Three million pages, 2,000 videos, 180,000 photos. These staggering figures mean nothing on their own; they merely paint a confusing picture. Todd Blanche, the number two official at the US Department of Justice, highlighted them on January 30 to illustrate what he described as the Trump administration’s cooperation in the Epstein case. In accordance with a law passed by Congress in December 2025 and signed – reluctantly – by the US president, a large portion of the archives concerning sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in 2019, has been made public. Many documents were heavily redacted, according to criteria that remains unclear. The Department of Justice still retains a portion of the records, especially those concerning pornography, physical abuse and deaths. This clarification from Blanche can only reinforce widespread suspicion.
The Epstein case has become a poisoned well, its stench fueling every conspiracy theory. The files contain the financier’s private email correspondence, text messages, court documents and police notes, painting a vast web of connections among the powerful at the intersection of politics, diplomacy, entertainment and business. But when it is no longer possible to distinguish established facts from incomplete information and unfounded allegations, when simply mentioning a public figure in a document is enough to suggest complicity, one can only drown in this well.
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