Reminder: Epstein Isn’t the Only Trump-Related Scandal DOJ Is Covering Up

A majority of Americans believe that Donald Trump is trying to cover up the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein (and half of them are convinced that the president himself was involved), and his Department of Justice is doing very little to disabuse them of that notion.

In defiance of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the DOJ keeps withholding documents, including information that reflects poorly on Trump (to put it mildly).

And while this is certainly the highest-profile case in which Attorney General Pam Bondi and her department seem to be covering something up for the president, it’s important to remember that it is not the only one.

In fact, “the most transparent administration in history” appears to be doing so routinely.

Which brings us to a prosecution memo released to Congress this week that provided specifics regarding some of the documents that Trump took with him to Mar-a-Lago after his 2020 coup attempt failed.

According to a letter from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, to Bondi, the memo, which was compiled by the team of special counsel Jack Smith, also detailed that some of the classified documents had information that could have been useful to Trump’s business interests.

“These new disclosures suggest that Donald Trump stole documents so sensitive that only six people in the entire US government had access to them, that the documents President Trump stole pertained to his business interests, and that Susie Wiles, then the CEO of Donald Trump’s super PAC, witnessed President Trump showing off a classified map to passengers on his private plane,” Raskin wrote. “This glimpse into the trove of evidence behind the coverup reveals a President of the United States who may have sold out our national security to enrich himself.”

While this potential motive was not detailed in the eventual indictment, that does not mean that Smith could not have presented it at trial.

The reason why the public has not seen this information is that the DOJ and Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge who slow-walked the criminal case against the man who appointed her to the bench, have been working hard to keep Smith’s report on Trump’s hoarding of the classified documents hidden.

Raskin hopes to change that. The lawmaker notes that it is especially important that this information sees the light of day now that the nation is at war.

“It is now clear that DOJ is in possession of evidence that President Trump has already endangered national security to further the interests of Trump family businesses,” Raskin stated. “It is time for you to stop the cover-up and allow the American people to know what secrets he betrayed and how he may have cashed in on them. Our country is at war, American lives are at stake, and the answer to these questions has never been more pressing.”

Ironically, the lawmaker notes, the prosecution memo only came to light when the DOJ selectively released documents to the committee in an effort to smear Smith and his team.

“Apparently blinded by the frenzied search to find any scrap of evidence that could be twisted and distorted to level an attack against Special Counsel Smith (despite constantly coming up empty-handed), you have, quite amazingly, missed the fact that some of the documents you provided include damning evidence about your boss’s conduct and may well violate the gag order your DOJ and Donald Trump demanded from Judge Aileen Cannon,” he wrote.

As a result, the lawmaker argues, now is the time for the DOJ to “cease cherry-picking investigative materials and produce all remaining investigative files, including memoranda, emails, and analyses prepared by the Special Counsel’s Office by 5:00 p.m. on April 14, 2026.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded by claiming that Raskin has “zero credibility” and calling the letter a “cheap political stunt.”

She added that the lawmaker “took untrue and salacious claims in a memo that was produced by Jack Smith, who has been completely discredited for his lawfare and his witch hunts against this president, and that information was unverified.”

It should be noted that Smith has absolutely not been discredited and that the only reason Trump wasn’t tried for hoarding the documents and staging a coup was that he successfully ran out the clock.

As for the accuracy of the information, there is an easy way to get to the heart of what happened: The administration could live up to its claim of being “the most transparent in history” and release all of these documents, as well as the second part of Smith’s report, and let the American people decide for themselves.