Deputy United States Attorney General Todd Blanche announced at a press conference on Friday, 30 January 2026, that the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has “published 3.5 million responsive pages in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act,” six weeks after the statutory deadline of 19 December 2025 set by the Act.
Explaining the reason for the delay, Mr Blanche pointed to the daunting volume of data the DoJ had to sift through to ensure it could “adequately conceal, or at least effectively misrepresent, any potential source of trouble for President Trump.”
He added, “In fact, we realised early on that there was no way we could properly review all the information before release, so we adopted a change of tack. Since early December last year, the DoJ has meticulously planned and implemented a series of experiments designed to gauge, with precision, the public’s tolerance for Trump’s atrocities, carefully calibrated against various scenarios involving disastrous revelations from the Epstein files.”
“This regimen saw the Trump administration:
- invade Venezuela to abduct its leader;
- make serious threats to wage war with its allies in order to invade and annex their territory at whim;
- seize electoral records from Georgia that constitute the only documentary evidence of President Trump’s loss in that state in the 2020 presidential election, which has haunted him ever since; and
- deploy a paramilitary force to multiple U.S. cities to execute law-abiding citizens in broad daylight.”
“The results of these experiments convinced us that President Trump could withstand any backlash that might result from any neglected detail in the Epstein files, and the DoJ released the files as soon as it concluded its analysis of the experimental data.”
