A Name-by-Name Reality Check on the Epstein Files

In a public moment that should not be ignored, Melanie Stansbury posted a list of Trump administration figures and political insiders who appear in the Epstein files.

Not rumors. Not internet speculation. Names in official records.

Here is the list she shared:

• Donald J. Trump (President)

• Melania Trump (First Lady)

• Howard Lutnick (Secretary of Commerce)

• John Phelan (Secretary of the Navy)

• Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center Appointee)

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Secretary of HHS)

• Kevin Warsh (Federal Reserve Nominee)

• Mehmet Oz (Administrator for CMS)

• Elon Musk (Former DOGE Lead)

• Steve Bannon (Former Senior Advisor)

• Alex Acosta (Former Secretary of Labor)

• William Barr (Former Attorney General)

• Brett Ratner (Film Director)

• Ben Black (DFC)

Let’s be clear about what this is and what it is not.

Being named in these files is not the same as being convicted of a crime.

But it is evidence of proximity. Access. Overlap with a trafficking operation that operated in plain sight for years.

And that matters.

What should disturb everyone is not just who is on this list.

It is how many of them rose to the highest levels of power afterward.

Cabinet posts. Regulatory control. National influence. Institutional protection.

For decades, Jeffrey Epstein moved through elite circles because powerful people let him.

Protected him. Normalized him. Benefited from the silence.

Now the public is finally seeing the map.

This is not about partisan point scoring.

It is about accountability.

It is about whether a society that claims to care about victims is willing to confront the people who enabled their abuser.

If these names make you uncomfortable, they should.

That discomfort is called reality.

And it is long overdue.