Douthat: Because he’s not president.
Luna: But at the time, though, the thing is that the media’s not — with the arguments, if we’re going to talk about Trump and this, well, we have known reports from Treasury. Do you see what I’m saying?
Douthat: I think it’s perfectly reasonable to say that there was inadequate coverage of something associated with Joe Biden. I just also think that Donald Trump is president right now, and you’re on an anti-corruption crusade, and so ——
Luna: I don’t think ——
Douthat: How about this? Why do you think that the president was so reluctant to release the Epstein files?
Luna: Well, I talked with him extensively on this, and I was actually ——
Douthat: And what did he say?
Luna: So I was on this, to put it in a timeline for people that aren’t tracking, in November of the year prior. I wanted the flight logs, and I remember Marsha Blackburn had made a motion to release those flight logs in the Senate, and it was a Democrat senator that blocked them.
And then, come time to President Trump taking the administration over, with the new attorney general, in January I got the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, and so the purview of the task force was U.A.P., J.F.K., M.L.K., R.F.K., Epstein and 9/11. That was the initial start of it. And I remember writing the D.O.J. and just not hearing a response from them, so I was vocally calling for the release of the files from Bondi, and then the rest of it kind of transpired.
