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Michael Popok interview with #KatiePhang about this failure of #ToddBlanche to even defend the failure to comply with the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct .

She also sees misogyny and the curious substitution of the DOJ or Government for Todd Blanche who is personally responsible and named in the lawsuit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TixrzeOsHKI

Michael Popok interview with #KatiePhang about this failure of #ToddBlanche to even defend the failure to comply with the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct .

She also sees misogyny and the curious substitution of the DOJ or Government for Todd Blanche who is personally responsible and named in the lawsuit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TixrzeOsHKI

@KimPerales This is very similar to the argument in #KatiePhang v. #ToddBlanche that the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct, being specific and detailed and passed much more recently, nullifies regulations and prohibitions predicated on the Privacy Act when the DOJ does the job Congress wants them to do.

@KimPerales This is very similar to the argument in #KatiePhang v. #ToddBlanche that the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct, being specific and detailed and passed much more recently, nullifies regulations and prohibitions predicated on the Privacy Act when the DOJ does the job Congress wants them to do.

Update in #KatiePhang v. #ToddBlanche (26-cv-01417) District Court, District of Columbia over non-production of documents covered by the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73246595/phang-v-blanche/

In response to Phang's argument that Blanche hasn't been following the law, which is his job, and the proposed $1000/day fines for continued delay, Blanche offers the following (Doc 22):

Phang is getting hysterical, unlike me, a logical man, "the Court *has not ordered* “the immediate production of documents,” but rather has ordered the Department to “show cause if [it] declines to do so.”".

(Quotes = a verbatim quote.)

Phang is stupid, too, because she says the #DOJ “makes clear that whatever the federal statute requires [it] to do, [it] will not comply” but the DOJ "has attempted to highlight for the Court the differing demands of several applicable statutes" while Phang's claim "the Epstein Act clearly trumps, as it was the more recently enacted law” doesn't even amount to an argument.

(Doesn't it though?)

Why Phang doesn't rebut my points on a per document basis almost like she hasn't read them yet!

(Yeah, that's the point, dumbass.)

It is simply *too early* in the expensive and slow process of civil litigation to compel the production of the #EpsteinFiles since we need an expensive litigation on full discovery for every page and whatever you rule produced we will appeal.

There! Now how can Phang possibly say "Notably, in his response, the Attorney General makes clear that whatever the federal statute requires him to do, he will not comply."? (this is the actual quote from Phang's Doc 2, which puts the blame on Blanche and not the DOJ as an organization).

This has been my paraphrase of Doc 22.

Update in #KatiePhang v. #ToddBlanche (26-cv-01417) District Court, District of Columbia over non-production of documents covered by the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73246595/phang-v-blanche/

In response to Phang's argument that Blanche hasn't been following the law, which is his job, and the proposed $1000/day fines for continued delay, Blanche offers the following (Doc 22):

Phang is getting hysterical, unlike me, a logical man, "the Court *has not ordered* “the immediate production of documents,” but rather has ordered the Department to “show cause if [it] declines to do so.”".

(Quotes = a verbatim quote.)

Phang is stupid, too, because she says the #DOJ “makes clear that whatever the federal statute requires [it] to do, [it] will not comply” but the DOJ "has attempted to highlight for the Court the differing demands of several applicable statutes" while Phang's claim "the Epstein Act clearly trumps, as it was the more recently enacted law” doesn't even amount to an argument.

(Doesn't it though?)

Why Phang doesn't rebut my points on a per document basis almost like she hasn't read them yet!

(Yeah, that's the point, dumbass.)

It is simply *too early* in the expensive and slow process of civil litigation to compel the production of the #EpsteinFiles since we need an expensive litigation on full discovery for every page and whatever you rule produced we will appeal.

There! Now how can Phang possibly say "Notably, in his response, the Attorney General makes clear that whatever the federal statute requires him to do, he will not comply."? (this is the actual quote from Phang's Doc 2, which puts the blame on Blanche and not the DOJ as an organization).

This has been my paraphrase of Doc 22.

#ToddBlanche explains to #KatiePhang and the District Court why so many incomplete and inappropriately redacted #Epstein files. Doc 19, 2026/07/02 in Phang v. Blanche (26-cv-01417) District Court, District of Columbia https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73246595/phang-v-blanche/

He could have avoided this by producing the documents the law requires, but no-o-o.... (p. 2)

Congress required this of them and spent time and Congress-appropirated resources on the task. (p. 2)

Strong "you're not the boss of me" energy. Also, "I didn't do, you can't prove it." (pp. 2–3)

How *dare* the judge claim the DOJ conceded that it broke the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct when we just didn't contradict the many ways we obviously did when given a chance during the *preliminary* proceedings. The best innocent lawyers always save the best evidence and arguments for the end. (p. 3) [But, how is ¶ 1 above not a concession of the same shape?]

This is part of the statute. (pp. 4–5)

Congress, who gave us 100% of our budget, did not give us *more* money to expose these #EFTA files. (p. 6)

From day 1, Blanche was the PR flack who was tasked with telling Congress "everything is fine." (p. 6)

He's also #Trump's flunky, so he did PR flack for him too. Over 1k victims and relatives. (p. 6)

Some work completed by 2026/02/14. (pp. 6–7)

We also created a murder hole to spy on members of Congress who wanted to peep at the unredacted files: (p. 7) [budget for PR?]

More "you're not the boss of me" energy. (pp. 7–8)

Stupid, stupid court came to the opposite conclusion. (p. 8)

This is how stupid the court is. (pp. 8–10)

But assuming for a second that you are the boss of me, and because I am not in a posture to start an appeal, allow me to start to begin. (p. 10)

#ToddBlanche explains to #KatiePhang and the District Court why so many incomplete and inappropriately redacted #Epstein files. Doc 19, 2026/07/02 in Phang v. Blanche (26-cv-01417) District Court, District of Columbia https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73246595/phang-v-blanche/

He could have avoided this by producing the documents the law requires, but no-o-o.... (p. 2)

Congress required this of them and spent time and Congress-appropirated resources on the task. (p. 2)

Strong "you're not the boss of me" energy. Also, "I didn't do, you can't prove it." (pp. 2–3)

How *dare* the judge claim the DOJ conceded that it broke the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct when we just didn't contradict the many ways we obviously did when given a chance during the *preliminary* proceedings. The best innocent lawyers always save the best evidence and arguments for the end. (p. 3) [But, how is ¶ 1 above not a concession of the same shape?]

This is part of the statute. (pp. 4–5)

Congress, who gave us 100% of our budget, did not give us *more* money to expose these #EFTA files. (p. 6)

From day 1, Blanche was the PR flack who was tasked with telling Congress "everything is fine." (p. 6)

He's also #Trump's flunky, so he did PR flack for him too. Over 1k victims and relatives. (p. 6)

Some work completed by 2026/02/14. (pp. 6–7)

We also created a murder hole to spy on members of Congress who wanted to peep at the unredacted files: (p. 7) [budget for PR?]

More "you're not the boss of me" energy. (pp. 7–8)

Stupid, stupid court came to the opposite conclusion. (p. 8)

This is how stupid the court is. (pp. 8–10)

But assuming for a second that you are the boss of me, and because I am not in a posture to start an appeal, allow me to start to begin. (p. 10)

As if we all didn't know that #PresidentCoverup happily participates in cover-ups when it suits him

#uspol #politics #TrumpAdministration2026 #SecondTrumpAdminstration #AlienFiles #GOP_Propaganda #AlienEnemiesAct #EpsteinFiles #TrumpAdministration #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #EpsteinFilesCoverup #Trump #DonaldTrump

As if we all didn't know that #PresidentCoverup happily participates in cover-ups when it suits him

#uspol #politics #TrumpAdministration2026 #SecondTrumpAdminstration #AlienFiles #GOP_Propaganda #AlienEnemiesAct #EpsteinFiles #TrumpAdministration #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #EpsteinFilesCoverup #Trump #DonaldTrump

When you are not as wealthy as #JeffreyEpstein was, you now get a chance to feel like you've got a #EpsteinBirthdayBook entry from #DonaldTrump by holding a dollar bill in your hands

#uspol #politics #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #ScottBessent

When you are not as wealthy as #JeffreyEpstein was, you now get a chance to feel like you've got a #EpsteinBirthdayBook entry from #DonaldTrump by holding a dollar bill in your hands

#uspol #politics #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #ScottBessent

Unfortunately, this won't be her Wikipedia infobox picture (which would then potentially appear in search engines' right-hand infoboxes).

But, maybe, this can:

#uspol #politics #PamBondi #PamBondiFiring #PamBondiFired #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #EpsteinList #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinCoverup #ToddBlanche #EpsteinSurvivors

Unfortunately, this won't be her Wikipedia infobox picture (which would then potentially appear in search engines' right-hand infoboxes).

But, maybe, this can:

#uspol #politics #PamBondi #PamBondiFiring #PamBondiFired #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #EpsteinList #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinCoverup #ToddBlanche #EpsteinSurvivors

Whenever we need a picture of just fired U.S. attorney general #PamBondi for illustration, we should use this one and this one only:

#uspol #politics #PamBondiFiring #PamBondiFired #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #EpsteinList #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinCoverup #ToddBlanche

Whenever we need a picture of just fired U.S. attorney general #PamBondi for illustration, we should use this one and this one only:

#uspol #politics #PamBondiFiring #PamBondiFired #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #EpsteinList #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinCoverup #ToddBlanche

Also, who can sue? If possible, I would assume, for example, @marcelias from the Elias Law Group, #GlennKirschner or @harrylitman

#JusticeMattersWithGlennKirschner #DemocracyWatch #DemocracyDocket #BrianTylerCohen #BrianTylerCohenNews #MarcElias #uspol #politics #ToddBlanche #DOJ #DepartmentOfJustice #PamBondi #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinScandal #EpsteinFilesRelease #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #HarryLitman #TalkingFedsWithHarryLitman

Also, who can sue? If possible, I would assume, for example, @marcelias from the Elias Law Group, #GlennKirschner or @harrylitman

#JusticeMattersWithGlennKirschner #DemocracyWatch #DemocracyDocket #BrianTylerCohen #BrianTylerCohenNews #MarcElias #uspol #politics #ToddBlanche #DOJ #DepartmentOfJustice #PamBondi #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinScandal #EpsteinFilesRelease #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #HarryLitman #TalkingFedsWithHarryLitman

Also, who can sue? If possible, I would assume, for example, @marcelias from the Elias Law Group, #GlennKirschner or @harrylitman

#JusticeMattersWithGlennKirschner #DemocracyWatch #DemocracyDocket #BrianTylerCohen #BrianTylerCohenNews #MarcElias #uspol #politics #ToddBlanche #DOJ #DepartmentOfJustice #PamBondi #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinScandal #EpsteinFilesRelease #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #HarryLitman #TalkingFedsWithHarryLitman

Also, who can sue? If possible, I would assume, for example, @marcelias from the Elias Law Group, #GlennKirschner or @harrylitman

#JusticeMattersWithGlennKirschner #DemocracyWatch #DemocracyDocket #BrianTylerCohen #BrianTylerCohenNews #MarcElias #uspol #politics #ToddBlanche #DOJ #DepartmentOfJustice #PamBondi #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinScandal #EpsteinFilesRelease #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #HarryLitman #TalkingFedsWithHarryLitman

Also, who can sue? If possible, I would assume, for example, @marcelias from the Elias Law Group, #GlennKirschner or @harrylitman

#JusticeMattersWithGlennKirschner #DemocracyWatch #DemocracyDocket #BrianTylerCohen #BrianTylerCohenNews #MarcElias #uspol #politics #ToddBlanche #DOJ #DepartmentOfJustice #PamBondi #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinScandal #EpsteinFilesRelease #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #HarryLitman #TalkingFedsWithHarryLitman

Are there currently any ongoing prosecutions for violations of the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct in terms of
– not releasing ALL the files on the deadline
– redacting names that were forbidding by that very law to be redacted (e.g. co-conspirators)
– not redacting names of victims/ #EpsteinSurvivors
?

#uspol #politics #ToddBlanche #DOJ #DepartmentOfJustice #PamBondi #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinScandal #EpsteinFilesRelease

Are there currently any ongoing prosecutions for violations of the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct in terms of
– not releasing ALL the files on the deadline
– redacting names that were forbidding by that very law to be redacted (e.g. co-conspirators)
– not redacting names of victims/ #EpsteinSurvivors
?

#uspol #politics #ToddBlanche #DOJ #DepartmentOfJustice #PamBondi #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinScandal #EpsteinFilesRelease

Rep. @[email protected] (D-CA) clashed with Attorney General #PamBondi about the #DepartmentofJustice’s compliance with the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct and handling of file redactions in the #HouseOversightCommittee. youtu.be/GhdBL3cBdlc?...

'Pathetic': Dem Rep. criticize...

Rep. @[email protected] (D-CA) clashed with Attorney General #PamBondi about the #DepartmentofJustice’s compliance with the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct and handling of file redactions in the #HouseOversightCommittee. youtu.be/GhdBL3cBdlc?...

'Pathetic': Dem Rep. criticize...

Rep. @[email protected] (D-CA) clashed with Attorney General #PamBondi about the #DepartmentofJustice’s compliance with the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct and handling of file redactions in the #HouseOversightCommittee. youtu.be/GhdBL3cBdlc?...

'Pathetic': Dem Rep. criticize...

The Belarusian woman at the center of Epstein’s final days https://www.byteseu.com/1789815/ #Belarus #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #KarynaShuliak #USDepartmentOfJustice

"Members of Congress will be able to begin reviewing the unredacted version of the Justice Department’s files on Jeffrey Epstein on Monday morning, according to two sources familiar with the DOJ’s plans."

#EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #JusticeForSurvivors
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/members-congress-view-unredacted-epstein-files-monday-rcna257836

"Members of Congress will be able to begin reviewing the unredacted version of the Justice Department’s files on Jeffrey Epstein on Monday morning, according to two sources familiar with the DOJ’s plans."

#EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #JusticeForSurvivors
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/members-congress-view-unredacted-epstein-files-monday-rcna257836

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Shutdown? Shutdown. Also More Epstein Files

Jan. 30, 2026 · by Amy West

Shutdown? Shutdown

By midday on Friday, January 30 the Senate had not passed the remaining appropriations bills and the current continuing resolution funding parts of the federal government ended Saturday night at midnight. The House is not in session this weekend, so there will definitely be a brief partial weekend shutdown, but the government is expected to be funded again, for a time, by later in the week.

As a recap, Congress is supposed to pass appropriations bills before the fiscal year begins on October 1, and last year’s failure to do so led to the long October-November shutdown. In November, Congress reached a deal to fund some federal entities through the rest of this fiscal year (Agriculture, VA, and Congress itself) and then in mid-January reached a deal to fund others (Commerce, DOJ, Interior, and more), but that still left out a lot. Now, Congress is working to fund Defense, Homeland Security (DHS), Labor, HHS, Education, Transportation, HUD, State, and more). It looked like a deal had been reached until CBP killed Minnesotan Alex Pretti.

Friday night, the Senate passed 71-29 a revised version of H.R. 7148: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026. While it has the same bill number as the one passed in the House last Friday, the content is different. The Senate changed DHS funding to a two-week continuing resolution, after which point DHS would face another potential shutdown, and attached that to the other five appropriations bills to fund those remaining parts of the government for the rest of the fiscal year.

So now, in order to keep this shutdown short, the House must vote again on H.R. 7148. Given that the White House has signaled support for this plan, the expectation was that things would go smoothly in the House on Monday. But as of February 1, House Democrats are blocking fast-track rules, which will add a few extra days to the process at most.

There was a hiccup on Thursday when Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), said he was objecting to this plan unless a repealed-in-the-House provision was reinstated. That provision would allow a small number of senators to sue the government for exorbitant monetary damages as the result of searches in Operation Arctic Frost. (This article is about the first unanimous House vote to repeal that provision, but they again voted unanimously last week and attached the repeal to the appropriations bills.) As of this morning, Sen. Graham also says he objects to the plan because he wants a vote on banning sanctuary cities.

Graham agreed to let the vote go forward once Majority Leader Thune agreed to separate votes later on reinstating the monetary damages provision as well as a vote on legislation against sanctuary cities.

What Effect Will the Two Week Continuing Resolution Have on ICE?

Very little. As Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) noted on X about just ICE, an agency within DHS:

In 2025, ICE received $10 billion in appropriations. The 2026 bill holds ICE at $10 billion — but last year Congress gave them $75 billion in advance funding. So even if ICE appropriations were eliminated, ICE would still have a 750% increase over last year.

Two articles this week have noted how ICE has been spending its vast sums of money: The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters from the Washington Post and ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US from Bloomberg. A shutdown or continuing resolution would have no effect on these expenditures. Heck, even if ICE received no new funding at all this year, it would have no effect because these are expenditures based on appropriations already made.

Other parts of DHS do need funding to continue full normal operations, such as TSA, FEMA, and CISA.

Epstein Files

According to Ryan Nobles, an NBC reporter:

JUST IN: Deputy AG Todd Blanche says the Department of Justice has now released every file connected to the Epstein investigation that they are legally allowed and/or forced to release.

The files are posted on the Department of Justice website.

Today marks six weeks since the files were supposed to be released, if the administration felt compelled to follow the law. Is it all of the files? Definitely not since many have been redacted to prevent identifying Epstein survivors and because an unknown amount of legal activity remains in place. Is it all of the files that are required by the law that Congress passed? Also unclear. It just happened Friday morning and there’s a lot of files, so more information will doubtless come out in the near future.

Updated on February 1 to add some context and update the status of the bill.

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Legislative Recap Jan. 30, 2026: Shutdown? Shutdown. Also More Epstein Files »

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Shutdown? Shutdown. Also More Epstein Files

Jan. 30, 2026 · by Amy West

Shutdown? Shutdown

By midday on Friday, January 30 the Senate had not passed the remaining appropriations bills and the current continuing resolution funding parts of the federal government ended Saturday night at midnight. The House is not in session this weekend, so there will definitely be a brief partial weekend shutdown, but the government is expected to be funded again, for a time, by later in the week.

As a recap, Congress is supposed to pass appropriations bills before the fiscal year begins on October 1, and last year’s failure to do so led to the long October-November shutdown. In November, Congress reached a deal to fund some federal entities through the rest of this fiscal year (Agriculture, VA, and Congress itself) and then in mid-January reached a deal to fund others (Commerce, DOJ, Interior, and more), but that still left out a lot. Now, Congress is working to fund Defense, Homeland Security (DHS), Labor, HHS, Education, Transportation, HUD, State, and more). It looked like a deal had been reached until CBP killed Minnesotan Alex Pretti.

Friday night, the Senate passed 71-29 a revised version of H.R. 7148: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026. While it has the same bill number as the one passed in the House last Friday, the content is different. The Senate changed DHS funding to a two-week continuing resolution, after which point DHS would face another potential shutdown, and attached that to the other five appropriations bills to fund those remaining parts of the government for the rest of the fiscal year.

So now, in order to keep this shutdown short, the House must vote again on H.R. 7148. Given that the White House has signaled support for this plan, the expectation was that things would go smoothly in the House on Monday. But as of February 1, House Democrats are blocking fast-track rules, which will add a few extra days to the process at most.

There was a hiccup on Thursday when Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), said he was objecting to this plan unless a repealed-in-the-House provision was reinstated. That provision would allow a small number of senators to sue the government for exorbitant monetary damages as the result of searches in Operation Arctic Frost. (This article is about the first unanimous House vote to repeal that provision, but they again voted unanimously last week and attached the repeal to the appropriations bills.) As of this morning, Sen. Graham also says he objects to the plan because he wants a vote on banning sanctuary cities.

Graham agreed to let the vote go forward once Majority Leader Thune agreed to separate votes later on reinstating the monetary damages provision as well as a vote on legislation against sanctuary cities.

What Effect Will the Two Week Continuing Resolution Have on ICE?

Very little. As Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) noted on X about just ICE, an agency within DHS:

In 2025, ICE received $10 billion in appropriations. The 2026 bill holds ICE at $10 billion — but last year Congress gave them $75 billion in advance funding. So even if ICE appropriations were eliminated, ICE would still have a 750% increase over last year.

Two articles this week have noted how ICE has been spending its vast sums of money: The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters from the Washington Post and ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US from Bloomberg. A shutdown or continuing resolution would have no effect on these expenditures. Heck, even if ICE received no new funding at all this year, it would have no effect because these are expenditures based on appropriations already made.

Other parts of DHS do need funding to continue full normal operations, such as TSA, FEMA, and CISA.

Epstein Files

According to Ryan Nobles, an NBC reporter:

JUST IN: Deputy AG Todd Blanche says the Department of Justice has now released every file connected to the Epstein investigation that they are legally allowed and/or forced to release.

The files are posted on the Department of Justice website.

Today marks six weeks since the files were supposed to be released, if the administration felt compelled to follow the law. Is it all of the files? Definitely not since many have been redacted to prevent identifying Epstein survivors and because an unknown amount of legal activity remains in place. Is it all of the files that are required by the law that Congress passed? Also unclear. It just happened Friday morning and there’s a lot of files, so more information will doubtless come out in the near future.

Updated on February 1 to add some context and update the status of the bill.

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#JeffreyEpstein texted delegate #StaceyPlaskett (D-Virgin Islands, Little St. James ("#EpsteinIsland") was in said territory) and was feeding her questions during congressional hearing of #MichaelCohen

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#uspol #politics #LittleStJames #EpsteinFilesRelease #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinList #EpsteinBirthdayBook #EpsteinCoverup #JeffreyEpsteinCoverup #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #EpsteinBlackBook

#JeffreyEpstein texted delegate #StaceyPlaskett (D-Virgin Islands, Little St. James ("#EpsteinIsland") was in said territory) and was feeding her questions during congressional hearing of #MichaelCohen

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wtf! They didn't just do that, did they!? 🤯 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Letters from an American – December 20, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson

Letters from an American, December 20, 2025

By Heather Cox Richardson, Dec 20, 2025

On November 19, 2025, Congress passed H.R. 4405, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and although there was none of the usual publicity and fanfare President Donald Trump enjoys around a bill signing, the White House said that Trump signed it the same day, making it a law.

It required the United States Attorney General to “release all documents and records in possession of the Department of Justice relating to Jeffrey Epstein” no later than 30 days after the date the measure became law. It required that the Department of Justice “make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in the possession of the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Attorneys’ Offices, that relate to: Jeffrey Epstein including all investigations, prosecutions, or custodial matters…. Ghislaine Maxwell…. Flight logs or travel records, including but not limited to manifests, itineraries, pilot records, and customs or immigration documentation, for any aircraft, vessel, or vehicle owned, operated, or used by Jeffrey Epstein or any related entity…. Individuals, including government officials, named or referenced in connection with Epstein’s criminal activities, civil settlements, immunity or plea agreements, or investigatory proceedings…. Entities (corporate, nonprofit, academic, or governmental) with known or alleged ties to Epstein’s trafficking or financial networks.”

It required the release of “[a]ny immunity deals, non-prosecution agreements, plea bargains, or sealed settlements involving Epstein or his associates” and “[i}nternal DOJ communications, including emails, memos, meeting notes, concerning decisions to charge, not charge, investigate, or decline to investigate Epstein or his associates.”

It required the Department of Justice to produce “[a]ll communications, memoranda, directives, logs, or metadata concerning the destruction, deletion, alteration, misplacement, or concealment of documents, recordings, or electronic data related to Epstein, his associates, his detention and death, or any investigative files.” It demanded “[d]ocumentation of Epstein’s detention or death, including incident reports, witness interviews, medical examiner files, autopsy reports, and written records detailing the circumstances and cause of death.”

The law established that the Department of Justice could withhold only information that was classified or that contained “personally identifiable information of victims or victims’ personal and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy”; images that “depict or contain child sexual abuse materials… [or] would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution, provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary”; images that “depict or contain images of death, physical abuse, or injury of any person; or…contain information specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and are in fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order.”

The law required that the Department of Justice must justify all redactions with “a written justification published in the Federal Register and submitted to Congress.”

Otherwise, it said, records could not be “withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.”

The deadline for the release of that information was yesterday, December 19.

In the afternoon, the department began to release the required materials. But despite the law’s specification that the department release ALL the records, it released just a fraction of the required materials, saying it would release more later. Missing were any of the FBI interviews with survivors or internal Justice Department memos about charging decisions.

There are very few images of Epstein with Trump, despite their close relationship. Instead, the files focused on former Democratic president Bill Clinton, whose office responded with a statement saying: “The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton. This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever. So they can release as many grainy 20–plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be. Even Susie Wiles said Donald Trump was wrong about Bill Clinton.”

And then there were the redactions. So much of the material was redacted that, in front of television cameras, Jake Tapper of CNN scrolled through an entirely-blacked-out 100-page document on his phone and said: “That’s the transparency we’re getting here.”

Today observers caught that for all that the Department of Justice had omitted materials the law required they produce, Justice Department staffers had inserted unrelated material: a photo of former Democratic president Bill Clinton, pop music star Michael Jackson, and music legend Diana Ross, with children, suggesting that the three were associated with sex abuser Jeffery Epstein. The image was quickly identified by social media users not as a private image from the Epstein files, but as a publicly available image from a 2003 fundraiser. The children were not Epstein victims, but rather Jackson’s and Ross’s own kids.

Then it turned out, as Michael R. Sisak and David B. Caruso of the Associated Press reported, at least 16 files that had initially been posted on the Justice Department’s public website have disappeared without explanation, including one that showed multiple photographs of Trump with Epstein.

Democratic lawmakers Representative Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, and Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, released a statement yesterday after Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that the Department of Justice would not meet the deadline for the release of the Epstein files established by law.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: December 20, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson

Letters from an American – December 20, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson

Letters from an American, December 20, 2025

By Heather Cox Richardson, Dec 20, 2025

On November 19, 2025, Congress passed H.R. 4405, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and although there was none of the usual publicity and fanfare President Donald Trump enjoys around a bill signing, the White House said that Trump signed it the same day, making it a law.

It required the United States Attorney General to “release all documents and records in possession of the Department of Justice relating to Jeffrey Epstein” no later than 30 days after the date the measure became law. It required that the Department of Justice “make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in the possession of the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Attorneys’ Offices, that relate to: Jeffrey Epstein including all investigations, prosecutions, or custodial matters…. Ghislaine Maxwell…. Flight logs or travel records, including but not limited to manifests, itineraries, pilot records, and customs or immigration documentation, for any aircraft, vessel, or vehicle owned, operated, or used by Jeffrey Epstein or any related entity…. Individuals, including government officials, named or referenced in connection with Epstein’s criminal activities, civil settlements, immunity or plea agreements, or investigatory proceedings…. Entities (corporate, nonprofit, academic, or governmental) with known or alleged ties to Epstein’s trafficking or financial networks.”

It required the release of “[a]ny immunity deals, non-prosecution agreements, plea bargains, or sealed settlements involving Epstein or his associates” and “[i}nternal DOJ communications, including emails, memos, meeting notes, concerning decisions to charge, not charge, investigate, or decline to investigate Epstein or his associates.”

It required the Department of Justice to produce “[a]ll communications, memoranda, directives, logs, or metadata concerning the destruction, deletion, alteration, misplacement, or concealment of documents, recordings, or electronic data related to Epstein, his associates, his detention and death, or any investigative files.” It demanded “[d]ocumentation of Epstein’s detention or death, including incident reports, witness interviews, medical examiner files, autopsy reports, and written records detailing the circumstances and cause of death.”

The law established that the Department of Justice could withhold only information that was classified or that contained “personally identifiable information of victims or victims’ personal and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy”; images that “depict or contain child sexual abuse materials… [or] would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution, provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary”; images that “depict or contain images of death, physical abuse, or injury of any person; or…contain information specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and are in fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order.”

The law required that the Department of Justice must justify all redactions with “a written justification published in the Federal Register and submitted to Congress.”

Otherwise, it said, records could not be “withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.”

The deadline for the release of that information was yesterday, December 19.

In the afternoon, the department began to release the required materials. But despite the law’s specification that the department release ALL the records, it released just a fraction of the required materials, saying it would release more later. Missing were any of the FBI interviews with survivors or internal Justice Department memos about charging decisions.

There are very few images of Epstein with Trump, despite their close relationship. Instead, the files focused on former Democratic president Bill Clinton, whose office responded with a statement saying: “The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton. This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever. So they can release as many grainy 20–plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be. Even Susie Wiles said Donald Trump was wrong about Bill Clinton.”

And then there were the redactions. So much of the material was redacted that, in front of television cameras, Jake Tapper of CNN scrolled through an entirely-blacked-out 100-page document on his phone and said: “That’s the transparency we’re getting here.”

Today observers caught that for all that the Department of Justice had omitted materials the law required they produce, Justice Department staffers had inserted unrelated material: a photo of former Democratic president Bill Clinton, pop music star Michael Jackson, and music legend Diana Ross, with children, suggesting that the three were associated with sex abuser Jeffery Epstein. The image was quickly identified by social media users not as a private image from the Epstein files, but as a publicly available image from a 2003 fundraiser. The children were not Epstein victims, but rather Jackson’s and Ross’s own kids.

Then it turned out, as Michael R. Sisak and David B. Caruso of the Associated Press reported, at least 16 files that had initially been posted on the Justice Department’s public website have disappeared without explanation, including one that showed multiple photographs of Trump with Epstein.

Democratic lawmakers Representative Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, and Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, released a statement yesterday after Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that the Department of Justice would not meet the deadline for the release of the Epstein files established by law.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: December 20, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson

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