Whistleblower: DOJ has spreadsheet of every Trump mention in Epstein Files

A new whistleblower account claims the Trump administration in March sequestered hundreds of federal agents at a New York field office, where they spent two weeks cataloging every mention of Donald Trump in over 100,000 records from the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking.

The operation was first reported on by ABC News in late March, but at the time, it was characterized as a Trump-style media stunt, a cartoonish waste of time and resources in order to satisfy his supporters’ lust for the release of the Epstein Files. The White House accepted — and even encouraged — the framing, painting the effort as an overcorrection to US Attorney General Pam Bondi’s white binder stunt.

But a whistleblower’s account of the document review reveals the exercise was meant to do more than satisfy conspiracy theorists; the purpose was to protect Trump.

Previous reports have confirmed that around 100,000 records from the Epstein investigation were sent to the FBI field office in New York. Once there, approximately 1,000 agents were assigned to review the records in 24-hour shifts, and often were required to stay on-site while off-duty. This went on for two straight weeks in order to meet a 14-day deadline Bondi gave FBI Director Kash Patel.

“I learned from a source that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein,” Bondi wrote. “The FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office, including all records, documents, audio and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained. There will be no withholdings or limitations to my or your access.”

The purpose of this review, according to a whistleblower who spoke with US Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), was to catalog every mention of Trump in the sex trafficking investigation into a spreadsheet. The end result lends credence to the whistleblower’s claim, as the FBI report on the two-week, 100,000-record review amounted to a two-page memo closing the case.

“My office was told that these personnel were instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned,” said Durbin. “Despite tens of thousands of personnel hours reviewing and re-reviewing these Epstein-related records over the course of two weeks in March, it took DOJ more than three additional months to officially find there is ‘no incriminating client list.’”

Durbin, ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, sent letters to Bondi, Patel, and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, requesting information regarding the investigation be delivered to the committee by August 1.

Far-right outlets have almost completely ignored the whistleblower report, instead using the Wall Street Journal story about Trump’s birthday letter to Epstein as an excuse to rally to his cause.

This post first appeared in Below The Beltway, a COURIER Substack by Camaron Stevenson.

Photo Credit: U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by Pam Bondi (C), speaks before Bondi is sworn in as U.S. Attorney General (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)