By VICTORIA CHURCHILL, US POLITICAL REPORTER
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The White House has reportedly begun managing the Department of Justice’s X account in an effort to more aggressively combat theories and commentary surrounding the disclosure of theJeffrey Epstein files.
The DOJ’s social media presence has shed its traditional, reserved tone for a sharper, campaign-style approach typical of the Trump administrationmirroring the aggressive posture adopted by the Departments of Homeland Security and War, according to Axios.
Posts now counter online speculation while highlighting the document review’s scope and pace.
A DOJ team of about 200 has reviewed and disclosed roughly 750,000 records so far, with approximately 700,000 more awaiting examination.
However, many files are duplicates or administratively redundant, meaning the final release will include thousandsnot hundreds of thousandsof new documents.
‘This will end soon,’ one official told Axios of the disclosure effort, adding that ‘the conspiracy theories won’t.’
The aggressive shift reflects broader frustration within the administration over persistent online narratives, even as officials emphasize they are meeting legal requirements and transparency commitments set by Congress.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi during a press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, USA, 19 November 2025
US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 17, 2025
On Tuesday, the Justice Department released a major new batch of Epstein-related recordsover 11,000 files totaling nearly 30,000 pages of photos, court records, FBI and DOJ documents, emails, news clippings, and videos.
Congressman Ro Khanna, a California Democrat who co-led the congressional push to release the Epstein files, called Tuesday’s batch ‘a bombshell.’
He noted the files revealed Trump flew on Epstein’s plane at least eight times between 1993-1996’many more times’ than a federal prosecutor previously knew, according to a 2020 email.
Khanna accused the DOJ of ‘spending more time protecting the Epstein class than the survivors, whose names are required by law to be redacted.’
Republican Thomas Massie, who partnered with Khanna on the Congressional discharge petition to release the files, asked Wednesday who was ‘controlling the DOJ X account on Christmas Eve and using words like dope to refer to reporters?’ in a post on X.
Meanwhile, former Obama-era national security advisor and Pod Save America co-host Tommy Vietor called Bondi’s Department of Justice ‘ridiculously incompetent.’
Legal and transparency experts caution that the documents, while significant, should be interpreted with care: many are duplicates, heavily redacted, or contain allegations or inferences rather than proven facts.