Today is day 300. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Donald Trump signed on 19 November 2025 after the House voted 427 to 1 for it, gave his Justice Department until 19 December to publish everything it holds on Jeffrey Epstein. In January the department put out about 3.5 million pages, roughly half of what it collected, and admitted that Trump's name appears in them more than 1,000 times. Jamie Raskin, who has read the unredacted set at the department, says a search for "Trump", "Donald" or "Don" returned more than a million results. The rest is still locked up, and the regime has spent the 300 days fighting a judge, a senator, a congressman from its own party and the survivors to keep it that way.

In February NPR, following the independent journalist Roger Sollenberger, matched the public database against the FBI's own case logs and the evidence handed to Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers, and found 53 pages withheld from the file of a woman who told the FBI that, in about 1983, when she was 13, Epstein introduced her to Trump, who forced her head down to his exposed penis. She bit him, she said, and he punched her in the head. The FBI interviewed her four times. Only the first interview is public, and it is the one that does not mention Trump. A week before NPR's finding, Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche had assured Congress in writing that nothing had been withheld for "embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity". The files also contain the FBI complaint form, document EFTA01683870, from the woman who sued Trump and Epstein as "Katie Johnson" in 2016. It says that in 1994, at 13, "Doe was raped by Trump" at the fourth of Epstein's parties she was taken to. She withdrew the suit days before the election, her lawyer citing threats, and it was never tested in court.

In May 2023 a jury found that Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room in 1996. On 29 June this year the Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal, and he has since paid her $5.63 million. His petition against the separate $83.3 million defamation award is still on the court's desk. His Justice Department's response to the verdict was to open a criminal investigation into Carroll. The birthday letter he swore he never wrote, the one in the shape of a naked woman, turned out to be in the book exactly as the Wall Street Journal described it, and a judge threw out his $10 billion suit against the paper in April.