Trump's Epstein file release gets botched beyond repair, and I interview Rokana about the DOJ

failing to comply with the law, Bernie Sanders about Republicans blocking the ACA extension,

Jasmine Crockett about her run for Senate in Texas, and Hakeem Jeffries about how House Democrats

outsmarted Mike Johnson on yet another discharge petition.

I'm Brian Teller Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

Friday's deadline for the Justice Department to release the full Epstein files came and went

with only a partial release of the files. Roecona and Thomas Massey estimate that what was

released constitutes about 10% of the actual files that the DOJ has. And in fact, far from releasing all of the files by Saturday, the DOJ had actually begun

rescinding files to protect Donald Trump.

The AP reported that 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department's website that had

been posted on Friday, including a photo of, and I hope you're sitting down for this,

Donald Trump, Malania Trump,

Jeffrey Epstein, and Galane Maxwell together. And of course, that move only further solidified what's already been clear for the better part of the last year. This administration is not

concerned with transparency. It is engaged in a cover-up. But here's the most glaring part.

Trump is very clearly implicated

in a way that I don't think that we're fully grasping yet. Here's why I say that. The guy is nothing,

if not a marketer. He gets the media. He gets narrative. He gets entertainment. And so it's not

escaping him that by very clearly trying to suppress these files and his involvement with Epstein, he's painting

a really, really terrible picture that the rest of the country is seeing. He understands the damage

that he's doing to his reputation. He understands that he's torching his political capital. He

understands that this is owning the news. He understands that every day we're talking about this.

We're not talking about what he

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