General Discussion

James O’Keefe, the oft-debunked disinformation-peddler (who was ousted in 2023 from the conservative activist group Project Veritas), posted one of his sting-style videos in which the department’s acting deputy chief at the Office of Enforcement Operations, Joseph Schnitt, discusses internal DOJ feuds over the release of files related to deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and the department’s decision to move convicted Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security prison.

Given O’Keefe’s track record of dubiously editing hidden-camera clips to advance his political agenda (which I've covered here for MSNBC in the past), the substance of this particular video should be taken with a boulder-sized grain of salt. But that O’Keefe’s agenda now appears to include targeting the Trump administration over an alleged cover-up of the Epstein files is indicative of the growing right-wing backlash to the administration’s efforts to block the files’ release.