CNN’s Tapper: There Is A Trove Of Epstein Info Trump Isn’t Sharing — “You, The Public, Are Being Played For Fools”
CNN’s Jake Tapper calls on the president to release all the information the federal government has about Jeffrey Epstein:
JAKE TAPPER, CNN: So what’s really going on here? I mean, what’s really going on? Well, experts such as our friend Julie Brown from The Miami Herald, who’s been covering Epstein for years, say that the notion of Epstein having an easy-to-access client list is likely a red herring. And that’s what the Trump administration is relying on-that there likely isn’t a list, per se. But they are also now relying on the fact that because it’s MAGA influencers who often put forward so many falsehoods, legacy news media won’t push the point that while there might not be a list, there are certainly files that can be released. There’s a trove of information that the Trump administration is right now refusing to share-information that could well point to the powerful folks who availed themselves of the sex trafficking victims of Jeffrey Epstein. If you go, for example, to the FBI vault online, you can see that there are 22 files containing thousands of pages. Most of them are heavily redacted. Now, sure. Of course. Redact the names and identifying characteristics of the victims. But why not make the victim and witness testimonies public? As Julie Brown points out, there’s still so much we don’t know from the investigations by U.S. Attorneys in Miami and in New York. Witness interviews in the U.S. Virgin Islands and New Mexico. Brown writes that there’s still more evidence that hasn’t been published, including, quote, Epstein kept video cameras in most of his residences, and Epstein’s autopsy-nor the report of the investigation into his death-has ever been made public. So while there may not be an official client list to be released, as the administration is now saying, there’s a lot of extra information that is not being made public-despite Trump’s Justice Department basically now saying case closed. This isn’t going to go away. The public-you-you’re being played for fools here.
