Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. As you all know, they set a hard
deadline December nineteenth, written into law about when the Epstein
documents were supposed to be released. And it's not a suggestion,
it's not a courtesy, it's not a convenient footnote. Transparency
on Epstein was not supposed to be optional. It was
mandated because the public has been lied to for decades,
and when the government misses a legal deadline without consequence,
it's not a delay. In fact, it's a statement. It
says that the law is flexible when power is uncomfortable.
It says accountability is conditional. It says victims can wait
while institutions continue to protect themselves. And most importantly, it
says the DOJ still believes it answers to itself rather
than the people. Now we're being told there are over
five million documents left to review, sanitize, or a dact
process and bless for public incise, that line is supposed
to sound industrious, serious and responsible. In reality, it's bureaucratic anesthesia,
designed a dull outrage while nothing meaningfully changes. And I'm
pretty sure that most people agree that five million documents
is not a workload explanation, it's a stall tactic. It's
a number that's so large it discourages follow up questions.
It's like the modern equivalent of saying the check is
in the mail and ask yourself, plainly, does anyone actually
believe they woke up on December nineteenth surprised by the
size of the Epstein archive. This material didn't materialize overnight,
like a bad weather system. The DOJ has had years,
not weeks, to prepare for this moment. They knew transparency
was coming because Congress forced it to come. So when
the pressure builds, the response is always the same, redirect
a narrative. Suddenly the media cycle pivots hard to geo politics,
regime threats for villains and looming conflicts. And look, the
timing is never accidental, no matter how much they want
you to believe it is. Outrage has a half life,
and they manage it the way corporations manage pr crisis,
flood the zone with something louder, scarier, and emotionally immediate.
Epstein's a slow burn about accountability, but geopolitics that's instant adrenaline. Now,
of course, Venezuela has become the shiny object, the pressure valve,
the emergency broadcast that demands attention. And to be clear,
authoritarian regimes deserve scrutiny, criticism, and exposure. But selective urgency
is a tell and narrative whiplash is not foreign policy.
It's crowd control. You don't have to like Madero to
recognize when his name was being used as narrative camouflage.
The question is not whether Venezuela matters, it's why it
matters right now, at this exact moment. Look, the tactic
is old, reliable, and insulting in its simplicity. When domestic
accountability threatens powerful people, external conflict suddenly dominates the conversation.
It happened during prior scandals, it happened during wars launched
on thin pretenses, and it's happening again. Now. Call it
a distraction, call it a diversion. I call it what
it is. Wagging the dog. And the bones of this
playbook are visible because they've been used so many times,
they're worn smooth. And yes, any administration tied even indirectly
to Epstein benefits from that distraction. Doesn't matter whether the
connection is social, legal, financial, or reputational Epstein is radioactive
and proximity burns. Every day the files remain sealed is
the day reputations remain intact. And I think that what
infuriates people that are paying attention is this your audacity
of pretending that this is normal, miss the deadline, shrug
issue of vague statement, and hope that the audience moves
on now. The strategy only works if no one refuses
to move on. It only works if everyone accepts that
justice operates on a schedule convenient to those in charge.
And it only works if voices stop applying pressure. And
that's why, in my opinion, staying on this story matters
more now than it did before December nineteenth. The failure
to comply is it self evidence of institutional resistance. Deadlines
only matter if someone enforces them. Transparency law only functions
if violations carry consequences. Otherwise they exist purely as political theater,
pass to quiet, outrage and ignored wants. Attention drifts. Look,
there's a reason that Epstein terrifies institutions in a way
few other criminals ever. Have His operation intersected with money, intelligence, politics, academia,
and global power, and ways that are deeply uncomfortable. This
was not a loan predator operating in the shadows. This
was a network enabled by silence, favors, leverage, and deliberate
blind eyes. Releasing the files threatens not just individuals, but
those very systems. Every redaction, every delay, every ongoing review
is a choice. It's a choice about who deserves protection
and who deserves answers. It's a choice about whether the
victims are own truth or merely sympathy. And it's a
choice about whether law applies upward or only downward. And
those choices obviously reveal priorities far more clearly than any
press release. So the idea that this will go away
quietly misunderstands the moment, the public's not asking for rumors
or speculation. It's asking for documents. It's asking for names, timelines, correspondence, decisions,
and accountability. And the longer it's withheld, the more obvious
it becomes that the darkness serves someone. Look. Being the
fly in the ointment is not stubbornness. I think it's
the civic duty. When institutions fell. Progress has never come
from polite silence in the face of evasion. It comes
from sustained pressure that refuses to be redirected, and that
pressure is uncomfortable by design. Comfort is the enemy of reform.
And look, burning the ships means understanding that there is
no off ramp back to complacency. Once you see how
deeply the story runs, retreat becomes complicity. You can't unknow
the patterns once you recognize it. You can't pretend distraction
equals resolution, and you can't accept delays as good faith
when history proves otherwise. And now you've offered me war
and I've accepted. And war in this context is not
metaphorical bravado. It's attrition. It's the grinding conflict between truth
and power. It's slow, exhausting and shit deliberately obscured. It's
fun documents, deadlines, court filings, and public attention spans, and
it favors those willing to stay longer than the system expects.
The imagery matters because the stakes are real. This is
not about partisan scorekeeping or political gamesmanship. It's about whether
a criminal empire connected to immense power can be fully exposed.
It's about whether survivors are treated as inconvenient footnotes or
as the reason transparency exists. It's about whether the rule
of law has teeth or just ceremonial language. So every
attempt to redirect the conversation confirms the importance of refusing
to let it move. As I've told you a million times,
if Epstein were truly resolved, there would be no fear
of disclosure. If the story were truly finished, documents will
not be treated like classified weapons. The resistance itself is
the signal, So no, oh, shiny objects are not going
to work here. Military adventurism won't rewrite deadlines, foreign villains
won't erase domestic failures, and narrative pivots won't satisfy a
public that understands it's being managed rather than informed. The
war is not on a battlefield. It's in whether the
truth is finally forced into the open. This fight continues
because it has to. It continues because delay has become policy.
It continues because silence has been rewarded for too long,
And it continues because justice does not arrive on its
own timetable when those in charge are invested in its absence.
The Epstein files are not going away, and neither is
the demand for full disclosure. And that's the part that
they still don't seem to understand that this isn't about
whether they eventually release something. It's about the fact that
they missed the line in the sand and then acted
like the sand moved. December nineteenth came and went and
nothing happened. No reckoning, no explanation, no emergency disclosure, just
to shrug, wrapped in bureaucratic language and a few documents.
Once you cross that point, you don't get to reset
the clock with a press line about ongoing review. You
don't get to pretend the law was aspirational instead of mandatory.
Because the second they missed that deadline, the fight changed
to stop being about transparency and became an authority issue.
Who enforces the law when the enforcers ignore it. Who
compels compliance when the Department of Justice decides it doesn't
feel like complying. That's the real question sitting underneath all
of this, and it's why no amount of foreign policy
noise is going to smother it. And let's be honest
about why the files still matters so much. It's not
because anyone expects a single smoking gun that magically fixes everything.
It's because the documents show process. They show who stalled,
who deferred, who rerouted, who overruled, who signed off, and
who look the other way. They show how Epstein didn't
beat the system, how he was absorbed by it, protected
by it, and ultimately neutralized as a threat to the
people who mattered most. And that's why this can't be
allowed to stretch into infinity. Every month that passes gives
covered to the same people who've always relied on time
to do the dirty work for them. Memories fade, careers
and quietly, records get boxed up, and suddenly we're told
the moment is passed. So no, there's no exit ramp
here and no cooling off period. The law set the terms,
they violated them, and now they own that violation until
the Epstein files are released in full and without games.
This does not end, and it doesn't soften, and it
doesn't get redirected. They can call it pressure, they can
call it noise, they can call it whatever helps them sleep.
But I'm gonna call it what it is, unfinished business
and a war that they started by assuming everyone would
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and Welcome to another episode of the Epstein chronicles. As
we continue to wait for the DOJ to follow the
law that was passed by Congress and signed by the President,
all we're getting from them is more excuses about why
the files haven't been released. And now we're hearing from
the DOJ in a new filing to Judge Ingelmeyer that
there's more than two million documents that still haven't been reviewed,
and they have the audacity to try to use that
as some kind of defense as to why they're dragging
their feet when it comes to releasing the files. And
this has always been the plan. I told you from
the very beginning what they were going to do. They're
trying to exhaust you. They want you to focus on
other things. They want the new shiny object to steal
all your attention, and that new shiny object is Venezuela.
And what they hope is that everybody's so focused on
what's going on with Venezuela and with the fallout in
the aftermath, that nobody is going to be focusing on
what's going on with the DOJ and the Epstein Maelstrom
that is still roiling over DC. And I think they're
making a big mistake if they think that's going to
occur because way too many people are way too invested
at this point to just ignore what's going on, throw
up their hands and give up and say, you know what,
I guess the DOJ is telling us the truth. After all,
that's just never going to happen. So they can throw
as many roadblocks up as they want, they can use
as many distractions as they can get their hands on.
But at the end of the day, the people who
are following this story, they're hip to the tricks. We've
seen this all before, and it's all part of the
grand strategy to exhaust you, to make you move on,
to make you not care anymore, to make you apathetic.
And the sad truth is, with a lot of people,
it works when something seems so massive, when something seems
like there's just too many layers to it, a lot
of people just throw up their hands and move on
to something that they feel is more tangible, right, something
they can see, something they can fuel if you get
my drift. But when it comes to Epstein, a lot
of this stuff is opaque, a lot of it's ambiguous,
and unless you've invested the time in really opening the
doors and going into each and every room, you're going
to be lost, and the DOJ understands that better than anyone,
and that's why they've used this strategy time and time again,
and not just with Epstein, but with many explosive topics
throughout the years. So today we're going to talk a
little bit more about the DOJ telling the court that
it has at least two million more Epstein documents to
review ahead of the redacted release. And to do that,
we have an article from the Independent headline DOJ tells
court it has more than two million Epstein documents to
review ahead of redacted release. The author of this article
is Joe summer Lad. The Department of Justice has admitted
it still has more than two million documents relating to
the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to review, more than two
weeks after the deadline set for their release by the
Epstein Files Transparency Act. And as you know, we haven't
seen any new files since right before Christmas Eve. So
you mean to tell me you've had nothing else prepared,
not even a small batch to release to the public.
That seems a bit unbelievable to me. Honestly, how is
it that you can have all these lawyers reviewing documents,
and you have nothing prepared yet, and we all know
you're not trying to release it all at once, so
don't even try that excuse. What you're trying to do
is slow drip this shit so that people get discouraged
and people move on to other topics. We know what
you're up to. Unfortunately for you, that plan's gonna fail
because nobody's buying it. Nobody's playing the wag the dog
game with you. There is only one way out for
the DOJ and for the Trump administration, and that is
to release the files. I mean, it's wild to that
the DOJ is acting like this is some kind of
voluntary situation. The law requires that you release these files.
That doesn't mean play games. It doesn't say take your
time and release them when you feel comfortable. You add
a deadline and you miss the deadline. What happens if
I miss my deadline for taxes? Oh that's right. All
kinds of compounded interest, all kinds of nonsense, all kinds
of heartache. But when the DOJ is on the wrong
side of the law, they just shrug and keep it moving.
That should terrify everybody. And I don't care what your
political affiliation is because if the DOJ is above the law,
then that means we don't have a law. The near
unanimous passage of the legislation through Congress in November prompted
President Donald Trump to sign it into law, setting in
motion a thirty day countdown for the publication of all
DOJ files on EPSTEIN. The deadline arrived on December nineteenth,
with the DOJ posting a tranch of heavily redacted text
lacking documents, followed by a second tranch four days later,
and nothing since now. In a five page letter sent
by Jay Clayton, US attorney for the Southern District of
New York, to US District Judge Paul A. Ingelemeyer updating
them on the state of play, the prosecutor revealed that
there is still more than two million documents potentially responsive
to the Act that are in various phases of review,
which is completely unacceptable. Let's not act like they haven't
had decades to get all of this in line, and
why are they now going through all these documents like
they've never been through them before. After saying that there
was no evidence that anybody else was involved, that there
was no investigation that should be launched. How do they
know that if they haven't been through all the evidence. Oh,
that's right, they don't know it. They're just saying it
because they don't want to deal with the issue. That's
what it really comes down to. They don't want to
deal with the whole entire shit show that comes along
with this topic because they under stand how damaging this
information is. Clayton said that the DOJ has released twelve thousand,
two hundred and eighty five documents totaling one hundred and
twenty five thousand, five hundred and seventy five pages related
to Epstein so far, meeting the public has seen less
than one percent of the department's holdings at this stage,
like for real paral, the law states December nineteenth, and
we only have one percent of the documents that the
law says we are privy to. How aren't all the
alarm bells ringing for everybody? And how come there is
no ramifications for the Department of Justice? And you know
what else? I find pretty humorous. Remember Congress had that
oversight committee about Epstein, and they were doing all their
depositions and they were calling people in. Notice, the only
two people they called in for depositions were a Costa
and Bar No, Indyke, no con No, Sarah Kellen, no,
Adrianna Ross, no, Leslie Groff, nobody. And that's what the
plan was with that Site committee to make this all
go away. They didn't want to release any documents, release anything,
so they were going to run interference for the Trump administration.
And if it wasn't for Thomas Massey, ro Conna, Marjorie
Taylor Green and Lauren Bolbert and everybody else who backed
the petition, we wouldn't even be in this position. They'd
still be running all kinds of interference and telling you
to get fucked. And even with this law in the
books now, they don't care. They're just doing whatever they
want because they know that there's no ramifications. Nobody's gonna
hold them responsible for the way they conduct themselves for
what they do. That's just not how it works. Unfortunately.
He explained that the DOJ has recently unearthed another million
documents that it had not previously factored into its calculations,
adding that although they appeared to be duplicates of files
already seen, they would nevertheless need to undergo a process
of processing and de duplication translation, We after a the
names of our friends and donors. That's what they mean,
because at this point, is there any doubt that that's
what they're doing. When we go through the documents, the
only redactions we're supposed to see are survivor names. But
every time you turn around, every time you look through
a document, it's littered with redactions of people's names that
shouldn't be redacted, including people that were working on the
case for the federal government. Why are their names hidden?
If you want true accountability, we have to know who
was involved, and that also means the men and women
on the ground that were conducting the investigation. We need
to know what they know right, What did they see,
what did they hear? What did they do? More than
four hundred DOJ attorneys and one hundred FBI analysts are
set to spend the next few weeks dedicating all or
a substantial portion of their workday to examining the files.
Clayton said. It was reported last week that the department
had put out a call for more help in reviewing
and making redactions to its more than five point two
million individual pages in the interest of safeguarding the sex offenders,
victims protecting national security and preventing ongoing investigations from being compromised.
I thought there were no investigations. What happened to all
of that? Wait, now that it's helpful for them, there's
an investigation that's ongoing that needs to be protected. And
as far as fucking national security, that's pretty weird considering
Jeffrey Epstein's only a loan predator according to the official narrative, Like,
they really think we're stupid, They really think people are
gonna buy this shit and just you know, not along
with it and be like, well, Kat tur thinks it's true.
I mean, that's the kind of environment we're in. And
then you have these pathetic streamers and these influencers who
have no soul or moral compass. They're willing to sell
out for the highest bidder. They don't give a fuck
what message they're sending as long as their engagement is
up and that ad revenue. That's all they care about.
Because anybody who's out here acting like this is no
big deal, like this is just something that's normal is
lying to you. There's nothing normal about this. And when
you have a law on the books that's passed by
Congress in an overwhelming fashion, by the way, and then
signed by the President. Where does the DOJ get off
put a stick in the spokes? They don't have that power,
and it's about time that the DOJ gets a reality check.
Clayton said the gradual release was necessary to prevent in
proper disclosures. He told Ingelmeyer that the review process involved
uploading documents to a data review platform, conducting a manual
search for victim information, redacting the documents, and a subsequent
review by his office for quality control. So every redaction
we see has been through redundancies that means they're breaking
the law multiple times, the people on the front line,
and then theirs who okay it by redacting names that
shouldn't be redacted. So once again I asked Congress, what
are you going to do about it? Are you just
going to sit there and complain and cry and do
stupid ass press conferences and make pretend you care, or
are you actually going to do something that has teeth.
The initial release of files last month brought complaints and
threats of legal action from lawmakers Thomas Massey and Roe Conna,
who had led the call to publish information, and from
Epstein's survivors still seeking justice, who said the treatment of
the material had been unacceptable. Well, yeah, I don't think
you need to be a survivor to see that or
think that this whole entire thing has been unacceptable. Imagine
it was your daughter who was abused by this man,
and then this was the treatment that she received in
the aftermath. How would you feel about that? I wonder
how Jay Clayton would feel. Among the information released thus
far have been previously unseen photographs of Epstein with his
former girlfriend and accomplice Glenn Maxwell. You mean fellow child
abuser by peteral serpent and all around scumbag Glenn Maxwell right,
Pictures of famous public figures like Bill Clinton, Andrew mount Batten, Winsor,
Michael Jackson and Sir mc jagger, as well as photocopies
of the disgraced financiers passports, and internal FBI emails discussing
aspects of his case. And those are the emails that
I'm talking about. All of the names of the people
that were involved in those email threads should be available
to us. What are you guys hiding? Being mentioned in
the file does not indicate wrongdoing. Democrats on the House
Oversight Committee have continued to complain about the delay, writing
on X Monday, the Epstein Files production we received from
the DOJ last month was both incomplete and overly redacted.
Entire pages blacked out with zero explanation, a clear obstruction
of justice for survivors and account of ability for co conspirators.
We won't stop until we get the truth, and that,
of course is the right mentality, because I know I've
said it a million times and I'll say it a
million more. They want you to stop paying attention. They
want you to focus elsewhere, and that's why they're slow
dripping this. In another post, the group added there's a
lot going on in the world that's important, and that
includes our work on the Epstein Files. We won't forget
and we won't be distracted. California Representative Robert Garcia also
appeared on MS Now Monday and relayed the same message
the Epstein Files or at the center of Trump's corruption
at the DOJ. The American public wants the truth and
we won't stop fighting until we get justice for the survivors.
And I get the tough talk right, great, but how
about some action. It's one thing to talk tough and
act like you know you're gonna do something about it,
and it's a whole last other thing to actually do it.
End up to now, all they've done is talk. So
the question is when are they gonna stop talking about
oversight and actually start engaging in it. All of the
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