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 bunch 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 stated “The Epstein Information” on the quilt. A few of them even posed for smiling, jubilant pictures with the binders in hand.
No precise reliable sources got entry to the paperwork, which Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi claimed in a Wednesday night time look on Fox Information would come with flight logs with “a number of names.”
In the meantime, the New York Publish reported that the recordsdata that had been launched included data already publicly recognized.
From the Publish’s report:
A supply who has reviewed the recordsdata stated the discharge spans greater than 100 pages, together with an inventory of contacts with out additional context.
The individual stated the disclosing was prone to be a “disappointment” to sleuths anticipating bombshell new proof concerning 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 recordsdata aren’t categorized. By no means had been. That is additionally not a correct declassification marking,” Gerstein wrote in a submit on X.
Now, Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel try to shift blame for the ignorance onto the FBI.
“Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi REVEALS in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel that the FBI is WITHHOLDING Epstein paperwork from her,” right-wing persona and Russian propagandist Benny Johnson wrote in a submit on X.
“We bought the binder at midday. SDNY and FBI held again the true data and AG Bondi directed Kash Patel to start out kicking ass. AG Bondi handed what she had. There was nothing martial. There was an embargo till after the UK ‘prime minster’ go to,” Cernovich wrote in a submit 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 submit on X.
“I nor the duty drive got or reviewed the Epstein paperwork being launched as we speak… A NY Publish story simply revealed that the paperwork will merely be Epstein’s phonebook. THIS IS NOT WHAT WE OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ASKED FOR,” Luna raged. “GET US THE INFORMATION WE ASKED FOR as a substitute of leaking previous information 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 traveling with Trump, was skeptical in a submit on X.
“I really like President Trump. However, how embarrassing for the Trump admin that the discharge of the Epstein recordsdata has been FUMBLED by giving recordsdata concerning a landmark pedophile scandal to a bunch of ‘influencers’ as a substitute of getting an official company launch them,” she stated. “Not an excellent 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 pictures of Trump and Epstein collectively.
And Trump even referred to as Epstein a “terrific guy.”
“I’ve recognized Jeff for 15 years. Terrific man,” Trump stated in a 2002 interview with New York magazine. “He’s a number of enjoyable to be with. It’s even stated that he likes stunning ladies as a lot as I do, and plenty of of them are on the youthful facet.”
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 stated in a deposition that she was “lured into working as a masseuse for Epstein when she was 17 and dealing as a spa attendant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Seaside, Florida,” the New York Publish reported.
It’s potential Trump doesn’t need the recordsdata launched for that very purpose.
In January, after he was sadly sworn in, Trump signed an government order promising to launch FBI recordsdata 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 Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who flew on Epstein’s non-public jet twice.
In the course of the 2024 marketing campaign, Kennedy tried to defend his ties to Epstein by saying that he’s truly pals with plenty of sexual predators—as if that was a protection.
“I imply, I knew Harvey Weinstein. I knew Roger Ailes. I knew—OJ Simpson got here to my home. Invoice Cosby got here to my home,” Kennedy said.
