On April 3, 2026 — one day after replacing the fired Pam Bondi — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche went on Fox News and declared: “The Department of Justice has now released all the files with respect to the Epstein saga.” This was a lie.
The DOJ's own records show approximately 3.5 million of 6 million pages have been released — roughly 50%. Blanche himself had stated on January 30 that the DOJ had “reviewed over 6 million pieces of paper, thousands of videos, tens of thousands of images.” Half remain unreleased.
Rep. Robert Garcia responded: “This is a lie. About 50 percent of the files have been released and per our subpoena it's illegal to withhold them.” Republican Rep. Thomas Massie warned Blanche has “30 days to release the rest of the files before becoming criminally liable” under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law in November 2025.
Former DOJ official Stacey Young said Blanche “has never stopped seeing himself as Donald Trump's personal lawyer.” Before becoming acting AG, Blanche personally interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell — who told him she'd “never seen Trump behave inappropriately” — then arranged her transfer from a low-security federal prison to a minimum-security camp. Epstein survivors called it “a disturbing message that child sex trafficking is acceptable and will be rewarded.”
The pattern: Bondi promised revelations and delivered “binders of nothingness.” She was fired. Blanche took over and immediately declared the matter closed — by lying about it on national television.