President Donald Trump's latest "flagrant violation" of the law left a Democratic analyst stunned on Sunday.
Last week, the Trump administration released a new tranche of documents related to the FBI's investigation into disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. The files included several documents that were damaging to Trump, but progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen noted that the papers also seemed to violate the law.
Cohen pointed to the redactions on an email about Trump ally Steve Bannon having a photo of Epstein's associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, on his phone.
Cohen discussed the reactions in a new reaction video on Sunday night.
"The law, as it relates to the Epstein Transparency Act, is that redactions only apply for victims and minors and that they expressly do not apply to protect politicians," Cohen said. "Well, unless either Donald Trump or Ghislaine Maxwell is a victim — they're not — then the only reason that this photo is redacted is to protect Trump. That's it."
"Meaning we're not only witnessing more evidence of a cover-up, but a move in flagrant violation of the clear text of the law," he continued.
Trump has routinely tried to obfuscate or delay the release of the Epstein files despite promising to release them while on the 2024 campaign trail. The Epstein Transparency Act required the Department of Justice to release all files in its possession by December 19. The DOJ missed that deadline, and has since claimed it "found" more than one million additional documents.
