Five Million Files and Counting: How the DOJ Keeps Running Out the Clock on The Epstein Release (12/31/25)

The Department of Justice has responded to mounting pressure over the Epstein records by claiming it still has more than five million additional files to review, a figure that sounds less like transparency and more like institutional stalling. After nearly two decades of investigations, plea deals, prosecutions, civil litigation, and internal reviews, the idea that the DOJ is only now discovering the sheer scale of its Epstein archive strains credibility. This is not a new case, not a cold file pulled from a forgotten warehouse, but one of the most litigated, scrutinized, and publicly exposed criminal scandals in modern history. The implication that millions of documents remain unexamined suggests either catastrophic incompetence or a deliberate strategy to slow-walk disclosure until public attention fades. Either way, it reinforces the perception that the DOJ has never had a coherent or urgent plan to fully confront Epstein’s network.


Critically, the DOJ’s “five million files” explanation functions as a bureaucratic shield rather than a meaningful update, offering volume as a substitute for accountability. Survivors, journalists, and lawmakers are not asking the DOJ to skim every scrap of paper in real time; they are demanding targeted transparency about known co-conspirators, prosecutorial decisions, and prior investigative failures. Invoking an overwhelming backlog conveniently avoids answering why so many leads were ignored, why federal charges were abandoned in 2007, and why key figures were never seriously pursued. At this point, the DOJ’s reliance on scale sounds less like diligence and more like delay, reinforcing a long-standing pattern in the Epstein case: when clarity is demanded, the department responds with process; when accountability is required, it pleads administrative burden.



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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. Now, I remember back in February when Pam
Bondy was telling us that she had all these documents
on her desk and there were trucks full of documents
making their way to the DOJ. And if you remember,
we also heard that she had the so called Epstein

(00:21):
List sitting on her desk as well, And of course
all of that turned out to be absolute bs. And
of course that led to the discharge petition and Congress
passing a law that requires the DOJ to be transparent
when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, and that law went
into effect on December nineteenth. All of the documents were

(00:44):
supposed to be released by that day. Well, we knew
that wasn't going to happen, And now here we are
eleven days later, and honestly no closer to the finish line.
We heard recently that they found one point five million
documents or so, and today we're learning that they're reviewing
more than five million pages of documents in the Epstein

(01:08):
files still and they won't have those documents prepared for
release until the middle or the end of January. Imagine
just shrugging your shoulders and not following the law, and
you're the DOJ. What sort of message does that pass
on to the rest of us. I'll tell you what
kind not a good one. I've already seen people calling

(01:30):
for a tack strike and considering that the Pentagon felt
its audit once again, can you really blame people? You
work hard every single day of your life, you get
a ton of money taken out of your paycheck by
the government, and while they're preaching that you have to
be in compliance out on one side of their mouth,

(01:51):
out of the other side of their mouth, they're trying
to explain away why the books don't match up. How
do they expect to run a functioning government, a functioning
legal system when they can't even be in compliance themselves.
There needs to be a radical shakeup at the DOJ,
and a lot of these career bureaucrats that have been
there for all these years, throughout all these scandals, they

(02:11):
need to get fired. Enough is enough. It's time for
a new crop of people to show up and show
out because the path that we're on is not sustainable
and it's going to lead to bigger problems down the
road because nobody trusts this DOJ. And when I say nobody,
that's not hyperbole. It doesn't matter what side of the
aisle you're on unless you're the most hardcore MAGA. Besides that,

(02:34):
nobody trusts the DOJ, and that's bad news. Today's article
is from the New York Post and the headline DOJ
is reviewing more than five million pages of documents in
the Epstein files, according to a report. Well, isn't that nice?
And I've seen some people out here already saying, well,
it's a lot of documents, and they didn't have that
much time. They've had decades. And according to the DOJ,

(02:58):
we're using their own words here, there were no active
investigations at the time of this whole entire controversy, So
what exactly is it that they're working on. Shouldn't all
these case files have already been gone through. Shouldn't all
these investigations already be over? But yet here we are,
all these days later, and we're still getting bullshit and

(03:19):
nonsensical responses from the DOJ. And of course we're stuck
going around in circles because what the DOJ is going
to enforce rules on themselves? So that's why it's important
for Congress to step up and really do their job
when it comes to oversight, and anybody in the administration
or the DOJ itself that's not in compliance should be

(03:42):
penalized just like you would be. The Justice Department is
buried in about five point two million pages of documents
potentially related to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and it might
take until late January to complete the review. Boy, that
sure is a lot of documentation for a loan predator. Huh.
I wonder if they have five point two million pages

(04:03):
of documentation on Larry Nasser or on Keith Rainiery. My
guess is they don't. And even with Brian Kolberger's case,
they only had what two million pages of documents total
something like that. Certainly a lot of documents, but nothing
like this. And I'm sorry, but nobody's going to be

(04:24):
able to gaslight me into believing that the DOJ has
been caught unaware here. They knew exactly what they had,
they knew how many documents they were holding when it
comes to Epstein, and they were never forthright about it.
They've continued to bullshit from the very beginning, and I
think that's The biggest problem for a lot of people

(04:46):
the fact that the DOJ refuses to be in compliance
with the law as it's written. Remember it's not a suggestion, right,
These laws aren't suggestions. This is the law of the land.
It was written by Congress then signed by the president.
What more do they want? I mean, I hate to
keep banging on the drum, but if it was you

(05:06):
or me, they'd already be at our house kicking in
the door. To comply with the Epstein File Transparency Act,
which established the December nineteenth deadline for the Trump administration
to release the files, the DOJ is seeking to rope
in four hundred lawyers to help review outstanding material. According
to the outlet, like, what does that even mean? You

(05:27):
guys knew what was coming. They're dragging their feet on
purpose because they know that there's no teeth. There's nothing
in that legislation that's going to hold them accountable, and
they damn well know it. That's why they're acting the
way they are. I mean, do you really think that
they'd be this brazen in breaking the law here if
there were actual teeth that went along with this legislation.

(05:52):
I don't think so. They know what happens if there's
actual teeth, if there's an enforcement mechanism, and that's why
there was one, just another poison pill, and more times
than not, that's enough for them to get away with
their bullshit. But not this time. People aren't having it.
And if they think that this story is gonna go
away this time, they're crazy. Those days are over. People

(06:14):
are well aware of what went on here now and
people want answers. The battalion size review team includes prosecutors
who work on national security and criminal cases and US
attorneys offices in New York and Florida. You know, the
cynic in me says that that's all bullshit and they're
just looking for another reason to not release this information.

(06:36):
And when you have that kind of lateral ability as
the DOJ, without having to worry about any kind of
punishment or anything happening to you, you're able to get
away with a whole lot. So they'll just make all
these excuses up. Oh we don't have enough lawyers. We
found all these documents. Oh wait, we found more. And
they'll just keep it going. But at some point Congress

(06:58):
is going to have to step in and they're gonna
have to demand that these files are all turned over.
But to do that, there has to be some sort
of ramification for the people who are refusing to turn
these files over, which is the DOJ, Pambondi, Cash, Betel, etc.
The documentary review is not expected to be completed until

(07:20):
at least January twentieth, according to the report. The DOJ
asserted last week that it will fully comply with the
disclosure law and has attorneys working around the clock to
review and make legally required reactions to protect victims. Why
weren't they working around the clock previously? This bill was
in Congress for quite some time. They should have taken

(07:42):
the hint and they should have been aware that this
was coming down the pipe, and they should have been
in action previously. Let's get everything ready so we're prepared
to hand this information over to Congress or whoever. But no,
because the whole entire point, for the whole entire time
was to drag their feet, and that's exactly what they've done.

(08:04):
Since this whole entire thing blew up. They're trying to
wait it out. They want people to forget about it,
they want people to move on. They want people to
talk about Somali fraud. They want people to talk about
Venezuela and great those stories are important, but other people
are going to have to talk about them because here
on the podcast, we're not going anywhere. We're directly over

(08:25):
the target, and these bombing runs are going to continue.
To date, the Department has released about one hundred thousand
pages of records related to the disgraced financier You mean
pedophile right. The authors of the Epstein file Transparency Act
Representative Rocanna and Thomas Massey, told The Post last week
that they're considering legislation that would find Attorney General paum

(08:48):
Bondi five thousand dollars per day in protest of withheld documents,
including the heavy redactions to already release files. The files
released thus far have included several embarrassing photographs of former
President Bill Clinton with Epstein and is convicted accomplice Glene Maxwell,
and a twenty twenty email from a Manhattan federal prosecutor

(09:09):
indicating that Trump traveled down the notorious Pedalphiles private jet
at least eight times during the mid nineties. That is
not even close to the most interesting stuff that's been released.
The internal correspondence surrounding the NPA now that stuff has
been very, very interesting, very eye opening, and it really

(09:31):
goes to show you that the fix was in down
in Florida from the very beginning. And I think that
one of the biggest things that have come from these
files being unsealed thus far are the receipts that are
backing up all the things we've been talking about for
all these years, especially when it comes to situations like
what was going on in the jail around the time

(09:51):
of Epstein's death, and of course with the NPA. Those
internal emails, those internal communications, those are very very telling,
and while they're not a smoking gun, when you add
all the evidence up, I think it paints a very
damning picture for the DOJ, the BOP, and certainly for

(10:12):
everybody down in Florida who was involved in the NPA.
There's no evidence that Trump was aware of Epstein's sex
crimes during their friendship, or that the President committed any
wrongdoing or Bill Clinton, by the way, unless, of course,
you consider taking money from a human trafficker and money
longer to be a crime, which it is, then of

(10:33):
course Bill Clinton's guilty. But I'm talking about as far
as women or girls, we haven't heard anything like that
not from one single person who was on the island,
not from one single person who was anywhere near these people,
but financial crimes. I don't think there's any doubt that
Bill Clinton was entangled and intertwined with Jeffrey Epstein financially,

(10:55):
But as far as taking part in the physical abuse,
we've never seen that. You know, what we have seen
evidence for though, the doj embroiled in a deep ass
cover up. And the more we hear about these newly
appearing files, the more we hear about these deadlines that
are going to be missed, the more obvious it becomes.

(11:16):
They're hiding something, and whatever they're hiding has to be nuclear.
The question is what exactly is it that they're hiding
and who are they protecting. All of the information that
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