A staffer in the Justice Department said in a secretly recorded video that the department would redact any Republican names from its investigative files on the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
The administration has been funneling the Epstein files to Capitol Hill in a supposed show of transparency, but only liberals’ names will remain visible, the staffer said.
“If they’re released in any way, it’s going to be very redacted. They’ll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal Democratic people in those files,” Joseph Schnitt, acting deputy chief of the DOJ’s Office of Enforcement Operations, says in the video.
Schnitt apparently thought he was speaking to someone he’d met through a dating app, but he was actually talking to an undercover operative for the right-wing entrepreneur James O’Keefe.
James O’Keefe? The Project Veritas guy is exposing a Trump administration official lying about the Epstein files?
O’Keefe tweeted that the thinks the guy is probably a Democrat, which makes no sense since the DOJ actually defended him. But he added:
“Why is there suddenly this internal conflict within the same administration that aggressively campaigned in 2024 to fully release the Epstein files to the American public?” he said. “What new revelations did the DOJ and FBI make now say that an incriminating client list does not exist?”
MAGA influencers are hooked on this story and they don’t want to let it go. O’Keefe was kicked out of Project Veritas for malfeasance and is now doing this stuff on his own and needs to stay relevant. But it isn’t just him. How do we explain Marjorie Taylor Green defying Trump and saying she’ll go on the floor of the House and read off the names of the men who trafficked the women? It’s just weird.
If the files really were all Democrats you can bet Trump and the entire GOP would be champing at the bit to release the whole thing. The fact that it’s just Democrats and MAGA true believers who are still pushing it makes this whole thing very disorienting.