During a casual meeting arranged through the dating app Hinge, a senior Justice Department official was secretly recorded in what is being called a “honeytrap,” boasting about a plan to help shield Republicans from impending backlash over Jeffrey Epstein’s client files. Supporters of President Donald Trump are worried the “deep state” is working overtime to take him down.

The DOJ has since gone into damage-control mode, scrambling to contain the fallout, with the episode highlighting how the fight over the unreleased files has become entangled in political theater.

At the center of the controversy is Joseph Schnitt, an acting deputy chief under Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was secretly recorded on two dates set up through Hinge by a woman reportedly working with James O’Keefe’s conser

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