Extensive records review reveals Trump’s Epstein investigators 'looked the other way'

When President Donald Trump began his second term, he and many of the officials he appointed came into office claiming they would release the Epstein files and expose the notorious sex trafficker’s secret cabal of clients. But since then, Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell have been the only two to face charges in the U.S., with FBI Director Kash Patel — who had promised justice in the case for years — asserting that there is “no credible information” that Epstein had trafficked his victims to anyone else. According to a report from CNN, however, victim allegations that align with witness accounts contained in the Epstein files suggest otherwise. Between the files and statements from victims, there are numerous descriptions of men visiting Epstein’s island and properties to have sex with minors. Sometimes Epstein provided underage victims for sex, and sometimes these men brought “really young” girls with them. Despite these detailed allegations of abuse by other men, says CNN, the Epstein files provide little clarity into how and if investigators pursued those leads. According to experts, there appears to have been little of the investigation they would have expected. “I don’t see that that led to writing search warrant affidavits to obtain somebody’s computer, somebody’s personnel file, going to different places to get flight records, hotel records,” said Moses Castillo, a former detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. “I don’t see that any of that was done.”Many of the men in question are high-profile figures, such as producer Harvey Weinstein (who is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence for rape), former Senator George Mitchell, renowned psychiatrist Henry Jarecki, banking executive Jes Staley, and billionaire Leon Black and many other unnamed men. While Black has faced three formal accusations of rape (with one lawsuit dropped, another dismissed, and the third pending), none of the other men have faced Epstein-related charges, with the government claiming there was “not enough evidence to federally charge these individuals, so the cases were referred to local law enforcement.” None of the men faced local charges either. What's more, the Department of Justice has also been accused of refusing to release one victim's claims that Trump sexually abused her. The White House called her allegations "baseless" while an FBI email asserts that the victim "refused to cooperate." The DOJ asserts that the allegations were not withheld intentionally. According to attorney Spencer Kuvin, who has represented numerous Epstein victims, these investigative failures have persisted across several presidential administrations dating back to that of President George W. Bush, when Epstein struck a non-prosecution deal.“Subsequent administrations looked at it and said, ‘You know what? The girls got paid, settlements happened, let a sleeping dog lie,’” said Kuvin. “They just kind of looked the other way.”