Key Epstein Deadline Arrives as Attention Turns to Venezuela

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Daily Beast

Published Jan. 3 2026 8:34PM EST


As Americans slept and President Donald Trump invaded a sovereign nation and kidnapped its leader, an inconvenient deadline was looming: the date for the Department of Justice to explain its controversial Epstein file redactions.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee noted the timing in a post on X, writing, “We are sure it’s just a coincidence, but today is the statutory date for the DOJ to explain its redactions in the Epstein file productions.”

“We have not forgotten, and we won’t let up—regardless of the President’s new unconstitutional actions.” The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.
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We are sure it’s just a coincidence, but today is the statuatory date for the DOJ to explain its redactions in the Epstein file productions.

We have not forgotten, and we won’t let up - regardless of the President’s new unconstitutional actions.
4:11 PM · Jan 3, 2026

[LymphocyteLover]

1. Good, but they need to stop using that hell site X and use other semi-decent platforms instead

[BumRushDaShow]

8. They posted that on Xitter AND on "Threads"

(I included both versions in the OP comments - didn't see a post on Bluesky although they have an account there but not with that post)

[GiqueCee]

2. Trump is...

... a psychotic monster who MUST be stopped before he succeeds in destroying what's left of America. Republicans who persist in supporting such unmitigated evil are no better, and they will pay dearly for their treachery.

[travelingthrulife]

5. Did everyone contact their reps today?

Demand impeachment. Make sure Republicans know this disaster is entirely on their heads.

My Congressman is a former car thief, Darryl Issa. So dumb as a doorknob...

[FakeNoose]

3. It's odd that they would name a Saturday as the deadline, isn't it?

I'm guessing that they made it Saturday, January 3rd because the federal offices were closed on the 1st and 2nd.

[Joinfortmill]

4. Ha! It ain't going away, Trumpy, you pervert.

[JustKay]

6. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" The Wizard of Oz.

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It's all about distraction.

[PSPS]

7. "Epstein Deadline Arrives as Lazy Media Chases Venezuela Distraction"

[J_William_Ryan]

9. "Trump is a psychotic monster who MUST be stopped"

And how exactly will Trump be stopped.

What mechanics of American governance will stop Trump.

The impeachment process has been eliminated by House Republicans who will never impeach and Senate Republicans who will never convict.

Section 4 of the 25th Amendment is just as useless – Vance and Trump’s criminal cabinet would never invoke.

Trump is the consequence of the Founding Generation’s failure where they feared the people more than they feared the manifestation of an authoritarian despot.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. "they feared the people more than they feared the manifestation of an authoritarian despot."

Probably because they had no experience with a non-monarch-lead despotic system of government and couldn't conceive of someone with or without inherited wealth, actually taking on the mantle of families descended from monarchs.