Gee, You Mean That They Lied?

During the campaign, Trump promised to release the files related to the case of Trump buddy Jeffrey Epstein.

Today, US Attorney General Pam Bondi released the files of the jet setting pedophile to a carefully curated selection of conservative influences, and most interesting among the revelations are:

• You thought that they would reveal information about a notorious long time Trump associate?  Psyche.
• Nope, nothing here.
• Yeah, suck on this MAGAt losers. 

So, yes, this is not a release of anything:

For days, Attorney General Pam Bondi had talked about releasing the “Epstein files,” supposedly secret documents the federal government has on some of the powerful men who were in the orbit of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

But the roughly 200 pages of documents that Ms. Bondi released on Thursday contained little new information pointing to wrongdoing by anyone other than Mr. Epstein, a registered sex offender who died in jail. The document dump largely consisted of flight logs for Mr. Epstein’s planes — long ago made public — and contact information for hundreds of associates, along with brief descriptions of items found at his residences.

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On Thursday afternoon, Ms. Bondi and Kash Patel, the director of the F.B.I., offered a sneak preview of the documents to several conservative influencers, some of whom emerged from the West Wing waving chunky white binders with the label “The Epstein Files: Phase I.” One of them later called it an “interesting souvenir.”

This is an amazing level from a conservative influences. 

But by midafternoon, the Justice Department had not posted the contents. And Ms. Bondi was drawing criticism on social media from those who had taken her at her word the night before. The conservative personality Glenn Beck posted on X: “The Epstein files are a total joke,” and asked, “Who is subverting POTUS?”

F%$# me.  I agree (in part) with Glenn f%$#ing Beck.

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Still, some Republicans in Congress took to X to voice displeasure with the information released by Ms. Bondi.

“THIS IS NOT WHAT WE OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ASKED FOR and a complete disappointment. GET US THE INFORMATION WE ASKED FOR!” wrote Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida.

F%$# me.  I agree (in part) with Representative Anna f%$#ing Paulina Luna of Florida

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Mr. Epstein is believed to have sexually abused more than 200 teenage girls and young women over three decades. During that time, he amassed a fortune worth $600 million and befriended some of the most powerful and famous people in the world.

Included in the documents, which were finally posted on Thursday night, was an entirely redacted list of 254 people described as masseuses.

(emphasis mine)

Yeah, nothing corrupt here.