Maga Influencer Embarrassed By Infamous Epstein Binder Photo Said He Won’t Help With Release Of Trump’s Ufo Files

Last year, MAGA influencer Rogan O’Handley participated successful an infamous White House photograph op, wherever he was photographed alongside likeminded activists holding a binder branded “The Epstein Files: Phase 1.”

Unfortunately, nan overmuch anticipated merchandise by then-Attorney General Pam Bondi turned retired to incorporate thing caller astir nan crimes of nan politically-connected pedophile Jeffrey Epstein – leaving MAGA figures who had spent years demanding caller accusation emotion cheated.

Now, he says he regrets nan acquisition and plans to play nary domiciled successful nan administration’s adjacent promised disclosure: the UFO files.

“Happy to study that I will *not* beryllium helping merchandise nan UFO Files,” O’Handley, known arsenic DC Draino, wrote connected X to his 2.3 cardinal followers connected Wednesday.

In February, President Donald Trump signed an executive bid directing national agencies to merchandise records related to unidentified aerial phenomena and extraterrestrial life. None person been made nationalist truthful far, but FBI Director Kash Patel said this week that documents would beryllium disclosed “very soon.”

“If personification tries to manus maine a binder, I will fto it autumn to nan ground,” O’Handley wrote. After a commenter observed that he had learned his lesson, he responded: “To opportunity nan slightest lol.”

O’Handley was 1 of 15 right-wing influencers to recreation to nan White House connected February 27, 2025, wherever Bondi handed them binders branded “The Epstein Files: Phase 1.” They were spotted smiling and proudly displaying nan materials to nan property extracurricular nan West Wing.

But, their enthusiasm complete nan government’s willingness to merchandise records related to convicted activity offender Epstein – who died successful a New York jailhouse while facing charges of kid trafficking successful 2019 – quickly faded.

After flipping done nan documents contained successful nan binders, respective influencers complained that they appeared to incorporate thing much than accusation that was already publically available.

Bondi later put retired a connection saying, “The first shape of declassified files mostly contains documents that person been antecedently leaked but ne'er released successful a general capacity by nan U.S. Government.”

In July, nan DOJ released a memo stating it would make nary further disclosures successful nan case, sparking a activity of backlash from high‑profile MAGA figures complete surgery promises.

It was only aft Trump signed nan Epstein Files Transparency Act successful November — pursuing mounting unit from Democrats and respective Republicans — that nan DOJ began releasing its files connected Epstein successful compliance pinch nan caller national law.

Millions of documents — galore naming salient politicians specified arsenic Trump and erstwhile President Bill Clinton — were yet released, though ample portions were heavy redacted. Neither man has been accused of immoderate criminal discourtesy successful narration to their erstwhile relationship pinch nan disgraced financier, and some person denied immoderate wrongdoing.

In January, then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that nan DOJ had vanished publishing its files related to Epstein.

"Today's merchandise marks nan extremity of a very broad archive recognition and reappraisal process to guarantee transparency to nan American group and compliance pinch nan act," Blanche, who is now acting lawyer general, said astatine a news conference.

Yet a number of lawmakers person complained that galore records are still being withheld.

“I constitute to definitive superior concerns regarding nan Department of Justice’s nonaccomplishment to supply transparency astir nan afloat beingness of records associated pinch nan Jeffrey Epstein investigation, including nan astir six cardinal files nan Department has many times referenced but not afloat released,” Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, wrote to Blanche successful April.

On Wednesday, Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, testified down closed doors to nan House Oversight Committee astir his ain relations pinch Epstein. Lutnick has not been accused of immoderate offense.

Bondi – who was fired arsenic Attorney General successful April – is group to attest earlier nan House Oversight Committee adjacent period astir her domiciled successful handling nan merchandise of nan Epstein files.

Several polls show that galore Americans are dissatisfied pinch nan measurement nan management has handled nan Epstein files. According to a YouGov study released successful February, 53 percent of Americans judge Trump is “trying to screen up Epstein’s crimes.”