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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I know all of us are not that interested in the Jeffrey Epstein letter and the Epstein controversies, but let’s just go through it very quickly.

Recently, President Donald Trump, his administration, as characterized by the Department of Justice, Attorney General Pam Bondi, did not release the full “list,” as had been promised. That sort of embarrassed FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who said that they had FBI material that would be released. Turns out, Donald Trump then got angry at his base, but especially at the Democrats, who said that Trump was trying to hide something.

The long and the short of it: There was never a list where he had a list of people who had engaged in pornographic or pedophilic behavior at his various residences. What the list implied was that in 2008, his first trial—and then again a few years later—there were a lot of testimonies in these indictments and convictions and text and evidence that was subpoenaed. So, names came up in text messages, emails, maybe some video on logs on the airplane. So, there’s a long list, apparently, of over 170 people.

And for some reason, Donald Trump, initially, ordered Pam Bondi—or she did spontaneously—to contradict her earlier promise to release all the information. That started the controversy. And now, apparently, they’re going to release names.

We already have about 90 names. And they range from Louis Freeh, the former strong Catholic father of six and FBI director, to........

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