Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson warned President Donald Trump on Monday that Jeffrey Epstein's survivors and the public won't give up on pursuing the truth.
In his Substack essay, the Lincoln Project co-founder described how "Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, Kash Patel, and the Department of Justice just abused Epstein’s victims to protect Donald Trump and his friends from accountability."
The move was intended to protect Trump and his allies, he wrote, but it revealed more about the inner workings of Trump's administration attempting to do damage control.
"This week, the Trump Justice Department did what this administration does best: it performed concern for victims while practicing control over the narrative," Wilson wrote. "They complied with the concept of accountability and the aesthetics of disclosure, then used wildly overbroad redactions, selective releases, and procedural gamesmanship to make sure the public learned as little as possible about the things that actually matter."
The betrayal against Epstein survivors was most striking, Wilson wrote.
"That’s the knife twist for the victims," he explained. "You survived the predators. You survived the system that shrugged or looked away or, worst of all, laughed it off, for years. And now you’re watching the system do it again; only this time, it’s live-streamed, branded, and spun as a nothingburger."
But the internet will be unlikely to let this go, Wilson added.
"Congratulations, geniuses. You just rediscovered the Streisand effect: the harder you try to bury something, the more you guarantee the Internet will dig it up with a backhoe and a marching band," Wilson wrote. "Pulling files made people search harder. Restoring them didn’t end the story…it proved the coverup."
It's now only a matter of time, he argued.
"This cover-up will not survive. They never do."