You must suspect there's some game afoot in this Epstein business. Only days ago, it was "fuggeddabowdit . . . nuthin' there . . . get over it." But then, only days later, the second-in-command at DOJ, Todd Blanche, formerly the president's personal lawyer, was down in Tallahassee deposing Jeffrey Epstein's second-in-command, Ghislaine Maxwell. (Note: a deposition is testimony outside of court, recorded under oath.) The Deputy Attorney General deposed her for two days, Friday and Saturday, a total of nine hours. You can do a lot of talking in nine hours.

And were you shocked to learn — as has been broadly reported — that through all these years of EpsteinEpsteinEpstein, Ms. Maxwell has never been interviewed by any state or federal law enforcement official or government lawyer?

How was that possible?

By the way, no government official has interviewed billionaire Les Wexner, Epstein's chief benefactor, over all these years, either? How is that possible? (Follow the money, as they say.)

Meanwhile, down in Florida, as reported by Brian O'Shea of The Daily Clout, it turns out that the federal district judge, Robin Rosenberg, who just ruled against Mr. Trump's request to unseal the 2005 — 2007 Florida Epstein grand jury transcripts, is married to one Michael McCauliffe, former Palm Beach County State's Attorney (equivalent of district attorney, DA), who helped negotiate the special 2008 "sweetheart" plea deal that allowed Epstein significant freedoms, such as frequent travel, including to his Little St. James Island, despite being under house arrest. Are you going, "Hmmmmmm. . . ?

Any conflict of interest in that ruling?

(Note: Current US AG Pam Bondi did not become Florida AG until 2011.)

So, it appears that there will now be two sets of "Epstein files" to sort out:

1) the DOJ's file curated under AG Merrick Garland, and

2) whatever follows from never-before asked questions put to Ghislaine Maxwell in late July 2025.

One thing you might infer:

if the Merrick Garland files contained any defamatory "kompromat" about Donald Trump, wouldn't it have been used during the election of 2024?