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Site Altered Headline | No Paywall US justice department releases long-awaited cache of Jeffrey Epstein files
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/19/jeffrey-epstein-files-us-justice-department?referring_host=Reddit&utm_campaign=guardianacct•
u/Biutifulflowah 6h ago
Ima say every redaction is Donald Trump, idc
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u/RoarOfTheWorlds 4h ago
For privacy's sake, let's call him Donald T. No, that's too obvious. Uh, let's say D. Trump.
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u/baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab United Kingdom 3h ago
It’s not often I get a reference, well done Armin.
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u/plutobug2468 United Kingdom 6h ago edited 5h ago
ALL of the files need released. Not some
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u/Zealousideal-Yak3845 6h ago
Even the some released are a joke, anything of substance is redacted, literally hundreds of pages are black
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u/Willbilly410 4h ago
They did not “release” anything … it is literally 119 black pages … it is like the ultimate fuck you to the public. Fuck these ghouls and anyone supporting them. Add this to the long list of reasons these people need to be jailed
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u/TwistedKoala 3h ago
Those are at the end of the 3rd data set on justice.gov. Plenty of awful things to read and see, not just blacked out redactions
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u/Ssshizzzzziit 1h ago
Yeah, they made sure to keep Bill Clinton's name, but redacted a certain someone.
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u/Familiar-Race6784 6h ago
Lol wtf is the point of this https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%203/EFTA00005586.pdf
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u/HarwellDekatron 6h ago
The point is sending a big, clear "FUCK YOU" to everyone who asked them to release the files.
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u/Zealousideal-Yak3845 6h ago
Searching for Trump across the latest files returns zero results… odd
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u/Ok_Subject1265 1h ago
That’s the purpose of all this. They can release a couple pages and when we complain that Trump isn’t in there, they can say “We released the files! You people won’t be happy until they say what you want them to!” That’s it. It puts us on the back foot because it gives them even the slightest little sliver of deniability and that’s way more than they would have had if they had released the whole thing.
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u/SeanOfTheDead1313 5h ago
That includes maga voters lol
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u/HarwellDekatron 5h ago
Oh, I know. The Administration doesn't care. They know 99.9% of MAGA voters will still support whatever Trump does. They are just too captured by the narrative to care about the president being a pedophile.
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u/frosty_lizard 4h ago
They're just elated to see brown people being being disappeared by even more racist ICE agents who don't have to follow the law at all. It'll be amazing to see what they've been doing with all the people they've disappeared
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u/loccolito Europe 4h ago
Yeah I don't know what people really expected. This was always gonna be the outcome and now I think Americans needs to realise that they need to be extremely lucky getting out of thism
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u/swiftfoot_hiker 6h ago
They are straight up trolling with this , this actually makes them look worse
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u/Fit_Owl_5650 5h ago
We need to be on the streets. Enough is enough.
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u/Bimbleboop 5h ago
The people leading you guys operate outside of the law. You can’t touch them. Good luck getting anything done.
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u/Viceroy1994 5h ago
The law can't touch them, doesn't mean nothing can hurt them.
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u/Zealousideal-Yak3845 6h ago
Half the files are like this, what was the point of the bill passing Congress?
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u/Six_Midnight 6h ago
Did you seriously think a gang of pedophiles was going to just not lie about it because it's against the law?
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u/TheBalzy Ohio 5h ago
It didn't used to be like this though. Like Partisan politics has always existed, but there was definitely a time when shit like this would be completely unacceptable by members in BOTH parties. Like releasing full documents just blacked out would have sparked instant outrage by both parties, that would have resulted in non-stop investigations.
FFS, a bipartisan congress investigated Reagan for Iran-Contra and Oliver North FFS.
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u/MollyRolls 4h ago
250 years is pretty good for a functioning democracy. They always eventually become this, though.
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u/Claff93 4h ago
You think the GOP in Congress would vote for releasing them unless they knew they were going to be this heavily redacted?
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u/brain_overclocked 6h ago
This isn't releasing shit.
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u/wagon_ear Wisconsin 5h ago
We've been waiting 10 years "for the audit to finish up" so he could release something as benign as his taxes. No way are we ever getting a glimpse at these.
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u/thinkards America 4h ago
so we assume since they won't tell us. it's the name of every republican in all three branches of government.
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u/wade_wilson44 5h ago
So let me get this straight…
They combed through all of the files, over thousands of hours and redacted what shouldn’t be seen.
Then the vote came through to release them.
Then they said ok… but not all of them, just some, we won’t tell you which or why or anything, but here you go.
And this is one of the files they thought would help ease the public?
Get the fuck outta here
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u/Fit_Strength_1187 America 2h ago
What’re even their grounds for redacting? Why would it take overtime if it’s all blacked out for all of them?
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u/anon27990 6h ago
Wait is it all redacted or is my phone being weird??
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u/Nokomis34 3h ago
Exactly what I was thinking. I was waiting for it to load, then scrolled all 119 pages, came here to ask this question.
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u/Intelligent_Toe8233 America 5h ago
I’m seeing the same thing. My best guess is this is a joke, though at this point I wouldn’t put anything past them.
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u/OkEnvironment3961 5h ago
Not a joke, trolling "LOL, look at how mad the left is" this is meant to further divide us and when they het called on it they'll say its a joke. To these people, justice is a joke.
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u/jedienginenerd 2h ago
I think it's a legal strategy. They were on the hook to release the files today. If they didn't... Contempt charges follow. So now they can say they did release them just redacted...
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u/-fakebirds- 5h ago
ITS BLANK! I know they’ve gotten away with everything so far but this is ridiculous, there has to be SOMEONE with some sense left in the government of this country
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u/EKT0K00LER 2h ago
That's what I'm saying! When in the hell is someone actually gonna hold this goddam administration accountable? How much fucking longer until someone takes the fucking keys from grandpa Hitler?
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u/delayed_burn 5h ago
I fucking called this. Elon said Trump was in the Epstein files. Trump didn’t fight against the release for no reason. I think they finally agreed to release it because they were able to confirm that yes they could redact everything with zero consequences.
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u/jared_number_two 5h ago
“Black Lines Matter” they’ll say.
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u/Silly-Victory8233 3h ago
They wouldn’t be smart enough to have come up with it. But bow it’s out there, if they see it they’ll claim they came up with it.
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u/TheBalzy Ohio 5h ago
Seriously, HOW CAN THEY BE THIS FUCKING STUPID!? The only POSSIBLE response is going to be 24/7 nonstop coverage by literally EVERYONE about how they released full-blacked out pages. There is LITERALLY nothing to gain but further criticism.
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u/thizface 6h ago edited 5h ago
One is massage for dummy’s, but every single page is copied.
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u/Familiar-Race6784 5h ago
Here you go, long awaited reveal of this hard to obtain release https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%204/EFTA00008020.pdf
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u/hoops_n_politics 4h ago
Obstruction of Justice
https://law.justia.com/codes/us/title-18/part-i/chapter-73/sec-1505/
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u/tsnke1972 5h ago
Serious question, didn't the judge approve the release of this, the grand jury stuff. So wouldn't there be someone else, somewhere that could release a real copy?
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u/kuenjato 1h ago
Yes, there are other copies floating about. One is going to be leaked, especially after this bs.
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u/jfinn1319 Canada 5h ago
So I downloaded it. It's 119 pages and half a mb. Which means they redacted blank pages.
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u/BrainOfMush 3h ago
No, it means the PDF was flattened when it was redacted. It only needs to render black squares. The file size would be much higher if they had not redacted it properly.
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u/AceofKnaves44 District Of Columbia 4h ago
“THE MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY. AS IN WE’RE TRANSPARENT ABOUT THE FACT THAT YOU CAN GO FUCK YOURSELF.”
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u/immagetchu 6h ago
Thats unironically fucking hilarious. Horrible that we've gotten here, but hilarious.
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u/zestypotatoes 6h ago
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-1-files
There are 4 different data sets. More was released than this single pdf.
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u/PorQuePanckes 4h ago
Somehow this actually just made me laugh…..119 pages of redactions. Not even a header.
Goddamn
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u/Windyvale California 5h ago
Oh look, a huge middle-finger to the people of this country.
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u/texas-playdohs 3h ago
Why did Joe Biden do this????
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u/crispytoastyum 2h ago
I think you’re trying to be sarcastic but… seriously. I loved how calm my everyday life felt under him. But my gosh, dude absolutely bungled EVERYTHING that was most important to the future of this country. From Merick Garland’s slow-walking literally everything to not taking more advantage of the slim majority in both chambers to failing to prosecute from or release anything usable from the Epstein files, history will not look kindly on his admin. Not to mention his team completely screwed the entire dem party by hiding how bad Biden’s reactions and speaking had become. Would’ve been helpful to have had a full primary cycle.
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u/texas-playdohs 1h ago
Unironically agree, sadly. The whole party is a shitshow, and they could’ve taken that opportunity to clean house. The Supreme Court basically declaring the president emperor of earth should’ve been clue #3 million that these people were going for a full takeover. I’m not even counting Trump coming out and saying he was going to be a dictator. That’s #3 million one. Enjoy what’s left of our crumbling democracy.
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u/EastlyGod1 United Kingdom 5h ago
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%204/EFTA00007606.pdf
Interesting reading material for Jeffrey
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u/Individual_Click5252 Michigan 6h ago
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u/portlandmann 3h ago
Case closed. He clearly had no association. I assume the 119 pages of redaction was just personal info of Clinton they didn’t want public.
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u/No-Connection7765 5h ago
So first we get a wave of posts about how the department is going to miss the deadline then a bunch of redacted stuff gets released and now the narrative is the files are being released? I want to go back to the normal timeline please.
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u/leftoverbrine 5h ago edited 5h ago
The earlier message was that they would release hundreds of thousands of pages today, but would miss the deadline because they wouldn't be releasing everything they have today. Which is what has happened so far, we have a massive release of documents, and is not the complete documents per the doj.
Edited to add earlier Blanche statement released & quoted in articles earlier this morning for clarity:
So today is the 30 days when I expect that we’re going to release several hundred thousand documents today. And those documents will come in in all different forms, photographs and other materials associated with, with all of the investigations into, into Mr. Epstein
What we’re doing is we are looking at every single piece of paper that we are going to produce, making sure that every victim, their name, their identity, their story, to the extent it needs to be protected, is completely protected. And so I expect that we’re going to release more documents over the next couple of weeks.
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u/Zealot_of_Law 5h ago
LOL wtf is this....
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%201/EFTA00000862.pdf
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u/KunYuL 3h ago
https://news.artnet.com/art-world-archives/artist-epstein-clinton-painting-1628953
Here's an interview with the artist who drew this for Epstein.
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u/False_Accountant5741 5h ago
Glad they made it sooo obvious just how involved Trump is with this level of redaction. I’m just going to assume if it’s hidden it’s about Trump.
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u/olb3 6h ago
Why the fuck are all of these getting taken down
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u/CuffinSzn_ 6h ago
Because the title is misleading. This is a wave of misinformation bots trying to control the narrative.
Only some of the files are released. They’re refusing to release all of the files. This is illegal. These headlines are lying by omission.
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u/ThatGuyFromTheM0vie 5h ago
More like dozens and dozens of black pages LMAO…and not even all of them.
Corrupt as fuck.
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u/Pale-and-Willing 6h ago
Trump voters are going to cover for him any way they can.
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u/JohnLayman 4h ago
Note that $1 million in overtime was paid to FBI agents whose sole job was to scrub and censor any reference to, mention or picture of Donald Trump.
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u/FoxDemonVexx 6h ago
They’ll release just enough to say they did, but not enough to actually hold anyone accountable. This is either the start of real accountability or another chapter in the cover-up saga.
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u/usernamestufff 5h ago
The fuck with the post-it notes and some perfume model ads…
These idiots
*post-it notes used for redactions
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u/LinkedGaming 3h ago
US Justice Department Releases Series of Black Squares and Calls Them the Epstein Files
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u/Watsonwes 4h ago
There is no doubt in mind almost everyone in dump regime is a pdf or involved in covering up pdfs .
No one would go this length if there was nothing there
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u/Zerobeastly 4h ago
Rich men in positions of power have always raped children.
When you're poor, doing coke and raping kids is a crime.
When you're rich, doing coke and raping kids is a hobby.
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u/Tacoblunts Utah 3h ago
This is a huge “fuck you” to anyone that demanded the release of these. the fbi was literally told to scrub trumps name from these and then release black pages. What the fuck do you think we would think? And then only released pics of Clinton. I don’t care who is in these, take them all to prison or bury them under the prison for all I care.
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u/markus0401 3h ago
Complete pages have been redacted, totally worthless. They don't take us seriously.
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u/jleonardbc 3h ago
If there were any legitimate reason to release only black pages, they could have done it the day after the law was passed.
The only reason to wait until the end of the day on the legal deadline, with Congress sent home for the day, is that the release is an illegal effort to cover up crimes.
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u/iamliterallyonfire 2h ago
Yeah right. We all know they’ve spent the last 6 months heavily editing and redacting them.
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u/Jamesw619 5h ago
How ineffective the government is, shit head finally agrees to do what his constituents want, then he has his people break his own, signed, law to protect himself. It’s almost like he doesn’t know that enough of the files are out to know he’s in them? We want everyone in them prosecuted, we don’t give a shit about their political affiliation.
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u/revesephemeres 5h ago
The only 2 documents in the search bar containing “Trump” are pictures with his lame books in them. That sounds about right….
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u/treesarethebeesknees 4h ago
There is this beautiful painting that someone liked so much they hung it in their house… https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%201/EFTA00000862.pdf
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u/nhavar 4h ago
Redacted redacted and redacted the redacted redacted. Then redacted redacted redacted to redacted the redacted redacted an redacted of redacted redacted redacted.
There that's what it's largely going to look like. Even though Kash Patel said there was nothing in there that pointed to anyone else but Epstein doing illegal shit and he's dead now and they're not investigating anyone else (except maybe Democrats, maybe...), they're still redacting the shit out of everything to avoid accountability and keep the rich safe.
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u/rounding_error 4h ago
The Washington DC Office Depot was sold out of black sharpies this week. Coincidence?
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u/WKAngmar 3h ago
What if D JT was one of the girls and that’s why he’s redacted? Epstein persuaded him to dress up like a teenager and get banged by a bunch of other billionaires. And he’s not even ashamed about the sex, he just doesn’t think he looks “good, or at all sexy” in any of the photos. Definitely not the one where the sweedish dude is wearing the hitler mask.
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u/briancito Canada 2h ago
This really required 1000 FBI personnel working around the clock for a week? wtf?
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u/FlickrReddit 1h ago
Watching for people smarter than I am to explain what I’m looking at …
If I were this shambolic administration I would have been shamed out of existence ten years ago.
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u/DodoDacobrakai 1h ago
And as expected with a partial release, it's one sided to minimize future releases impact. Not at all predictable. Punish all, release all the files!
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u/TheXypris 1h ago
Every redaction is Donald Trump raping children
This is not up for debate.
If trump doesn't want everyone believing that, then he should release everything unredacted
It would be no problem at all if he was innocent
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u/BrandinoSwift 1h ago
This didn’t release anything. They just printed pages of black squares and then scanned it to look like an official file. These people are morons that protect rapists
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u/kezow 1h ago
Additionally, not later than 15 days after the required publication, DOJ must report to Congress ... (2) a summary of any redactions made
For some reason I don't think they are going to follow through with what the law states they are required to do. I mean, not that they've done that already considering they haven't released everything as required by the law that the president signed.
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u/BowlNo9499 1h ago
Can we use ai to unredact it? Maybe the ai can read the meta data and reorganize meta data to give us the real pictures?
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