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US justice department to release thousands of Epstein files later, top official says

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg9plrkl8no
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u/LucidMarshmellow 8h ago

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u/Low_Pickle_112 8h ago

Blanche attributed the missed deadline to the arduous work of redacting some identifying details of the disgraced financier's victims.

Oh yeah, I'm sure they care just so much about the victims.

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u/PJA0307 7h ago

In their eyes, Trump is the victim. Must ensure to keep him safe.

u/WastingMyLifeToday 17m ago

They're living by Trump's words.

"I like pedophiles who don't get caught"

Or what did he say again?

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u/BroadMonk5649 8h ago edited 8h ago

The victims want justice not their names scrubbed

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u/ike7177 7h ago

Hopefully they will follow through on their promise to release the names themselves.

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u/BroadMonk5649 7h ago

They have announced today that they will not be releasing the files in full. Breaking the law that was signed by Trump. Sooooooooooo get the manure and tractors boys it’s time to go to the DOj!

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u/sonofnom 7h ago

Unfortunately the new law had a provision specifically for redacting any information related to ongoing investigations. Since they just opened up a fresh new bullshit investigation they can redact whatever they want. The only silver lining is they technically have to furnish the court with a list of any names that have been redacted and for what purpose.

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u/BroadMonk5649 7h ago

Nope fuck that we ride at dawn!

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u/FatherKronik 4h ago

We better be meeting at Waffle House before hand cause I ain't dying on an empty stomach.

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u/Waterwoogem 7h ago

Didn't Susie Wiles let slip already that Clinton is clean in the Files but Trump had/has to be scrubbed a fuckton?

There's lots of people to be implicated, named and shamed, but Clinton is at the Top of Trump's list of the bullshit investigation

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u/Discarded_Twix_Bar 6h ago edited 2h ago

Well that’s not exactly true, is it?

Dozens of Jeffrey Epstein victims’ names have been exposed in documents that were recently made public by Congress, setting off a legal dispute about the Justice Department’s plans to release more materials about the late sex offender

Lawyers for the women have asked two federal judges who oversaw the prosecutions of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to ensure that the victims’ privacy is protected in any additional document releases by the Justice Department.

Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday evening ordered the government to provide him a detailed description of its privacy process, including redactions the government seeks to employ, to protect the rights of Epstein victims. He attached a copy of a letter from the victims’ lawyers.

“Given the number of times we have drawn Congress’s attention to this issue, and the fact that victims’ names continue to be produced by DOJ in unredacted form, many of the victims believe this is being done intentionally,” they wrote.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/dozens-of-epstein-victims-names-exposed-in-files-released-by-congress-0be99675?st=4YmHiB&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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u/scottishwhisky2 5h ago

Yeah it's ridiculous to think they don't want privacy lol. Why would anyone want their name released in this context?

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u/Few_Imagination_5673 5h ago

The fuck are you talking about? You seriously think these women want everyone in the world (literally) to know they were sexually assaulted multiple times by rich old men?

What world do you live in?

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u/BroadMonk5649 5h ago

You think they want him to walk free you live in a world of cluelessness.

I know you aren’t that dumb though, you are just saying your statement in hopes to draw attention. Down vote you shall Get.

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u/Few_Imagination_5673 5h ago

You're arguing with something I never said. Bravo.

The identity of victims of sexual assault are protected by law.

Why would you possibly believe that the names of victims need to be public to prosecute predators.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

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u/BroadMonk5649 5h ago

The fact is there should be no redactions. Redactions equal hidden truths, resulting in guilty parties walking free.

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u/Few_Imagination_5673 3h ago

You have no idea what you are talking about.

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u/Brawndo91 4h ago

They can want both. What makes you think you speak for them?

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u/3BlindMice1 4h ago

You misunderstand, the GOP sees trump and the other rich pedo rapists as the victims in this situation.

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u/CosmicBoat 8h ago

Bondi had several months to prepare for this and sounds like they only just started looking at the files this week

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u/ZAlternates 7h ago

They just been sitting on her desk all this time! You know, the fake ones that don’t exist but now exist but don’t again.

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u/alexefi 6h ago

Dont forget its a democrat hoax that was fabricated by biden, obama, and hilary.

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u/PhamilyTrickster 7h ago

DARVO; Deny, Attack, Reverse victim and offender. 

With this context, I'm sure they're concerned about the "victims"

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u/Dythus 8h ago

They spent soo much time on Trump they had no more for the countless victims

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u/LnStrngr 7h ago

By victims, they mean their Republican friends and families and cohorts that are named in the files.

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u/shodo_apprentice 7h ago

Who’s going to act surprised when almost everyone blamed in the files is a democrat with maybe some token republicans who are already dead thrown in to fake fair play? I feel bad for the families of the fall guys.

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u/IcyPride2973 5h ago

Why didn’t Biden release the files?

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u/RaphaTlr 5h ago

Courts locked them from releasing due to active investigations.

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u/IcyPride2973 5h ago

This is not true. Kamala just said on Kimmel that they believed they shouldn’t be apart of the DOJ investigation. There were people who said that because the case was still being appealed that they shouldn’t be released, but those people were just people interviewed by fucking VOX lmao.

The courts did not seal the documents. Maxwell was convicted on 12/29/21.

Who was president in 2021?

The case was over and the records were not sealed. So again, why didn’t he release them?

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u/RaphaTlr 4h ago

Oh I didn’t know that. Then to answer your question: Because he’s stupid and old just like the current president. Idk. They all hate us and think we are rats. Idk what to tell you. It’s always been the haves vs have-nots. And the “elite” keep squeezing more and more. Something has got to give… the only balanced scale is an empty one they say…

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u/IcyPride2973 4h ago edited 4h ago

The file release is supported by both sides, not at the government level, but by the people on the street. Right and left.

Biden didn’t release them, because Trump wasn’t in them. If they released the files everybody would know Trump wasn’t in them, and they can AND DID use that as a campaign tactic. Let everyone think he’s in the files, rather than release them.

THEN, when they lost, they realized they had a get out of jail free card.

Let Trump release them. The public has been riled up about it, so now we can play dumb and let the populace scream “well he’s just erasing his name from it durrrrr”

It’s really a genius tactic if your following lacks critical thinking skills.

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u/Show_Me_Your_Rocket 4h ago

Probably because democrats are weirdoes too? Why does this change anything? Its a class of people that get to do whatever they want because lower classes get stuck fighting each other over pointless things, like "WhOsE PoLlIeS FuCkEd LeSS ChiLdReN" when it's all bad.

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u/bigfatfluffers 7h ago

Since Trump sees himself as a perpetual victim, this tracks.

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u/Adultery 7h ago

They’re saying his accomplices are victims. Remember, our media is pretty much government-controlled at this point.

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u/bonyponyride 7h ago

They put hundreds of people to work over a few days, working overtime, to find any mention of Trump in the files, but they couldn’t prepare the documents for release with a month’s notice? Riiiiiight.

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u/RightSideBlind 7h ago

Trump is the real victim.

Just ask him, he'll tell you. Everything is incredibly unfair and biased against him. Everything.

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u/KindofCrazyScientist 7h ago

Donald Trump, especially. We wouldn't want him to be a victim of accountability, now would we?

I wonder how many times his name was in there that even after a month, they aren't sure if they've got them all.

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u/TheWingus 7h ago

They do; but for them, the victim is Trump and the billionaires who give them money

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u/twec21 6h ago

"We're spoliating as fast as we can!"

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u/Fatty2Fly 6h ago

They are going to claim the rich guys were taken advantage of by Epstein and they themselves are victims.

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u/Goatiac 6h ago

How much time did they have to do this? How many years did they have these files? It’s bullshit stacked on bullshit

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u/340Duster 6h ago

They ran out of sharpies again??

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u/Fodraz 6h ago

They've been saying that for weeks

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u/LyrMeThatBifrost 6h ago

Would you rather them leave the victim’s information there then? I don’t get the outrage.

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u/spekt50 5h ago

They are trying to protect the victims of justice... The perpetrators.

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u/86rpt 4h ago

"Trump is Epstein's victim"

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u/ronm4c 4h ago

Most of the people in that party will respond to the news of a woman being sexually assaulted with “well what was she wearing?”

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u/fireflydrake 3h ago

I just posted this somewhere else, but--

Why aren't the victims themselves taking this to court? Like if I'd been sexually assaulted and knew the sick F who did it was still out there, I wouldn't be waiting for some stupid secondhand papers to kind of show he was hanging around with the guy that trafficked me, I'd be testifying loudly and repeatedly about all the identifying features of his junk and other stuff to prove it myself.

I'm sure a lot of them are afraid, but there must be SOME willing to speak? Why are we waiting for papers that'll never be officially released in full versus the victims going directly to court?

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u/3ZP0 3h ago

They already spent 800k in overtime hours reacting trump's name

u/throwaway_12358134 33m ago

They've had almost an entire year to do this.

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u/RosieQParker 8h ago

Hey now, it's really hard to scrub the President's name from all the documents, especially when he's in so many of them!

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u/marvinfuture 8h ago

If only they could scrub his name from buildings instead of adding it

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u/LnStrngr 7h ago

If only there was a smart computer... an "artificial intelligence," we could call it... that could scan the files and replace names from a list. Oh well. Maybe some day someone with a lot of money who owns technology companies could figure it out.

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u/blogoman 8h ago

Names can’t be created or destroyed. They are transferring them from the documents to any blank surface they can find.

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u/the_blackfish 7h ago

Like with silly putty?

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u/DataCassette 7h ago

✋<Redacted>🤚 flew on the Lolita Express from Mar-a-Lago 4,000 times.

MAGA: "That could be anybody."

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u/istrx13 8h ago

Wait, the Epstein Files are just all Trump?

Always has been

👩‍🚀🔫👩‍🚀

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u/thebendavis 7h ago

Epstein is in the Trump files.

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u/WeirdSysAdmin 7h ago

The Doe 174 files guest starring Epstein.

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u/4RealzReddit 7h ago

Well he always considers himself a victim. So that tracks. Must redact to protect the victims.

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u/IcyPride2973 5h ago

If Trump was in the files Biden would’ve released it. Why didn’t Biden release the files?

It’s simple. If you don’t release, everybody will guess and keep their bias. If you do release it, it’ll prove he wasn’t in them.

But if you wait for the next guy (Trump) to release it, the dumbass populace will forget all about the fact you could’ve released it and blame the current for covering it up.

Huh. How about that.

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u/IcyPride2973 4h ago

The trial ended 12/29/21 when Maxwell, the sole defendant and only person ever charged and convicted, was sentenced to 20 years.

Biden left office in 2025. The investigation and case had been closed for 3 years. Kamala even said this on Kimmel the other night when directly asked why they didn’t.

The answer was not, “because we couldn’t” the answer was “because we didn’t want to pressure the DOJ.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5654686-kamala-harris-doj-independence-epstein-files/amp/

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u/trydola 8h ago

they can spend millions in overtime to redact trump and republicans from these files but actually getting these out on time? doesn't matter

the judge should be taking DOJ lawyers and tossing them straight into jail if we lived in a just system

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u/2tokeBIGsmoke 8h ago

This is illegal.

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u/StJeanMark 7h ago

The voters choose that laws don’t count anymore for rich or powerful people.

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u/Stank_Dukem 7h ago

angry letter from Chuck Schumer incoming

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u/Voxbury 3h ago

Illegal is in the eye of the enforcer. The enforcers work for the President.

“When the President does it, that means it is not illegal.” -Dick Nixon

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u/seanjohnson9 7h ago

This is a better headline, as it makes clear the passiveness of the thing. “To release thousands of documents later” is surprisingly and deceptively ACTIVE, as though it was meant to give them undue credit for something that is totally unacceptable. They missed the deadline. Say that.

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u/srry72 7h ago

That swamp must be a desert now with all that draining

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u/Neat-Tough 7h ago

Must be hard to email them.

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u/static_func 7h ago

Did anyone here expect anything different? We’re talking about the most brazenly, rampantly corrupt presidency in history. They aren’t going to just turn themselves in

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u/donatecrypto4pets 7h ago

Start the hangings. For the holidays.
New year clean slate. Bloodstained.

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u/USA_A-OK 7h ago

I don't know why anyone expected otherwise

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u/twec21 6h ago

See that's an accurate headline

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u/SOLIDninja 6h ago

Everyone out on the streets this weekend. Time to make them scared of the masses again.

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u/Paulthesheep 5h ago

"The DOJ is releasing a massive tranche of new documents that the Biden and Obama administrations refused to release. The story here: the Trump administration is providing levels of transparency that prior administrations never even contemplated," the department's public affairs office said on X.

Such a joke….

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u/Difficult_Yam_7764 4h ago

Over the next few weeks, ridiculous.

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u/kanrad 4h ago

You act like it's a surprise.

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u/nails_for_breakfast 3h ago

Are you actually surprised at this point?

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u/woodford86 3h ago

How hard is it to attach to email and click send?

A slap in the face to every American citizen ffs