Ex-GOP Strategist Rick Wilson Explains Why DOJ’s Jeffrey Epstein ‘Sharpie-Fest’ Will Backfire | EUROtoday

Ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson on Monday scorched President Donald Trump and his administration for inflicting extra ache to survivors of Jeffrey Epstein after the Justice Department dropped recordsdata riddled with redactions.

“That’s the betrayal. That’s the knife-twist for the victims,” Wilson, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump political motion committee, wrote in his publication, Rick Wilson’s Against All Enemies. “You survived the predators. You survived the system that shrugged or looked away or, worst of all, laughed it off, for years. And now you’re watching the system do it again; only this time, it’s live-streamed, branded, and spun as a nothingburger.”

The DOJ failed to satisfy a legally mandated deadline on Friday to drop its full trove of paperwork tied to the late convicted intercourse offender. Instead, the division signaled that it’ll launch the recordsdata on a rolling foundation within the coming weeks.

File removals and lacking paperwork ― together with heavy, unexplained redactions to pages on the DOJ’s web site ― have been reported within the days since.

Epstein survivors have condemned the DOJ over the partial launch, whereas Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) urged authorized motion in opposition to the Trump administration.

On Monday, Wilson known as out Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche for claiming that the elimination of a since-restored photograph that includes Trump had “nothing to do” with the president.

“Congratulations, geniuses. You just rediscovered the Streisand effect: the harder you try to bury something, the more you guarantee the Internet will dig it up with a backhoe and a marching band,” Wilson wrote. “Pulling files made people search harder. Restoring them didn’t end the story…it proved the cover-up. This cover-up will not survive. They never do.”

Wilson additionally argued that the DOJ’s “Sharpie-fest” with the recordsdata solely helped to widen the disaster in Trump world.

“The administration wanted a lid on the pot, a lib-owning middle finger to America. Instead, they turned the heat to high and walked away,” Wilson wrote. “That’s why the black marker isn’t just ink. It’s power. It’s a new form of abuse, striking the lives and hearts of women who have suffered far, far too long.”