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Editor’s Note
In the show links above is one to a Wall Street Journal article that was published on the day I recorded this episode where it states Trump was told his name was in the Epstein files (shocker – right?):
In May, Bondi and her deputy informed the president at a meeting in the White House that his name was in the Epstein files, the officials said. Many other high-profile figures were also named, Trump was told. Being mentioned in the records isn’t a sign of wrongdoing.
The officials said it was a routine briefing that covered a number of topics and that Trump’s appearance in the documents wasn’t the focus.
They told the president at the meeting that the files contained what officials felt was unverified hearsay about many people, including Trump, who had socialized with Epstein in the past, some of the officials said. One of the officials familiar with the documents said they contain hundreds of other names.
They also told Trump that senior Justice Department officials didn’t plan to release any more documents related to the investigation of the convicted sex offender because the material contained child pornography and victims’ personal information, the officials said. Trump said at the meeting he would defer to the Justice Department’s decision to not release any further files.
If they had said all of that in May and given that as the reason for now not releasing the file, I think there would still be MAGAs who believed the files were nothing but Democrats, but a majority of normal people would accept that explanation and move on.
Trump is such a pathological liar, even if the truth is good for him, he lies about it and spirals like we’ve seen for the past few weeks.
I would like to hear from people who worked with those files in 2019 to either corroborate the WSJ story or not. Trump commented it was fake news…
I don’t believe details need to be given out but a listing of high profile names mentioned would be nice to know and maybe release the flight logs of Epstein’s plane.
The details and victim names don’t need to be public. And releasing all the files won’t be a positive experience for anyone especially the victims.
— Doug
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