The Trump team downplayed the Epstein files. Andrew’s arrest and other probes show how rash that was.
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2026 3:02 am
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/19/poli ... rew-arrest
In mid-2025, when the Trump administration suddenly felt compelled to downplay the Jeffrey Epstein files, officials said they didn’t have enough evidence to prompt any additional investigations of third parties.
The memo didn’t just say there wasn’t evidence to charge anyone else, mind you; it said there wasn’t even evidence to investigate “uncharged third parties.”
That broad assertion in an unsigned FBI memo has proved to be a rather rash conclusion — most recently and emphatically by Thursday’s arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Prince Andrew, in the UK.