qwant news | An Epstein ’reading room’ is showing 3.5m printed-out files. Why does it feel like a troll?
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The Institute for Primary Facts has turned a Tribeca gallery into the “Donald J Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room,” a pop‑up library that prints and binds the 3.5 million pages of government‑released Epstein files into 3,437 volumes, lines the walls with floor‑to‑ceiling shelves, and displays a timeline of allegations against Trump and Epstein together with 1,400 artificial candles to symbolize the victims. billed as an “exercise in radical transparency,” the free exhibit is open by appointment but most visitors cannot handle the documents because of survivor‑privacy concerns; organizers say the physical space gives context that digital scrolling obscures, while critics argue that binding the files makes them harder to read, that the project is more aesthetic than educational, and that the money could have funded more useful archival work, exposing the tension between the desire to keep Trump’s alleged ties to Epstein in the public eye and the need for thoughtful, accessible documentation of the abuse.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/20/epstein-files-reading-room
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