‘Uh what?’ Trump’s DOJ said to make startling admission in response to Epstein allegation

The Justice Department (DOJ) raised eyebrows Saturday with its response to allegations that the Trump administration was “impeding” an active investigation into Jeffrey Epstein – a response that some critics said appeared to be a startling admission.In a social media post published on Friday, independent journalist Aaron Parnas wrote “not enough people are talking about” the DOJ allegedly stonewalling an ongoing probe into Epstein’s property in New Mexico, and alleged that the Trump administration was impeding the only active criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.”The official DOJ “Rapid Response” account responded to Parnas’ post with the following statement: “We are.”While the DOJ did not specify whether it was responding to Parnas’ claim that “not enough people” were “talking about” or his allegation that the Trump administration was “impeding” the ongoing probe into Epstein’s property, the response nonetheless sparked confusion among onlookers.“Uh what?” wrote conservative journalist Olivia Rondeau of Breitbart News in a social media post on X to her more than 113,000 followers.Damon Toell, a New York attorney and political commentator, asked “what did they mean by this,” and Parnas himself suggested that the DOJ’s response was a blatant admission of wrongdoing.“The DOJ just responded to my tweet and admitted it is impeding the only criminal investigation into the Epstein files,” Parnas wrote in a follow-up social media post on X to his nearly 340,000 followers.New Mexico Democratic Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused the DOJ this week of “causing real and escalating harm” regarding what he alleged to be the agency’s continued stonewalling of state officials’ investigation into Epstein's New Mexico property.“Every day that the DOJ withholds these records, the foundation upon which a New Mexico prosecution could be built erodes,” Torrez wrote in a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Witnesses relocate and become unreachable. Memories, already strained by years of trauma, fade further. Physical and documentary evidence degrades, is lost, or is rendered more difficult to authenticate with the passage of time.”The DOJ just responded to my tweet and admitted it is impeding the only criminal investigation into the Epstein files. pic.twitter.com/U2RfV959Dv— Aaron Parnas (@AaronParnas) July 11, 2026