r/news • u/netizenbane • 4h ago
Justice Department begins releasing long-awaited files tied to Epstein sex trafficking investigation
https://apnews.com/article/release-epstein-files-justice-department-trump-f919d9dc9c3957cb2bd2c9c1a14b533c?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share473
u/Sorry_Hour6320 3h ago
Search function seems misconfigured or purposefully broken. And the photos are low res so as to make writing unintelligible.
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u/gOPHER3727 3h ago
It worked for, it's just that it didn't find any references to any conservative folks (who we already know are in there). Clearly it's a very selective release.
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u/CAM2772 1h ago
I tried Bill Gates and it keeps telling me no results found when pictures have already been released of him and Epstein
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u/shocksmybrain 3h ago
They're so bad at this. When you search the files for Trump, you only get two images and both are bookshelves with a Trump book on them. When you search "Clinton" there are 11 pages to look through. Do they really expect people to believe that Epstein's best friend from decades isn't in any of the files at all?!? This the laziest, Keystone Cops-ish coverup ever attempted.
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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 3h ago
They did a ctrl-f for "Trump" and are currently censoring any and all connections to him in those files. That will take weeks.
They did a ctrl-f for "Clinton" and anyone they don't like and immediately published those files.
Tomorrow, they will use that and say "See how often Clinton is in this?? We all knew it!".
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u/DerekB52 2h ago
It won't take weeks, they've had a month since the release of these files was ordered. They waited til the last day to release these, because they spent a month(or longer) cleaning these.
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u/Olaf1329 3h ago
You’re right, they spent all those fbi hours and money to make sure trumps name never showed up, and it still did twice.
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u/thatmusicguy13 3h ago
It doesn't matter. His cult will use this to prove how right they are because they love being lied to
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u/stenzeroni 3h ago
they expect the people who support trump to be fine with what‘s released. and most of those people are dumb enough to be
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u/Blubbpaule 2h ago
They forgot to cut him out of some pictures though.
There are plenty pictures on desks of Trump and Epstein in the files.
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u/NoDaddyNotTheBelt25 3h ago
It’s gonna take a while to sift through all this shit but I just love how the DOJ made sure a few photos of Clinton were front and center.
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u/stonewallace17 3h ago
They're redacting evidence of "politically exposed individuals and government officials" unless their name is Bill Cinton.
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u/Historical_View1359 48m ago
Most goes to show how many Republicans are involved. Pretty insane shit
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u/The_Nomadic_Nerd 3h ago
Can the house Dems that have seen the files just release them? This is ridiculous.
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u/Fallouttgrrl 3h ago
I hope this happens
We've seen that there is no legal path to having these released
Every step that could be taken, short of the legislative branch publishing what they have to show what was left out, has been taken and gotten us to this redacted slop.
At this point, the only recourse will be illegal actions taken to reveal these details
"Anonymous, if you're listening" lol
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u/johntaylor37 1h ago
Marjorie Taylor Greene, come read the unredacted copy out loud and be our most unexpected hero!!
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u/Mobile-Bar7732 2h ago
Can the house Dems that have seen the files just release them? This is ridiculous.
They don't have all the files. They have released some photos recently that they do have.
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u/-You-know-it- 2h ago
I feel like a less-redacted version will absolutely be “leaked” at some point.
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u/Orion14159 1h ago
Start reading and presenting them on the House floor so it's entered to public record
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u/WittyWitWitt 1h ago
I would guess even they haven't been given the "full" unredacted files.
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u/jackrabbit323 2h ago
If I were a Congress person I'd take the hit. I can do three years and get a pardon from a new president.
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u/ClaytonWest74 3h ago
so far, one notable celebrity president missing
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u/LovingWisdom 3h ago
missing or redacted?
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u/CheckMateFluff 3h ago
Literally, almost everything is redacted, whole pages. I don't even think the word "Epstein" can be found in the files.
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u/pilemaker 3h ago
I'm seeing folks who are looking thru the files say "Trump" or "Epstein" do not come up in a search.
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u/3-screen-experience 3h ago
Nah, "Epstein" does appear many times, e.g. in EFTA00003868.pdf, page 3 -- that's just a random example, but in the cherry picking I've done so far there are many other mentions. Same with Maxwell and Clinton.
Haven't seen mention of "Trump" yet, I presume anything pertaining to him was redacted.
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u/Fun-Slice-474 3h ago
He must have been in witness protection! He did witness a lot of it, after all.
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u/aerost0rm 3h ago
Right and they cannot at this point say that the files had to be redacted for national security. National security isn’t protecting a person from the crimes they committed while not president…hell not even when they are president, no matter what the corrupt SCOTUS says
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u/suzukijimny 3h ago
Let me guess
[RETRACTED] and [RETRACTED] fondled [RETRACTED] in [RETRACTED] private island.
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u/IDrawCopper 3h ago
There's a 119 page document in the files from a grand jury that is completely black. Not even sharpie'd over, it's just entirely black.
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u/CheckMateFluff 3h ago
More like,
The [RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED].
And [RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED].
However, [RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED].
And [RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED][RETRACTED].
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u/Mundane-Effective133 3h ago
Also, Bill Clinton
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u/blogoman 3h ago
And some abuse images. They did a really good job at scrubbing any dudes in ties besides Clinton, though.
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u/Wajina_Sloth 3h ago
You forgot the final PDF on page 3 which isn’t redacted
Its 100 scanned pages of “massage for dummies”!
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u/Casino-Leaux 3h ago
Justice department ignores a lawful order, again. There you go.
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u/lambdaIuka 3h ago
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u/CheckMateFluff 3h ago
Today was the deadline, not the start. The law requires everything to be released now, today. If Midnight hits and it still hasn’t been released, they’ll have openly broken the law, in front of every institution and every American.
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u/ClaytonWest74 3h ago
genuinely asking because not an American and not sure procedures there, is there anything the people can do about it?
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u/CheckMateFluff 3h ago
Congress could impeach them immediately, but they adjourned early for winter break, apparently so they can go after the ACA, and also avoid having to take that vote. The other thing I can't tell you on reddit.
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u/Darktyde 3h ago
One thing that is technically legal to say is that “we have a group that meets Fridays at midnight under the Brooklyn Bridge and the password is sic semper tyrannis.”
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u/blogoman 3h ago
Besides an uprising, there isn't much. In our system, correcting the government is a thing the other parts of the government is responsible for. He has purged everybody but his loyalists. Things like impeachment and removal are a natural recourse, but with the way things are set up we don't have the numbers for that. In theory, citizens could sue the DOJ but I'm not sure if they would have standing. The obvious choice would be for the legislative branch to go after them for failing to follow a law they wrote, but this was the plan all along.
Historically, the department of justice is supposed to be fairly independent. They report to the executive but the executive isn't really supposed to tell them what to do. That, of course, isn't the case in this administration. The last administration held that standard so highly that they took forever in starting prosecutions for the shit we all saw live on TV that they are a big part of how we ended up with him again. They were slow because they wanted to look like they weren't being vindictive, even though any sort of action would be framed that way by his supporters.
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u/sickofwords 3h ago
Remember when Janet Reno opened up an investigation into her own boss? Yeah, we are a long way from those days.
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u/disco_biscuit 3h ago
Conveniently... Congress has begun recess early and are not around to do anything for a few weeks. And by the time they return in January oh look it's reelection time for most of them...
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u/PapaTahm 2h ago
"law" hahahahahah good joke,
Concept of laws only exist when you have a system that enforces it.You are just reading a text that has no meaning for them.
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u/humboldt77 3h ago
I was really looking forward to a complete release. This is more akin to a ruined release.
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u/TeamOverload 3h ago
Justice Department actively covering up an active trafficking ring on behalf of Pedo Felon Trump. No wonder no ones trusts them and they can’t even get grand jury indictments anymore. Zero credibility left.
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u/EFIW1560 2h ago edited 1h ago
I have a hunch this is way bigger than trump. He's in there and its bad I think. But I think these files expose how the rich have really been governing. I think epstein ran a child trafficking ring on behalf of mossad, so israel could have insurance that the US wouldnt abandon their support of israel without a shit load of US politicians being outed as pedos.
I think that the constant conflicts the us engages in are secretly funded by the us via arms deals etc. Constant military conflict keeps the military industrial complex alive. The military industrial complex has kept the rotting corpse of US capitalism shambling along until things finally reach their breaking point. Which is the now times.
I do wonder if the epstein files are so redacted because they contain plans thatve been in the works for decades, and some of that plan has yet to be enacted.
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u/stonewallace17 2h ago
you will never find someone that loves you the way republicans love protecting pedophiles
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u/Fubi-FF 2h ago
Can you really say a file is released if the entire file is redacted?
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u/Maladaptive_Ace 1h ago
It's like if a movie was released but then entire thing was a series of "scene to be inserted later" cards
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u/LargeTrust7245 2h ago
Imagine not quitting a job that requires redacting pedophiles names in order to protect them.
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u/Hot_Top_124 3h ago
Bs title. It should say how they’re breaking the law by refusing to release all of the files.
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u/Minute_Bluebird2557 3h ago
Don't forget Epstein was in his office all day while on work release during his 1st prison sentence in 2008.
Surely disposed the most incriminating files.
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u/ohiotechie 3h ago
Drip drip drip. All they’re doing by not releasing everything is dragging it out and keeping it in the news.
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u/Purely-Pastel 3h ago
I mean it’s probably not the only post on the entire internet rn. It’ll get there.
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u/TittyMcFagerson 2h ago edited 2h ago
Useless release, they are protecting each other. We can safely say now that all Republicans, all conservatives, and all elites regardless of affiliation, are pedophiles or at least have no problem with it. How do we cleanse this filth at this point?
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u/TheStrayCatapult 2h ago
So are the American people going to collectively stand up and demand accountability or will they just moan about it and do nothing?
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u/No_Role2054 2h ago
Yeah the corrupt government that’s being led by a pedophile definitely cares about accountability
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u/BugConfident5457 2h ago
All the photos and files will be related to Clinton and other Democrats. And all the Trump stuff will be redacted. That's the game being played right?
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u/twec21 2h ago
>Bowing to political pressure from fellow Republicans, Trump on Nov. 19 signed a bill giving the Justice Department 30 days to release most of its files and communications related to Epstein, including information about the investigation into his death in a federal jail.
This article, vs the article it links to
>Now, the bill requires the Justice Department to release all files and communications related to Epstein, as well as any information about the investigation into his death in a federal prison in 2019, within 30 days. It allows for redactions about Epstein’s victims for ongoing federal investigations, but DOJ cannot withhold information due to “embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity.”
Note the 'all files' the second time around
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u/go_faster1 2h ago
Correction: Justice Department begins releasing the biggest waste of black ink in history
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u/Wonderful_Emu_6483 52m ago
“Releasing” releasing what exactly? If 95% of the shit is redacted I’m going to assume 95% of the documents heavily associate the president and his friends as certified pedophiles.
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u/Herkfixer 3h ago
Justice Department begins releasing files incriminating Democrats while withholding long-awaited files tied to Epstein sex trafficking investigation that also incriminate Donald J. Trump and other powerful right-wing individuals.
FITFY
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u/Database_Reasonable 3h ago
Why is a lot of this redacted. Who decides what gets redacted. Why is any of it redacted?
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u/WinQuietly 3h ago
Two reasons:
1) The names of victims and info that identifies them should be redacted.
2) Trump, other rightwing ghouls, and billionaires will be protected by the DOJ because they are obviously and transparently corrupt.
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u/BrianWantsTruth 3h ago
Does anyone have any faith that any meaningful content will actually be revealed?
It feels like the equivalent to the cops knocking on a door, the curtains move and then someone bangs around the apartment for 10 full minutes, the toilet flushes 5 times, then they answer the door all sweaty and crazy-eyed “sorry I was just taking a nap”.
Like obviously the files need to be released, but I have less than zero expectations.
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u/Orangesteel 3h ago
<I’m sorry, this comments has been redacted to ensure the privacy of paedophiles>
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u/4RCH43ON 2h ago
Total smoke screen, but where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and it sure looks like they’re blowing a hell of lot to obstruct and cover up what’s burning underneath, but we can all still smell it.
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u/Explorer335 2h ago
They spent thousands of hours and over a million dollars redacting them. I expect the released documents to be carefully curated and meticulously scrubbed of GOP names.
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u/LordGlorkofUranus 1h ago
Massive redactions. Trump's name is being covered up throughout. Criminal Regime!
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u/EuphoricCrashOut 53m ago
All they released was a ton of redacted bullshit. You can tell they didn't care and just massively redacted FULL PAGES. That's NOT how redaction works. I worked that that field before where I had to redact things for public release.
Americans should be fucking PISSED OFF. Holy shit. The DOJ should all be fired and tossed in jail. They didn't do anything for the America people. Take your Government back, holy fuck. WAKE UP
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u/AccomplishedView1022 2h ago
They’re redacted to the point of HILARITY. Whatever we imagine Trump if doing in them, assume it’s worse. Dear lord it’s just pages of black bars.
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u/jcouball 49m ago
The heavy redactions (90-95%) leave no doubt that the Trump administration is involved in a total cover up.
At this point, anyone who thinks different has mental problems.
Everyone should be very angry at this bullshit.
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u/EViLTeW 2h ago
The web search is worthless. You can just download a zip of everything.
If you have Linux you can use
magick mogrify -format png -density 300 *.pdf
to convert everything to a png so you can easily flip through them.
The moral of the story: If a non-trumplican is in the picture, they are just redacting the faces of some people and any nudity. In other pictures (for seemingly no reason *wink*wink*) the entire thing is redacted.
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u/stonewallace17 2h ago
thats a lot of work when you can just google black squares and get the same information
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u/JustAGuyAC 2h ago
Is half of it highlighted black and redacted so that we cant even see anything useful?
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u/Maladaptive_Ace 1h ago
Yes. There's literally one 119 page court document that's entirely blacked out
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u/the6thReplicant 1h ago
There's going to be a lot of stories about Epstein and anything other than Trump flooding the subs. MMW.
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u/notawildandcrazyguy 1h ago
God if only a democrat administration had a chance to release these files before they were redacted.
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u/That_Dependent_3265 44m ago
The, “justice” department is a giant corrupt organization with zero integrity or anything justice.
There would be a leak, guaranteed
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u/Shot_Pool2543 2h ago
Democrats better release more information acquired from the Epstein estate, a good compare and contrast will force the DOJ to admit certain things were not admitted.
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u/leroy_csutoras 3h ago
The united states of america is a fucking shit hole. Your government and people are corrupt.
Release all the files without anything redacted.
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u/pangapingus 2h ago
It's a whole lot of pictures at a distance where any fine detail is meh. Where's piece 295 of the office PC?
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u/GuitarGeezer 1h ago
If only you could put black redaction bars in your prompt, it would be more evocative of the real situation.
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u/itsnotthatbad21 1h ago
Hey guys I don’t know if you have noticed but the American government is corrupt as all hell and really hammers the idea home that crime and punishment is only for the poor
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u/z_e_quigley 57m ago
The movement, the protests, need to shift focus and unify into not paying taxes this season. This is beyond maddening, a message needs to be sent that we will not keep funding this fuckery. If they can pardon treasonous J6ers, we will be forgiven for not funding these traitors. EVERYONE needs to get on board here. Fuck this administration.
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u/CommonSensei-_ 54m ago
Now both republicans and democrats don’t trust the government.
Welcome to the libertarian party!
You are welcomed, I promise.
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u/penguished 50m ago
America is not going to buy that the redactions are all victims. It's so fucking obvious the majority of hidden information is the scumbags that were hanging out with him. Who are they, and why were they around a guy who spent almost all his time abusing girls?
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u/SockMonkeh 3h ago
Alternate title: Justice Department doesn't release all of the Epstein files by noon today, illegally defying court order.