Justice Department drops SHOCKING Epstein news

You're watching The Legal Breakdown. Glenn, we've got yet more bad news for Donald Trump as far as the Epstein files are concerned. Can you explain the new update out of the Justice Department?

Yeah, Brian, this is hard to believe because after Kash Patel issued a splashy memo back in July assuring the American people that he had done an exhaustive search, he found everything that there possibly was to be found regarding the Epstein files, the evidence, the information, the documents. He's got it all. And he said, we reviewed it and decided nobody else should be investigated. Well, now we have new reporting that the Department of Justice is claiming, oh, whoops, we just found 1 million new Epstein documents. Now, Brian, let's put that in perspective.

The Department of Justice, the FBI, Pam Bondi, were telling the people previously that they had it all and it was made up of about 700,000 documents, but apparently they didn't realize they were missing a million more documents. So now they are peddling to the American people that they will continue to be in violation of

federal law, the Epstein-Files Transparency Act, which required DOJ to turn everything over, reveal it all publicly by December 19th. Now they're telling us, well, our bad. We're gonna need more time, more personnel, you know, to devote to going through the million new documents we just stumbled upon. And we can talk in a minute about where they stumbled upon,

you know, this batch of a million new documents. And, you know, we'll try to get to releasing it sometime in the future. You know they they seem perfectly content to remain in violation of federal law every minute of every day completely unapologetically. Perhaps they know that because they are the cops, they are the prosecutors, ain't nobody gonna

hold them accountable for violating the law. Okay, so let's talk about these documents. Is there anything to suggest what we may be able to see in these documents in particular? And whether they might be what we're all looking for, which is offering up some information on possible co-conspirators.

You know, I think these will be some of the most directly relevant, I can't yet say incriminating, but some of the most directly relevant, I can't yet say incriminating, but some of the most directly relevant documents and evidence pertaining to both the grand jury investigations and the prosecutions in New York of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Of course, they were in the process of prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein when he turned up dead in his jail cell. So obviously that did not culminate in a trial but the Ghislaine Maxwell case did culminate in a trial and where are we being told they found these new 1 million documents? At the Southern District of New York US Attorney's Office. Now let's think about that and and Brian I can't help myself I have to read for our viewers just a little bit of the memo that Kash Patel

issued promising us that he had done an exhaustive search. Here is how that memo opens he says as part of our commitment to transparency the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted an exhaustive review of the investigative holdings relating to Jeffrey Epstein. To ensure that the review was thorough, the FBI conducted digital searches of its databases, hard drives, and network drives, as well as physical searches of squat areas, locked cabinets, desks, closets, and other areas

where responsive material may have been stored. These searches uncovered a significant amount of material including more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence. So that was Kash Patel assuring the American people that you know he looked in every drawer, he, you know, checked all the storage rooms, he was looking in broom closets, he left no stone unturned and Kash Patel assured us after his exhaustive search, they had it all well in

hand. But apparently, Brian, they forgot to check with the other part of the Department of Justice, the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney's Office, which actually prosecuted the Maxwell and Epstein cases. That is where all of the evidence, information, and documents naturally would be found. And mind you, this is all the Department of Justice.

It is one organization. That would be like me saying, man, I'm looking for something in my right pocket and I've done an exhaustive search and I can't find it. Oh, wait a minute. It's in my left pocket.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, I want to go back to something that they're violating the law right now, the Epstein Transparency Act, which required that all the files be released a couple of weeks ago at this point. Is there any legal exposure being shouldered by the people who work at the DOJ? Or is it because, you know, they're the cops on the beat and you can't prosecute the cops,

at least right now, that they have absolutely nothing to worry about?

No accountability. I can't see any accountability on the horizon. First and foremost, the Epstein-Files Transparency Act has no sanction attached to a violation of that federal law. You know, it's kind of an ugly secret that so many federal laws require that people do things or require that people refrain from doing things.

But if they violate the law, there's actually no punishment, no sanction, right? They can't be tried, they can't be convicted, they can't be fined, they can't be imprisoned. But it may give rise to civil suits. So I think you have victims of Epstein's crimes because let me hasten to mention one of the things that we did see released and it was a product of what was up in the Southern District of New York, US

Attorney's Office, was that email traffic between and among prosecutors saying okay there are 10 Epstein co-conspirators. Brian we saw that and we were like wait a minute, wait a minute, those are 10 people that have never been held accountable yet the prosecutors had concluded they were co-conspirators in Jeffrey Epstein's conspiracy to sex traffic girls. So that raised enormous questions. So I think the victims could possibly have standing to bring a

lawsuit to try to hold Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche, the Deputy Attorney General, accountable for, you know, this cavalier violation of a law that requires information to be released that could do what? Could move in the direction of accountability for the crimes perpetrated against Epstein's victims. So, you know, in theory there may be some vehicles that people can use to try to hold Bondi and Blanche accountable, but, you know, it's going to be a bit of an uphill slog if the victims want to file lawsuits like that.

In the lead up to the first tranche of files being released, that took 30 days and they still didn't have it in time. That was 700,000 documents, as you mentioned. This is going to be a million documents, as you mentioned. And so if they needed over 30 days to go through and redact, and of course they over-redacted because you and I both know that they're just out there to protect dear leader Donald Trump, but if it took them that long to redact the documents that they had already released and there's more than, you know, there's 130 hundred and thirty percent more documents at SDNY does that mean that in theory we won't see these

documents released until you know 45 days from now? I mean they had weeks and weeks and weeks to prepare for the release of the first batch by December 19th and they really blew that They only released a very small fraction of what they then believed were all the documents, 700,000. Here is a really curious bit of reporting that I think will help answer your question in part.

So the reporting is that when they found these million documents, the Department of Justice decided to enlist a whole bunch of additional federal prosecutors to help begin pouring through these documents and suggesting appropriate redactions. Where did they go to find those prosecutors?

They went to a U.S. Attorney's office in Southern Florida, you know, the land of Mar-a-Lago and Pam Bondi.

Yeah. And isn't Eileen Cannon also from Southern Florida?

Yeah, so why would they go all the way down there when, Brian, they have a lot of people, including a lot of bureaucrats at Department of Justice proper, that is headquarters of the Department of Justice. They've got six blocks down the street,

my former office, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia which guess what is the largest US Attorney's Office they've got the Eastern District of Virginia right across the river within a stone's throw of Maine justice they've got the Maryland US Attorney's Office right there but they have to go all the way down to South Florida to find federal prosecutors who can assist in this review mission. I find that quite curious.

Yeah, I think curious is a very diplomatic way of putting all of this. If for example they have an office like that filled with, let's just say in this thought experiment you're going to find people that are going to be a little more, have a proclivity toward Donald Trump a little more than what we would see in D.C. or Maryland or Virginia. Is there anybody there to look over these people's shoulders? Is there anybody there to make sure that the redactions are done properly?

That we're not just seeing happen what we all kind of expect to happen, which is that these prosecutors looking into this at the behest of Pam Bondi are just really there to protect not the victims, not seek accountability for the co-conspirators or the accomplices, but rather just to protect Donald Trump.

You know, it's a great question. And my answer is somewhat optimistic given my experience inside the Department of Justice,

the U.S.

Attorney's Office for decades. The more people you have involved in the endeavor of reviewing these files, I think the more likely you're going to have people standing up against any attempt to try to bury deeply damaging information about not only Donald Trump but anybody else who might be criminally involved in Epstein and Maxwell's you know conspiracy. So I believe that even though Donald Trump and Pam Bondi have succeeded in either

wrongfully terminating or pushing out lots of good career public servants career federal prosecutors there are far far, far, far more good, solid, honest, ethical career federal prosecutors remaining as part of the Department of Justice, including in all 93 of the United States Attorney's Offices around the country and in the territory. So listen, the more eyes you get on these files, the better it is ultimately for guarding against abuses of, for example, the proclivity to over-redact to try to protect Donald Trump.

But then I got to ask, as a follow up to that, how does a situation come about where all of a sudden, you know, after day one, 16 files that were visible on day one were suddenly redacted. And we know that, you know, a couple of them had Trump's picture. And so how does that happen then?

Well, listen, that didn't have the desired effect because all that did is pique everybody's interest in why in the world would you disclose something which everybody can screenshot and then pull it back? I mean, I have my suspicions maybe a little call from you know the the orange stain in the Oval

Office what the hell are you doing releasing pictures of me I don't know that that makes some sense to me right but listen the one thing that I think we can bank on is the incompetence of Donald Trump's DOJ leadership, Pam Bondi, Todd Blanch and Kash Patel and I would expect we're going to see more blunders along the way.

Well that's perfectly put and of course this isn't the last that we're going to talk about the Epstein files so for those who want to follow along with any new news on the Epstein files or any other legal news, please make sure to subscribe to both of our channels. I'm going to put those links right here on the screen and also in the post description of this video. Great way to support our work, great way to support independent media, and it is and always will be 100% free.

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