"Rather than exposing the powerful men who participated in the sexual trafficking of children and apparently escaped accountability, the dump of thousands of decontextualized pages created something closer to a controlled obscurement. The method was almost elegant: hide it in plain sight, all of it, at once, with no index, no context, and no map. Technically public. Practically unreadable. Volume becomes its own fog."
"But just as the story was gaining national momentum, the national focus tilted elsewhere. Tensions with Iran have escalated. Cable news segments are being filled with maps, retired generals, and countdown clocks. The country's attention quickly pivoted from document review to the prospect of military action because it's the shiny news narrative object. Trump has not simply adapted to the velocity of modern political coverage he has defined it."
"I have watched that firehosed conditioning happen in real time the way a single tweet could detonate a day's editorial planning, how producers learned to hold their rundowns loosely because something louder was always coming. I have been part of the problem in rearranging a hierarchy of importance that was suddenly shifted at the speed of his next provocation, insult, or baseless theory."
The Trump administration released thousands of Epstein-related pages in a way that made them technically public but practically unreadable, with no index, context, or map. The bulk release turned volume into a fog that minimized visibility into who participated in the trafficking of children. President Trump declared himself exonerated and the Justice Department signaled the matter was finished. National attention quickly shifted to escalating tensions with Iran, filling cable news with maps, generals, and countdown clocks. Decades of Trump's disruptive media behavior trained newsrooms to expect sudden pivots, and a single provocation could upend editorial plans, preventing sustained attention on complex accountability stories like Epstein.
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