President Trump’s administration has been keeping US citizens on the hook about documents known as the Epstein Files. These documents discuss Jeffrey Epstein, notorious sex trafficker, and the people who were associated with his crimes. President Trump continues to delay release of these documents, and whilst he did deliver somewhat on the promise of the prison footage being released, it has been discovered that the footage is heavily edited and not what the public thought would be given. This offers much concern about the future of the Epstein Files and whether or not they will be doctored.
The Epstein files are the government’s files on the investigation of Epstein, containing a vast amount of sensitive information relating to the victims. It involves videos and photographic evidence of the heinous crimes being committed to minors.
During July 2025, the Department of Justice released new footage of the outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell, which supposedly was 11 hours of raw footage. It was originally released just a few weeks after his death in August 2019, but it was missing a minute. Although the Department of Justice continues to claim that it was unedited, several reports showed that its more likely the footage was doctored. According to CBS News, who investigated this, they identified multiple inconsistencies between the report and the video. On top of that, Coffeezilla, a popular YouTube channel that discusses frauds and other criminal activity, has made recreations of the area shown in the security footage that demonstrate that there are blind spots that could have been resolved with all 11 cameras, but conveniently the 9 out of 11 cameras were broken during this time.
The Trump administration has been trying to divert attention away from all Epstein news ever since Trump got elected, which adds to the suspicion considering one of their campaign promises was giving citizens more coverage on the Epstein files.
When asked in interviews, President Trump said “it’s really a Democrat hoax because they’re trying to get people to talk about something that’s totally irrelevant” and seems to be brushing off how despicable of a human being Epstein is. What it feels like is that they are trying to distract us, however they are failing embarrassingly at the distraction.
According to CNN, who have taken polls on how both parties feel about the minute information we have right now, roughly 56% percent of democrats are unsatisfied with what we have, along with 40% of republicans, and 44% of the independent party. This means, for those claiming only the “liberals” are upset with the lack of information, it is an overwhelming bipartisan issue that concerns every human, no matter your political affiliation.
I personally believe that they will never release the files in full, assuming they ever do, because the world’s most famous politicians and celebrities were at the Epstein gatherings and had access to the underage victims. It would tarnish these public figures’ reputations if the wider public knew about them being involved so deeply in this controversy. They would lose a lot of their supporters, and it would call into question how deep corruption runs in not just the government, but every single public facing figure.