After years of promising to launch the data the federal authorities had on now-deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the Trump administration allegedly did so on Thursday by giving paperwork to a gaggle of untrustworthy right-wing influencers who’re well-known for spreading disinformation and hate.
Trump-loving social media personalities Rogan O’Handley, Chaya Raichik, Liz Wheeler, Chad Prather, and Mike Cernovich had been seen leaving the White Home holding binders that mentioned “The Epstein Files” on the duvet. A few of them even posed for smiling, jubilant images with the binders in hand.
No precise reliable sources got entry to the paperwork, which Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi claimed in a Wednesday evening look on Fox Information would come with flight logs with “a lot of names.”
In the meantime, the New York Put up reported that the information that had been launched included data already publicly recognized.
From the Put up’s report:
A supply who has reviewed the information mentioned the discharge spans greater than 100 pages, together with an inventory of contacts with out additional context.
The individual mentioned the disclosing was more likely to be a “disappointment” to sleuths looking forward to bombshell new proof in regards to the billionaire pedophile’s connection to distinguished political and enterprise leaders.
Josh Gerstein, a revered authorized reporter at Politico who broke the information that the Supreme Courtroom was overturning Roe v. Wade, wrote that the binders given to the right-wing influencers had been “theater.”
“These files are not classified. Never were. That’s also not a proper declassification marking,” Gerstein wrote in a put up on X.
Now, Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel try to shift blame for the lack of knowledge onto the FBI.
“Attorney General Pam Bondi REVEALS in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel that the FBI is WITHHOLDING Epstein documents from her,” right-wing character and Russian propagandist Benny Johnson wrote in a put up on X.
“We got the binder at noon. SDNY and FBI held back the real information and AG Bondi directed Kash Patel to start kicking ass. AG Bondi handed what she had. There was nothing martial. There was an embargo until after the UK ‘prime minster’ visit,” Cernovich wrote in a put up on X.
The best way the Trump administration dealt with the doc launch led to criticism even from MAGA personalities.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, the Republican who chairs a supposed “Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets,” expressed her anger in a put up on X.
“I nor the task force were given or reviewed the Epstein documents being released today… A NY Post story just revealed that the documents will simply be Epstein’s phonebook. THIS IS NOT WHAT WE OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ASKED FOR,” Luna raged. “GET US THE INFORMATION WE ASKED FOR instead of leaking old info to press.”
In the meantime Laura Loomer, an unabashed bigot and Trump superfan who made information through the 2024 marketing campaign when she was seen touring with Trump, was skeptical in a put up on X.
“I like President Trump. However, how embarrassing for the Trump admin that the discharge of the Epstein information has been FUMBLED by giving information relating to a landmark pedophile scandal to a gaggle of ‘influencers’ as an alternative of getting an official company launch them,” she mentioned. “Not a good look.”
Loomer additionally railed on the Trump administration.
She wrote in an all-caps screed on X:
THERE ARE NO EPSTEIN FILES!!!
THE BINDERS ARE PROPS.
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE RIGHT WING PAID INFLUENCERS LIED TO ALL OF YOU TODAY!
THEY ENGAGED IN DECEPTION TO RUN COVER FOR PEDOPHILES!!!
THEY POSTED SELFIES WITH PROP BINDERS!
LIARS AND DECEIVERS
MAGA loyalists have been claiming for years that Trump would reveal the Epstein shopper record.
However they conveniently neglect that Trump himself was buddies with the very rich financier/human trafficker, as evidenced by a number of images of Trump and Epstein collectively.
And Trump even known as Epstein a “terrific man.”
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Trump mentioned in a 2002 interview with New York journal. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Trump himself was even listed in publicly launched paperwork from a 2015 defamation lawsuit filed by Epstein sufferer Virginia Giuffre.
In keeping with paperwork unsealed from that lawsuit, Guiffre mentioned in a deposition that she was “lured into working as a masseuse for Epstein when she was 17 and working as a spa attendant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida,” the New York Put up reported.
It’s attainable Trump doesn’t need the information launched for that very cause.
In January, after he was sadly sworn in, Trump signed an govt order promising to launch FBI information on John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., however conveniently left Epstein off the record.
Different high-profile Trump administration officers have additionally been linked to Epstein, together with Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who flew on Epstein’s non-public jet twice.
Through the 2024 marketing campaign, Kennedy tried to defend his ties to Epstein by saying that he’s truly associates with a number of sexual predators—as if that was a protection.
“I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein. I knew Roger Ailes. I knew—OJ Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house,” Kennedy mentioned.
