Trump Leaves MAGA Hanging With Partial Epstein Dump

The Trump administration is facing lawsuits and new accusations of cover-up for failing to release all relevant documents in its possession concerning sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

Many of these documents, released on Friday, had been partially redacted or publicly available for years. The Justice Department’s website was overwhelmed immediately after their release.

The site stated: “Some documents in this library contain descriptions of sexual assault. Therefore, please be advised that some portions may be disturbing to some readers.”

More than six years after Epstein’s death while awaiting trial for sex trafficking of minors, hundreds of thousands of files detailing his heinous crimes and the government’s actions, or inaction, to stop him have finally been made public.

These files include court records, information released by the Justice Department, and details released under the Freedom of Information Act.

They also include several photos of Epstein with former President Bill Clinton, as well as photos of women doing yoga while Epstein watched. Some pages were completely redacted.

Epstein also appears in photos with Michael Jackson, and in others with Mick Jagger, Clinton, and others, apparently at a Chinese restaurant.

Clinton, who has denied any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, is pictured with a young woman (whose face is blurred) sitting on his lap.

The administration faced criticism earlier on Friday when Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch revealed that some information would not be released by the set deadline.

He told Fox & Friends: “I anticipate releasing more documents over the next couple of weeks. Today, several hundred thousand, and in the next two weeks, several hundred thousand more.”

Democratic Representative Robert Garcia stated that this violated the Epstein Transparency Act, which required the full release, within 30 days, of all non-confidential information concerning Epstein held by the Department of Justice. He added, “We are currently exploring all possible legal options.”

These documents stem, in part, from two Department of Justice investigations into Epstein’s sexual abuse of teenage girls.

The first investigation, conducted in Florida, resulted in a controversial plea deal in 2008 that allowed Epstein to escape federal prosecution for sex trafficking and receive a lenient sentence. The second investigation, conducted in Manhattan, led to his arrest in 2019 and Maxwell’s trial.

However, attorney John Marsh, who represented Maria Farmer, one of Epstein’s victims, indicated that analyzing the documents could take months.

“Congress is in recess, and Washington is deserted,” he told CNN. “So we plan to begin working in early 2026 to determine the necessary steps and identify any missing elements.”

He added, “It’s clear that processing all these documents will take weeks, if not months or years, to determine what’s missing.”

The release of these documents is the culmination of years of efforts by victims and their supporters to obtain justice, as well as a refutation of conspiracy theories propagated by the MAGA faithful.

These demands reached a fever pitch when Trump and his team took office and promised to make the records public. However, he reneged on his promise and called the case a “Democratic” hoax.

But last month, to everyone’s surprise, Trump finally signed new rules officially ordering the Department of Justice to release all records and documents related to convicted sex offenders, with a few exceptions. Documents that identify individuals, those that provide evidence of sexual abuse of minors, and those that could “compromise an ongoing federal investigation” are exempt.

Trump’s sudden reversal only came after it became clear that enough Republicans would break with the president and vote in favor of releasing the files.

Despite the president’s repeated claims that the Epstein files were a hoax, his chief of staff, Suzy Wiles, confirmed this week in a shocking interview that he was indeed in the files and had traveled on the sex offender’s plane.

She insisted, however, that he “didn’t do anything horrible,” telling Vanity Fair: “They were, you know, young single people, etc. – I know that’s an old-fashioned term, but they were young single people having fun together.”

This affair has also become a political headache for Bondi, whom supporters of the “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement, like Laura Loomer, believe should be fired for her handling of the Epstein case.

Tensions escalated earlier this year when Bondi orchestrated what was supposed to be an exclusive reveal for social media influencers from the MAGA movement. They were summoned to the White House and given folders containing documents related to Epstein.

However, it turned out that these folders contained hundreds of pages, most of which had been publicly available for years – or, as Wiles bluntly put it in her Vanity Fair interview, “empty folders.”

Four months later, in an attempt to close the matter, the Department of Justice released a statement indicating that no client list existed and that “it would be neither appropriate nor justifiable to disclose further information.”

After the documents were released on Friday, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told: “By releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee, and responding to President Trump’s recent call for further investigations into Epstein’s Democratic associates, the Trump administration has done more for the victims than the Democrats ever have.”

But few issues have fractured Trump’s political base and reshaped alliances around the president as much as the Epstein affair.

The biggest rift pitted Trump against pro-Trump activist Marjorie Taylor Greene, who joined a bipartisan effort to force the Justice Department to declassify all records related to Epstein.

According to Greene, Trump was “furious” about her stance and subsequently called her a “traitor.”

Epstein died in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking of minors.

Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for her role in recruiting and sexually abusing minors. Following an unconventional interview with Blanche earlier this year, she was transferred to a lower-security prison facility.