It is not normal for the justice department or the FBI to release the internal files of an investigation. Such files have lots of speculations and falsehoods in them, and releasing them can falsely destroy people’s reputations.
A small Republican rebellion helped get Congress to pass the order for Trump to release the Epstein files. Trump tried to stop the order, and once it was clear Trump was going to lose, he said he now supports it, and many Republican Congressmen who were going to vote against it, slavishly then voted for it once their dear leader gave them permission. Trump can release the Epstein files without Congress’s order, so if he really wanted to, he could just do it.
“In 2019, Epstein wrote to journalist Michael Wolff that Trump “asked me to resign,” apparently from Trump’s club, Mar-a-Lago. “[O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop,” Epstein added.
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Wolff told Epstein that Trump was going to be asked about their relationship, and Epstein asked Wolff to “craft an answer” for Trump. Wolff suggested that letting Trump deny their relationship in public would give Epstein leverage.
“If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency,” Wolff wrote. “You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt.” CNN didn’t end up asking Trump the question, according to The New York Times.
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the emails do suggest that Trump knew a lot more about Epstein than he let on—and that he has something to hide about their relationship.
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In September 2025, the House Oversight Committee released a sexually suggestive letter from Trump to Epstein talking about their “wonderful secret.”
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during the 2024 campaign, Trump offhandedly agreed to open up the government’s files on Epstein, a campaign promise he would come to regret. In February 2025, the department announced that it was releasing “The Epstein Files: Phase 1,” only to publish a set of already public documents. Shortly after, the Department of Justice informed Trump that his name appeared several times in Epstein’s case file, according to The Wall Street Journal.”
“The First Amendment protects filming the police, but Berenice Garcia-Hernandez says she was dragged out of her car and detained for nearly seven hours for snapping photos of ICE agents.”
“A federal judge in Chicago ordered roughly 600 people to be released from immigration detention…The individuals, the judge found, had been arrested in violation of a 2022 consent decree designed to ensure immigration agents have probable cause before making warrantless arrests.”
In places where wealthy people want to be and are not just there for tax advantages, higher taxes often don’t make many wealthy people leave. Keeping high-skilled professionals is more important to a city than keeping super wealthy people.
In Hitler’s Germany, many Christians sought out Hitler and offered their support as Christians. Other Christians stood by while Hitler took over and did and said nothing, sometimes making excuses for Hitler.