The case of Jeffrey Epstein is not over and continues to cause seismic movements on both sides of the Atlantic, affecting politicians and public figures who appear in the more than three million documents released by the US Department of Justice.
The billionaire pedophile spent his final days in jail where he awaited trial for sex trafficking. Epstein had built a network of sexual exploitation of girls and young women whom he abused for years.
For the White House, this issue is anathema and it is the one that is doing the most damage to Donald Trump, whose name, along with Melania and Mar-a-Lago, appear mentioned thousands of times in these files. The president maintains that he broke up with someone who was once his friend a long time ago.
How far could this case erode the Trump Administration?
The correspondent of Zero Wave In the United States, Agustín Alcalá explains that since Trump came into focus back in 2015, he has had the ability to become first a candidate for the White House and then the “Teflon president”, for whom everything has “slipped”, no matter how many things he has said during these almost eleven years, “due to many insults, lies, exaggerations and lawsuits in court.”
Everything except one issue for which Trump cannot find a solution: Jeffrey Epstein. During the 2024 election, Trump pledged to reveal the names of those responsible for the abuses committed by Epstein and his friends. The same did one of his followers who ended up becoming Attorney General, Pam Bondi. Given this, the followers of the MAGA Movement (Make America Great Again) also took it for granted.
The Attorney General and her lurches put the focus on Trump
However, a good part of the responsibility for Epstein’s name continuing to be associated with Trump and his Administration is the role that Bondi has had since his arrival to the position of Attorney General. A year ago she said something “that will haunt her forever” when a television journalist asked her if there was a list of the pedophile’s clients:
“It is currently being reviewed on my desk, by order of the president. I am also doing so with the files of John Kennedy and Martin Luter King, following the president’s directives and his orders to all agencies,” was the response.
After these statements, he defrauded the victims first and then Congress, and also the president’s followers when he said that in those documents “there was nothing important.”
Faced with the growing scandal, Trump wanted to blame the Democrats, whom he accused of using Epstein to hide their great economic successes. In addition, he ordered Bondi to open an investigation into Bill Clinton and his relationship with the pedophile and his women. But this did not prevent Congress from approving, by 427 votes in favor and only one against, a law at the end of last year that forced the Department of Justice to make public the millions of documents from the investigation that the FBI had carried out for more than two decades of the tycoon who committed suicide in a Manhattan jail. Some three million files, videos and photographs were made public in December and January.
The “error” of the Department of Justice in publishing the names of the victims
The Department of Justice kept another three million more full of crossed-outs to protect the powerful, the well-connected and the billionaires who appeared in them without worrying that it had revealed the names of a hundred of the victims with their addresses and telephone numbers. Before the Congressional Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, when a Democratic congressman asked Bondi if he was going to apologize to the victims who were witnessing his testimony, he preferred not to.
The Attorney General’s embarrassing appearance confirmed what many independent Democrats and increasingly Trump supporters think: that the Department of Justice does not work to defend the interests of ordinary Americans, but to protect the powerful and rich like Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. Among them is the secretary of commerce, who has had to admit that he had visited the pedophile on his island after being found guilty of sex trafficking.
A double standard – the rich are protected and the average citizen does not receive the same treatment -, which the MAGA universe believed was the exclusive fault of the Democrats and which now realizes that the president and his people do the same.
