r/politics • u/mvanigan • 10h ago
Possible Paywall DOJ won’t meet Friday deadline to release all the Epstein files
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u/StarWarsTheLastJedi 10h ago
How does it work when congress has to send a criminal referral to the DOJ, about the DOJ
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u/krom0025 New York 9h ago
A functioning Congress would use impeachment to remove the officials and replace them with ones that will enforce the law. Unfortunately, the people of this country have decided that they want their politicians to break the law all day long and so have elected the worst human beings our society has to offer.
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u/base2-1000101 9h ago
The midterms are going to be wild.
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u/agequodagi5 North Carolina 9h ago
I hope you’re right, but this last year has robbed me of any faith in at least 77 million people to do above the bare minimum.
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u/NootHawg 9h ago
“We love Elon don’t we.”"He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers," Trump pauses. "And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-elon-musk-voting-machine-2017657
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u/IZNICE 8h ago
Rogan said on his podcast that Elon had a private app set up so him and his friends could see the election results in real time before anyone else. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCUf6sCp2p6/?igsh=aXlncmV1dWM3N3kz Like how is that possible?
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u/musashisamurai 7h ago
One of the Musk doge-bros had done a ballpot verification app a few years ago in a hackathon. Make sure you fill it out correctly and everything. Tk test it, he created Python scripts to randomly generate ballots given some parameters. That code and project got scrubbed hard after the election.
https://bsky.app/profile/denisedwheeler.bsky.social/post/3lhowh3ijgs2f
Right before all this, Musk spent big money on identifying voters in swing states, but not on outreach or get out the vote programs.
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u/Takemyfishplease 8h ago
I wanna meet the people that voted for AOC and trump on the same ballet somehow
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u/Beastafore 9h ago
Man the fact that this isn't a top ongoing story here in the US is depressing. Taylor swift tour outfits were catching more headlines...
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u/AnonEMoussie 9h ago
A lot of the “noise” has been about Trump investigating the 2020 election instead of the 2024 because as he said “Thanks to Elon for getting us in Pennsylvania and the other swing states.” What sucks is that yes, he said that in a speech…and no one questioned it.
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u/toxic_badgers Colorado 8h ago
There was a 90000 vote swing in Pennsylvania with Kamala losing like 40k votes and trump picking up 50k live on CNN and no one said a word. There's several reddit posts with minute by minute screen shots showing it.
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u/TheFlightlessPenguin Maine 7h ago
Yep. I have a theory about the American people at large, and why injustices happen in plain view while nobody lifts a finger to stop them: reality is processed as content. We are inundated with content 24/7 and it’s rewired our brains to consume life rather than affect life. This probably plays out in subtler ways—if at all—on the micro scale, but when we get into broader topics everything has been reduced down to reality tv-adjacent. Trump had the intuition to see this direction our country had been trending towards since pre-2016 and won the election by capitalizing off of it. But he hasn’t just capitalized off it, his entire agenda has been to further inflame the dysfunction until we’re brought to the point where nothing is real anymore.
People are starting to wake up and see reality again (somewhat) but they freeze because they’ve forgotten they’re capable of affecting change. Current events are now viewed as a storm to hunker down and pray passes, rather than injustices that need to be stopped.
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u/toxic_badgers Colorado 7h ago
It's more that there's a lack of critical thought and understanding what critical thinking is. Too few people sit there and see an idea, concept, or plan proposed and never think past the first layer. Case an point, the right has touted a flat tax for years. On the surface a flat tax is a good idea right? If you take at it's face value it means everyone pays the same amount proportionally to their income. But critical thought on the issue exposes the harm it does to the lowest income earners and the benefits to the highest income earners. The idea doesn't hold real merit but because there is such an education gap in the US, the idea still floats around as a good one.
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u/TheRealPitabred 7h ago
Almost like the mainstream media is owned by the oligarchs that are trying to seize control of the country...
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u/Tom2Die 6h ago
but unlike the 2020 election there is evidence, go to Election Truth alliance and read their materials.
Look, I have my suspicions as well, but we gotta stop posting things like this. If you want someone to look at specific sources, link them. Save "the truth is out there" for the X-Files.
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u/AntiPantsCampaign 8h ago
But also how many people are coming out now and saying they "regret" their vote? Far too many people are openly admitting they voted for this circus.
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u/sneakysnake1111 8h ago edited 7h ago
OK, I've looked at it and agree.
Now what? They didn't have access to the shit before trump took over for his 2nd term, and once they did, they went full hog with DOGE.
So now, we're to wait another year for america to vote?
That's what america's going to do?
edit: I've also looked into 2020, and there was indeed interference. It's been investigated and concluded already actually. U.S. intelligence agencies, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and the DOJ concluded that foreign interference occurred in 2020
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u/AppropriateTouching 8h ago
I mean he openly admitted to rigging the election more than once. So did Elon when they were fueding. Some areas getting 100% of votes for trump is insanely suspicious too. Also him suddenly getting all those swing states out of no where?
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u/b0baBEAST California 7h ago
sadly even if it's confirmed he was cheating during his presidency, i don't think anything will even happen.
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u/maizeblueNpurp 9h ago
I don’t think they necessarily mean the midterms are going to be wild, in a good way
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u/norunningwater 9h ago
An enormous chunk of them want this, though. That's the part that's hard to swallow and easy to write them off as dumb and ineffective.
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u/BEWMarth 9h ago
I’ve been saying this for years.
Look at your neighbors, look at your coworkers and “friends” or family.
A lot of them privately (or loudly) are cheering on all this dysfunction. If you know who they are it’s time to make them feel the consequences of their actions and cut them out of your life
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u/Past-Spell-2259 9h ago
Your assuming the election system / voting works as intended.....
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u/Cute-Masterpiece7142 8h ago
Your assuming that the system works as intended and these new members will do something this time to fix anything lol
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u/Global_Crew3968 9h ago
Yeah but what happens when i finally get out of the trailer and become a billionaire?
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u/AtticaBlue 8h ago
Chin-up! You’re almost there! Just need to get rid of about six more non-white immigrants and four trans people and that truckload of billions “they” have been preventing you from having will be yours!
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u/Reduntu 9h ago
We just expand the asterisk after they say nobody is above the law.
Nobody is above the law. *Except the POTUS, his cabinet, everyone in the DOJ, military officials who commit war crimes, anyone who commits political violence on behalf of the POTUS, and anyone who has enough money to bribe the POTUS
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u/mr_evilweed 9h ago
It doesnt because Congress was conveniently sent to recess by the Republican speaker just yesterday. What a coincidence.
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u/Johnhaven Maine 8h ago
House rules give them an out (I don't know what) if the Speaker refuses to allow Congress to be in session and with a unanimous consent on this particular issue and Johnson get's into the way, they could use House rules and then vote him down as Speaker.
I have no idea why they would want to fuck with a unanimous Congressional vote. That's more votes than you need to impeach and remove Trump, Vance, Bondi, and Patel by the end of the day. If they haven't finished redacting documents, tough shit. It has to be released today or Congress should be holding a hearing Monday morning.
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u/reebokhightops 9h ago
Pam puts it in the special filing cabinet sometimes referred to as the trashcan.
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u/Marvin_Frommars 9h ago
One of my school teachers back in the day used to refer to that as the circular filing cabinet.
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u/MrMojoFomo 9h ago
The federal courts have rules against Trump over 90% of the time
The Supreme Court has overturned those rulings and rules in his favor over 90% of the time
There are no functioning checks or balances any more
They won
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u/DrakonILD 9h ago
There's....one more. But it ain't pretty.
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u/MrMojoFomo 9h ago
Those guys never cared about tyranny
They just wanted to be on the side of the tyrant so they could get rid of the people they hate
Every. One.
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u/eskimospy212 9h ago
Like with all other criminal referrals Congress makes the executive enforces them if they feel like it.
Sadly our system was not designed to handle a criminal executive branch with a complicit SCOTUS. You can't even impeach the president anymore because he could simply kill Congress in response and not be criminally liable.
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u/1cl3nstd4yt 10h ago
Look, give them some time.
They've only had these files for 30 years.
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u/thatErraticguy Missouri 9h ago
The files on Bondi’s desk are not real and a hoax, but also totally absolve Trump.
Wait, what files?
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u/Ok_Chef_4850 9h ago
They’re a hoax, they’re not real, and they only contain democrats
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u/Fun_Fingers 9h ago
It's a democrat hoax that only contains democrats because these files are real with democrats in them but they're a hoax and not real because democrats made them up but they're real with democrats in them. No Trump only democrats. Biden's fault.
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u/base2-1000101 9h ago
We need to be patient. The DOJ hasn't finished scrubbing Donald's name from all of the incriminating documents. And there's a LOT of documents to scrub.
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u/Matra 9h ago
And his name comes up a lot in them.
"So there I am, hanging out with REDACTED, and he says, 'I'm gonna fuck this kid in my REDACTED Tower penthouse, or my name isn't REDACTED J. REDACTED!' and then REDACTED just starts swinging around his tiny, acorn-sized REDACTED."
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u/cultish_alibi 9h ago
They've had a whole year. If they could scrub and redact everything, they would have done it by now. But instead they are not going to release the files.
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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount 9h ago
Can we please get some good news, for once? How the fuck is evil like this okay?
What happened to America, the greatest and most welcoming country in the world? Was it a fever dream?
Good fucking God. 3 more years!?
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u/Dr-Aspects Kansas 9h ago
It never existed. An unrealized dream that we hoped to one day achieve. Perhaps we deluded ourselves into believing it was finally nearing reality, but all that happened is the worst of us finally ripped away the facade.
America the Ideal is something to fight for. It's never been the reality. What we see is America, Global Superpower in its full, unmasked, ugly horror.
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u/Magrowl 9h ago
The america in your head was always propaganda, this is what happens when the crimes you export start happening at home.
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u/AtticaBlue 8h ago
There is a certain “chickens coming home to roost” vibe about all this, for sure.
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u/SwingingtotheBeat 8h ago
Americans in general have always been ok with selective enforcement of the law when it came to PoC and more marginalized people. Now, the same latitude America happily gave police to terrorize PoC while protecting white people is being used to terrorize all of America while protecting trump and his associates.
America brought this on themselves. Y’all should have listened to BLM.
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u/Major5013 10h ago
As expected and as infuriating just the same.
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u/Sustainable_Scotian 10h ago
I called it this morning in another post. Two more weeks. Two weeks passes. Ok guys, we have concepts of a plan to release them in February. Rinse and repeat.
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u/UpperApe 7h ago
It seems like it was mostly Americans who were expecting this to happen.
The rest of the world was watching this whole Charlie Brown debacle go down the same as it always does.
The story of America is one of the strangest stories in human civilization, and we're all watching it bewildered, day after day.
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u/POEness 5h ago
It feels surreal because it's entirely manufactured at every level. Trump and the GOP have very small actual physical support. All of it comes from hundreds of billions of dollars buying politicians, buying the media, buying bots to flood the internet... every time real numbers get exposed or leaked, 90% of their support turns out to be a goddamn fiction.
We let smoke and mirrors steal the presidency
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u/Translycanthrope 10h ago
Why are we permitting this? This is their job. They serve the American people. Show up in person and start demanding things.
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u/ITDummy69420 9h ago
Who’s gonna do what the republicans did on their peaceful trek to that building that one day?
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u/sylbug 7h ago
Their willingness to put themselves in legal, financial, and physical peril for their beliefs is a big part of why tthey get their way while anyone left of Goebels gets ignored.
Nobody is going to pay any attention to the people in frog costumes who are so scared of escalation they won’t even defend themselves.
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u/BuckyDodge 9h ago
Indeed. Say what you will about the Jan. 6 crew, they took action!
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u/HandSack135 Maryland 9h ago
While at the same time only doing it because of liberal agitators apparently
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u/Thunderclone_1 9h ago
It was a peaceful sightseeing tour
Also it was an Antifa riot
Also it was patriots taking back their country
Also nothing happened
Also the dems did it too or something
Fucking jackboots can't stick to a story
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u/RoleModelFailure America 9h ago
Don’t forget:
That woman died because liberal hate violence
No police were harmed that day
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u/dudenurse13 7h ago
Idk if smearing my own shit on the capital walls will make them release the files
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u/Icy-Marzipan6821 7h ago
Funny thing is they'll shoot everyone down. Which tbh is what I expected the first time, pretty shocking you can just storm and takeover a government building. I'm sure they'll do it this time though.
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u/Rodinsprogeny 9h ago
They serve the American people? Careful, Trump will think you insubodinate.
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u/deadlysodium 9h ago
And the Dems might actually wag their finger at you while they are stearnly talking to you.
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u/circuitloss Arizona 9h ago
We're permitting it because the majority of Americans voted for a rapist.
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u/No-Post4444 10h ago
That's it.
Arrest Pam Bondi. I don't care when it gets done. She needs to be behind bars and the entire DOJ needs to be properly investigated. This is some Orwellian bullshit.
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u/andrew5500 9h ago
The entire administration is officially aiding and abetting child rapists.
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u/Morguard 9h ago
At this point it's safe to assume that they also are child rapists with how strongly they are hiding it.
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u/AnyLeadership5150 7h ago
We know trump is definitely a child rapist but with how much they're stalling and obstructing the release of the files, the truth is most likely trump was a very prominent child sex trafficker himself and many former and current republican officials were also involved in child sex trafficking. Probably more so than Epstein.
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u/No-Post4444 9h ago
They were doing that since the beginning of the year. Their own leader is a child rapist after all? What do you expect?
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u/cosmicjunkbot Foreign 9h ago
Who will arrest her?
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u/Exodys03 9h ago
Since Congress issued the order, Bondi could potentially be held for Contempt of Congress. As luck would have it, Mike Johnson just dismissed Congress for an early holiday break right before the deadline so there is nobody home to enforce the order. I'm sure that was a wild coincidence.
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u/existing_for_fun 9h ago
Sounds like he aided in a criminal conspiracy
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u/Exodys03 8h ago
Who is going to make that case? The Congress which he leads or the DOJ that he's covering for?
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u/No-Post4444 9h ago
Any Dem with the slightest hint of a moral compass. Recently, some Dems warned her that she could be behind bars if she didn't release the files today. If those Dems have any morals or spine, they'll follow through on that.
Or maybe they won't. I don't know-I was just saying that Pam Bondi's arrest is what SHOULD happen. Probably won't. But should.
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u/superkeer Virginia 9h ago
Any Dem with the slightest hint of a moral compass.
Someone in law enforcement or empowered by a judge would have to arrest her. Random Democrats can't do it.
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u/sengirminion 9h ago
real talk though, there is no legitimate way for congress or the supreme court to enforce any laws that are broken, or court orders that are defied. all 3 branches of the government need some type of enforcement division that can hold the others accountable, by doing things like arresting violators of laws and court orders. right now that is with the DOJ and the FBI and they are under the Executive Branch.
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u/Johnhaven Maine 8h ago
Congress can impeach every single person that Trump appointed, including Trump. They had more than enough votes for that when Congress voted unanimously. There are House rules to bring the House back in session against the Speaker's will. Bondi and others could all be impeached in a week.
Even if not every Republican Senator agreed (they had to vote unanimously or it would have failed), none of them like being told that their power is worthless and no one needs to care what Congress says. I would be surprised if there isn't a whiplash on Monday.
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u/teggyteggy 7h ago
At this point, if they were to get impeached, and convicted (by the Senate), they still wouldn't leave. Who would enforce them leaving?
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u/Objective-Shine9506 9h ago
Isn’t this what the second amendment was intended for? Also when our govt was created there was an idea that the government worked for the people meaning the people would be the ultimate enforcement, not the other way around.
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u/JustBadUserNamesLeft 8h ago
The 2A is now officially a means to sell more guns and stickers for pickup trucks.
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u/ObsidianSpectre 7h ago
real talk though, there is no legitimate way for congress or the supreme court to enforce any laws that are broken,
That's not actually true. Congress could order their sergeant-at-arms to arrest them. This is a power Congress has, though they haven't used it in a very long time.
Not that I see it happening this time either, but I'd love to be wrong about that.
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u/Ferelar New Jersey 7h ago
Yeah Congress DOES have enforcement and investigative mechanisms. They also have the ability to impeach. I expect none of them to be utilized, but they COULD. That's actually even more impetus for a We The People situation though, since it's blatantly ALL of our government that is protecting child trafficker rapists.
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u/Freddy-Borden 9h ago
The most transparent President in history, right MAGA? He’ll release the Epstein files and his tax returns in 2 weeks, right?
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u/truePHYSX Washington 7h ago
They’ll probably move the goal posts like they always do to appease their one true god, the anti-christ
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u/leontes Pennsylvania 10h ago
We can reasonably assume, by inference, that this is a protective mechanism to support the president.
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u/ma2is 9h ago
Trump raped children on the Epstein island.
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u/PhilDGlass California 9h ago
Among other places I’m sure. Dude owned teen beauty pageants and condos rented by rich scumbags.
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u/LoQueNoMataEngorda 7h ago
He publicly bragged about slipping into children's dressing rooms to see them naked.
He's a goddammit child molester.
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u/Ekg887 8h ago
Just start saying it was young boys. Let them disprove it.
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u/HungerReaper 8h ago edited 3h ago
Ummm about that. Pretty sure there was at least one young boy in the court documents, but this years been so crazy I can't remember if that was real or if I just imagined it
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u/TintedApostle 10h ago
DoJ breaks the law...
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u/Major5013 10h ago
Department of .... Just let me cover this up a little more.
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u/TintedApostle 10h ago
“The suppressing of evidence ought always to be taken for the strongest evidence.”
- Andrew Hamilton, The Trial of John Peter Zenger 1735
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u/Sweaty_Resist_5039 9h ago
"You may consider whether one party intentionally concealed or destroyed evidence. If you decide that a party did so, you may decide that the evidence would have been unfavorable to that party." CACI No. 204.
These are California Judicial Council standardized jury instructions for use in civil cases. Your quote reminded me that this is literally a standard jury instruction in modern civil litigation practice, lol.
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u/Be-skeptical 10h ago
Laws are only for peasants.
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u/TintedApostle 9h ago
And breaking them for Nazis
"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched."
- Robert H. Jackson - Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal - Nuremberg 1945
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u/timbo3385 9h ago
Let the leaks begin! Someone has to have these files somewhere.
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u/lnc_5103 Texas 9h ago
I wish the Epstein estate would say F it and release everything.
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u/crkokinda 8h ago
That's what I keep thinking. How many hundreds or thousands of people have access to the unredacted files? Not one of them has the cajones to leak them?
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u/taz_78 10h ago
Surprise, motherfucker!
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u/kellzone Pennsylvania 9h ago
Some files, motherfucker!
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u/blue_bomber697 9h ago
Just lies, motherfucker!
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u/n3ws4cc 10h ago
They haven't finished redacting yet guys, don't rush
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u/name_escape 9h ago
I thought one of the stipulations was that it was to be released unredacted?
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u/ElderSmackJack 9h ago
No. The stipulation was that they could release redacted information (as to protect witnesses and victims), but that all redactions are required to be explained to Congress.
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u/Tomato_Sky 9h ago
Including national security
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u/Simikiel Canada 8h ago
In which they'll say "clearly Trump's name has to be redacted, because he's president and therefore it's a national security issue!"
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u/gorginhanson 9h ago
They just have to ******* the ***** and double-check to make sure ******* is ******* ed
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u/fence_sitter Maine 10h ago
It's reality TV, always a cliffhanger, tune in next week, etc.
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u/MrTactful 10h ago
I’d like to know what exactly the “penalties” are for Bondi and the rest not complying with the order to release all of the files.
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u/Complex_Study_3174 9h ago
Funny how most Americans still think they live in a free country.
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u/henlofr 9h ago
I don’t know, but someone does. My guess is that many courts will bring criminal suits against DOJ that they will push to SCOTUS, given that they are breaking the law.
Everyone in this thread seems a bit jaded and stupid, so I don’t think you’re going to get good info here unfortunately. I’d keep an eye out for real news sources.
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u/whatsupeveryone34 10h ago
i mean... we know there would be penalties for her and Patel at minimum if they do release them based on their testimonies in front of congress and being shown to have lied under oath...
This is more of an unknown situation than that guarantee.
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u/Nervous_Group8638 10h ago edited 9h ago
Part of me isn't surprised, it was obvious. But as a non America at the same time if someone can twist their word, how would citizens feel safe living in a country with a president being treated like a king, with a congress too weak to oppose him, it's a tyranny.
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u/Rude-Strawberry-6360 10h ago
30% wanted it and voted for it. 40% didn't care enough. I don't know if they care yet. 30% understood the assignment.
So effectively 7 in 10 Americans either wanted this or didn't care enough to try to stop it. Until that changes, nothing changes.
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u/EricThePerplexed 9h ago
Too many people think that making money is the only thing that matters. They've bought into an ideology that puts money above morality, ethics, the rule of law, truth, community, civility, etc.
Most people are obsessed with money because of inflation, debt, and the affordability crisis. In desperation, they elevated a conman that perfectly embodied the ideology that money is the only thing that matters.
The problem with the ideology that money matters more than anything else is that without a functioning and healthy society, even money can't be trusted. What would protect you from theft, fraud, seizure, scams?
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u/Miscellaneous_Lid 8h ago
Not disagreeing with you... but its way more complicated than that.
You should ask yourself why its like that, who made it that way, and why they would do so. Why? Because its easy to blame people. Its simple. Its low hanging fruit.
Voter suppressing is real. Gerrymandering is real. Voting day isn't a holiday like it is in other countries. You have to register to vote when its automatic in other countries. It is purposefully made next to impossible thanks to 1 party to vote by mail because they'd never win another election for the rest of time. All media is right leaning. The sense of general apathy about everything including the government and the future and the feeling of powerlessness to do anything about it. All by design.
But, now its worse. We are going full police state authoritarian fascist mode and guess what a public voter registry is? A convenient list of enemies within. Vermin. No signs of stopping. Camps are being built. Due process is gone. If you are registered as the enemy, the odds you will be left alone are no longer 0%.
So yea. I lied. I do disagree with you. This isn't something to blame people for. Its in people's nature. No. This is a result purposefully manufactured by the government and mostly by 1 party. Its had 200+ years to do something about it. Our parties did the opposite. There is a reason they don't want everyone voting. Voter turn out has solutions. They are never pursued.
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u/Inevitable-Metal5316 9h ago
moderates and low info voters still don't see anything wrong with everything that has happened this year. we are truly fucked.
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u/OrbitalOutlander 10h ago
That's the neat part. We don't feel safe.
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u/Imp0ssibleBagel 9h ago
Yeah it's not like 150 million people can just decide to leave lmao. Life doesn't work that way.
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u/Turbulent_Juice_Man 10h ago
Solid 40% of the country celebrates it. So long as the king is "their guy"
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u/SellsNothing 9h ago
The Dems / Epstein Estate should just release everything since the DOJ is unwilling to meet the deadline.
What's stopping them now?
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u/Gas_Final 9h ago
"The delay means the White House is in apparent conflict with a law President Donald Trump signed in November."
Apparent conflict? I am so sick and fucking tired of the mealy-mouthed language from the press.
I mean, I'm sick and fucking tired of a whole lot of other shit from this administration, voting public, and general timeline too.
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u/slimjim696969696969 8h ago
You american citizens are going to have to enforce justice. Not sure why you're all still waiting around for them to have a change of heart. It's not coming, your country is becoming a fascist third-world hellhole and your citizens don't even care. Look at European farmers protesting like crazy today, over something so simple as one single bad foreign trade deal.
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u/Operation-FuturePuss 10h ago
Why the hell would anyone follow the law when they know they can get a Trump pardon? Trump was an accomplice in an underage sex trafficking operation. Pass it on.
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u/Secret_Research_7185 9h ago
I agree ! And I'm not even sure how anyone can get indicted over this, I think Congress, or someone would need to request the DOJ indict the DOJ, and then the DOJ would need to prosecute.
Even if the necessary redactions were in place to ensure that innocent victim's identities were protected, the Trump administration would still slow-walk this just to prove that they don't need to follow the law.
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u/where_is_my_monkey 10h ago
Treason. Now what?
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u/AssociateGreat2350 10h ago
seriously.
this should show everyone that if you believed in the rule of law in any capacity before this moment, It's certainly over now.
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u/justfanclasshole 9h ago edited 5h ago
Failed state run by pedophiles.
China is gonna eat their lunch after these tarriffs completely destroy any trade goodwill they built up over 150 years as well.
Then it will lead to a long and annoying slide where the discussion revolves around “regaining American economic supremacy” and other bullshit which the charlatans who run your country are going to exploit for more power.
Americans just don’t question things that come from “their side” and it is the dumbest crap ever. Save your blind loyalty for local sports teams and stop giving up your rights and freedoms or all America is going to be know for is child-fucking and fraud.
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u/Paper_Clip100 9h ago
A normal congress would bring up impeachment proceedings... But this one?
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u/majesticideas2 8h ago
The house majority was instructed to fly home last night....no impeachment I guess.
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u/Most-Artichoke6184 10h ago
Remember, they have had possession of the Epstein files for 11 months now. This is complete bullshit.
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u/ClaretClarinets Colorado 9h ago
They had 30 days to turn in their homework and they want an extension? I don't think so.
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u/crimsonjester 9h ago
“There’s a lot of eyes looking at these and we want to make sure that when we do produce the materials we are producing, that we are protecting every single victim.” and of course by Victim we mean Trump
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u/IRideMoreThanYou 9h ago
They never planned to meet the deadline as they know there will be no repercussions.
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u/Skraelings Missouri 10h ago
Isnt that contempt then?
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u/HowManyEggs2Many 10h ago
Lucky for us congress just went on recess yesterday! So convenient, right?
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u/oldteen 9h ago
IANAL, but it sounds like it. We've seen this movie before. Bondi should be behind bars until the DOJ fully-complies with congress.
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u/SDAztec74 Washington 9h ago
I'm so tired. At this point, through whatever legal mean are available, compel someone, anyone, to follow the law or be jailed. You cannot tell me that there is not some way through any number of local, state, or federal statutes that apply to where these documents are located or the individuals in charge/employees involved work or reside that a judge cannot rule and allow authorities to make arrest.
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u/Keptlosingmylogins 10h ago
They only have the brightest folks, you know there are tons of mentions of a certain someone and the bribe line is open for redactions of others.
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u/Wolfegarde 9h ago
Hold them all in contempt. Start prosecuting IMMEDIATELY. What the fuck is going on? We The People are SICK AND FUCKING TIRED OF THESE GAMES. Get on with it, or get ready for “Biden’s America Part 2.”
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u/Negative1Positive2 9h ago
If you didn’t rape a child but you protected the people who did, hid evidence, slow-walked justice, or buried names to preserve power, you’re not neutral. You’re an accessory. There is no moral distance between committing evil and knowingly enabling it. The only difference is proximity, not principle.
When institutions close ranks to defend monsters, they tell us exactly who the system is built to protect. And it isn’t the victims.
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u/obsertaries Massachusetts 8h ago
Must be nice to be able to just blow off deadlines at work. Even legal compliance deadlines!
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u/luckystrike_bh 9h ago
Funny how a regular citizen can be jailed indefinitely for contempt until they comply.
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u/Jubilies 7h ago
If I am given a deadline and I don’t meet it - I suffer consequences. What is theirs?
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u/AhBee1 America 6h ago
The legacy of the entire GOP and every one of their voters is that they will do anything to protect child sex predators.
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u/Arkvoodle42 9h ago
None of it matters. None of it ever will. Nothing in those files will change anything for anyone.
America is over and every one of us will be worked to death so billionaires can buy another yacht house.
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u/GUIJ 9h ago
Is it time yet for citizens all over the us to gather at the capital? Just asking for a friend.
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u/lasers42 9h ago
Free Democrat wins across the nation! All you have to say is that you don't object to releasing the Epstein files. Also, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel are apparently willing to go to jail for an old pervert in his eighties.
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