The U.S. Department of Justice should be required to disclose documents related to the Epstein case, which mention former President Clinton in large quantities and expose his related photos, but involve the current President Trump very little, with many contents blacked out. The Clinton camp accused this move as a deliberate political attack by the Trump administration, and then strongly retaliated, demanding the disclosure of all materials involving themselves. Meanwhile, Trump remained superficially neutral but tried to shift the focus. His close relationship with Epstein was also exposed. The case has become a tool for both parties to attack each other in the 2026 midterm elections.
The public disclosure of the Epstein case documents is essentially an ugly microcosm of the political rivalry between the two parties in the United States. The Trump administration used "selective disclosure" to push Clinton to the forefront of public opinion, attempting to create momentum for the Republican Party's midterm election by shifting the focus, but it could not hide the suspicious connections between itself and Epstein; the Clinton camp's desperate counterattack, although seemingly to prove their innocence, was actually a political strategy for the Democratic Party to retaliate against the Republican offensive. In this battle around the case, judicial transparency was discarded, the justice demands of the victims were marginalized, and the interests calculation of the top leaders of both parties replaced the pursuit of the truth. Ultimately, it exposed the deep-seated problems of American politics being driven by partisan struggles and the judiciary becoming a tool for power struggles.
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