By Douglas V. Gibbs
Congress passed a bill demanding that within 30 days the Department of Justice release the Epstein Files. President Trump has signed that bill, and Bondi’s DOJ has responded by indicating they will release the files within the 30-day window provided. It is unconstitutional for the Congress to demand that the executive branch do anything, but I get why they did it, and I am not going to get too hung up on what they did because I understand why they did it.
What are the Epstein Files? I was asked this just yesterday by someone not in tune with politics the way I am. In a nut shell, they are the files that have been gathered by the federal government during their investigation regarding Jeffery Epstein. For those who have been living under a rock, Epstein was a fake-financier who used financial leverage and corrupt schemes to make a lot of money and have the ability to rub elbows with some pretty powerful and wealthy people. However, not only was he a criminal in the financial world, but he was also a criminal sexual pervert. So much so, that when Donald Trump discovered how weird Epstein was, he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago and broke any ties, not matter how small, he had with him.
Epstein’s sexual perversion included the Lolita Express, which facilitated flights to his sex island in the Caribbean where underage sex was not only permitted, but orchestrated by him and his human trafficking operation.
Federal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein began in 2005, when parents of a 14-year old girl reported him to Florida authorities. This led to a broader federal probe by the FBI in 2006. The 2005 investigation uncovered multiple victims and led to a probable cause affidavit recommending charges for unlawful acts with minors.
The FBI opened a federal investigation under the codename “Operation Leap Year” in May of 2006, focusing on Epstein’s sex trafficking of minors across state lines. Despite extensive evidence, federal prosecutors in Florida negotiated a controversial non-prosecution agreement in 2007, which shielded Epstein and unnamed co-conspirators from federal charges.
In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to two counts of soliciting prostitution (one involving a minor) and served 13 months in jail, with work release privileges. The plea deal halted the federal investigation for the moment.
Investigative journalism in 2018 reignited public and legal interest in Epstein’s case, exposing that the scope of the abuse was much broader than originally realized. In July of 2019, federal prosecutors in New York charged Epstein with sex trafficking of minors, making a full reactivation of federal efforts.
While Epstein first appeared officially on the federal government’s radar during George W. Bush’s presidency, Epstein’s connections with his Lolita Express allegedly reaches back to President Bill Clinton. The Deep State, I believe, realized that Epstein’s connection to many powerful politicians and political donors could prove devastating to their plans, and did what they could to make sure progress on the Epstein case didn’t proceed too quickly, too effectively, or too deeply. Once Obama was President, I believe the attempt to bury it, and perhaps even destroy some of the records, went into high gear; especially when it was realized that after Obama’s presidency, Hillary Clinton was to be Obama’s heir apparent. She is, after all, the wife of former President Bill Clinton, whose name has come up quite a few times when it comes to the names allegedly listed on flight logs for the Lolita Express.
Donald Trump winning in 2016 threw a monkey wrench into everything, but the Democrats and their leftist allies still maintained control of any Epstein files that existed, so they weren’t too worried about those files being exposed.
During Biden’s presidency I believe that some more of the files were not only destroyed, but as a precaution, false records were inserted into the Epstein Files. When Trump won the 2024 Election, a desperate attempt to destroy more files by the FBI took place, while they also tried to add more false pages in the hopes of making it look like Trump had something to do with Epstein.
When Epstein was in his fake-financier heyday, of course he and Donald Trump bumped into each other on occasion. As a businessman always seeking investors, Trump’s proximity to circles that Epstein also sometimes found himself in even led to a photograph of the pair that the Democrats were happy to put out there in the hopes of pushing a narrative that Trump somehow had some kind of relationship with Epstein.
Until Pam Bondi grabbed the reins of the Department of Justice, and Kash Patel became chief over the FBI, the Democrat’s allies in the Deep State bureaucracy had control of the Epstein Files the entire time – even while Bush was President, and during Trump’s first term. They never expected Trump to return to the White House, and due to the connections to important Democrats and establishment Republicans they were happy to keep the files buried and out of sight of the public. When Trump reentered the White House in 2025, they panicked. Their false narrative, as a result, began to bubble to the surface pretty quickly, with insinuations that somehow Trump was in those files, and that’s why the Epstein Files were not being released by the Trump administration’s DOJ.
Pam Bondi said, at one point, to the American Public: The files are on my desk. But, I believe when she said that, she had not gone through them, yet. Once she did, she realized many sections of the files were missing, and fraudulent entries existed. She couldn’t release the files until the DOJ separated fact from fiction. The delay, however, was a chance for the Democrats to create their Epstein Hoax, and insinuate that Trump was listed in those files as a potential pedophile.
One has to ask, however, when one considers the hate they have for Trump and all of their lawfare attempts to sink him: If Trump is in those files as they claim, why didn’t they release those files themselves while they had them in their clutches? If the files say what they are claiming today, then they would have sunk the man forever. Therefore, by that fact alone, I know that Trump is not implicated in those files.
As things began working lately, some emails and text messages have come to the surface. Democrats released emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate claiming they implicated Donald Trump in Epstein’s sex trafficking activities. However, the move backfired on them when the redacted victim’s name in those emails was revealed to be Virginia Giuffre, already publicly known, and one who had testified that Trump had nothing to do with Epstein’s games. The revelation undermined the Democrats’ framing of the emails as bombshells.
Which brings us back to the recent bill that Trump signed compelling the DOJ to release all unclassified Epstein files…
While Congress does not have the constitutional authority to compel the executive branch to do anything, thanks to the Separation of Powers concept, the reason they did it was to show the public that the Republicans were happy to vote in favor of releasing the files. The Republicans being behind the push to release the files turns the tables by accusing Democrats of orchestrating a hoax against Donald Trump.
Now, we simply need to wait for the full release of the files. I have a feeling, and we’ve seen some signs of what I believe to be true, that the files will reveal fully that Epstein was a Democratic Party guy, that the Democrats were the ones mainly rubbing elbows with him, and I believe the files will likely end many Democratic political careers while also destroying many of the donors to the Democratic Party. Fallout, after all, is already affecting prominent figures like Larry Summers who resigned from multiple public roles (from the board of OpenAI, from advisory roles at Yale’s Budget Lab and the Center for Global Development, and he took a leave of absence from Harvard University where he was teaching economics) following revelations of his correspondence with Epstein.
Summers is just one of several high-profile individuals caught in the wave of scrutiny. More fireworks are sure to come over the next thirty days as the Epstein Files begin to be released. And understand, this matters greatly because it is just another crack in the shell of corruption and elitist smuggery that may be an integral part in not only bringing down the Deep State, but it may even finish off the advancement of evil that has been creeping through our government for well over a century.
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