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Trump's Past Returns to Haunt Him Before AG Hearing

Explore episode Jul 15, 2026

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The Numbers: 6 Million Records, 31 Pages Delivered

At 10:43 · chapter starts 8:58

The numbers don't lie. Ben Meiselas reads from the New Mexico letter: the DOJ's own assertion identified more than 6 million Epstein-related records under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, approximately 3.5 million of which were released publicly — but so heavily redacted as to be useless for law enforcement. Against this backdrop, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Mexico hand-delivered just 31 pages on July 10, 2026, nearly all of them documents already on the federal portal. Meiselas lets the absurdity speak for itself: 31 pages when they need 3 million. He frames the hand-delivery itself — dispatched right before New Mexico was about to sue — as a desperate, bad-faith gesture from a regime caught in the act of covering up.

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