"Last February, 15 right-wing influencers were invited to the White House and handed binders stamped The Epstein Files: Phase 1. They walked out of the West Wing smiling as they had just uncovered something seismic. Rogan O'Handley (who goes by DC_Draino on X) held his binder high for the cameras. Jack Posobiec made sure his was visible in every frame. Liz Wheeler went live and flipped through the pages. Jessica Reed Kraus described the White House setting and the sense of insider access."
"The documents contained in the professionally produced notebooks were largely familiar to those fluent with the case: address books, flight logs, previously circulated material now packaged with official letterhead. Even some attendees conceded there was little new in the first tranche. Phase 1 implied escalation, and the performance did the rest. What followed over the next year did not resemble a clean partisan detonation."
"Additional disclosures under the bipartisan Epstein Transparency Act resurfaced President Donald Trump's documented flights on Epstein's plane and his 2002 remark calling Epstein a terrific guy who liked women on the younger side. Emails and witness statements reinforced that this was real proximity among powerful people, not a cable-news fever dream. No criminal charges emerged against Trump, and that absence became the rhetorical escape hatch."
Fifteen right-wing influencers were invited to the White House and given binders labeled The Epstein Files: Phase 1, exiting publicly pleased. The binders contained familiar materials—address books, flight logs, and previously circulated records repackaged with official letterhead. Attendees celebrated despite acknowledging little new information; the Phase 1 framing suggested escalation. Subsequent disclosures under the bipartisan Epstein Transparency Act resurfaced President Donald Trump's documented flights on Epstein's plane and a 2002 remark praising Epstein. Emails and witness statements reinforced documented proximity among powerful people. No criminal charges emerged against Trump, and media polarization simplified the narrative into guilty or cleared.
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