Althouse: "DOJ concludes Epstein files review with release of 3.5 million records."

January 30, 2026

"DOJ concludes Epstein files review with release of 3.5 million records."

Axios reports.

Bring on the voracious readers.

89 comments:

Charlie Currie said...: One more hammer removed from the democrats play book.; 1/30/26, 11:04 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: 3.5 million records and not one of them will show Trump went to Epstein Island or was his close friend. This is why Epstein got arrested in the 1st place. The D's thought they could link him to Trump. Mission: Unsuccessful.

Of course, they'll continue to lie - but what else is new?; 1/30/26, 11:05 AM
Smilin' Jack said...: “Bring on the voracious readers.”

Hell no. This is what Grok was born for. “Show me the juicy parts!”; 1/30/26, 11:06 AM
hombre said...: Democrats rally the protective umbrella of the leftmediaswine.; 1/30/26, 11:07 AM
Triangle Man said...: Win for the democrats and democracy!; 1/30/26, 11:07 AM
Dude1394 said...: I guess Massie can quit bitching. Do you think he will acknowledge it? Doubt it.; 1/30/26, 11:07 AM
Dude1394 said...: So I keep seeing democrats lying about trump being a Pedo. Is this supposed to be in conjunction with the Epstein lie?; 1/30/26, 11:08 AM
bagoh20 said...: For some, it must be like the first time those Bobby Brooks came off...only to reveal your transphobia.; 1/30/26, 11:11 AM
Kai Akker said...: Let us know what you find in there, AA.; 1/30/26, 11:14 AM
bagoh20 said...: I expect unforeseen effects for those long demanding this, as usual.; 1/30/26, 11:15 AM
baghdadbob said...: Cue the Democrats claiming that the files implicating Trump have been destroyed by his DOJ; 1/30/26, 11:17 AM
Kevin said...: Libs must be reliving the feeling they had when Rachel Maddow got Trump's tax returns!; 1/30/26, 11:17 AM
Wince said...: One more hammer removed from the democrats play book.

I like the way you perpetuated a mixed metaphor from a vivacious toolkit.; 1/30/26, 11:19 AM
Peachy said...: but that B-day card! It smelled fake and kept morphing with the memes - but come on - (big boobs - small boobs - big boobs - small boobs) that was all the proof the dingleberries on the left needed.; 1/30/26, 11:22 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: Won't be everything, but will be nothingburger.; 1/30/26, 11:22 AM
Beasts of England said...: Three and a half million records?! It’ll take me six or seven hours to get through all those! No happy hour today, I guess…; 1/30/26, 11:25 AM
Captain BillieBob said...: Where can I get the Cliffs Notes? I don't have time to read 3.5 million records.; 1/30/26, 11:25 AM
Quaestor said...: "Win for the democrats and democracy!"

Let's see... Epstein off'ed himself six and a half years ago. The Biden Justice Department had four years to review and release those records and did nothing but warm them under their lardy butts. Trump's DOJ did the work in a year plus nine days. Triangle Man should ask himself, why?; 1/30/26, 11:28 AM
FullMoon said...: Uh oh, what to do? Claim Epstein an effort to distract from Minneapolis, or ignore Epstein now?
Naturally, as said above Trump has been "erased" as predicted. lol.; 1/30/26, 11:32 AM
Peachy said...: Quaestor.
Heh. Fact.; 1/30/26, 11:33 AM
FullMoon said...: Nevermind. Obviously, scream for blacked out names of men and women involved be revealed, what are they hiding?
duh!; 1/30/26, 11:34 AM
Quaestor said...: "No happy hour today, I guess…"

Allowing yourself 10 seconds per record and no time off for anything else, including sleep... Well, report back here on March 1st -- next year.; 1/30/26, 11:34 AM
Beasts of England said...: You’d have to be a cynic to conclude the 2.5M redacted files are proof that every major intel agency on the planet was involved in the Epstein extortion ploy. Why are people so skeptical?; 1/30/26, 11:39 AM
Beasts of England said...: ’Well, report back here on March 1st -- next year.’

I took the Evelyn Woodhead Speed Reading Course!; 1/30/26, 11:42 AM
Spiros said...: Bill Gates is the big loser today. He supposedly got several sexually transmitted diseases from "Russian girls." Gates then asked his doctor if he could secretly treat his wife with antibiotics so that she would not find out about his affairs.; 1/30/26, 11:53 AM
Achilles said...: You mean Trump followed the laws we have written and released the files as promised?

Impeach him now!

And does this mean we can arrest traitors and seditionists now?; 1/30/26, 11:55 AM
Original Mike said...: What a waste of resources.; 1/30/26, 11:55 AM
Howard said...: Well I guess I have to eat my hat now, LOL. Queue up the MSM talking heads saying that the only reason Trump has allowed the release of the Epstein files is to create a huge distraction away from the ICE murders in Minneapolis; 1/30/26, 11:58 AM
James K said...: "Libs must be reliving the feeling they had when Rachel Maddow got Trump's tax returns!"

More like Geraldo when he opened up Capone's vault.

Meanwhile, the MSM will type crtl-F "Trump" on the entire file and find something they can squeal about.; 1/30/26, 12:11 PM
Humperdink said...: Reportedly 3.5 million pages and hundreds of thousands of pics. Where did all that come from?; 1/30/26, 12:16 PM
MadTownGuy said...: From the DOJ website:

To access all files produced, visit: www.justice.gov/Epstein; 1/30/26, 12:17 PM
Humperdink said...: Enjoy your new high fiber diet Howard.; 1/30/26, 12:17 PM
Wilbur said...: So I went to THE EPSTEIN FILES and put in the search terms "hot chicks".
What came back are a PDF with a bunch of emails like this:

If I give my phone to a waiter to click my picture, and it slips
from his hand, crashing on the floor, who should pay for the
loss, the waiter or the owner of the restaurant?
Ist2'Je Jennifer Ellis, Legal Ethics Attorney in PA, USA & Law Firm
,
riMfe Marketing Consultant
Updated Sep 18. 2015
I am not going to answer this as a lawyer. I am going to answer it is a regular
person. I just don't think it is appropriate (blah, blah, blah); 1/30/26, 12:25 PM
tommyesq said...: Cue up the vivacious fabrications! Watch for the voracious gaslighting!; 1/30/26, 12:27 PM
Beasts of England said...: I went to a random set of files and the second photo file I selected turned out to be Clinton in the blue dress!! The first was a weird painting of a guy on a couch with a young nude girl (with black bar redactions) sitting on the floor next to him.; 1/30/26, 12:37 PM
Peachy said...: There would not be ICE "murders" without the vile MN dem leaders telling their broken rage-fueled constituents to - riot and harass the law.; 1/30/26, 12:41 PM
Peachy said...: Every time the left screeeeech and lie - just remind them Biden had 4 years.

4 years

4 years.; 1/30/26, 12:46 PM
Vance said...: Every single Democrat will scream that the absence of Trump is "proof he redacted and is hiding the. files!!!! He's guilty! Absences of evidence is all the proof America needs!! REEEEEE!"

It's simply a religious belief now. Evidence is completely irrelevant.

If Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, and JFK personally appeared on a stage and said "Trump was not involved with Epstein" it wouldn't change any leftist mind. We all know it.; 1/30/26, 12:48 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: "DOJ concludes Epstein files review with release of 3.5 million records."

I can scarcely wait until they put them on EBay .; 1/30/26, 12:49 PM
Gilligan said...: >Claim Epstein an effort to distract from Minneapolis

Probably not ... as it just sets up the easy retort that the Minneapolis riots were just an effort to distract from Walz's various fraud scandals. Least we forget, he's already ended his reelection bid and was widely rumored to be within days of outright resignation.; 1/30/26, 12:50 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Epstein is an effort to distract from the awful Melania movie.; 1/30/26, 1:01 PM
pacwest said...: I guess this ends Epstein's run for president :(; 1/30/26, 1:01 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump in the last few days:
Replaced Bovino with Homan ✅
Threatened Iran again ✅
Threatened tariffs on Canada again ✅
"Decertified" Bombardier jets ✅
Threatened to tariff oil trade with Cuba ✅
Sued the IRS and Treasury for $10 billion ✅
Reached deal to avert shutdown ✅
Announced his Fed pick ✅
DOJ released more Epstein documents ✅

Taking flak? Release a lot of chaff.; 1/30/26, 1:02 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: I guess this ends Epstein's run for president :(

But he can still vote if he's in the right district.; 1/30/26, 1:02 PM
WK said...: Don’t know the folks doing redactions. Not sure if I trust what they are redacting. 3.5 million pages? 5 million pages? 5,234,177 pages. I guess if they say that’s all of them I have to believe it. Probably a lot of govt folks layed off after Epstein suicided. The ones gathering a couple hundred thousand pages of Epstein documents every year for 25 years.; 1/30/26, 1:04 PM
Iman said...: RIP Catherine O’Hara.

When you find yourself smiling when someone’s name comes up… your first reaction… that says a lot about that person, IMO.; 1/30/26, 1:05 PM
john mosby said...: Vance: "If Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, and JFK personally appeared on a stage and said "Trump was not involved with Epstein""

"President Trump, I am Jack Kennedy. Mr President, you're no Jack Kennedy." CC, JSM; 1/30/26, 1:12 PM
gilbar said...: Vance said...
Every single Democrat will scream that the absence of Trump is "proof he redacted and is hiding the. files!!!! He's guilty!

as my stoner friends used to say, back in the '80s..
"Complete Absence of Evidence is just PROOF of the depth of the conspiracy!!
How could there be NOTHING there? unless it was ALL FAKED!"; 1/30/26, 1:12 PM
john mosby said...: Buddha: This isn't even a koan. Trump does not have Epstein nature. CC, JSM; 1/30/26, 1:13 PM
john mosby said...: Mo: I don't know why he would pass up those underage girls, but he did! Go figure! CC, JSM; 1/30/26, 1:14 PM
john mosby said...: JC: Don't forgive him, Father. He didn't do it! CC, JSM; 1/30/26, 1:14 PM
Achilles said...: Kakistocracy said...

Taking flak? Release a lot of chaff.

Trump is taking flak from a bunch of people who are mad their voters are being deported.

Have fun with the ICE agents being free to pick your voters up in prisons while the Minnesota state police start arresting the people that are braver than you.

With the Minnesota state police cooperating we won’t need as many ICE agents to deport your foreign soldiers.; 1/30/26, 1:17 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: They buried the lede. This frees up 400-500 DOJ attorneys to do, you know, prosecution type stuff now instead of reviewing documents demanded by a petulant Congress.; 1/30/26, 1:41 PM
Fred Drinkwater said...: Mixed .metaphors...

Long ago, an aviation writer named Gordon Baxter responded to his magazine editor's mandate to avoid cliche with "I congratulate you for having the courage of a lion to set foot where the hand of man hath never trod before in those shark infested waters."; 1/30/26, 1:42 PM
bagoh20 said...: Lots of people were paid a lot of money to create 3.5 million records. Imagine the cost of that. Lawyers and accountants bought some nice stuff over the years.; 1/30/26, 1:48 PM
bagoh20 said...: Democrats are hoping to find out that Biden was just Trump's second term.; 1/30/26, 1:52 PM
Just an old country lawyer said...: Some weekend reading for you, Kak. Let us know when you find your pony in that pile of horse shit.; 1/30/26, 1:55 PM
boatbuilder said...: Kak at 1:02

What you have described (incorrectly) is a fairly typical week for Trump. Where have you been?; 1/30/26, 2:21 PM
Aggie said...: Looks like Kakistophoclese is so used to getting away with his Bullsh*t that he can no longer discern what an achievement looks like. So, one year and a week after the inauguration, the Epstein files are released, including an odd million records they didn't know existed. Chaff, huh? Weren't some of these dopes the same ones crowing about the files not being released, how damning it was, how it was the beginning of MAGA's end? And now that they're released, they're 'chaff'. Now that's funny, right there.

And with A.I. advancements, I'm sure we'll be hearing tomorrow about all the juicy bits. We might have to wait a few days for the made-up ones.; 1/30/26, 2:29 PM
Skeptical Voter said...: Well now like that little boy in Reagan's story---the kid who was digging through a roomful of manure just knowing for certain that there was a pony under all that---the Dems can go searching through a million pages. Somewhere in there is a document that will end Trump! Yessir, that surely will happen.; 1/30/26, 2:36 PM
mccullough said...: 3.5 million records. Gonna be something for everyone in there.; 1/30/26, 2:47 PM
Goldenpause said...: So Epstein probably will get the last laugh from the grave -- or urn -- or ... whatever.; 1/30/26, 2:48 PM
Bob Boyd said...: 3.5 million records, is that a record?; 1/30/26, 3:15 PM
Mason G said...: If that pony was in there, everybody would have heard about it already. But hey- knock yourself out.; 1/30/26, 3:19 PM
Gilligan said...: >3.5 million records, is that a record?

It's not even particularly high nowadays. Reply-all emails generate huge numbers of separate "records."; 1/30/26, 3:25 PM
Ampersand said...: Litigation these days often involves vast document dumps and word search tools that provide relatively short lists of potentially relevant documents; 1/30/26, 3:38 PM
Rustygrommet said...: mccullough said...
"3.5 million records. Gonna be something for everyone in there."

Like the Sunday NY Times.
Are there any coupons with that?; 1/30/26, 3:50 PM
Leland said...: For all his service for Epstein, did Kak get a 40 mm, stainless Hermes with bleu indigo swift leather double tour?; 1/30/26, 4:08 PM
n.n said...: This has Democratic #MeToo empathetically written all over it.; 1/30/26, 4:19 PM
Grundoon said...: I tell you what I don't think we should be distracted from. Congress won't do its job. They are supposed to establish a budget. They haven't done it in years.

Instead they raise funds for reelection. I think paying for political parties to argue with each other is a bigger scam than what Minnesota, Maine, and California have, put together.; 1/30/26, 4:19 PM
n.n said...: Gropers and pedos unite. Epathetically. .. emphatically. Social progress. #NoJudgment #NoLabels; 1/30/26, 4:24 PM
Jim at said...: Win for the democrats and democracy!

Really? In what way? Be specific.
Because it looks like one, giant nothingburger to me.; 1/30/26, 4:27 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump’s DOJ already deleted Epstein files mentioning him that it accidentally released. Why delete the files if you’re innocent and have nothing to hide?; 1/30/26, 4:46 PM
Leland said...: Why short TSLA and buy FANG?; 1/30/26, 5:01 PM
narciso said...: Dont ever change ritmo; 1/30/26, 5:03 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: "This frees up 400-500 DOJ attorneys to do..."

Check 700 boxed worth of ballots, some believe contain the goods on the 2020 Election fraud.; 1/30/26, 5:35 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Poor little Bich- neck deep in that pile of shit and no pony to be found. Keep digging, Bich, it amuses me greatly.; 1/30/26, 5:37 PM
Marcus Bressler said...: We'll still have to put up with weeks and weeks of the resident leftists crying "Epstein files"!; 1/30/26, 5:58 PM
buwaya said...: This does explain why Bill Gates wife divorced him. Or the proximate cause anyway.
(clue was an Epstein draft email).
Obviously his wife knew more directly, this stuff is for all the rest of us penny-ticket groundlings eager to hear scandals.
There is probably a lot of "stuff" on the great and good in all that.; 1/30/26, 5:58 PM
Old and slow said...: I don't actually give two fucks about who is in the Epstein files. Humans are dirty little creatures who are prone to bad behaviour because of chemicals. We also have the ability to create amazing things.; 1/30/26, 6:20 PM
buwaya said...: "I don't actually give two fucks about who is in the Epstein files."
Lots of people do. This was Shakespeare's material, the real skinny, or by implication. The human reality of our leaders. Fascinating stuff.; 1/30/26, 6:39 PM
buwaya said...: If you dont care about the human problems of our leaders, you should be looking at real things like this - potentially a great breakthrough in working fluids-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNDrC6fkjf0

But in the course of my long engineering career I long since concluded that hardly anyone gives a rats ass for matters of genuine importance. In Shakespeares day they werent obsessed with hull design or improvements in ships rigging either. It was already profoundly changing their world but they didnt give a f.

Old and Slow, unless you actually are an engineer and have a solid background making and maintaining industrial infrastructure, you dont get to dismiss Epstein gossip. Whatever gossip you prefer is just as trivial.; 1/30/26, 6:59 PM
narciso said...: He had connections to a very varied group of power people in govt academia media and business in many countries; 1/30/26, 7:09 PM
Oso Negro said...: Buwaya, highly respected fellow commenter, as it happens, I am an engineer (chemical) and as a former plant manager and director of manufacturing have substantial experience in maintaining industrial infrastructure. But no one wants to read about that. Let us embrace the licentiousness of Tiberius or Caligula - those Romans would have released ALL the Epstein material and especially enjoyed any video evidence. None of this residual 20th century prudery inspired by the vagino-Marxists of second wave feminism, prattling on about power differentials. Unless those girls were captured and held in chains, they were wielding the eternal power of nubilityI I say release it all! Start with a pay-per-view spectacle with revenue used to partially recoup the legal expenses. No false mercy or modesty for the teen temptresses.; 1/30/26, 7:54 PM
Peachy said...: Kak-bot
"Epstein claimed Bill Gates caught STD from ‘sex with Russian girls,’ slipped Melinda antibiotics in latest files released by DOJ."

Didn't he five 50 mil to Kamala's camp?; 1/30/26, 8:09 PM
Josephbleau said...: The thing that the Epstein file episode has taught me is that the highly educated elites of today only read the National Enquirer. Like our Kak.; 1/30/26, 8:44 PM
Old and slow said...: Buwaya, you are perhaps my favorite commenter on this blog, and I always enjoy and value your input, but this statement of yours is a bit silly.

"Old and Slow, unless you actually are an engineer and have a solid background making and maintaining industrial infrastructure, you dont get to dismiss Epstein gossip."

I dismiss Epstein gossip because I do not expect we will ever have any idea what the truth is, and I think all the talk about it is speculative and motivated by a prurient interest. I am tired of it. I will continue to enjoy your contributions to the conversation. I really enjoyed the book you recommended about the Basque's.; 1/30/26, 9:30 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I see Trump with his current wife in some of the Epstein files. I don’t know if that’s a good or a bad thing to include your wife, future wife in your hanky-panky bacchanalia. Maybe a Woke university ought to offer a course and call it “Epstein Files Epistemology 101”; 1/31/26, 2:29 AM
narciso said...: she relayed the very fluffy Times profile,
with all the very kompromat officials like Prince Andrew* and Ehud Barak, as well as Bill Gates, its funny how they keep trying to find that pony,

* Andrew wasn't an official, but certainly a very important person, thats why the Kazakhs used him, among others; 1/31/26, 8:12 AM