Many people are saying the Epstein files were not released because Trump was on them, but after some thinking that is not the case. If he was, that would have been the holy grail to the dems, a weapon that would have put trump in jail for life. They have already shown us they are willing to use anything and everything to stop Trump, no matter how underhanded. If he was on the island they would have pulled out that evidence during his trial during the Biden admin and put him away for good. But that is not the case. There was no evidence of this, or they would have already used it by now.
The only other options I can think of is either its being kept by Trump for use as leverage against others, or the files do not exist or were destroyed.
While the moral and correct thing would be to release the files if they exist, politics is a dirty, dirty, game. Trump knows this, and a full client list or sex tapes of Epstein island is the perfect leverage against who knows how many political opponenets. Thinking as a politician would, to throw away such a tool would be foolish. This is what i beleive is actually happening, but we will have to see.
And then there is the option where the files simply do not exist or were destroyed. It could be that around the time Epstein was arrested, the evidence was simply destroyed by a 3 letter agency. Or the evidence is scattered all over the place and still has yet to be found. Or there was just not much evidence to begin with. Or of could have fallen into the wrong hands, like the Mossad, China, etc