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Just 3 weeks ago, we wrote an item about Amelia Earhart headlined "The Case of the Missing Aviatrix." Despite the ongoing shutdown, Donald Trump decided that re-investigating an 88-year-old disappearance could not wait a minute longer, and ordered the FBI to locate and turn over any and all documents related to the matter, to be submitted no later than the following Monday.
We do not seem to have read any stories about how the Earhart mystery has finally been solved. So, it would seem that the FBI did not come up with anything that would crack the case wide open. No matter, there are other unsolved mysteries to be attended to. And so, with the shutdown STILL ongoing, Trump has ordered the FBI to spare no effort in finding any and all documents related to the disappearance of Teamsters' president (and friend-of-the-mob) Jimmy Hoffa. Reportedly, the agents again face a Monday deadline.
The good news, such as it is, is that Hoffa disappeared in 1975, not 1937, so the trail is not quite as cold. The bad news is that Hoffa disappeared from a restaurant in Michigan, and not over some distant island in the South Pacific. And so, the trail has already been examined endlessly by FBI agents, by other law enforcement and by self-appointed private sleuths. Also, Mother Nature is pretty good at making people disappear without a trace. But the Mafia is even better.
As with the Earhart matter, there are basically two schools of thought as to what is going on here. The first is that Trump has been watching reruns of Unsolved Mysteries or some other such program, and is being influenced by that. The second is that there is actually method to the madness, and what he's really doing is learning about what information the FBI has on various subjects, so he can judge what information they have on the subject that actually worries him, namely Jeffrey Epstein.
Whatever is going on, does anyone want to take bets on how many days it is until the FBI is ordered to drop everything it's doing, and immediately look for any and all information it has related to the disappearance of D.B. Cooper? (Z)