Do missing Epstein documents show Trump is covering up sexual assault? It sure looks like it |
Danielle Bensky, a Jeffrey Epstein survivor, wears a butterfly pin and a “release the files” pin during an event hosted by the Democratic Women’s Caucus with Epstein survivors before President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address on Tuesday. The Justice Department appears to have failed to release materials alleging that Trump and disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted a woman when she was a minor.
A year into Donald Trump’s second term as president, there have been numerous instances of him leveraging his powers over law enforcement for personal gain.
The Justice Department launched politically vindictive prosecutions of critics and adversaries, including former FBI Director Jim Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James; it has undertaken investigations into Democratic lawmakers and the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (who refused to lower interest rates as the president demanded); the department tried to secure indictments of Democratic lawmakers who released videos telling military officers they have an obligation to follow the law and to decline to follow illegal orders; it also ended all of the criminal cases it had initiated against Trump; the list goes on.
Even with that litany of examples, the latest revelation is still jaw-dropping.
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Multiple outlets and Democratic lawmakers have reported that the Department of Justice failed to release materials in Epstein files that documented FBI interviews with a female witness who alleged that Trump and disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted her when she was a........