There may exist in these files Donald
Trump's communication to his attorney
general, Bill Barr, that something had
to be done about Epstein.

He needed possibly to be shut up.
Somebody wanted this done.
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But let me focus on what may be the most
damaging part of those files, and that's
the DOJ's discussion of why in fact they
took the unprecedented step to break the
nonprosecution agreement in 2019.

In 2007, Epstein entered into an
agreement with the Justice Department, a
binding written agreement that the
Justice Department would not prosecute
him on federal charges if he plead
guilty to state charges in Florida.

This is not an unusual step. Uh what is
unusual is that the justice department
would then later reneg on its agreement.

So what were the reasons for this?

Who
brought brought pressure on whom to do
this and who benefit?
Part of thediscussion has been that the 2007
agreement was too lenient. he should
have gone to jail for far longer than
than he did and that the Justice
Department was somehow complicit in
this.

And that's almost been the excuse
for why no one has looked closely at the
2019 decision to go forward to reneg on
the agreement and to go forward with the
prosecution.

The issue, however, is that
the Justice Department is not saying we
made a mistake. We're blaming ourselves.
We are taking this step because of
something we did which might not be
legal anyway.

They are taking this step
for reasons we don't know, but we can
assume that there is a meaningful issue
here. Somebody wanted this done.

there
may exist in these files Donald Trump's
communication to his attorney general,
Bill Barr, that something had to be done
about Epstein, who had begun talking, at
least of all in my books, about his
relationship with Donald Trump.

He needed possibly to be shut up.

How explicit might that be in these files?

Or it may have been the Southern
District, the office of the Justice
Department in New York City, which has
always been fiercely independent and may
well have been conducting its own
investigation of Donald Trump and sought
to bring leverage on Jeffrey Epstein for
him to tell what he knew in his long
relationship with Trump.