>>509944875DC beltway insider here.
What is actually happening is that the Trump administration realized that releasing the list would end up just being another nothingburger. Everyone already knows that pretty much everyone in the rich elite world had some kind of connection to Epstein at some point and "Oh wow, Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew visited Pedo Island, what a shocker."
Instead, they are going around to everyone that Epstein had dirt on and telling them that Trump has the secret recordings Epstein made of them raping kids, and if they don't bend the knee and do everything Trump tells them to do, he is going to completely destroy them and send them to prison to get raped by prison niggers for the rest of their lives.
No one outside of a handful of people actually knows exactly what kinds of evidence/blackmail the administration has on anyone. Everyone who had even the most tenuous and peripheral connection to Epstein is silently shitting bricks right now.