A new report published on Sunday has some FBI experts' heads spinning.
Legal analyst Allison Gill, who authors the popular newsletter Mueller She Wrote, published a report detailing that about 1,000 FBI personnel were assigned to review 300,000 pages of the Jeffrey Epstein files and flag any mentions of President Donald Trump. Any mentions of the president were logged in an Excel spreadsheet, the report adds.
The report included some searing details as well. For instance, it says FBI agents received video training on an unsecured network about how to review the files. The files were also kept on a shared drive for the entire department to see. Under more normal circumstances, permission to view the files would have been limited to people with the appropriate security clearances, the report says.
"There was one confirmed mention of Donald Trump in the files reviewed by an analyst who again spoke on the condition of anonymity," Gill reported. "Beyond that, there were other instances of Trump appearing in the files, but the number of times and to what extent is unknown."
Social media lit up with reactions to the story.
"Oh my god," conservative and activist Rick Wilson, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, posted on X.
"Wowza," Republican lawyer George Conway wrote on X.
"This needs to be treated as a true blockbuster. So many layers of WTF," journalist Ed Moltzen wrote on Bluesky.
"1,000 FBI agents reviewed 300,000 documents for mentions of Trump," another Bluesky user posted. "That's considerably more effort than has been taken to protect the identities of the VICTIMS."
"So let me get this straight—there are training videos on how to flag Trump in the Epstein files… and the spreadsheet does exist? But sure, let’s keep pretending this is all some leftist fever dream while the GOP turns into a full-blown gaslight cult," reads another post on Bluesky.
One popular account, called KT 'Special MI6 Operation', said, "Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. You don't instruct 1,000 FBI agents to look for references to Donald J Trump unless you know you're in the files."