Trump, Epstein, and Political Discourse

OA1176 - Six years after his death in a filthy Manhattan jail cell, Jeffrey Epstein’s disgusting ghost is now haunting Donald Trump--his former “best friend” of more than a decade. What are the “Epstein files” and why has the demand to see them turned MAGA world against itself now?  We go beyond the headlines to explain how one of the most notorious criminals  in recent American history has become this week’s top legal story so long after his death, and why DOJ’s recent efforts to cover for Trump should constitute a ten-alarm scandal. We then review Trump’s attempt to sue the Wall Street Journal for revealing his surprisingly artistic birthday wishes to his “pal,” why his administration is so intent on unsealing grand jury records which DOJ knows can’t be released, how this whole mess has reached the point that the Supreme Court might actually have a good legal reason to reverse Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction (!), and why Trump might be about to pardon Maxwell even if it doesn’t. Also discussed: the history of Epstein’s astonishing 2007 non-prosecution agreement and its legacy, the real “Epstein files” that no one has been talking about, and how the President of France might be about to righteously bankrupt MAGA mouthpiece Candace Owens. 

• Complaint in Trump v. Wall Street Journal (filed 7/18/25)

• Undated July 2025 FBI memo summarizing recent Epstein file review 

• Judge Robin Rosenberg’s order denying DOJ motion to unseal Epstein grand jury records in the Southern District of Florida (7/23/25)

• Jeffrey Epstein’s Non-Prosecution Agreement (signed 9/24/2007)

• Ghislaine Maxwell’s petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court (filed 4/10/25)

• Complaint in Macron v. Owens (filed 7/23/25)

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