Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Even if Trump-administration officials had examined every government file related to Jeffrey Epstein in the most responsible and transparent way possible, they would not have shut down the rampant speculation about the deceased sex offender, as that’s not how conspiracy theories work. So, in a way, their pledge to answer lingering questions about Epstein’s “client list” and whether he really killed himself in federal prison in 2019 was doomed from the start.