With the half-release of the Epstein files after many months of back and forth between the Donald Trump administration and Congress – the former dragging its feet while the latter demanded transparency – we’re now faced with a particular brand of audacity that only Washington can produce, the kind where the government claims to be protecting the people, and the people are very much begging them to stop helping.
The Department of Justice finally released thousands of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein last Friday, technically sort of fulfilling the requirements of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Congress passed last month with overwhelming bipartisan support.
