It’s Time for the Epstein Files to Be Released – Top 3 Takeaways, November 19th, 2025
Takeaway #1: It’s Time
It’s the name of an Imagine Dragons song, it’s also what applies to the long-awaited release of whatever does or doesn’t exist as it pertains to the “so-called” Epstein Files – which congress overwhelmingly voted to release yesterday. With the nearly unanimous vote the bill is now in President Trump’s hands to sign into law which could happen as soon as today. But what exactly is it that was voted on to be released, and what exactly is it that will be released? The Epstein Files Transparency Act directs the U.S. Attorney General (Pam Bondi) to declassify and publicly release all unclassified documents held by the Department of Justice related to Jeffrey Epstein. This includes investigative files, records of Epstein's activities, associates, and any unreleased materials from his cases, with redactions limited to protecting national security, ongoing investigations, or other narrow legal requirements—but not to shield individuals from embarrassment over visiting Epstein's properties or island. The bill calls for full transparency on Epstein's network. So, what would “full transparency” include? It’s estimated that there are over 100,000 investigative pages at the DOJ dating back to the first Palm Beach Police tip that something wasn’t right with Epstein back in 2005. There are up to 53,000 pages and records recovered from Epstein’s estate including emails, estate records, and Epstein’s communications with others during lawsuits. There’s over 33,000 pages of material with the House Oversight Committee based on their investigations – though it’s estimated 97% of those documents have already been made public. There are 950 pages of material stemming from civil cases (that, for example, previously exposed the perverted creep formerly known as Prince Andrew). There’s also 341 pages of “earlier phase” DOJ docs that’s thought to be mostly public material already. The term “Epstein Files” has been thrown around for years. This is what it is...
Takeaway #2: This is what it is...
An estimated 187,291 pages of recovered and investigative material from local authorities on Palm Beach, to federal authorities in D.C. with what’s been investigated by those in congressional committees and attorneys for related parties. Sounds like a fun quick read, right? And that’s some of the irony here. Even if “all” of those docs are released – no one is actually going to read all of them...that is at least for years. Consider this... If you read at the speed of the average person – 275 words per minute, it would take you 3,408 hours – or the equivalent of 142 days to work through them. If you dedicated two hours of your day every day to making your way through the files it would take you 4.7 years. Even if you made reading the Epstein Files your career – it would take you over a year. The only entity reading through all of the files will be AI with prompts looking for certain names.
Takeaway #3: It won't end
That’s according to former Epstein attorney Alan Dershowitz. Dersh was on with Piers Morgan recently and said that the conspiracy theories will never end and full disclosure will never take place unless he’s allowed to publicly release what’s in his files from his time representing Jeffrey Epstein – that he’s repeatedly tried to release but has been blocked by judges time and again from doing. Quoting Dershowitz: Why, Judge, are you preventing me from disclosing material that would be very, very important in putting a whole picture on this thing? Now Dersh has already said a few things that are important for setting expectations. The first is that there never was “a clint list”...as in a list of names of perps that Epstein kept as has been suggested. Something else he’s suggested is that there aren’t surprise names that might come about, that those who were involved are those whose names have been publicly floated around. Dersh also added this most recently about the consistent and absurd push by Democrats to allege there was a Trump-Epstein connection... In questioning Jeffrey Epstein, he asked this: Can you name people who may have had sexual relationships with anybody, and if we can turn those people over to the government, we can maybe get you a better deal. And then I went through a variety of names, including Donald Trump! And Jeffrey Epstein said ‘No, Trump didn’t do anything wrong. I can’t say anything about him that would be helpful to the government, even if the government wanted to get him. But do you think with that information in hand Democrats will finally let it go? The conspiracy theories likely won’t end. According to Gallup 65% of Americans most recently believe in a JFK conspiracy theory. Heck, even about 10% believe in an Elvis conspiracy theory too. But this isn’t the X-Files and there are at least two people who’re still alive who know the truth – Ghislaine Maxwell and Alan Dershowitz. And Alan is actively trying to disclose what he knows too – which is independent of what is or isn’t released in the Epstein Files Transparency Act – he isn’t being allowed by judges to do. And remember, it can’t be understated that in the event there’s any meaningful names that are detrimentally connected – there's then a tremendous responsibility and a lot of work around the DOJ pursuing prosecutions for the theoretically who’s who. But consider this. With what are estimated to be between 150-200 Epstein victims, untold numbers of Congressional staffers, DOJ employees spanning four presidencies and now five administrations, what are the odds that anyone really has the goods on household names this side of Andrew who was formerly a price? Do you really think that kind of information wouldn’t have leaked? It’s possible, sure, but likely? I’m not so sure.