Now it is a quagmire, a bottom swamp.
People were calling for the release of the Epstein File and Congress passed a law release them by the 19th!
But as usual Trump & Company ignores the laws... trying to wiggle out of the release! Oh we are going to drag them out for weeks! Um... the law said all! Not dribbling them out!
Khanna and Massie's remarks came after Sen. Tim Kaine said that Congress has other mechanisms to force the release of additional Epstein files.
NBC News
Dec. 21, 2025
By Alexandra Marquez
Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky., on Sunday said they are committed to holding Justice Department officials accountable for their failure to release all eligible Epstein files by Friday’s deadline, saying they're speaking with members of Congress about holding Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt.
"The quickest way, and I think most expeditious way, to get justice for these victims, is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi," Massie told CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday when asked about how Congress can force the Justice Department to release the rest of the files they have related to Jeffrey Epstein.
To say that many in Congress are pissed is an understatement!
On Friday, the department released thousands of files, but not all the documents Khanna and Massie expected, leading to widespread condemnation of the Justice Department on both sides of the aisle.
Khanna told CNN on Friday that, “Congress is talking about possible impeachment. They’re talking about inherent contempt for the attorney general or deputy attorney general."
The California congressman added, “Any Justice Department official who has obstructed justice could face prosecution in this administration or a future administration."
But it goes even deeper then not releasing all of the files.
A lot of information that would help the public understand the case is still under wraps.
Politico
The Justice Department’s long-awaited release Friday of documents related to the federal government’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein was perhaps most notable for what it lacked.
Financial records, internal memos from prosecutors who investigated Epstein’s alleged sex-trafficking ring, key material obtained from the searches of Epstein’s palatial homes — none of it figured prominently in the documents released Friday.
Interested in records that would help explain how Epstein grew so wealthy? None to be found.
Want to read emails from federal prosecutors deciding who to charge — and, equally importantly, who not to charge — during their 2019 investigation? You’re out of luck.
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The department was obligated by law to release the entire universe of documents related to Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, and Maxwell, who was convicted of aiding and participating in his sex-trafficking ring, by Friday. The tranche made public represented only a fraction of the total material, which the government has said exceeds 300 gigabytes worth of data and physical evidence.
Some estimate are that only ten percent of the files were released! And even more disturbing are the missing photos!
AP News
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and DAVID B. CARUSO
Dec 20, 2025
At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public.
The missing files, which were available Friday and no longer accessible by Saturday, included images of paintings depicting nude women, and one showing a series of photographs along a credenza and in drawers. In that image, inside a drawer among other photos, was a photograph of Trump, alongside Epstein, Melania Trump and Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Justice Department didn’t answer questions Saturday about why the files disappeared but said in a post on X that “photos and other materials will continue being reviewed and redacted consistent with the law in an abundance of caution as we receive additional information.”
Trump & Company has really pissed off both sides of Congress buy not releasing all of the files and photos. I don't think that they could have bungled it even more then they did.
They made the Department of Justice a Trump stooge proving that they are no longer an independent and separate from the White House.
Despite a Friday deadline set by Congress to make everything public, the Justice Department said it plans to release records on a rolling basis. It blamed the delay on the time-consuming process of obscuring survivors’ names and other identifying information. The department has not given any notice when more records might arrive.
You want to be that they will drag this out for as long as the can... just dribbled and drabs!
Then we have Trump & Family milking the U.S. for all it is worth!
CNN
By Matt Egan
Dec 22, 2025
The Trump business empire’s expansion into nuclear fusion is alarming ethics experts, who warn it poses glaring conflicts of interest and risks the federal government playing favorites in what could be the holy grail of clean energy.
Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) shocked Wall Street last week by arranging a $6 billion marriage with TAE Technologies, a Google-backed company at the leading edge of fusion energy.
The merger means that soon, President Donald Trump will simultaneously have a major financial interest in a company whose fortunes will be influenced by the actions of a government that Trump himself presides over.
Nuclear fusion companies are regulated by the federal government and will likely need Uncle Sam’s deep research and even deeper pockets to become commercially viable. The merger needs to be approved by federal regulators – some of whom were nominated by Trump.
“There is a clear conflict of interest here,” Richard Painter, the top ethics official under former President George W. Bush, told CNN in a phone interview. “Every other president since the Civil War has divested from business interests that would conflict with official duties. President Trump has done the opposite.”
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For instance, he said the secretary of energy would have to recuse him or herself from any matter linked to fusion if they simultaneously had a significant stake in a fusion company.
“It’s only legal because the criminal conflict of interest statute does not apply to the president,” Painter said, adding that while it is “technically legal” he doesn’t believe presidents should be excluded from the law.
Of course Congress is not going to do a darn thing! They are afraid of the wrath of Trump.
Rep. Don Beyer, a Democrat from Virginia who co-chairs the House Fusion Energy Caucus, told CNN in a phone interview that he was “stunned” by the Trump Media deal.
“I hate the thought of a president who puts his name on the Kennedy Center putting his foot on the scale of who the winners and losers are in fusion energy,” Beyer said.
Beyer said he has been “encouraged” by the Energy Department’s support for fusion energy and is pleased to have a president supportive of the industry.
The Trumps and the cronies all have a piece of the pie while the American people get the shaft.
