Epstein File Release and the Fake News Media

DOJ Debunks “Unfounded and False” Claims About Trump in Latest Epstein File Release

Last month, President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, requiring the Department of Justice to release all unclassified materials related to the case.

The DOJ began publishing tens of thousands of pages last Friday, and—right on cue—critics of the president could hardly contain their excitement. After years of innuendo and speculation, they believed the smoking gun had finally arrived. Flight records showed Trump traveled on Epstein’s private jet at least eight times in the 1990s. A handwritten letter allegedly from Epstein made crude references to “our president.” Social media erupted. The narrative practically wrote itself.

Then the Justice Department did something unexpected—it issued a statement alongside the very documents it was releasing.

From the Department of Justice:
Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.
Awkward.

And that letter to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar that had rocketed across social media? The FBI confirmed it was fake. The handwriting didn’t match Epstein’s. The envelope was postmarked from Virginia—not New York where Epstein was imprisoned—three days after the man was already dead. Prison officials had flagged it as suspicious at the time.

But none of that stopped it from being shared thousands of times before the truth caught up. Funny how that works. As for those flight records everyone got so excited about, they confirm what Trump has acknowledged for years—that he knew Epstein socially in the 1990s before their falling out around 2004.

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