Trump Immediately Violates Epstein Files Law + More Friday News Updates - 12/19/25 WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?

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Trump Immediately Violates Epstein Files Law + More Friday News Updates - 12/19/25

Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network Dec 19

Hi all,

It’s Friday. We made it. You should be incredibly proud of your resilience this week. We started this week with mounting tragedies at home and abroad, but through it all, you persevered.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, is having an awful Friday morning, and the American people are being asked to accept yet another open admission of lawbreaking from his administration. As the deadline arrived under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Trump Justice Department confirmed it will not release all of the required records today, despite the statute’s clear mandate that all unclassified Epstein-related materials be made public within 30 days of enactment.

Instead, Trump officials now say they will release “several hundred thousand” documents today, with more possibly coming weeks or months from now. That is not compliance. It is a direct violation of federal law.

The admission came from Todd Blanche, the number two official at the Department of Justice and a former personal criminal defense lawyer to Trump. Blanche stated publicly that the department would not meet the law’s deadline, while simultaneously insisting that Trump has “said for years that he wants full transparency.”

The statute leaves no room for this kind of delay. The Epstein Files Transparency Act requires that the Attorney General make publicly available, in searchable and downloadable form, all unclassified records related to Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their child sex trafficking operation within 30 days. Not some of the records. Not a first batch. All of them.

What the administration is now proposing is not transparency. It is a staggered disclosure designed to buy time, control narratives, and continue redactions that have already consumed extraordinary government resources.

The scale of those efforts is striking. Reporting earlier this year revealed that thousands of FBI and DOJ personnel were reassigned to work on redactions tied to the Epstein files. Between January and July alone, FBI staff logged more than 4,700 hours of overtime on this project. Nearly 70 percent of that overtime occurred in March. Separate reporting showed close to $1 million in overtime costs over a single five-day period in that same month. This suggests a scramble to scrub, conceal, and shield powerful figures, including the president himself and his wealthy associates.

This is not happening in isolation. It fits a broader pattern that defines Trump’s second presidency: aggressive secrecy, routine gaslighting, and the use of government power to protect insiders while ordinary Americans are told everything is fine.

The disconnect is especially stark when it comes to the economy. While Trump and his Cabinet post celebratory messages about “economic miracles,” Americans are reporting deep financial stress. Consumer sentiment, as measured by the University of Michigan, has fallen to 50.4, the lowest level recorded since data collection began in the 1970s. That means it is at a new all time low.

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Yet administration officials and friendly media outlets continue to spin bad news as good news. Rising unemployment is reframed as “more people joining the workforce.” Weak consumer confidence is treated as a positive signal for potential interest rate cuts that benefit markets and billionaires. On financial television, analysts openly suggest that “bad news is good news” for investors. Yes, that’s a direct quote.

That framing may comfort Wall Street, but it does nothing for families struggling to afford groceries, rent, or homeownership.

At the same time, Trump’s administration is pursuing increasingly extreme exercises of executive power. The Interior Secretary has openly discussed seizing land in California and transferring it to military control along the southern border. The proposal would turn civilian land into de facto military installations, granting troops expanded authority over anyone who steps onto it. This is being justified under the banner of “states’ rights,” even as the federal government moves to override a state that contributes more to the federal treasury than nearly any other.

Layered on top of this is an unmistakable cloud of corruption. Trump Media recently announced a multibillion-dollar merger with a fusion energy company, a move that sent its stock surging despite the company’s ongoing financial losses. A struggling social media firm suddenly aligning with speculative energy technology may excite investors, but it raises serious questions about conflicts of interest when the company’s founder is also the sitting president, who has direct say over energy policy.

These are just more examples of a presidency defined less by governance than by self-protection and self-enrichment. The refusal to comply with the Epstein transparency law is not a technical delay. It’s not a bureaucratic hiccup. It is a deliberate choice to violate the law in plain sight. All to protect the wealthy and the powerful.

Watch my latest report above. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share. As a reminder, the latest episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast with my two brothers is out now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all the major podcast platforms. Be sure to listen — and leave a 5-star review if you can! It’s free and only takes a minute!

Ok, that’s it for now. Time to record my next report. See you soon.

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