The White House has allegedly started taking control of the Department of Justice’s X account in a bid to more aggressively push back against the theory and commentary that has erupted in relation to the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
“The social media accounts managed by the DOJ have abandoned their typical and proper “buttoned up” manner in favor of a more biting and campaign-oriented approach consistent with the Trump administration’s aggressive strategy adopted by other departments like Homeland Security or War,” sources told Axios.
Posts are now correcting rumors circulating on the internet while commending the speed of document review.
A total of 200 members of the DOJ have already reviewed and released some 750,000 records, with an additional 700,000 records yet to be reviewed.
However, there are many duplicate files or files that are redundant in administration, which means that the number of new files in the final release of documents will not be in the hundreds of thousands but rather in
“This will be over soon,” a source told Axios about the disclosure effort, but “the conspiracy theories won’t.”
“This shift in tone marks an escalation of a long-standing frustration of the administration in response to narratives that have been circulating online, despite the administration’s claims that it is fulfilling a legal requirement set by Congress to be publicly transparent,” said Daniel Wehrenfennig, senior
A tremendous trove of Epstein-related files came out on Tuesday, with over 11,000 documents amounting to almost 30,000 pages related to pictures, judicial files, FBI and DOJ records, emails, headlines from clippings, and video materials.
Congressman Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California who was one of the lead Congressional advocates for the release of the Epstein documents, described the new release as a “bombshell.”
He pointed out the documents showed Trump had taken at least eight flights on Epstein’s airplane between 1993-1996, ‘many more times’ than a federal prosecutor was previously aware of, as of a 2020 email.
Khanna went on to accuse the DOJ of ‘spending more time protecting the Epstein class than the survivors, whose names are required by law to be redacted.’ Republican Representative Thomas Massie, who joined Khanna to create the Congressional discharge petition to provide public access to the documents, asked: “Who is controlling the DOJ X account on Christmas Eve and speaking in a way that uses ‘dope’ to talk about the press?” At the same time, the former national security adviser under Obama and Pod Save America host, Tommy Vietor, said that the Department of Justice under Bondi is ‘ridiculously incompetent’. Legal and transparency experts warn that while these are important files, care must be taken not to read too much into them because many are redundant files heavily censored with allegations rather than fact.
