Bannon has '16 hours' of Epstein interviews — with some about Trump — locked in vault: report
In a bombshell report on Tuesday, National Public Radio said that there are a number of documents intentionally being withheld by the Justice Department related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. They're being called out for an outright breach of the law.
Those documents contain information about President Donald Trump.
Last week, Trump announced that he was "exonerated" by the release of the files, since they didn't nail him for wrongdoing.
It has been reported by at least two separate outlets that the release was woefully inadequate.
A Justice Department release said that there were "more than 6 million pages being identified as potentially responsive, including Department and FBI emails, interview summaries, images, videos and various other materials collected and generated during the various investigations and prosecutions covered by the Act."
Channel 4 in the U.K. said that email discussions uncovered by its researchers showed that the data collected was conservatively over 7 terabytes. What has been released so far is closer to 2 percent of the total amount.
Conservative David Frum called it "an obvious act of law-breaking by the DOJ to protect the president."
"One of the reasons it is so important that the Democrats gain control of at least one part of Congress is to be able to investigate the corruption that permeates the US government today," said Professor of Strategic Studies Phillips P. O'Brien.
"You see, the problem with draping a giant poster of Donald Trump on the veneer of your building is that you lose credibility when you insist you've not gone out of your way to protect Trump in the Epstein file disclosures," quipped Bulwark's Sam Stein.
"The American people are simply asking for the truth, and Congress passed a bipartisan law to release the full Epstein Files. It’s impossible to understand the Trump Administration ignoring the law and redacting so heavily unless they’re hiding something," Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) wrote on X.
Public health scientist Eric Feigl-Ding questioned, "You mean… Trump DOJ deleted records in the Epstein files that mentioned Trump 'sexually abused a minor'? Color me shocked. 2) Okay this the least surprising thing— of course Trump’s DOJ deleted/hid such files."
"NEW on DOJ COVER UP! Justice Department withheld some Epstein files related to allegations President Trump sexually abused a minor. They also removed documents from public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump!" said SiriusXM host Dean Obidallah.
One person compared it to the 18 minutes of recordings that President Richard Nixon erased when the tapes were ultimately subpoenaed. Nixon's refusal to comply with the subpoena then became the basis for the Articles of Impeachment.