When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch,’ whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system.” The existence of a letter sent by Epstein to Nassar had been previously reported by the Associated Press, but the contents had not been; earlier today, the DOJ posted on X that it had concluded that the Nasser letter was fake, which “serves as a reminder that just because a document is released by the Department of Justice does not make the allegations or claims within the document factual.” But much of the context of the Epstein files is that they are being released by a DOJ that, as my colleague David A. Graham wrote yesterday, has gone to great lengths to politicize itself in the second Trump administration. As Graham notes, the entire Epstein ordeal is a showcase of “compounding failures” by the federal government, from its slowness to act on tips about Epstein many years ago, to the plea deal in 2008, to this administration’s questioning of Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell and her move to a minimum-security prison this past summer.
Author: Charlie Warzel
Published at: 2025-12-23 23:28:02
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