re: What happened to the Epstein files being released?

The old traditional answer to that would be with a firewall between DOJ & the President on particular cases, it's Bondi's call, but Trump clearly doesn't respect that. If he really wanted the info released, we'd be hearing him harangue her in public/truth social or be getting lots of leaked stories about conflict behind the scenes with him demanding and her pushing back as you saw with previous AG's Sessions and Barr. There's none of that. He's fine with this.