The DOJ Is Quietly Eating The Epstein Files

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So, I started downloading the entire Epstein file database the day it dropped. All 3 million pages. Now, I say “started” because the DOJ did not make it easy. There were 100,000s of files that had to be individually downloaded – no bulk download option. It was an obvious “fuck you” moment. There were many Reddit threads that had to be perused to find the group projects of downloading everything. And even when I found torrents or Google Drive files people were offering up of their own downloads, it still seemed like every download was still missing something and another round of research had to happen to find the missing files.

But I knew that I needed my own copy and now I am so glad I spent so much time finding everything, because CBS just went back and compared what they’d downloaded to what was still live on the DOJ website. The difference is now 47,000 files. Sixty-five thousand pages. Just gone. No announcement. No press release. No tweet. The links return 404 errors. The DOJ said nothing until CBS asked, at which point the spokesperson said their analysis was “fundamentally flawed” – and then, in the same statement, confirmed that more than 47,000 files were offline for “further review.” These are two different things! “We didn’t delete anything” and “47,000 files are currently not accessible” is not a clarification, it’s a confession.

Okay, some of the removals are genuinely explicable. The DOJ redaction process was, to put it charitably, a disaster. Victims who had handed the government their names in December specifically so those names could be protected? Still showed up. Addresses. Family members. Photos. Lawyer Brad Edwards, who has represented Epstein survivors for over 20 years, said there were “literally thousands of mistakes.” A Wall Street Journal review found 43 victims’ full names exposed, some appearing over a hundred times, with home addresses visible in keyword searches. So yes, some things needed to come down. Bad but understandable.

But then there’s a fully-redacted call log – all names already blacked out – that’s also offline. Photos of Epstein’s jail bunk, the room where he allegedly hanged himself, also gone. The DOJ’s explanation for those specific removals: not provided. We’re just supposed to assume it fits somewhere in the vague category of “further review” and move on.

And separately – this is where it gets interesting – there are 50-plus pages of FBI interview notes from a woman who made allegations against Trump that have never appeared anywhere. Not in the public database. Not in the unredacted collection that Congress members can physically go view at DOJ headquarters. Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on House Oversight, confirmed: not there. The FBI interviewed this woman four times. One heavily-redacted summary made it into the public files. Three didn’t make it anywhere at all. The DOJ’s explanation: privilege, or ongoing investigations, or duplicates. Which of those three applies to FBI interview notes from a four-time witness? Unspecified. Pick whichever makes you feel better.

Now. The person overseeing all of this. The man who stood at the podium on January 30th and said “we didn’t protect or not protect anybody.” The man whose name is on the letters to Congress explaining the redaction decisions. That man is Todd Blanche – who, until recently, was Donald Trump’s personal defense attorney. He is now the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, running the department that is deciding what the public gets to know about Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.

The generous interpretation: total coincidence. He just happened to take this job. The oversight of files involving his former client just happened to land in his lap. The files that are missing just happen to include interviews with women who made allegations against that former client. Totally routine.

The DOJ says they’re in full compliance with the law. Blanche called January 30 the “final major release.” He also told Congress they reviewed 6 million total pages, meaning what they released is less than half. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie – the Democrat and Republican who wrote this legislation together and who agree on basically nothing – both said publicly the release fails to comply with the law. Khanna floated the word “impeachment.”

Les Wexner’s name was redacted until a congressman pushed on it and the DOJ quietly unredacted it. An FBI document from July 2025 that did make it into the public files noted “one identified victim claimed abuse by Trump but ultimately refused to cooperate.” That’s in there. The 50-plus pages from the woman who didn’t refuse to cooperate, who showed up four times, whose name appears in Maxwell’s own case file index – those aren’t in there.

The receipts exist. We know they exist because they appear in other documents that did get released. The index is there. The files the index points to are not.

Three million pages released. Sixty-five thousand quietly removed. Bulk downloads disabled. Trump’s personal lawyer running the process. What a bunch of bullshit.

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