The Epstein Files Are Revealing Darker and Darker Truths - Esquire

The Epstein files are now one of those forest fires that burn underground for miles and miles until they somehow get oxygen from above and explode to the surface. From NPR:

Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.

NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents published at the end of January. NPR’s investigation found dozens of pages that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.

Insert the usual bafflegab from the DOJ spokesworms here. However...

According to the newly released files, the FBI internally circulated Epstein-related allegations that mention Trump in late July and early August 2025. The list, collected from the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center, included numerous salacious allegations. Agents marked most of the accusations as unverifiable or not credible.

But one lead was sent to the FBI’s Washington Office with the purpose of setting up an interview with the accuser. The lead was included in an internal PowerPoint slide deck detailing “prominent names” in the Epstein and Maxwell investigations last fall. The woman who directly named Trump in her abuse allegation claimed that around 1983, when she was around 13 years old, Epstein introduced her to Trump “who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out.”

Lovely.

Meanwhile, in New Mexico, the investigation into the underground fire literally has moved underground and into an unspeakably dark area. From* The* Guardian:

New Mexico’s department of justice said at the time that it was working with lawmakers on launching something it styled as a truth commission. That commission was given the green light several days ago. “Upon reviewing information recently released by the U.S. Department of Justice, attorney general Raúl Torrez has ordered that the criminal investigation into allegations of illegal activity at Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch be reopened,” the New Mexico department of justice posted online on Thursday. Multiple women have publicly said that Epstein abused them as teen girls or young adults at Zorro Ranch. Jane, the first accuser who took the stand at the sex-trafficking trial of Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, said she traveled with them to New York City and New Mexico. “I just remember someone, at one point, just came into [my] room and said: ‘Jeffrey wants to see you,’ and then escorted me to see him,” she testified. “I just, as usual, felt, like, my heart sink into my stomach, you know.

“I did not want to go see him,” recalled Jane, who said she was 15 or 16 at this time. “I just remember being led to his bedroom and, you know, the same thing would happen.” Annie Farmer, the fourth accuser who testified at Maxwell’s trial,[said]that the disgraced socialite gave her a nude massage at Zorro when she was age 16. Farmer told jurors that the morning after this massage, Epstein climbed into her bed and said he “wanted to cuddle.” Farmer told jurors she “felt kind of frozen.”

At the same time, New Mexico also has set up a Truth Commission, and it’s planning to go tunneling into the darkest level of them all. From the BBC:

One of the state legislators on the panel, Andrea Romero of Santa Fe, told the BBC: “We are learning that there may have been reports to the FBI, back in 2019 or prior to, of bodies being buried, of folks being trafficked.” On Wednesday, the state said it was investigating a 2019 email from the recently released tranche of files that alleged Epstein had ordered the bodies of two foreign girls be buried outside the ranch, Reuters news agency reported. U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said last week he was seeking an unredacted copy of the email, which came from an anonymous sender.

The fire this time, and next time, and the time after that.