Doubt over DOJ’s Epstein disclosure: Letters to the Editor — July 17, 2025

The Issue: The Justice Department stating that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide and didn’t keep a client list.

We have a minute of tape missing from the camera recording Jeffrey Epstein’s cell, a sordid cover-up story that President Trump’s crusaders had hoped would be exposed before the election and a client list that was said to exist but suddenly does not (“Feds butting heads,” July 12).

Epstein’s former lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, stated that he knows there are names of the accused and the accusers.

We already know Epstein was a pervert, but we should be told who else was involved.

This is an administration that supposedly believes in disclosure, so let’s have it.

Betsy Flor

Putnam Valley

At no time during her swearing-in ceremony did Attorney General Pam Bondi ever promise to protect and defend President Trump from rumors, innuendos or speculations about his involvement with Epstein.

Her duty is to protect and defend Americans.

As Richard Nixon once said: People have a right to know “whether or not their president is a crook.”

Likewise, people today have the right to know if our current leader is a pervert.

After all, Trump was found guilty of sexually abusing at least one woman in a civil case.

Even MAGA nation would like to know Trump’s connection to the deceased trafficker of underage women.

Bob Ory

Chicago, Ill.

The problem with the release of the findings of Epstein case is that Trump campaigned on releasing the “client list.”

So, it created hysteria in the conspiracy club, and now these people who have believed something for so long cannot believe they’ve wasted so much of their time.

It’s the same for those with Trump Derangement Syndrome.

It won’t matter if Trump is sainted — he is still the devil to those who fervently believe it.

James Schwartz

Summit, NJ

Epstein was the ultimate insider — connected to politicians, billionaires, royals, scientists and media moguls.

When a man with that much dirt on the global elite dies in custody, it doesn’t look like suicide.

It looks like a message: Talk, and you die.

Now, the fight over the existence of a client list is dividing MAGA.

Some want transparency, no matter where it leads.

Others seem more interested in political convenience.

The American people deserve the truth.

Who protected Epstein for so long?

Who wanted him permanently silenced?

Jagjit Singh

Los Altos, Calif.

Adding to the Epstein drama is FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who threatened to resign over the matter.

He needs to tell us why.

Bondi, in return, needs to provide more context about the matter at large.

She owes more to the public, and Trump should see the imbalance as well.

Phil Serpico, Queens

The Issue: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s criticism of Vice President J.D. Vance during his visit to Disneyland.

I find Gov. Gavin Newsom’s behavior frankly appalling and disappointing (“Mickey Mouse Dem meanies,” Kirsten Fleming, July 15).

He thinks attacking the vice president’s family on vacation at Disneyland is appropriate, but I hear crickets from him regarding the minors found working on the “farm” that was recently raided in Camarillo, Calif.

He is so disconnected from reality when it comes to the abused and indentured kids who came across the border, yet I daresay his supporters will continue to cheer him on.

Amy Hendel

Tarzana, Calif.

I find it ironic that Newsom would talk about breaking up families in his post on X about the vice president.

He carried on an affair with a married woman, which led to a divorce.

James Lautier

Windsor, Conn.

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