Republicans Have 7 Months Left to Bury the Epstein Files
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The Epstein files are back in the news and JVL and Will Sommer are here to break down the latest. Republicans are now weighing whether to recommend a pardon for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. At the same time, the Department of Justice’s internal watchdog is launching a review into how the Epstein files were handled, raising new questions about what was released, what was withheld, and why. Is this a routine oversight review—or the start of something much bigger?
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| 0:15.7 | This is JVL here with Will Summer, author of the False Flag Newsletter at the Bullwark. |
| 0:20.6 | And we got some big |
| 0:22.4 | Epstein news. It's all very exciting. Things are happening at the Department of Justice. |
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| 0:33.0 | a lot. Will, CNN is reporting that the Department of Justice's internal watchdog organization is launching review of their production of files and documents related to the Epstein controversy? |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.5 | I can't tell what is happening here. |
| 0:52.1 | Are they investigating as to whether or not the Department of Justice |
| 0:56.7 | covered up the stuff? Or are they investigating as to whether or not the Department of Justice |
| 1:04.3 | leaked things that it shouldn't have? Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, the CNN reporting, |
| 1:10.1 | I hadn't even considered that possibility. The CNN reporting is is pretty broad. It says, you know, that they're going to investigate the review of the files, the release of the files. From my perspective, I think, you know, should they decide to look at, you know, whether Donald Trump was, you know, the files were reviewed to omit Donald Trump or those files mentioning Trump were given sort of some special treatment. I think there'd be a lot to look into. And so, you know, hopefully they'll be looking into that aspect. I mean, we know pages with Trump's name on them were, we're not included in the public releases. You know, Dick Durbin in the Senate has claimed he heard from FBI agents who were told, you know, |
| 1:46.9 | if you see Trump's name in a file, let's flag it. |
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