By Tom Speck

BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell drops an Epstein bombshell that could DESTROY Trump’s efforts to bury the truth.

Ghislaine Maxwell may be currently spending her days locked away in a cushy Texas prison, but from behind bars, she just detonated a truth grenade that she hurled straight into the heart of Trump’s favorite cover-up.

Buried inside a desperate habeas petition filed to help get her out of prison, Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted accomplice casually references “four co-conspirators” and “25 men” who allegedly reached “secret settlements” tied to Epstein’s abuse — and were never indicted. Not questioned. Not charged. Not named. Just quietly protected.

Which raises the question the Trump Justice Department is working overtime to dodge: Who are these men — and why is the DOJ shielding them?

Congress already tried to end this charade. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed by Donald Trump himself in November, orders the DOJ to release unclassified Epstein records. No loopholes. No excuses. Mandatory. Yet Pam Bondi’s Justice Department is still slow-walking, redacting, and delaying like it’s hoping the public will look away.

Unfortunately for Bondi and the rest of the complicit Trump Administration, the public interest in the Epstein files refuses to fade away.

Even the most unlikely bipartisan duo — Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna — are livid. They’ve accused the DOJ of defying the law, demanded timelines, and warned that subpoenas are coming. When libertarians and progressives agree that something stinks, it really stinks.

And this isn’t hypothetical. We’ve already seen how the Epstein cover-up system works: settlement, no indictment, silence enforced. Billionaire Leon Black, a Trump ally and former Apollo CEO, paid $62.5 million to settle Epstein-related claims with the U.S. Virgin Islands. No charges. No trial. Just a giant check and a silent exit — despite having paid Epstein roughly $170 million for so-called “financial advice.”

Multiply that by 25 men and suddenly Maxwell’s filing doesn’t look like noise — it looks like a roadmap.

So what does Trump do when Epstein’s name resurfaces? He deflects. Greenland. Venezuela. A White House ballroom. Anything but transparency. Because if the files were harmless, they’d already be public. If the names didn’t matter, nobody would be fighting this hard to keep them hidden.

The law is clear. The silence is not. And every day the DOJ stalls, it makes one thing unmistakable: this isn’t incompetence — it’s protection.