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Chapter 1: What claims are made about the missing Epstein files?
Don't fall for the Trump regime's smoke and mirrors and sleight of hand when they claim they've produced all of the Epstein files on Friday.
Sure, they produced about 3 million documents, but 3 million more documents are still missing, are still being concealed, and it's my view that the Trump regime is withholding those 3 million documents, which I think are the most significant and damning documents
They're withholding them, in my view, on the basis of phony privilege claims, making claims of things called deliberative process privilege, attorney-client privilege, work product privilege, executive privilege. In a previous filing before two federal judges
Earlier this week, Federal Judge Engelmeyer and Federal Judge Berman, Trump's DOJ previewed that they would be withholding documents and records.
They stated that at some later date, they didn't give the date at the time, they said they would be producing the Epstein files and records, but they said, pursuant to the Epstein Transparency Act, we will be withholding certain documents on the basis of privilege claims. Now, the Epstein Transparency Act does not
permit the Trump DOJ to withhold documents and evidence on the basis of privilege claims. The Epstein Transparency Act simply says you have to produce every document in the Epstein files, but you can do redactions of victims' and survivors' names, identities, faces, photos, and personal identifying information to prevent victims and survivors from being retraumatized.
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Chapter 2: How does the Epstein Transparency Act affect document production?
But the Epstein Transparency Act doesn't say you can withhold documents on the basis of privilege. Further, the Epstein Transparency Act says that the Trump DOJ needed to produce a report about redactions that were made and what was being withheld with specificity 15 days after December 19th,
December 19th was the date under the Epstein Transparency Act where all of the documents were supposed to be turned over. So far, the Trump DOJ on Friday only produced 3 million documents. They claim that there were 6 million documents they collected, and they just claim the other 3 million documents don't meet the criteria of the Epstein Transparency Act.
Chapter 3: What significant documents are reported missing from the files?
What does that mean it does not meet the criteria? If you read the filing they made earlier this week, they talk about privilege claims. And you see my view, having reviewed all three million documents on Friday, there were significant documents missing. The indictment of Epstein, in my view, I didn't see it, that was missing. Important victim and survivor statements to the FBI, that was missing.
Lots of memos, internal memos from the United States attorneys in the Southern District of New York and the Southern District of Florida were missing. Internal FBI memos were missing. Transcriptions of phone calls, transcriptions of videos, all of that was missing from the three million documents that were produced.
Now, there were some bombshells in the three million documents that were produced. So you may be asking, well, Ben,
Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Trump DOJ's document release strategy?
What kind of coverup is it if they release some pretty damaging documents, right? There were some memos and some documents that describe real disgusting conduct, disgusting conduct, grotesque conduct of people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the owner of the giant Steve Tisch. Bill Gates, other people. I mean, there was some really horrific conduct that was being, Howard Lutnick.
Well, one of the things that I learned as a litigator is that when we were fighting against really bad defendants, criminal defendants, and just horrible people, at first they would try to obstruct and not turn over documents and records. Then when you compelled them to turn it over, their next step was to kind of build a moat around the real damning documents, the real smoking guns.
So what they would do is they would do a document dump of millions of documents and they would put in there some documents that were damaging to themselves or to their client so that you would say, well, if they turned over these documents, then that's probably it. but that was part of their strategy to get you to look away from the other documents that were still being hidden and concealed.
And one of the ways as a litigator I would be able to determine what else was being hidden and concealed is I would say, were there any third parties that turned over documents that looked different
Chapter 5: What controversial figures are mentioned in relation to the Epstein case?
or are additive to what was produced. And if there was, I would say that was one of the hints that there were documents that were missing. So here, with the Epstein files produced by the DOJ, to me it's notable that the Epstein estate produced all of these documents and records that had lots of photographs on it. Remember all the photos that they had?
with Trump on these photos and other people, those real creepy and grotesque photos. Why is it that in the recent DOJ production, those photos and documents are missing? Why are some of the other Epstein estate documents missing? And so when you compare them, it's clear that there's major documents missing. And as I noted,
Epstein indictment stuff is missing, witness statements missing, FBI memos, DOJ memos that are missing, 302 statements, which is FBI victim statements that are missing.
Chapter 6: How does Congressman Dan Goldman assess the DOJ's actions?
So I think we need to look for that. I wanna show you more of the parameters of the cover up here. And remember right now, when people say, oh, well, the Trump DOJ produced the files on Friday, remind them, no, there's three to five million records that are still missing, at least in my opinion.
Well, here was Donald Trump's Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch at a press conference on Friday, and here he admits that the DOJ collected six million pages of documents, but they're only releasing three million. Listen to what he says here, play this clip.
He erred on the side of overcollection of materials from various sources to best ensure maximum transparency and compliance, which necessarily means that the number of responsive pages is significantly smaller than the total number of pages initially collected. That's why I mentioned a moment ago, we're releasing more than 3 million pages today and not the 6 million pages that we collected.
And then when Todd Blanch was asked about what communications he's had with the White House regarding the release of these files, look how flustered he gets and he starts stuttering. And you can see that he's obviously lying right here.
Chapter 7: What are the concerns regarding redactions in the released documents?
Let's play this clip.
On Epstein, sir, if I may just ask one on that, please. You mentioned a letter to Congress. How and to whom did you notify the White House about the production that you're announcing today before you came out and spoke to us?
How did I do what?
No.
by the White House? What was your interface with the White House? You said there's a letter to Congress. Who did you update at the White House about this?
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Chapter 8: What actions are being proposed to hold the DOJ accountable?
Well, I don't know. I don't really understand the question. You mean, who did I update?
Did you provide them an explanation of what today's release would be?
Look, my team has certain communications with the White House. Let me just be clear. They had nothing to do with this review. They had no oversight over this review. They did not tell this department how to do our review, what to look for, what to redact, what to not redact. They absolutely knew that I was doing this press conference today and that we were releasing the materials today.
But there's not... There's no oversight by the White House into the process that we've undertaken over the past 60 days.
I also found it notable that Attorney General Pam Bondi was not there at that press conference and that Todd Blanch was not flanked by any other United States attorneys or FBI's. You have Blanch, the same guy who interviewed Delaine Maxwell, right, where she lied through her teeth. Blanch, who was Donald Trump's criminal defense lawyer before becoming the number two at the DOJ. He's Trump's
personal criminal defense lawyer was the only person there. How odd is that? Wouldn't, in normal circumstances, you'd have all these deputies and assistant United States attorneys, and wouldn't you be flanked by the FBI and other people if you were doing such a courageous thing? The fact that people weren't there is also telling me that there's a massive coverup taking place. And remember,
as i mentioned there's this document january 27 2026 that letter by the doj to berman and engelmeyer two federal judges in the southern district of new york telling them that there are documents that are being withheld on the grounds of privilege and that that's one of the reasons why some documents
are not being turned over, and it specifically says documents are not being turned over for privilege and privacy concerns. I want you to listen to the lawyer for Epstein survivors talking about how sloppy this document production has been. Play this clip.
You know, it's consistent with what we've been seeing from the Department of Justice for quite some time now, and I've sort of called this, it's like an incompetent cover-up. A, it's clear they're trying to cover up documents, they're trying to withhold documents, they're trying to keep things from the public.
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