July 22, 2025.

First thing this morning, Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X, a statement from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche,

saying that under Bondi's direction, he had talked to the lawyers for Gielaine Maxwell,

who was convicted of grooming victims for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Blanche wrote

that he anticipated meeting with Maxwell in the coming days. President Trump has told us to

release all credible evidence, he wrote.

If Gilane Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims,

the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say.

This offering appeared designed to show that the White House wants to release information that might be in the Epstein files.

But as observers note, the President could just release the files themselves if he wanted to.

In fact, yesterday, the administration did just that.

Over the objections of his family, the Trump administration released records compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, about the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The files contain more than 240,000 pages of records and have been sealed since 1977 when the FBI turned them over to the National Archives

and Records Administration, or NARA. The acting archivist of the United States is Marco Rubio,

who is also Secretary of State, interim national security advisor, an acting administrator of

what's left of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

While this document dump appears to have been announced in order to distract from the Epstein files, it seems unlikely to do so.

MAGA and other Americans are interested in the Epstein files because they expect the files will show that the government has been covering up for powerful men who have been able to rape children without facing legal accountability.

In contrast, the King files will likely show the government harassing a citizen to pin illegal activity on him,

a different side of the same coin that suggests the government is working

for rich and powerful white men. The King files were compiled by the FBI in projects associated

with its co-intel pro, short for counterintelligence program, that operated between 1956 and 1971.

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