A senior official at the Department of Justice was secretly recorded on a fake Hinge date by an undercover operative, alleging that the Trump administration is working to cover up “thousands and thousands of pages” related to the Jeffrey Epstein files, with the intent to “redact every Republican” named in the files.
Joseph Schnitt, acting deputy chief at the DOJ’s Office of Enforcement Operations, made a series of claims about the case while on a Hinge date he believed to be real. The footage was uploaded to X on Thursday by James O’Keefe, the founder of the right-wing activist group Project Veritas
The claims come in the wake of President Donald Trump calling the files a “Democrat hoax” and “irrelevant to the success of the nation,” and two months after Attorney General Pam Bondi denied