Deadline Up: DOJ Defends Epstein File Redactions, Refuses To Release More Documents
Amy & T.J.
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🗓️ 3 July 2026
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Hours before the July 2nd deadline imposed by a federal judge, the Department of Justice asked the judge for 60 more days OR accept its reasoning why it would not produce unredacted versions of several documents. The reasoning included protecting victims, protecting people from disturbing allegations without context and it even used “the dog ate my homework” excuse. The DOJ claims they can’t find an unredacted version of a list of possible Epstein co conspirators.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Friday, July 3rd. |
| 0:09.6 | And the Department of Justice had a Thursday, July 2nd deadline to produce Epstein files, unredacted. |
| 0:20.2 | Or, if you don't, at least explain to the judge why you haven't released him. |
| 0:25.5 | What option do you think they went with? |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Epstein Files. |
| 0:32.8 | We're told they were all released. |
| 0:35.1 | They were told there are tons more. |
| 0:36.8 | Now, people want to see them. They want to see |
| 0:38.4 | them unredacted. And they're not going to see them yet, at least. At least, yes, we haven't |
| 0:44.9 | gotten a response from the judge as of yet. But did you actually think there would be any other |
| 0:51.2 | outcome other than this when that deadline was made by that judge last |
| 0:55.8 | week. Did anyone actually believe the DOJ was going to say, okay, let me go ahead and just |
| 1:01.2 | unredact these files? No. No, I don't. I don't think anybody was anticipating that. But Todd |
| 1:10.8 | Blanche did exactly what everybody expected him to do, which was to be in their minds a good soldier for President Trump and keep certain things hidden from the public. So that's always going to be the line that goes long. It doesn't matter what he does. He could let the entire public into the Department of Justice and say, knock yourself out, go through any computer you want, here's some logins. Nobody's going to believe it. You can do whatever you want with the Epstein Fives. That would be a start. Nope. It won't. It's just going to lead to more controversy. This is just what this is. There's no real transparency. There never will be and no one will ever believe it on this case. Well, and it's, there's nothing to believe right now because we can't see what we can't see. |
| 1:47.3 | And it was just a few hours before that deadline occurred that Todd Blanche, the Department of Justice, |
| 1:53.9 | actually asked the judge to delay the deadline for 60 days or accept their reasons for withholding. |
| 2:01.1 | Those were the two options the DOJ gave back to the judge. |
| 2:04.9 | So they offered to share, this was the other caveat, |
| 2:08.3 | they offered to share some additional materials in camera, |
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