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 stated “The Epstein Files” on the quilt. A few of them even posed for smiling, jubilant pictures with the binders in hand.
In the meantime, the New York Submit reported that the recordsdata that had been launched included info already publicly recognized.
From the Submit’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 looking forward to bombshell new proof concerning the billionaire pedophile’s connection to distinguished political and enterprise leaders.
Jack Posobiec holds up a binder with a canopy titled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” on the White Home on Feb. 27, 2025.
“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 way in which 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.”
“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 gaggle of ‘influencers’ as a substitute of getting an official company launch them,” she stated. “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 checklist.
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 known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Trump stated 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 stated 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 Submit reported.
It’s attainable 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 checklist.
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 stated.
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