Epstein Files Weekly: Trump-Style Briefings on the Latest Leaks & Who's Named

Leon Botstein, after fifty years as president of Bard College, just announced his retirement. This was today, May fourth. A tremendous run, fifty years… and now it's over, believe me. And it connects directly to the files, the incredible files we were talking about just last week. The college, they did a review. A very, very expensive review with a big law firm, WilmerHale. And the review found that President Botstein… he “minimized” his relationship with Epstein. Minimized! That’s a beautiful word, isn’t it? It’s what you say when you can’t say “lied.” He wasn't "fully accurate," they said.

We're talking about a guy who had Epstein flying into campus on a helicopter. A helicopter! To a small college. And Botstein had this great line—he said, “I would take money from Satan if it permitted me to do God’s work.” Well, a lot of people are saying he found him. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars. It's not a lot of money, frankly. But it was enough to get the helicopter rides, the invitations to graduation, the meetings. And this is just one person. One story. We now have three-point-five MILLION pages of documents out there. Public. With one hundred eighty thousand images and two thousand videos.

It's a treasure trove. A terrible, terrible treasure trove. And people are trying to fight it. They sue. You had the former president—a great president, some would say—sue The Wall Street Journal. For ten billion dollars. Ten. Billion. And on April fourteenth, a judge—a judge in Florida, Darrin Gayles—just threw it out. Gone. He said there was no “actual malice.” What do they know about malice? The Wall Street Journal printed a story, and the judge said they did their homework. So the ten-billion-dollar lawsuit is just… poof. But here’s the thing. Here is the part that is so incredible, you almost can't believe it.

The Department of Justice… our DOJ… they are the ones who released all this. Three-point-five million pages. The Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, he gets up there and says, “We then released over three and a half million pieces of paper, which the entire world can look at now and see if we got it wrong.” And then—in the very next breath—he says no new prosecutions are expected. None! It’s tremendous. They give you the crime, the criminals, the evidence… and then they tell you it’s just for transparency. Just for show. So what’s the real story?

What’s really happening here? It’s not about jail time anymore. That ship has sailed. It’s about job time. It’s about your legacy. It’s about your name. Leon Botstein is not going to prison. He’s seventy-nine years old. He’s just… retired. After fifty years of building something, his story now has a brand new final chapter. And he didn't write it. That’s the real power of these files. They don’t send you to the courthouse. They send you into early retirement. The legal fight is over. The reputation war has just begun.