Hey, everybody, it's Alison Gill. Last week, here on the breakdown, I went over how the Epstein files were probably way worse for Trump than previously thought.

And this week, we learned that Trump appears over 1,600 times in a new tranche of Epstein emails and messages and documents

and has now purportedly opened a criminal investigation into Epstein's co-conspirators

in what I think is an attempt to try to obstruct the release of the files by sitting on an open

and active investigation. But this week, we learned that he actually used the Department of Justice

to stop an active investigation into Epstein's co-conspirators in the Southern District

of New York, which is blatant obstruction. And he did this to protect himself and his rich friends.

According to Epstein survivors who contacted Democrats on the House Oversight Committee,

there was an active criminal investigation

that was killed by the Trump administration. And they killed it because they said the survivors

were not credible and that no evidence exists to charge Epstein and Maxwell's co-conspirators.

Claims we know to be false. So I'll cover that today, along with Lindsay Halligan and the

Department of Justice, hiding 139 minutes of grand jury tapes from a judge in the case against

Jim Comey. And I'm going to talk about how, with this new Epstein release,

it seems the right-wing media is pivoting to defending child sexual assault

by splitting semantics.

So all of that on today's episode of the breakdown.

Okay. So all of that on today's episode of The Breakdown. Hey, everybody, I'm Alison Gill.

Welcome to The Breakdown.

So last week, if you joined us here on The Breakdown, I told you about four sources for potential Epstein file leaks and releases that could haunt Donald Trump.

Like, well, I'm not worried about the Department of Justice.

I don't think they're going to release anything.

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