An Open Letter To Epstein Truthers

Your instincts were on point. But Trump was a snake before you took him in…

If nothing else, recent developments in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal have revealed a lot about prominent people who (until a few days ago) claimed to care about the truth of the matter.

They’ve had to choose between fidelity to the facts and fealty to Donald Trump, and the ones who’ve chosen Trump—from FBI Director Kash Patel to grifting stooges like Charlie Kirk—revealed repugnant moral priorities. On a generous read, they decided they care more about preserving Republican power than about justice for pedophiles. That would not be without precedent. An overlapping group of Republicans rallied to endorse Roy Moore in a 2017 special Senate election, even after his history of grooming and sexually assaulting teenage girls came to light.

Alternatively, they never cared about the facts of the Epstein matter at all, and only pretended they did because they thought it might help them smear Democrats. Now that the scandal implicates Trump, they’re behaving exactly like the cover-up artists they promised to root out.

Shame on them. But that shame doesn’t attach to every American who believed them. Millions of people comprise what you might call the Epstein-truth movement and they aren’t all opportunistic Trump loyalists like Kirk. Not even close. The movement is too big for things to be that clean cut.

So this is my earnest and open appeal to actual Epstein truthers. If over the past months or years you’ve become convinced that the federal government buried secrets about Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation to protect elites, ask yourself: Did you believe that because you don’t trust the government, or because the case set the stage for a climactic moment when Trump might swoop in and expose the truth? Did you latch on to the Epstein scandal because you care about bringing predators to justice, or because it helped you bludgeon political enemies, whether they were friends with Epstein or not?

If the answer is the former, read on. We have more in common than you think.

Then consider this whistleblower allegation, first brought to light by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), suggesting Trump’s DOJ leadership has tried to identify and segregate contents of the Epstein files that pertain to Trump himself.

According to information my office received, you then pressured the FBI to put approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division (IMD), including the Record/Information Dissemination Section (RIDS), which handles all requests submitted by the public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act, on 24-hour shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records in order to produce more documents that could then be released on an arbitrarily short deadline. This effort, which reportedly took place from March 14 through the end of March, was haphazardly supplemented by hundreds of FBI New York Field Office personnel, many of whom lacked the expertise to identify statutorily protected information regarding child victims and child witnesses or properly handle FOIA requests. My office was told that these personnel were instructed to “flag” any records in which President Trump was mentioned. Emphasis added.

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