Michael Cohen - The Art of Strategic Transparency
I’ve spent a good chunk of my life watching lawyers promise compliance while quietly planning creative ways not to deliver it. So when the Department of Justice says it will “comply” with the law by today, forgive me if I don’t feel reassured. I feel… nostalgic.
Because in Trumpworld, comply has never meant obey. It means run out the clock, redact aggressively, and dare anyone to stop you.
By actual statute—passed by Congress with near-unanimous support and signed by President Trump himself—the DOJ is required to release all unclassified records related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell by today. Not some. Not a teaser trailer. Not the “nothing-to-see-here” edition. All of it. FBI files. DOJ deliberations. Charging decisions. Networks. Names. The stuff powerful people hope never sees daylight.
The law even spells it out for the slow readers in the back: documents cannot be withheld due to embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity.
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