Good afternoon. I just returned from Capitol Hill with information that raises grave questions about the integrity of the so called “unredacted” Epstein files, and you deserved to hear it first.
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After speaking directly with Congressman Ro Khanna, I was told that most of the files released as unredacted are, in fact, still heavily redacted. According to Khanna, the FBI scrubbed the documents in March before providing copies to the Department of Justice. What the public received was already filtered.
That context makes recent disclosures even more troubling.
Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland told Axios today that when he searched President Donald Trump’s name in the unredacted Epstein files, it appeared more than one million times. Raskin said at least one document he reviewed directly contradicts Trump’s public claims about his relationship with Epstein.
The document is a 2009 email exchange between Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. In it, Epstein recounts a conversation his lawyers had with Trump. According to Raskin, Trump is paraphrased and quoted as saying that Epstein was not a member of Mar a Lago but was a guest there, and that Epstein was never asked to leave.
This directly conflicts with Trump’s long standing claim that he banned Epstein from Mar a Lago for poaching spa workers. Trump has denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein, but the document raises new questions about the accuracy of his account.
On the House floor, Congressman Khanna went further. He publicly named six high profile men included in the unredacted Epstein documents. They are Leslie Wexner, the billionaire behind Victoria’s Secret and other major retail brands; Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem; and Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, and Nicola Caputo.
“If we found six men they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those three million files,” Khanna said. “Why are they protecting these rich and powerful men? People I call part of the Epstein class. Why do we live in a country where there is no elite accountability for the most heinous crimes?”
Other newly released documents add to the pattern.
In Ohio, NBC 4 confirmed that Department of Justice files show that Epstein paid Ohio State University’s former head of gynecology, Dr. Mark Landon, quarterly sums of thousands of dollars in the early 2000s. Records indicate payments as high as $25,000 every few months. Landon told NBC4 that the payments were for consulting work and said he had no knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.
The files also show that Epstein or his associates sent at least ten packages to Landon’s Columbus home between 2001 and 2005. More than $200 was spent on mailing alone. The contents of those packages are not disclosed in the records.
Meanwhile, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledged under oath that he had lunch with Epstein on Epstein’s private island in 2012. Lutnick told a Senate appropriations subcommittee that the meeting occurred during a family vacation and included his wife, children, nannies, and another family. He said they spent about an hour on the island. The admission comes as bipartisan calls for his resignation continue to grow.
The newly released files also reveal that Epstein worked with a powerful Manhattan attorney to try to have a woman deported or jailed because she was considered an inconvenience to someone in his social circle. Emails show Epstein coordinating with Brad Karp, a Wall Street lawyer who represented Epstein associate Leon Black.
The correspondence suggests that Karp attempted to leverage contacts within the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office to have the woman charged or removed from the country. The effort failed, but the emails also show that surveillance was coordinated against her. Karp resigned from his leadership role at the law firm Paul Weiss after the emails became public. He has not responded to requests for comment, nor has the firm.
In addition, this afternoon, Epstein survivors released a blistering letter ahead of Pam Bondi’s testimony tomorrow, condemning the Department of Justice for what they describe as systemic failure, secrecy, and deliberate avoidance of accountability. In the letter, survivors accuse the DOJ of replicating the very power dynamics that enabled Epstein’s crimes, shielding influential figures while placing the burden of exposure, skepticism, and retaliation on victims.
They demand clear answers to 15 specific questions during Bondi’s hearing, pressing for transparency on investigative decisions, document handling, and the continued withholding of information.
As the survivors write, “The Department’s actions to date mirror the very dynamics Epstein relied upon: powerful actors protected by secrecy, while victims are exposed, scrutinized, and made to bear the consequences.”
Taken together, these revelations point to a consistent theme. Powerful men, influential institutions, and federal agencies appear to have worked, deliberately or not, to obscure the full scope of Epstein’s network.
The files may be labeled unredacted, but the truth remains heavily concealed.