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The Bulwark Podcast

Julie K. Brown: Hiding the Truth in the Epstein Files

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The DOJ is releasing random Epstein documents to distract the public, while also intentionally covering the faces of men in images. It's also pulling docs that reveal Trump's name. Epstein's victims think the government's messy release is all designed to protect their not publicly-known perpetrators. Meanwhile, more victims are coming forward to Julie, THE reporter who got the Epstein matter reopened after her investigation of his 2008 deal that no other modern pedophile would ever have received. Ghislaine Maxwell is key to understanding the whole case, Republican donors may be named in the files, and Trump flew on the Epstein plane eight times.

Julie K. Brown joins Tim Miller.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody with all of this Epstein stuff that's been coming out over the holidays.

0:03.8

It's been kind of tough to process everything and understand what's really going on.

0:07.6

And I assume for some of you all, like, you've been relatively new to the story and not been

0:12.9

following it minute by minute over the past decade.

0:16.1

And so it's a little bit head swirling.

0:18.0

So I wanted to bring on Julie Brown, who has been covering the Epstein case from the jump, having written the critical story that led to a second indictment.

0:30.0

And so I want to grab her to talk about these recent files, but also just kind of take the lens back for everybody and you kind of

0:38.2

rewind back to that period from 2015, 16, 17, 18 when the attention started to come back

0:48.7

on to Epstein.

0:49.5

He had been first, he was first trans from the 90s and then he first got that sweetheart deal and the

0:55.5

aughts and then the story comes back into focus thanks to Julie Brown and the teens so I wanted to

1:00.5

kind of start there and give everybody a little bit of a timeline a little bit longer lens perspective on

1:06.3

this and then we get into the news as well. So much has been happening for Julie.

1:11.6

She's so busy right now.

1:12.7

I appreciate her taking the time to talk with all of us about that.

1:16.9

I hope you enjoy it.

1:18.2

Up next, Julie K. Brown. Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

1:34.5

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

1:35.9

Could not be more delighted to welcome to the show.

1:38.8

So I've got to know a little bit over the past few years.

1:41.9

She is a writer for the Miami Herald. She wrote the Proversion of Justice

1:47.0

series and a book on all the things related to Jeffrey Epstein. It's Julie K. Brown. How you doing,

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