On 10 January, four days after Epstein absconded, Joe and Hunter Biden issued a bounty on Epstein. Since Epstein was officially dead, the Bidens couldn’t draw attention to themselves by using official channels or untrustworthy sources that might have told Trump that Biden wanted Epstein whacked or captured.

To keep the bounty inconspicuous, Biden hired a former NSA cryptologist to encipher a message to which everyone except the world’s top assassins would be oblivious. The Bidens anonymously published the brief, cryptic note to social media. A person able to decode the message would imm