Welcome back to The Red Letter.
What a day to drop documents. I’m in an airport, heading home to see family, parsing a fresh Epstein dump—released two days before Christmas, when most Americans are watching The Grinch, not scrolling the FBI Vault. That timing wasn’t accidental.
I’m skeptical of the letter allegedly written by Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar—but not because the Justice Department suddenly says it’s “unfounded and false.” They never investigated the claim. So how would they know? The files don’t even disclose the results of a 2019 handwriting analysis. Yet today, we’re told—without evidence—that it’s a fake.
Why should anyone trust that assertion?
This morning’s DOJ statement made something else clear: the department is operating less like an independent law enforcement agency and more like a political extension of the West Wing. Consider this line: “Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election.”
That’s not legal analysis, it’s a recycled White House talking point. The statement even adds, to be clear, that the claims are false and would have been “weaponized” if they had merit. Again: no investigation, no evidence, just certainty.
Meanwhile, internet sleuths are already hard at work, peeling back redactions in Word. That part, at least, is refreshing.
One thing is clear: Epstein shouldn’t be used to manage the political calendar, or to ruin Christmas.
Not for the public. And not for the President.
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