06/03/2026
"Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was chastised on Tuesday over the Department of Justice’s handling of the Epstein Files.
During testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) accused the DOJ of withholding more than 3 million documents related to the criminal investigation into the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
The tense back-and-forth between Dean and Blanche began with the congresswoman asking if the acting attorney general would comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support last year and signed into law by President Donald Trump.
“As I said to you when we spoke before, we have complied with the law,” Blanche responded before Dean cut him off.
“There are 3 million more documents,” Dean said. “And you know what you said to me? They’re all duplicative, and they include another guy named Epstein.”
Blanche denied saying that, but Dean refused to allow him to finish answering the question and demanded her time back.
“I just gave you the answer you gave me. No, actually, it’s my time, Mr. Chairman,” Dean said. “I think those are the rules of this committee. I told him the answer he gave me, and now in public, he’s trying to say something else.”
Dean then pressed Blanche on why many of the unredacted files were available only to members of Congress at the DOJ.
“What does it say in terms of transparency?” Dean asked. “It says that they should be made publicly available.”
“And they were, they were,” Blanche said.
Dean was then told her time had expired, but she rejected that notion.
“I beg your pardon, Mr. Chairman,” Dean said before showing off her notes from her visits to the DOJ to review the unredacted files. “What rules are we operating under? Because he’s under a little bit of heat for not prosecuting anyone in these monstrous crimes.”"
Mediaite reported what happened next.
"“I have been in the room,” said Dean, referring to the reading room for the unredacted files available to lawmakers. “I have been there. This is what I had to do, to transcribe, to show what is true. What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein’s plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There’s a lot in here. I am shocked at this.”
Materials released by the DOJ in December further underline this point, including a DOJ email describing Trump’s alleged flights on the sex offender’s private plane
“Donald Trump traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware),” read a Jan. 7, 2020, email from an assistant US attorney.
CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane gave further detail in a report at the time: “According to the email, Trump is listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including at least four that co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell was on board for. The email also notes Trump flew on two occasions with women described as potential witnesses in a potential Maxwell case.”
Trump claimed in a 2024 Truth Social Post that he “was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid’ Island.” In January, Fox News host Sean Hannity made a similar assertion.
“Donald Trump never flew on the plane, from what I understand,” said Hannity.
Dean also read her notes containing unredacted material from the documents, including an email to Epstein summarizing a phone conversation with Trump, given in lieu of a deposition. Dean said that the unredacted portion of the email claims Trump denied that Epstein was kicked out of Mar-a-Lago, further contradicting the president’s previous claims."
“You are gravely conflicted. It is so obvious you are gravely conflicted,” she said to Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyer. “These survivors deserve prosecutions. They deserved them years ago. And now it’s on your lap, as Pam Bondi told us. They need an independent prosecutor.”"
But that would mean that Trump, GOP, Fox News owned by Jeffrey Epstein's Rupert Murdoch, Qanon, and/or others lied to the base, lied to us, lied to all of us, when they echoed his lies in order to seize power over the justice system before it could "lock them up".
But wait, didn't Trump and GOP, MAGA, Qanon campaign on Trump releasing the Epstein files?
Per IBT, "A fresh allegation from Marjorie Taylor Greene has reignited scrutiny over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, with claims that President Donald Trump personally intervened to block the release of sensitive files.
The claim surfaced during a broadcast interview and has rapidly circulated online, raising questions about transparency, political influence, and the extent of undisclosed material tied to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Greene alleged that Trump directly instructed former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi not to release documents related to Epstein, citing concerns that 'people are going to get hurt'. The remarks, if substantiated, could have far-reaching implications for ongoing public demands for accountability in one of the most scrutinised criminal cases in recent US history.
Speaking in an interview with the programme hosted by Shannon Joy, Greene stated that Trump 'flat out' told Bondi to withhold the Epstein files.
She further claimed that Trump privately acknowledged the potential fallout of disclosure, saying, 'My friends will get hurt... People at Mar-a-Lago, they're going to get hurt.'
The interview is publicly accessible via a livestream archive, where Greene also asserted that Trump discouraged broader internal discussions about releasing documents tied to Epstein's network.
In a separate clip shared on social media, Greene alleged that Trump 'was blocking everybody' and communicated similar warnings to senior Republican figures, including House Speaker Mike Johnson ...
The 'Epstein files' broadly refer to a collection of court documents, depositions, financial records, and investigative materials linked to Epstein's trafficking operation.
Several batches of documents have already entered the public domain through litigation, most notably via the defamation case brought by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, unsealed in stages by US courts.
Court filings from the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (Giuffre v Maxwell, Case No. 15-cv-7433) include sworn depositions and witness testimony. These records detail Epstein's network, alleged co-conspirators, and victims' accounts.
The US Department of Justice has also released materials tied to Maxwell's 2021 criminal trial, including indictments and evidentiary summaries, which are publicly accessible through official court databases.
However, significant portions of investigative records remain sealed or heavily redacted. These include grand jury materials, FBI investigative files, and certain financial transaction records.
Legal experts note that such documents are often protected due to privacy concerns, ongoing investigations, or evidentiary rules governing grand jury secrecy.
Pam Bondi served as Florida's Attorney General from 2011 to 2019 and later joined Trump's legal defence team during his first impeachment trial.
Her office did not prosecute Epstein directly, as his controversial 2008 plea deal was negotiated earlier under federal prosecutors led by then-US Attorney Alexander Acosta.
That agreement, formally known as a non-prosecution agreement, has been widely criticised. A 2019 ruling by US District Judge Kenneth Marra found that federal prosecutors violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act by failing to notify victims before finalising the deal.
Bondi has not publicly confirmed Greene's allegation. There is no documented directive, memo, or court filing indicating that she was instructed by Trump to suppress Epstein-related records.
Requests for comment from Bondi and Trump representatives, where made by various journalists in similar reporting contexts, have historically been met with denials of wrongdoing regarding Epstein.
Greene's claims also extend beyond document suppression. She alleged that Trump 'flat-out refused' to host Epstein victims in the Oval Office.
This assertion contrasts with broader public pressure from victims' advocates, who have long called for greater transparency and direct engagement from political leaders.
The Epstein case has become a touchstone for debates over elite accountability. Figures across political and business spheres have faced scrutiny due to past associations with Epstein, though association alone does not imply wrongdoing.
Greene's remarks have triggered renewed calls from lawmakers and advocacy groups to declassify or unseal remaining records where legally permissible.
The central issue raised by Greene's allegation is not only whether Trump intervened, but what information remains inaccessible to the public.
Unreleased materials could include investigative leads that never resulted in charges, identities of unindicted individuals, and sensitive victim testimony.
The FBI has acknowledged, in past public statements and court filings, that Epstein-related investigations involved 'numerous potential victims and witnesses across multiple jurisdictions'.
Some records may remain sealed indefinitely due to these complexities."
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-epstein-files-1792933
As victims of Epstein's treasonous child sex trafficking ring, we are among the victims whose complaints and evidence are sealed indefinitely due to complexities associates with RICO obstruction by those paid to protect us from the same, but defraud us, defrauding the government, defrauding taxpayers, and demanding that you pay them fat salaries, COVID loans they never have to pay off, grants and contracts to themselves and they don't have to follow the rules, and RICO obstructing for all of the same and much more is all overt furtherance of massive government fraud and tax evasion by these people, now threatening to go after their critics for fraud and tax evasion, threatening to take their citizenship away, to oust, discredit, retaliate, and RICO obstruct Epstein victims, witnesses, and investigators from the country.
On the hook for RICO obstructing Trump's and Jeffrey Epstein's treason crimes with Russia, Bondi saved herself by throwing Trump under the bus specifying he didn't want to release the files to not affect his business interests, with evidence disclosures she made to Congress, summarized by The Independent.
"Donald Trump may have “stolen” sensitive government documents linked to his own business activities, as well as showed off a classified map to passengers on his plane, according to a senior Democrat citing a memo released by the president’s own Department of Justice.
Rep. Jamie Raskin said the Department of Justice had provided him with a “damning” memo about Trump’s handling of classified documents.
In a letter addressed to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Raskin said the disclosure was part of a cache of “cherry-picked” documents delivered to the House Judiciary Committee in an attempt to smear Special Counsel Jack Smith — who had investigated Trump’s hoarding of classified documents — in order to try to undermine the investigation.
Raskin, the ranking member of the committee, wrote: “These new disclosures suggest that Donald Trump stole documents so sensitive that only six people in the entire U.S. government had access to them, that the documents President Trump stole pertained to his business interests, and that Susie Wiles, then the CEO of Donald Trump’s super PAC, witnessed President Trump showing off a classified map to passengers on his private plane.
“This glimpse into the trove of evidence behind the coverup reveals a President of the United States who may have sold out our national security to enrich himself.”
The Democratic lawmaker’s claims have renewed focus on Trump’s classified documents case, in which he was criminally indicted under the Espionage Act in June 2023 for allegedly keeping hundreds of classified materials at his Mar-a-Lago estate after leaving office.
Photos emerged of boxes of papers piled up in a bathroom and an office at Mar-a-Lago.
The case, spearheaded by Smith, was dismissed in July 2024 by a federal judge, who ruled that Smith had been unconstitutionally appointed. The special counsel was appealing that decision until Trump was re-elected to the White House in November of that year, after which the case was dropped. The documents at the center of the case were later returned to Trump.
Trump has consistently denied wrongdoing in the case, calling it a politically motivated "witch hunt" and accusing the DOJ of "selective prosecution"— given former President Joe Biden was also accused of having classified documents at his home, but was never charged.
On Wednesday, the White House tore into Raskin over the letter.
“It’s pathetic that Democrats with zero credibility like Jamie Raskin are still clinging to deranged Jack Smith and his lies in 2026,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told The Independent. “President Trump did nothing wrong, which is why he easily defeated the Biden DOJ’s unprecedented lawfare campaign against him and then won nearly 80 million votes in a landslide election victory.”
In his six-page letter to Bondi, sent on Tuesday, Raskin indicated that the Department of Justice had inadvertently revealed “damning evidence” about Trump’s conduct — evidence Smith had been barred from discussing by a court’s gag order.
“They include a January 13, 2023, memorandum, in which prosecutors wrote that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has determined that the classified documents President Trump retained from the White House ‘were commingled with documents created after Trump left office,’” Raskin wrote. “FBI has also found that certain classified documents President Trump improperly retained ‘would be pertinent to certain business interests.’ DOJ prosecutors further assessed that these ‘classified documents pertinent to his business interests’ established ‘a motive for retaining them.’”
The documents also indicate that, during a 2022 flight to his golf club in New Jersey, Trump may have shown off a classified map to individuals aboard the plane, including Wiles, now his chief of staff. The Justice Department produced a map of the aircraft, but the names of the passengers were redacted.
“It is now clear that DOJ is in possession of evidence that President Trump has already endangered national security to further the interests of Trump family businesses,” the House Democrat concluded. “It is time for you to stop the cover-up and allow the American people to know what secrets he betrayed and how he may have cashed in on them.”
Later in the letter Raskin writes: “The memorandum further specifies that the disclosure of these documents represented ‘an aggravated potential harm to national security.’ The prosecutors also wrote that these were ‘highly sensitive documents—the type of documents that only presidents and officials with the most sensitive authority have.’ One ‘particularly sensitive document was accessible by only 6? people, including the president.’”
He says it is not currently clear what the map Trump supposedly showed to others was of, but notes that the president was at that time involved in a business deal with Saudi interests over the LIV golf tournament. Raskin also cites reports that Trump had been talking to “his ghost writer” about possessing Pentagon plans for a potential attack on Iran.
Raskin writes: “If this map is related to our military posture in the Middle East, and it was in fact shown to any foreign official, Saudi or otherwise, that would amount to an unforgiveable betrayal of our men and women in uniform who are currently valiantly fighting in President Trump’s disastrous war against Iran.”
He asked Bondi to provide answers to a series of questions — including about the map — by the end of the month.
Former special counsel Jack Smith was investigating the classified documents found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Trump was criminally charged but the case was dropped after he was re-elected.
Raskin wrote that the “damning” information about Trump had apparently been issued by accident. He wrote: “(Y)ou have, quite amazingly, missed the fact that some of the documents you provided include damning evidence about your boss’s conduct and may well violate the gag order your DOJ and Donald Trump demanded from Judge Aileen Cannon.”
Jack Smith specified that the disqualifying crimes he was investigating, he had evidence beyond a reasonable doubt for, and that is what Aileen Cannon sealed forever, evidence of disqualified people in government offices, including herself, which we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt is her overt furtherance of RICO obstruction of justice for treasonous child sex traffickers involved in elections stealing, massive government fraud, and RICO obstruction of the same. As victims of Jeffrey Epstein, we provided Jack Smith an estimated million pages of evidence that Epstein was a central figure in the Russia 2016 elections manipulation, also provided to DOJ 2024, who is now obstructing justice, based on Aileen Cannon sealing evidence of her own flawed appointment.
https://apnews.com/article/jack-smith-congress-justice-department-d35557d525fcfe51a20d08c6abb7f71d
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