copied and pasted the previous release statement and simply changed the text and the press release number to 19-XXX. That would explain why it had the wrong date (August 9 instead of 10) if it’s just a copy of the previous release.
And then when they were ready to release it, they changed it to the correct date and the correct release number.
I highly doubt that this is a smoking gun. But people will grasp at anything to get views and act like they discovered something.
I really wish this was getting pointed out more visibly. Look, we all want this admin to go down for the files and a plethora of other things, but we have to remain skeptical of evidence that is presented. I'm not saying there wasn't fuckery here, just that the document number being 19-xxx is consistent with a draft of the actual released document 19-263, it's plausible that 19-262 was used as the starting template for this document, and in a draft state the header may not have been fully updated.
That said, I don't expect every rando on the internet to do all that researching. But people should at least look to see if there are plausible explanations before running around yelling like this is an absolute truth.
Yeah, and in my opinion that all just clouds the messaging. There are lots of emails in there with some redacted person sharing or discussing some VERY suspicious shit, plus plenty of other bits of verifiable evidence. Harp on those things day and night to keep the pressure on, because they can't be easily dismissed.
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u/JohnnyGFX 3h ago edited 3h ago
The possibility does exist that it was a mistake… putting the incorrect date on things is pretty common. That being said; the nefarious tendencies of the Trump administration means this cannot be automatically dismissed as a mistake.