As different members of the administration and their allies give shifting versions of why Trump moved against Iran now, the question arises: Has the president achieved his presumed objective of knocking the Epstein files off the front page? On Feb. 24, NPR reported that 65,000 pages of Epstein files, originally released as part of the 6 million-page dump by the Justice Department, had somehow disappeared from the publicly available documents. Hillary Clinton didn't recall ever encountering Epstein. Bondi will testify (or menacingly point her well-manicured finger — we'll have to see) about why it has taken so long to release the Epstein files. As with our many Middle East misadventures, for the Epstein files there really is no end in sight.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 12, 2026 14:15 UTC