Legal expert suspects more American elites to be named in latest Epstein files release

Описание: (30 Jan 2026)
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Santa Fe, New Mexico - 30 January 2026
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) John Day, criminal defense attorney:
"Right. Well, I think we can assume we'll see a lot of images of Ghislaine Maxwell. She's not being redacted. DOJ says, that there are images of her. What will be interesting to see is what videos or still photos there are where there are redacted victims, for example, faces. But are there images of people who are not victims, who are in those photographs? And what does that mean for the big Epstein picture here? And are these people who are familiar to us? Are there people who, were in the last drop of documents and photographs?"
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) John Day, criminal defense attorney:
"Right. Well we will see soon enough if the people think that DOJ is falling short on what they're releasing. Are people comparing things that they already know to see what's in the DOJ files? Remember, also what's happened recently, you had claims by Ghislaine Maxwell and her attorneys that there were more than two dozen people who entered into deals to avoid prosecution. Whether or not that's accurate, that remains to be seen, but that's a claim that's out there. And that certainly takes us to a different level if she is telling the truth, if her people are telling the truth. Does that match up to what we see in these DOJ files? And is that a whole new avenue to go down?"
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) John Day, criminal defense attorney:
"The (Steve) Bannon connection is fascinating because it shows that Epstein's reach was phenomenal. I mean, whether it was people like Woody Allen or Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, Epstein was at the center of a lot of circles, a lot of concentric circles. And that was the American elite of politics, finance, and entertainment society. And he's -- it just shows that he had something that people wanted. And the question is, was it simply the access to the women victims? Was there something else, or was it limited to things like sex and money?"
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) John Day, criminal defense attorney:
"Everyone else who apparently was touched by Epstein's life has crashed and burned in one way or another. The question is, is President Trump the one person who can survive that? And it is a fascinating question because there's nothing positive out there, no matter what's in these files, there's no positive point or reaction to being associated with Jeffrey Epstein. And most people run from it like a vampire when the sun comes up. But you have President Trump who seems to survive his connection to Epstein. You know, there's the old expression, whistling past the graveyard, and a lot of America's rich and powerful elites are doing that with this latest release. They are hoping that there's nothing in there that connects them to Epstein if they had a connection to him. So that's what we've got. That's what remains to be seen in this latest dump of 3 million plus documents. Who is in there that we don't know about? What are the connections and who is connecting the dots to things that we're not even aware of yet?"
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) John Day, criminal defense attorney:
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All women other than Maxwell have been redacted from videos and images being released Friday, Blanche said.















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