Chapter 1: What dark past of Donald Trump is being revealed?
Donald Trump is panicking as his dark past continues to surface. Donald Trump thinks that if he just goes radio silent, if Lara Trump, his daughter-in-law starts posting photos of Donald Trump with their granddaughter,
on the golf course, or if Donald Trump just starts posting about invading Greenland and now he's going back to talking about invading Canada, maybe we'll all just forget about Donald Trump's coverup of the Epstein files. We are not forgetting. Let's be crystal clear.
Now, one of the things that we're learning as well is that the Trump regime is blaming the Epstein files on why their Department of Justice is not prepared in numerous other federal criminal cases.
Chapter 2: How is Trump's silence affecting public perception?
including the Maduro case, or including a case involving a major sex trafficking charge of these Florida real estate brothers that are set to, are supposed to go to trial soon. And the DOJ in New York, Southern District of New York is one of the main hubs where The Epstein files are supposed to be being reviewed at. They claim there's 200 lawyers who are now reviewing it.
The DOJ goes to the federal judge overseeing the Maduro case and the federal judge overseeing this sex trafficking trial that's about to take place. And the DOJ saying, we're not prepared. All of our lawyers are working on reviewing the Epstein files. So judge, we can't handle these trials at the DOJ. and the federal judge is like, you're the federal prosecutorial office, you're the SDNY.
You don't have the resources to be able to handle other cases because everyone's working on the Epstein files and the review. Well, what happened to the thousand FBI agents who were purportedly reviewing the Epstein files back in late February and March. I mean, do we all remember back in February when there was the DOJ posted, phase one is done.
Attorney General Pam Bondi releases first phase of declassified Epstein files. February 27th, 2025. Today, Attorney General Bondi, in conjunction with the FBI, declassified and publicly released files relating to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his sexual exploitation of over 250 underage girls. was dated February 27, 2005. This is what Bondi said then.
The DOJ is following through on Trump's commitment to transparency and lifting the veil on the disgusting actions of Epstein and his co-conspirators. The first phase of files released today sheds light on Epstein's extensive network and begins to provide the public with long-overdue accountability.
Then Kash Patel said, the FBI is entering a new era, one that will be defined by integrity, accountability, and the unwavering pursuit of justice. Hat tip, by the way, to Bloomberg, their great reporter Jason Leopold.
Remember, he did public records requests, FOIA requests, Freedom of Information Act requests, where he identified that there were 1,934 FBI agents and other lawyers who were working on the review from March to May of 2025, maybe even June. 1,000 people were working on the Epstein files from that period, March, April, May, June. So what, four or five months? What were they doing?
What were those individuals doing then for those months? Remember, they billed tens of thousands of overtime hours that the taxpayers had to pay for. So what were they doing now that now they claim the DOJ is unprepared for all of these cases? A few data points I wanna bring out.
We reported over the weekend, and Midas Touch was the first to get this scoop, that the DOJ is now fighting Thomas Massey and Ro Khanna's efforts to appoint an independent monitor.
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Chapter 3: What role do the Epstein files play in current legal cases?
Remember how Massey and Khanna Requested that Judge Engelmeyer, the federal judge in the Ghislaine Maxwell criminal case, appoint an independent monitor or special master in order to ensure there was an independent process for releasing the Epstein files because Massey and Khanna argued that the DOJ cannot be trusted at all.
Well, on Friday night, late filing, last Friday, the DOJ said Massey and Khanna do not have standing to even make this request. Even though they weren't saying they're parties, they're saying they're amici. They filed an amicus brief. They're making a recommendation.
to the court okay and then they and then the doj argued that the epstein transparency act provides no private cause of action so that no court at all can enforce the epstein transparency act that no courts have any right at all So you're saying that the Epstein Transparency Act does not allow transparency. That's what the Trump regime argued to Judge Engelmeyer on Friday.
Massey and Khanna are going to be responding on Tuesday is the deadline for their response. And we'll keep you posted on what they say. But that's the Trump's argument. No court can enforce the Epstein Transparency Act because Congress This is what the DOJ argues. Congress did not evince any intent to allow an enforcement mechanism. Just think about that's what the DOJ's arguing.
So they did that. But now here's what we're learning as well as the Trump regime has gone silent. This is being reported from the New York Times. The day after Nicolas Maduro, the ousted Venezuelan president, was arraigned in federal court, the prosecutors handling his case faced a daunting task. Their challenge had nothing to do with narco-terrorism charges.
It said that their work had been diverted to apparently the Epstein file document review. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a letter that nearly two-thirds of the 200 lawyers in that office, the Southern District of New York, were spending all or most of their workday reviewing the Epstein files.
Then what were they doing February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November? What were they doing all of those months when they were were they not working on those months? It goes on to talk about how at least five prosecutors are assigned to the case. And at the arraignment, the judge set the next hearing for March 17th.
presumably leaving the lawyer some time to work on the Epstein documents. But the diversion of resources seems to be affecting other cases. This week, on the eve of a high-profile sex trafficking trial involving two celebrity real estate brokers and their brothers, a defense lawyer complained that the government
had not yet finished reviewing seized evidence for materials that had to be turned over to the defendants. They have half of the U.S. Attorney's Office on the Epstein files, the lawyer, Tenny Garrigo, said. We have a trial starting next week, Your Honor.
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Chapter 4: Why is the DOJ struggling with the Epstein file review?
The Department of Justice has more than 200 lawyers working around the clock reviewing each individual file to release. Well, then why aren't you doing what's called rolling dot? First off, do you see how they blame the judges? It's not the judge's fault. It's the Trump regime's fault. Why would it be the judge? The judges under seal orders have nothing to do with this.
So if I were a judge in the Southern District of New York, I'd be pissed. The Trump regime's blaming you for their own crimes. And that's a big deal right there. And then also, if you had 200 lawyers working around the clock A few million documents to review, that may sound like a lot, but it's actually not a lot.
I mean, when I was practicing, I would handle document reviews of five, 10, 15 million, you know, maybe more pages. I'd work with teams of five to six associates. We'd go through all the documents. It would take 60 days, 75 days, but we'd get it done. 60 to 75 days, that's it. That's all it would take. Every day you work 15 hour days.
You can go through, you know, individually a few thousand documents a day. Then you would have, you know, five people doing it. So just do the math. Maybe you review 10, 15,000 documents a day, 100,000 documents a week, two weeks, three weeks. You know, I mean, it adds up, but you know, if I had 200 lawyers working with me,
on something, on a document review, this would be done in a moment, in a second. And then you can do what's called a rolling production. Every 10,000, upload. Every 10,000, upload. Every 10,000, upload the documents. Easy. It's simple to do that. You don't have to wait until you get a million, then do a document up. Just do a rolling production. Why is that so difficult?
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