For years, it has been apparent to everyone that the Epstein Files contain secrets of terrible crimes by many powerful men.
To most people, it was obvious the files also contained details of behavior by Donald Trump sure to horrify any QAnon adherent who thought Trump had been sent by God to "save the children."
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino spent years telling us there was a deep state Epstein conspiracy that they would expose in all its horror.
Last February, Pam Bondi told us she had the files on her desk.
But then last July, Pam Bondi told us "there's nothing to see here."
Soon after that, Todd Blanche visited Ghislaine Maxwell, made sure she was not about to blab, then transferred her to a holiday camp where she could enjoy special treatment as she awaited her Trump pardon.
We now know there are shocking details. There are powerful men being protected.
The events of the past six months have brought us to a point where everyone now knows that a cover-up is continuing at the highest levels of government.
Trump was forced to sign the Epstein Files Transparency Act when his own party rebelled against him.
But, as usual, Trump and those around him slow-walked the process for releasing the files. Then fragrantly broke the law in selecting and redacting what they released.
Yesterday, after releasing 3,000,000 documents, photos and videos, Todd Blanche said, in effect, "this is all you're getting."
Trump and his DOJ are now hoping that exhaustion will set in and Trump's willingness to start new wars — in Minneapolis, Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, wherever — will prove enough of a distraction to make the whole thing go away.
The Epstein-Trump-Musk-Bannon-Lutnick-Dershowitz-Barr Files are not going away
Yesterday's revelations, as usual, contain new facts and many unproven (and uninvestigated) allegations.
Some claims — including the allegation that Trump raped a 13-year-old girl at Epstein's home in NYC — have been heard before.
Many details are new.
We now know that Howard Lutnick lied just months ago when he said he broke off any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in 2005. (But we do know he maybe told the truth when he said he knows that Epstein was "the greatest blackmailer ever.")
We now know that, years after Epstein was convicted and served time for sex crimes in Florida, Elon Musk wanted to attend the "wildest" party possible on Epstein Island. And that Elon even went as far as to assure the notorious sex trafficker that his then-wife would be cool with the "ratio" of girls to men when they got there.
We now know that Bill Barr, whose father first gave Epstein his entrée into Manhattan high society and who un-recused himself to oversee four short-lived investigations into the suspicious death of Jeffrey Epstein in 2019, is himself in the Epstein Files.
We now know that the Trump Administration remains determined not to fully comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Releasing millions of pages is not the same as full disclosure.
Much of the most important information — including details of FBI interviews — remains unreleased.
While bending over backwards to prevent those closest to Epstein from being exposed for their crimes, the Administration remains extremely cavalier about revealing the personal information — and putting in danger — previously anonymous Epstein victims.
The cover-up continues.
Further reading:
From 2021: The Epstein Questions That Barr Left Hanging
From 2024: The Victim Trump and Epstein Shared
From 2024: Trump Deserves The Royal Treatment
From 2025: The Epstein Client-in-Chief
From 2025: A Dershowitz-Epstein Timeline
From 2025: The Client and the Madam
From 2025: Lutnick's Epstein Bombshell
From 2025: Partners In Crime
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