Why Donald Trump Won’t Release the Epstein Files
His fear: what’s in the files is worse than the cover‑up.
MAGA world and the Republican Party are in a full-blown meltdown over these Epstein emails that implicate Donald Trump (and many others) in these crimes. And I want to take a moment to set aside the morality of what’s unfolding and focus purely on the politics—because understanding the White House’s moves right now depends on this.
First off—and I said this yesterday while debating Alan Dershowitz on Piers Morgan (yes, that actually happened)—Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, and the rest of them have made a very deliberate call: the chaos and speculation around the Epstein files and Trump’s ties to Epstein are better for them politically than the truth. They’d rather let us spiral in uncertainty about what might be in those files than just release them and deal with the consequences.
And I suspect that’s because those files might contain images or videos—maybe of Trump doing something very, very wrong. I don’t know for sure. He may or may not be guilty of abusing women alongside Epstein, but he’s absolutely guilty of something. And based on how they’re all acting, they look guilty as hell.
At a minimum, the range of what could be in there runs from Trump knowing about Epstein’s crimes and doing nothing—now covering it up for himself and his rich, powerful friends—all the way to Trump actively participating. And they’ve clearly calculated that politically. Because for them, endless speculation is better than cold, hard facts. They’re letting Democrats and the media drip this stuff out. They’re letting Twitter and TikTok fill in the blanks. They’re sending out MAGA influencers with binders and memes to run interference while they stall and spin.
Politically? This is terrible for Trump on every level.
Now to be clear—I don’t think the Epstein scandal is going to be the one thing that takes him down. This isn’t some new liberal conspiracy designed to be the silver bullet. I don’t think there is a single silver bullet—except maybe the economy. That’s the real killer. Affordability. Trump’s total refusal to acknowledge how bad things are for working Americans. His inability to deliver anything. The flailing panic is visible.
But the Epstein story? It screws them in three distinct ways.
It totally distracts from what they want to talk about—his so-called foreign policy “wins,” the economy, that ugly-ass change he’s making to the White House, whatever. Instead, they’re stuck in a swamp of speculation and damage control.
It energizes Democrats. We want the truth. We want to know what Trump did. What Bannon did. If Elon Musk was on that plane. Why Peter Thiel was hanging out with Epstein—which, by the way, is confirmed in these emails. We want answers. And at a time when the Democratic Party is still reeling from last year’s losses, this gives us a rallying point.
It fractures the Republican base. When your movement is built on conspiracy theories—and you promise to “expose the pedos” and “drain the swamp”—but then cover it all up, your base turns on you. And they should. These people were misled. They believed QAnon nonsense about Hillary running a child sex ring out of a pizza shop. They were wrong about that—but they weren’t wrong that sex trafficking is real. Epstein proves that. Diddy proves that. And Trump? He’s failed on both fronts. He’s blocking the Epstein files. He’s in them. And now he’s talking about commuting Diddy’s sentence. It’s a perfect storm of hypocrisy.
Yesterday on Piers Morgan, I debated Eric Bolling from Fox News. He asked, “Well, Mike, if there’s a smoking gun, why hasn’t the Biden administration released it?”
Here’s the answer: Because it’s not just Trump. These files likely implicate high-profile people from both parties. Donors. Celebrities. Power players. And there’s a certain class in this country that protects its own—even when it’s politically stupid to do so. That’s why Democrats didn’t push harder on this before. But as we rebuild a new Democratic Party, that’s changing.
Because there are 2,000 victims—young women and men abused by Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and others. They deserve justice. At the very least, the public deserves to know who was involved. Even if they’re never prosecuted, they should be exposed.
It’s the same energy as the Wall Street collapse. No one went to prison for wrecking the economy. People lost homes, jobs, entire lives—and Wall Street walked. Meanwhile, how many people are rotting in prison over a third candy bar or a little weed?
But if you hurt kids? You’re rich? You’re fine. That’s the system we’re dealing with.
So yes—this fires up the left, fractures the right, and pisses off independents. It also completely derails the GOP’s agenda. Trump already looks like a lame duck. Now he’s a panicked one.
He’s dragging people into the Situation Room—the place for actual national security emergencies—to hold strategy sessions about the Epstein files. CNN reported that he pulled in Pam Bondi and others for a “candid” talk in the goddamn Situation Room. What would Veep do with that?
He’s calling the few Republicans who signed the Epstein discharge petition, trying to peel them off. Almost flipped Lauren Boebert. Nancy Mace is scheming her way through it. It’s desperation all the way down.
Meanwhile, MAGA influencers are yelling, “This is just a distraction from the shutdown compromise!” No. It’s not. And I’m still mad about that garbage shutdown deal. This is something else entirely.
This is about accountability. You can’t tell me only one person—Ghislaine Maxwell—is going to serve time for this. Especially when she’s probably going to get her sentence commuted by Trump, with the help of his personal attorney who’s basically running the Justice Department now. Probably on the last day of his presidency—just like always. Wait it out, keep quiet, get your freedom.
Hell, he just pardoned Rudy Giuliani a couple days ago. What a fucking joke.
Bottom line: Trump and his people have two terrible options. Stick with the chaos, look guilty as hell. Or release the truth and be guilty as hell.
These files are coming out. Oversight will get them. Other groups will too. The only question is whether we’ll see the videos, the images—and who’s in them. Will we get the full truth or will the evidence have been destroyed?
And morally? We need to show the American people that this is where we draw the line. That the new Democratic Party fights for justice. That we hold predators and power-hungry creeps accountable—even when they’re rich and famous. Maybe especially when they’re rich and famous.
This is our shot to prove we’re not the party of excuses and polite press releases. We are the party that punches back against corruption and power abuse.
Let’s keep doing it.
Don’t let them gaslight you.
Don’t let them change the subject.
This matters—morally and politically.
Great post!! And yes Trump IS guilty.
Trump Is Guilty