"Reporters at NPR had noticed that there were pages missing from the enormous tranche of Epstein files released by the Department of Justice. Further reporting revealed that the files in question were 2019 FBI interviews with a woman who claimed to have been sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump when she was a minor. The justice department had no good explanation for why the documents had been withheld. Trump issued blanket denials."
"On 28 February, Trump launched an unprovoked and likely illegal war against Iran, and the Epstein files were once again pushed off the front pages. When you look at that and each one of those is a life, you're like, How is it that he wasn't stopped after 10 or 20 or 200 or 500 or 1,000?' David Garrett"
"The Donald J Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room is an attempt to stem the dreadful tide of ephemerality that is our Trump-addled news cycle. A project from the not-for-profit group the Institute for Primary Facts, the pop-up exhibit has transformed a storefront gallery in New York's Tribeca neighborhood into an IRL library of the Epstein files. Which is to say, the group took the digital files released thus far by the government, printed them all out in the order they were released, and bound them into 3,437 volumes."
"The two rooms of the gallery are lined with bookshelves floor to ceiling, and the overall effect is one of overwhelm. This is what 3.5m pages of investigative files actually look like and it's a lot. If you are doomscrolling on your phone, you see a cat video, and an ICE raid video, and your aunt's birthday cake, and evidence of one of the most horrific crimes in American history it's all just togethe"
Pages were missing from a large set of Epstein-related files released by the Department of Justice. The missing material consisted of 2019 FBI interviews with a woman who alleged sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump when she was a minor. The Justice Department provided no satisfactory explanation for withholding the documents, and Trump issued blanket denials. The story initially drew comparisons to a major scandal, but it lost prominence after Trump launched an unprovoked and likely illegal war against Iran on 28 February. A memorial reading room in Tribeca was created to counter the rapid fading of news by printing and binding the released digital files into 3,437 volumes, filling a storefront gallery with overwhelming physical evidence.
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