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When you protest too much, we all think you’re hiding something

By Jesse Beatson on November 13, 2025
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If you’re fighting this hard to hide a file, everyone already knows what’s in it.

Donald Trump trying to stop the release of the Epstein files feels a lot like that lawyer in discovery who really doesn’t want to turn over a document.

You know the type. They argue every privilege, invent new ones, insist it’s “irrelevant,” “burdensome,” or “confidential.” They huff and puff, threaten sanctions, and act personally insulted that anyone would even dare to ask for it.

And every lawyer in the room thinks the same thing: There’s something in that file they don’t want us to see. They’re trying to hide the truth.

Because if there’s truly nothing there, you just produce it. You turn it over, prove your point, and move on. Transparency kills speculation. Obstruction feeds it.

If Trump really wanted to show there’s nothing in the Epstein Files, he’d be first in line to release them. Instead, he’s fighting like that obstructionist lawyer who knows exactly what’s in the folder—and exactly why it can’t see daylight.

Anyone who fights transparency this aggressively ends up in the same place. You can stall, you can spin, you can throw every objection in the book—but the truth has a way of pushing through the cracks. Files get opened. Witnesses cooperate. Courts lose patience. And the fallout isn’t just the facts, it’s the obvious panic behind the cover-up.

Because in law, politics, and life, innocent people don’t fight this hard to hide the truth. They open the file, smile, and say, “See? Nothing there.”

The louder you scream “Don’t look!”, the clearer it becomes that we should.

     

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