If you were dying to check out the Epstein files on paper for some factor, you can now save yourself some printer ink. A reading room including all 3.5 million pages of records connected to Jeffrey Epstein that were released by the Department of Justice opens Friday in a Tribeca gallery. (You have to RSVP for the address, it appears.) The by-appointment-only pop-up is being placed on by a not-for-profit called the Institute for Main Truths and will likewise consist of a timeline of Epstein and Donald Trump’s relationship. Thusly named the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Space, the task is part art setup, part museum exhibition, and part cursed archive where the only reading products are e-mails to and from Jeffrey Epstein.
Image: Anna Maria Lopez
Photo: Anna Maria Lopez There are 3,437 volumes including 17,000 pounds of files. Why do this? “The Reading Room keeps spotlight repaired on the crimes of Epstein and the Epstein class, and on Trump’s desperate efforts to bury them,” per the project’s website. The organizer of the exhibition informed Wired that while members of the public can view the area and the timeline, only journalists and law enforcement can really check out the files, because the DoJ failed to redact a few of the names of victims. The entire thing will be open until May 21.
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