What About
The Department of Justice is already four days late. The law requires all of the EPSTEIN FILES released by December 19th, 2025. It’s now December 23rd (I checked the Advent Calendar), and only a small portion of those files are in the public.
Much of what DOJ has “released” is already in the public sphere. Other parts are simply “redacted”, blacked out and containing no information whatsoever. Some is actually new stuff, but was put out, then pulled back by the Department. Odd, some of those were pictures containing images of Donald Trump. Who’d have believe it?
When challenged on the issue, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche did exactly what the Trump Administration “playbook” says to do under pressure: say “What-About”. When asked why so little new information was released to meet the LEGAL requirement, Blanche quickly fell back on “What-About the Biden Administration, they didn’t release any”.
What about that, Todd? What about the candidate who ran for President in 2024, promising that all of the information would be released? That wasn’t Joe Biden, and it wasn’t Kamala Harris either. It was the current President, your boss, the man who signed the “EPSTEIN FILES Transparency Act”, Donald Trump. What about that?
Delay-Delay-Delay
The successful legal strategy used by the Trump team for years is simple: delay, delay delay. The longer they can “hold off”, the better the legal outcome turned out to be. Look at the National Security charges the President faced over the Mar-A-Lago boxes. They (then Trump defense attorney Todd Blanche lead the way) stalled in every way, shape and form. That is, until after the 2024 election, when they gained control of the Justice Department, and dropped the charges.
Trump knew he was in trouble with the national security charges. His only way out was to win the Presidency. Trump also (according to Prosecutor Jack Smith) was “dead to rights” on charges of abuse of power, and advocating insurrection. The only way for Trump to dodge that bullet, was to win.
Delay was always effective for them. So the question that needs to be asked about the EPSTEIN FILES is: delay to what purpose? Trump’s the President now. What benefit will he gain from delaying the inevitable pictures of a younger, partier, Donald and much younger women? The Republican Senate isn’t going to convict him of impeachment, and his own (owned?) Department of Justice isn’t going to indict him for sex offenses (twelve year statute of limitation, except for DNA evidence).
Worth It
So what is he waiting for – America to forget? To become a “wartime” President so that the United States won’t, as Abraham Lincoln put it, “Change horses in mid-stream”? To create such a climate of fear (ask CBS or ICE) that no one would dare to bring up the possibility that he “indulged” in young girls, along with his best buddy, Jeffrey. That, this self-acknowledged sexual “athlete”, the man who has publicly bragged about the “size of his sword” (versus his hands), the man with a known predilection for younger women (ask the Miss Teenage USA contestants) might have actually participated in Epstein’s bacchanals?
It seems inevitable that Trump is directly involved in the Epstein affair. And it seems he’s organized the entire American Justice system, to protect him from that obvious revelation. The harder Trump tries to deny it, the more his involvement seems…total.
In other words, to go through so much, it must be worth it. He turned on his own MAGA base, calling them fools of a “Democratic Hoax”. He lost an important ally, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Then he completely flipped, and told the Congress “…don’t bother to debate this, just send it over and I’ll sign it”. He made THE EPSTEIN FILES Transparency Act a law. And now, finally, he’s doing what we always thought he would do: lie, obfuscate, obstruct, and deny. There must be some things in those files, really bad: bad for Donald Trump.
Burn the Tapes
A little tidbit to remember about Donald Trump. There is a direct connection between the end of the Nixon Administration, the final collapse of the Watergate coverup, and Trump. His closest political “mentor” was Roger Stone, a young Nixon political operative and a minor figure in the Watergate investigation. The ultimate downfall of Nixon was the tapes.
Nixon “bugged” his own offices, and ultimately the revealed words on those tapes led to his resignation. Stone believed that if Nixon destroyed the tapes rather than turn them over to the Courts, his Presidency would have survived. In fact, Stone suggested Nixon should just burn the tapes on the White House lawn.
Look out for smoke from the newly paved Rose Garden, or the backyard of the Department of Justice. Trump might follow his old mentor’s advice.
