Spin Cycle: The Epstein And [Redacted] Files

Legacy media hosts spent a good part of Sunday morning discussing the hundreds of thousands of pages of photos and documents - all related to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein - that were released to the public on Friday. For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television - and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network and cable news media spin - The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed. Nearly all of them were concerned that too much information had been redacted, and some were also complaining that the document dump - despite its volume - did not account for the remainder of the information that had been covered under the Epstein Transparency Act. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) - who can be counted among the majority of Democrats who exhibited zero interest in releasing the Epstein files when his party had control of the House, the Senate, and the White House - joined ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl on “This Week” to complain about the fact that not everything was released on Friday. “I think there needs to be a full and complete explanation and then a full and complete investigation as to why the document production has fallen short of what the law clearly required,” he said. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries reacts to the partial release of the Epstein files: “I think there needs to be a full and complete explanation and then a full and complete investigation as to why the document production has fallen short of what the law clearly required.” pic.twitter.com/edYpn3KR1k - This Week (@ThisWeekABC) December 21, 2025 Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) suggested that it was a mistake to release any of the files if they were not going to release everything at once: “Any kind of indication that there’s not a full reveal on this will just plague them for months and months more. So my suggestion would be, give up all the information, release it.” Sen. Paul calls the partial release of the Epstein files “a big mistake” for the administration: “Any kind of indication that there’s not a full reveal on this will just plague them for months and months more. So my suggestion would be, give up all the information, release it.” pic.twitter.com/ezw1nuZJ40 - This Week (@ThisWeekABC) December 21, 2025 On CBS News, “Face the Nation” guest Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) claimed that the Justice Department was “flouting the letter and the spirit of the law” with the Friday document dump because it was incomplete and because it was so heavily redacted. “I won’t be satisfied until the survivors are satisfied,” Massie said. The Department of Justice is “flouting the spirit and the letter of the law” with its initial release of thousands of new records related to Jeffrey Epstein that include heavily-redacted pages, says Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). He tells @margbrennnan the Trump administration’s... pic.twitter.com/05MgVtIqrf - Face...

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