The Department of Justice has released another batch of Epstein files.

There are multiple types of information in these files and I want to stress that they include tips sent to law enforcement that may be entirely untrue. While they can’t all be dismissed as a whole, those unverified accusations should be viewed skeptically. But there are countless emails from primary sources that are morally repugnant. It’s safe to assume the people emailing Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell about events they were present for are 100% real. There are then accusations that law enforcement did investigate further, but often we do not know what, if any, conclusion was reached. Many of these will be credible. Then you have the accusations we don’t see anywhere else. Certainly, many of these may be true, but many of them will not be. Keep that in mind when you see the worst accusations circulating.

Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice have violated nearly every single requirement of the law requiring the release of these files.

Firstly, the deadline to release the files was December 19th. This was not a suggestion. It is a law like any other. They failed to obey this part of the law.

The personal information of the victims was supposed to be redacted. They broke the law by releasing emails listing victims, some of whom had not been publicly named before. Video files and photos of the victims were published to the DoJ web server, though not accessible via search. These files were discovered because the naming scheme they used for the files was not random. One could simply change the file extension of a PDF saying media had been withheld in order to see it. The United States Department of Justice doxxed victims of one of the most prolific sex predators in history.

Similarly, no redactions were allowed to protect public figures from reputational or political damage. They broke the law by making those exact redactions throughout the documents. While Rep. Thomas Massie shamed the Justice Department into unredacting some of those names, there are still countless examples of politicians and business leaders who remain redacted.

When members of Congress were finally given access to these files, they were only provided with four computers with which to do so. Four computers for (currently) 541 people.

Even worse, the Department of Justice has been tracking what each member of Congress searches for in the files. During the hearing where she spent more time attacking Democrats and touting the performance of the stock market than expressing any empathy for Epstein’s victims, Pam Bondi had a printout of the exact searches Rep. Jayapal made in the files. They are weaponizing Congress’s search history into the now massive database of information regarding a pedophile.

In short, the Trump administration is doing everything it can to thwart Congress’s investigation into what may be the largest scandal in the history of the world.

I am not being hyperbolic. There really is a global network of extremely powerful men, spread throughout various governments and industries, who were involved in a huge sex trafficking operation. I am not detailing these cases, but merely listing a fraction of the powerful men (and a few women) connected to this scandal. You should not take any of these summaries to be full accounts of their involvement:

Prince Andrew - the first British royal arrested in centuries

Leon Botstein - president of Bard College, visited Epstein’s islands, under investigation by the school

Larry Summers - former US Treasury Secretary and Harvard professor; resigned from Harvard

Casey Wasserman - His agency is huge in the entertainment business. They’ve lost a large number of clients and he is now selling the company.

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem - Sulayem just resigned as CEO of a massive shipping company in Dubai after we learned he emailed Epstein to say he enjoyed watching “the torture video.” We still don’t know what that refers to.

Thomas Pritzker - JB Pritzker’s cousin and former chairman of Hyatt’s board. Virginia Giuffre accused him of sexual assault.

Thorbjørn Jagland - Norway’s former prime minister, now under investigation by Norwegian authorities

Miroslav Lajčák - a Slovakian government official who just resigned

Peter Mandelson - Britain’s most recent US ambassador and currently the center of a brewing scandal regarding his involvement with Epstein

Kathryn Ruemmler - former White House Counsel, resigned from Goldman Sachs over her connections to Epstein

Dr. Mehmet Oz - Currently running Medicare and Medicaid, he invited Epstein to have dinner with his wife

Elon Musk - repeatedly tried to set up a trip to the island, asking which nights would be the wildest

Brad Karp - Karp was chair at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, one of the first firms to cave to Trump’s demands. He has resigned as chair but is still a partner there

Howard Lutnick - the US Commerce Secretary said he cut off all ties with Epstein in 2005. He lied. Lutnick was in frequent contact with Epstein years after his conviction and even took his family to the island.

Donald John Trump

Trump has been lying about his connections to Epstein for years now. And somehow each new scandalous piece of information only manages to stay in the news for a few days.

Trump sent Epstein a birthday message about sharing a “wonderful secret” with the serial child sex trafficker over the outline of a nude girl. This has all but disappeared from the news.

Files related to an investigation into Trump and Epstein were withheld from Congress. Specifically, a 13-year-old girl accused Donald Trump of raping her. There are some details of the account that don’t seem to match factual information at the time, but regardless, the Epstein files law does not allow withholding files like this.

The Department of Justice is flagrantly violating the law to protect Donald Trump. Files regarding him are missing. Released files are illegally redacting his name. When pressed about this, the Department of Justice keeps pointing to the process taking time. The deadline to finish all of this was in December. They did not. They were supposed to justify every redaction. They have not. They were supposed to unredact the names of anyone who was not a victim. They have not. They were supposed to keep victims’ names redacted. They did not. They were supposed to turn over every file. They did not.

We are no closer to understanding the extent of Trump’s actions with Epstein than we were in December. And the reason for that is a massive cover-up by Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice.

This has been buried in the news lately by other scandals, most recently another illegal action to remove a head of state, this time assassinating Iran’s supreme leader. While these things are of massive importance, we should not abandon the pressure on the government to unveil the truth of just what Donald Trump did.