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Do missing Epstein documents show Trump is covering up sexual assault? It sure looks like it
Leah Litman
@leahlitman.bsky.social
I've got an op-ed up in the SF Chronicle about the (latest) cover-up in the Epstein files, & how Trump's abuse of DOJ & law enforcement is an outgrowth of SCOTUS's immunity opinion that gave Trump free rein at DOJ:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/trump-epstein-doj-fbi-pam-bondi-pedophile-21942879.php
Do missing Epstein documents show Trump is covering up sexual assault? It sure looks like it
OPINION: It is surreal to say the president of the United States is an accused pedophile — and that the DOJ, together with the Republican Party, seems intent on killing that story.
www.sfchronicle.com
2:24 PM · Feb 26, 2026
@leahlitman.bsky.social
I've got an op-ed up in the SF Chronicle about the (latest) cover-up in the Epstein files, & how Trump's abuse of DOJ & law enforcement is an outgrowth of SCOTUS's immunity opinion that gave Trump free rein at DOJ:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/trump-epstein-doj-fbi-pam-bondi-pedophile-21942879.php
Do missing Epstein documents show Trump is covering up sexual assault? It sure looks like it
OPINION: It is surreal to say the president of the United States is an accused pedophile — and that the DOJ, together with the Republican Party, seems intent on killing that story.
www.sfchronicle.com
2:24 PM · Feb 26, 2026
I've got an op-ed up in the SF Chronicle about the (latest) cover-up in the Epstein files, & how Trump's abuse of DOJ & law enforcement is an outgrowth of SCOTUS's immunity opinion that gave Trump free rein at DOJ: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
— Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) 2026-02-26T19:24:41.639Z
Opinion // Open Forum
Do missing Epstein documents show Trump is covering up sexual assault? It sure looks like it
By Leah Litman,
Contributor
Feb 26, 2026
Danielle Bensky, a Jeffrey Epstein survivor, wears a butterfly pin and a “release the files” pin during an event hosted by the Democratic Women’s Caucus with Epstein survivors before President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Heather Diehl/Getty Images
A year into Donald Trump’s second term as president, there have been numerous instances of him leveraging his powers over law enforcement for personal gain.
The Justice Department launched politically vindictive prosecutions of critics and adversaries, including former FBI Director Jim Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James; it has undertaken investigations into Democratic lawmakers and the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (who refused to lower interest rates as the president demanded); the department tried to secure indictments of Democratic lawmakers who released videos telling military officers they have an obligation to follow the law and to decline to follow illegal orders; it also ended all of the criminal cases it had initiated against Trump; the list goes on.
Multiple outlets and Democratic lawmakers have reported that the Department of Justice failed to release materials in Epstein files that documented FBI interviews with a female witness who alleged that Trump and disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted her when she was a minor.
The substance of the allegation against the president and its cover-up have broken through, as they should. It is absolutely surreal to say the president of the United States is an accused pedophile — and that our country’s law enforcement apparatus, together with the Republican Party, seems intent on killing that story. Yet that is where we are.
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Do missing Epstein documents show Trump is covering up sexual assault? It sure looks like it
By Leah Litman,
Contributor
Feb 26, 2026
Danielle Bensky, a Jeffrey Epstein survivor, wears a butterfly pin and a “release the files” pin during an event hosted by the Democratic Women’s Caucus with Epstein survivors before President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Heather Diehl/Getty Images
A year into Donald Trump’s second term as president, there have been numerous instances of him leveraging his powers over law enforcement for personal gain.
The Justice Department launched politically vindictive prosecutions of critics and adversaries, including former FBI Director Jim Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James; it has undertaken investigations into Democratic lawmakers and the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (who refused to lower interest rates as the president demanded); the department tried to secure indictments of Democratic lawmakers who released videos telling military officers they have an obligation to follow the law and to decline to follow illegal orders; it also ended all of the criminal cases it had initiated against Trump; the list goes on.
Multiple outlets and Democratic lawmakers have reported that the Department of Justice failed to release materials in Epstein files that documented FBI interviews with a female witness who alleged that Trump and disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted her when she was a minor.
The substance of the allegation against the president and its cover-up have broken through, as they should. It is absolutely surreal to say the president of the United States is an accused pedophile — and that our country’s law enforcement apparatus, together with the Republican Party, seems intent on killing that story. Yet that is where we are.
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