The DOJ’s Big Epstein Reveal… Is a Cover-Up

Welcome back to The Red Letter.

I’m dropping in mid-vacation because I couldn’t sit on the sidelines while the Justice Department pulled a sleight of hand over the July 4th weekend, dropping a so-called “bombshell” memo — not in court, but in the inbox of Axios’s Alex Isenstadt, who hasn’t even been covering the case. And yet somehow we’re all supposed to believe it, hook, line, and sinker.

The memo claims that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide (again), supplies 11 hours of hallway footage of the moments around his death — but none from inside the cell — and declares there’s no “client list.” It goes a step further, stating there’s no evidence to prosecute “uncharged third parties.” Translation: they’re not going after the Johns.

Let me remind you — and I’ve been saying this across podcasts like The Daily Beast and The Young Turks — there is no client list. That fantasy has lived in the fever swamps of conspiracy X and been weaponized by powerful men who want to use Epstein’s crimes as political ammunition. I even broke it all down in my video above, “The Truth About Epstein’s List,” on The Tara Palmeri Show (you can find it on Spotify and Apple Podcast).

But here’s the twist: the person vouching for this new DOJ memo is Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United States. You may remember her from earlier this year — in February, she told Fox News she had the list “sitting on her desk.” Her source? Donald Trump.

“It’s sitting on my desk right now to review,” Bondi told Fox’s News John Roberts. “That’s been a directive by President Trump.”

Now, she’s finally admitting what those of us who’ve actually covered this case have known all along: the list doesn’t exist.

But don’t get distracted. This memo isn’t about setting the record straight. It’s about covering up something darker and far more complex — the real evidence the government continues to sit on. It’s not lists, it’s photos, videos, hard evidence that could be used against powerful men if they are able to verify that the photos are with underage girls.

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What I learned from a senior law enforcement source about the evidence that the FBI is sitting on and why Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers are watching closely. Plus: how Virginia Giuffre reacted to Pam Bondi’s first Epstein charade in February, Elon Musk’s broken promise to her, and what justice still looks like for the survivors.