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Trump's Past Returns to Haunt Him Before AG Hearing
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The Numbers: 6 Million Records, 31 Pages Delivered
At 10:14 · 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.
Of over 6 million Epstein-related records identified under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the DOJ handed New Mexico 31 pages — most already public, all substantially redacted. The New Mexico AG called it functionally nonresponsive and set a July 31 deadline before filing suit.
The DOJ's own assertion identified more than 6 million total Epstein-related responsive records under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, of which approximately 3.5 million have been publicly released.
Of the 6 million Epstein records identified, approximately 3.5 million were released publicly but are described as so substantially redacted as to preclude meaningful law enforcement follow-up.
After months of demands, the Trump DOJ produced only 31 pages of Epstein documents to New Mexico — mostly already-released, mostly redacted — out of over 6 million identified records.
From February 13 to July 13, 2026, New Mexico sent letters, made calls, and held meetings — and got 31 pages at the very end. The timeline is a documented record of deliberate federal obstruction of a state-level Epstein investigation.
