NYT Wonders Why Trump Won't Release Epstein Files, Forgets US Legal System
This framing conveniently sidesteps the glacial pace of the U.S. legal system and its infamous resistance to transparency when the powerful are implicated. It's not Trump's private vault we're talking about; these are federal documents, sealed by courts that routinely protect the powerful—the same powerful who often feature in the social circles of media owners and advertisers. It’s almost as if
the New York Times, often an enthusiastic participant in protecting the establishment, is shocked, shocked, to find secrecy in high places. Instead of questioning one politician's inaction, perhaps the energy could be spent on demanding accountability from the legal system itself, or investigating the vast network of influence that ensures such files remain locked away indefinitely. How many
'public interest' stories ignore the systemic rot for a conveniently isolated scandal?