Epstein Files Have Been Released, And Democrats Won’t Like These Photos

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Epstein Files Have Been Released, And Democrats Won’t Like These Photos

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/12/19/epstein-files-released-and-democrats-wont-like-these-photos-n4947310

The massive tranche of Jeffrey Epstein documents released Friday runs hundreds of thousands of pages. It includes the names of more than a dozen politically exposed figures and government officials, according to sources familiar with the material.

In a letter to Congress exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department’s exhaustive review identified more than 1,200 victims and family members. Blanche outlined how the DOJ sifted through the files and weighed what could responsibly be made public as part of the release process.
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"We write to notify you that today the Department of Justice is producing hundreds of thousands of pages of responsive materials in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act," Blanche wrote.

"Under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi, this unprecedented disclosure highlights our commitment to following the law, being transparent, and protecting victims," Blanche continued, noting that the production of documents comes within the 30 days required under the law signed by the president. ...

Photos featuring one prominent individual in the latest release have already been circulating on social media, and it’s not President Donald Trump. It’s former President Bill Clinton. Photos show Clinton swimming with Ghislaine Maxwell and another female whose identity has been redacted, suggesting that she is a victim and/or a minor.
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President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November, forcing the government to make public any unclassified records connected to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell within 30 days.

The legislation allows the Justice Department to withhold or redact material that could expose victims or compromise ongoing investigations, including cases like the New York probe recently opened by Attorney General Pam Bondi into Epstein’s links to Democrats. It also authorized the DOJ to keep information confidential if its disclosure would threaten national security or foreign policy interests.

[SVPete]

The Democrats Need to Start Panicking About the Epstein Files

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/12/22/the-democrats-need-to-start-panicking-about-the-epstein-files-n4947385

It looks like Democrats realize that the unfolding Epstein files saga is fast becoming a political nightmare — for them. For months now, they’ve been trying to turn the Epstein files into a political cudgel against Trump, but each release has been more problematic for the Democrat Party—the latest release being no exception. Newly released photos show former President Bill Clinton not only chummy with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, but also lounging in a hot tub and swimming in a pool with apparent victims.

To say it wasn’t a good look for the party is an understatement, and I think the party is panicking. Sen. Tim Kaine voiced that panic on Meet the Press on Sunday. When the conversation turned to the recently released batch of Epstein materials, Kaine, who was Hillary Clinton’s running mate in 2016, didn’t hold back.

Obviously, Kaine spent the first half of the interview blaming Donald Trump for not releasing enough documents when he had the chance. He recounted Trump’s “much-touted event” with Pam Bondi at the White House earlier this year, where he promised transparency on the Epstein materials. But Kaine fumed over how the Justice Department only released a “fraction of what’s available” and even “pulled material back” after publishing it, which has become the left’s newest favorite conspiracy theory, and which has already been addressed by the Trump administration.

But then Kristen Welker turned up the pressure with the one question I’m sure Democrats were hoping she wouldn’t ask.

“Former President Bill Clinton is featured prominently in the first batch,” she said, before noting that “simply being in the Epstein Files doesn’t imply any criminal wrongdoing.” Still, she asked the obvious: Shouldn’t Clinton explain himself?

The release of the Epstein files poses at least three big problems for the Dems:

1. The files have been released; partisan cudgel lost;

2. The large number of redactions and partially-obscured demonstrate why the release was delayed; the continual cycling of pulling back photos to protect victims and innocents by partially obscuring photos and then re-releasing them will be an ongoing reminder of why the release was delayed and the difficulty of vetting documents and photos to protect victims and innocents (see the news story in this thread's OP);

3. Among the noteworthies exposed as having ongoing personal and business relationships with Epstein after his pandering of under-age girls became known publicly are Dems and Progs that Dem leaders do not want to hypo-vehiculate (as should happen, regardless of party!).