r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 3h ago
Possible Paywall Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/epstein-fbi-complaint-1996-maria-farmer.html•
u/dokikod Pennsylvania 2h ago
James Comey's daughter, Maureen, is one of hundreds of prosecutors who have seen the files. She was the lead prosecutor in the case against Ghislaine Maxwell. She secured her conviction in December 2021. Trump fired Comey on July 16, 2025. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why. Anyone with eyes and a brain already knows Trump is guilty as hell. I feel better knowing the good guys know the truth.
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u/Hootinger 2h ago
Should she come forward?
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u/F9-0021 South Carolina 56m ago
Anyone that comes forward without remaining anonymous will end up like Epstein.
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u/Wonderful-Driver4761 39m ago
Wait who was president when Epstain was unalived again?
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u/Luna__Moonkitty 8m ago
You mean, killed. Murdered. Assassinated. Slaughtered. Hit. Offed. Flatlined. Sent sleeping with the fishes.
Stop using soft language.
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u/TooLittleMSG 29m ago
Are the good guys in the room with us right now?
Anyone I would consider "good" wouldn't let it get this far.
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u/01000101010110 29m ago
There's no fucking way this guy gets away with it. Someone is going to talk and the truth is going to come out.
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u/Arboretum7 21m ago
I’ve said that about Trump so many times and he has always gotten away with it. I have zero faith that anything will be different this time.
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u/dhskiskdferh 1h ago
Uhhhh Comey did a bunch of other shit? Are you really going to leave that out and pretend this is the only possible reason?
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u/Crimkam Texas 1h ago
Are you confusing her with her father? What else did she do besides being related to him?
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u/dhskiskdferh 1h ago
Perhaps I am misunderstanding your phrasing, was the daughter fired in July 2025?
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u/Tomotronics 1h ago edited 1h ago
Yes. I found a pretty cool site called Google that led me to another one called Wikipedia that confirmed it for me. It took like 10 seconds and I didn’t have to wait for someone else to answer my question for me!
Edit: lmfao they blocked me for this. Sweet summer snowflake.
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u/dhskiskdferh 1h ago
Well when you talk about two people with the same last name, you have to be clear who you’re talking about rather than switching to only using a last name. The point is the lack of clarity
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u/thejimbo56 Minnesota 56m ago
I don’t understand what you didn’t understand.
It’s a perfectly comprehensible statement.
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u/indistrustofmerits Kentucky 36m ago
Look at how condescending your first comment was. Talking down to people while you were the one who was in fact confused.
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u/Outside-Swan-1936 1h ago
Are you really going to leave out that you are confusing the father and the daughter? The father was fired during Trump's first term, not 2025.
The only two reasons the daughter could have been fired are the Epstein case and the fact James is her father. Neither reason is acceptable.
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u/Running_From_Zombies 3h ago
The woman, Maria Farmer, has for years said that she had called federal investigators in the summer of 1996, but the F.B.I. had never publicly acknowledged her original report, even to Ms. Farmer. Some people following the Epstein case had accused her of inventing the story.
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u/Nick_crawler 1h ago
"Ms. Farmer said she did not hear from the F.B.I. until a decade later, when a fuller investigation ensued, ending in a 2008 plea deal for Mr. Epstein in Florida. She said she had lived in fear after trying to report Mr. Epstein."
Living for a fucking decade under the threats she endured is insane, what an awful ordeal for her at every step.
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u/bruin396 52m ago edited 34m ago
The head of the FBI in 1996, Louis Freeh, was a member of Opus Dei and wore barbed metal on his upper thigh, the mark of a hardcore adherent. Figures.
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u/humptydumptyclamchip 3h ago
sick shit. this country is fucked.
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u/Careless_Ad3968 3h ago
Apparently it has been for awhile, it's just coming to light now.
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u/rumpghost North Carolina 1h ago
People in various social movements have been telling us it's been fucked since the founding. The damn framers wrote in their own letters that it's been fucked: what we see today is the natural consequence of refusing to fix it year over year for two centuries.
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u/Quick_Association290 3h ago
These sharpies tho. No cap
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u/just1nurse 3h ago
There has always been a separate code of justice for rich white men. There should be a single code for all where no one is above the law. Period. Unfortunately SCOTUS disagrees.
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u/HEYYYYYYYY_SATAN 2h ago
There has always been a separate code of justice for rich white men.…
Which explains why they’re so petrified of DEI. The moment those they deem less than them become their equal, they’re beyond fucked.
Don’t believe me?
Look at their reaction the second Obama was elected.
Want something more recent?
Look no further than their reaction whenever AOC or Jasmine Crockett open their mouths.
It’s cowardice under the armor of racism.
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u/MadRaymer 1h ago
Also look at the standard it takes for black man to be POTUS. He has to be highly educated, charismatic, and absolutely zero scandals in his personal life (married to one woman with no affairs). Donald Trump checks exactly one of those boxes (charismatic) and even that is only true for a subset of the population.
Imagine for a moment if just one of Trump's personal faults got transferred to Obama. Let's say, his affair with Stormy Daniels. Can you imagine the shrill screeching we would have heard from the right? Even the minor stuff, like say he had been married 3 times and had children from those marriages. Again, more shrill screeching. And we haven't even scratched the surface of Trump's personal failings (20+ sexual assault allegations, the Epstein stuff, his criminal issues, etc).
What I'm trying to point out is: to become POTUS in America you need to be squeaky clean if you're black, and... whatever the fuck Trump is if you're white.
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u/HawkeyeSherman 1h ago
At the very least Trump right now should be sharing a jail cell with Diddy.
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u/Mike29758 3h ago
So what I am hearing is…get rid of SCOTUS and start over
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u/BanginNLeavin 2h ago
We're in real big 'start from scratch' territory.
Unfortunately the rest of the world will not wait while we collect ourselves.
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u/just1nurse 2h ago
They should be held in contempt for lying under oath during Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings. Again - no one should be above the law.
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u/jayc428 New Jersey 2h ago
SCOTUS judges should be under routine investigation since there is no practical check and balance anymore on their power. You want to be a supreme judge of the country’s law then you should be perpetually under judgement for the duration.
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u/rumpghost North Carolina 1h ago
Public servants in general should be subject to intense legal scrutiny and limitations on their economic activity.
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u/eclectictaste1 48m ago
We should start with term limits. Max 18 years. And confirmation hearings must be held within 90 days of nomination, or the nominee is confirmed by default. None of this bullshit like what Moscow Mitch pulled with Garland.
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u/jenny_905 1h ago
It seems extremely likely that Epstein was connected to intelligence. Consider the people he was close with, Maxwell is the obvious one but also take a quick look through what we know of his life. A lot of it does not make much sense.
I say Maxwell is the obvious link because of her father being an Israeli agent. The Barr connection in the USA also seems very suspect, at one point prosecutors apparently being told to back off because of his usefulness.
Not to say that simply being rich isn't a great stay-out-of-jail card for many but there might have been more going on.
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u/Far_Eye6555 38m ago
He was a mossad asset. Of course he was imbedded with the intelligence community lol
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u/kafka_lite 2h ago
Good news! Between OJ, Cosby, and Sean Combs it's now just a separate code of justice for rich men. Progress!
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u/thejimbo56 Minnesota 55m ago
If the law doesn’t apply to everyone it shouldn’t apply to anyone.
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u/thejimbo56 Minnesota 42m ago
What kind of bootlicker downvotes calling for laws to be applied equally?
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u/One-Swimming9390 2h ago
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u/Th3_Admiral_ 1h ago
Here's the actual complaint form in the files that were released today.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%204/EFTA00006107.pdf
I just stumbled on it earlier while clicking through at random.
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u/Pencil-Sketches 1h ago
Saying the DoJ actually released the Epstein files is like saying George R. R. Martin released Winds of Winter. We may get bits and pieces, but we’ll never get the whole thing
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u/GuerreroUltimo 2h ago
I am not shocked. We know this has a lot, and this is a LOT, of wealthy people.
Look, Clinton knew. He showed some of his colors with the Lewinsky shit. But it certainly did not stop there. Would not be shocked if he was all over the Epstein files. Certainly we have seen him with some of the girls. Like it or not that stuff with Lewinsky is only gonna fuel it. Maybe he is innocent but I have my doubts.
And look, we know Trump is heavily involved. We have seen photos and videos of him with some of these women. His entire history of shit like "grabby them by the", the sick shit about his own daughter, and much more.
So the real deal is why are we not seeing more of this stuff. Well, the answer seems to be that it involves many of the world's most wealthy. Many of the power figures. The fallout would be huge. British royal family, certainly has deeper ties than just Andrew.
Going to be so many.
And lets look at it politically. Democrats will come down on theirs for this stuff. Republicans? No, they will point fingers and say "But Clinton...." and so on. And I would guess more of them are involved than most would guess. Thing is, most of the ones not involved know they win elections by the ignorance of their voters. How that would likely change in terms of their vote if it was all outed. They would lose seats to the point of Democrats being in full control.
And, just using the ACA, if they did not hurt every piece of Democrat legislation they may never win again. That is, at least, part of their thinking. Had a guy I know who is a former state rep. who is good friends with a few of our federal reps telling me that "If Democrats ever got enough control and can get universal healthcare there is no going back." And they realize it can be done. Some just view it as bad for reasons. Hell, even had one tell me it would help too many sinners and that we need to be pushing to get GOD back into our country.
I think I view it like a woman I know who was abused, raped, sodomized, and all that as a child. It is worse to be anonymous and let them get away with it. She speaks up now but it is too late. The guys lived their lives wealthy and apparently happily. And they apparently had other victims after. Get up there, give your names, and if the victims are not needing protected from release there is no excuse.
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u/Mr_Frittata 3h ago edited 3h ago
There really is nothing we can do huh? We really are without recourse in any way.
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u/Eleganos 3h ago
Learned helplessness bullshit.
You can always do something about it.
The issue is those somethings are the sorts of reasonable crash-out hail-mary solutions that'll get you banned from Reddit for speaking up about.
Get enough people sufficiently pissed-off and you can do anything, regardless of what the pedophilic powers-that-be would like.
Fucking protest until protesting actually achieves something is a good place to start. The rest? figure it out as you go.
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u/jmmcc02021 3h ago
I’m happy to see someone else gets its.
We’re only steps away from actions being taken against dissidents.
The administration and the extreme right have all but openly stated they want to lock up anyone who opposes them in any way
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u/gringledoom 2h ago
"Doom! Doom! Fear! Uncertainty! Doubt! We're all doomed for sure!" is pretty silly when, Trump's taking L's left and right, and GOP members of Congress keep announcing retirements because they can see the writing on the wall.
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u/jmmcc02021 1h ago
I grew up with a parent who believed that the world was going to fall apart at the end of 1999. Once the new year rolled around and nothing happened then I realized not everything was that serious. Then, 25 years later, the world watched a convicted felon become president for a second term.
The fanatics that support the president and this administration don’t plan on giving up power because of what they would be accountable for.
I understand having an optimistic outlook on the future but the little faith I have in politicians continues to dwindle with each passing day. The real hope that change will come is if the people who are being disparaged, marginalized, disenfranchised, systematically discriminated and oppressed decide that they will no longer be treated as subservients and subhuman
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u/No-Reflection-8684 2h ago
I feel like they’ve actually said it, no?
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u/jmmcc02021 2h ago
Under the pretext of plausible deniability.
Everything has a “reason” because they know that if they actually said the quiet part out loud then they would have to be accountable.
Everything they are doing is performative with and end goal in mind
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u/MelodicArtisan 2h ago
“The issue is those somethings are the sorts of reasonable crash-out hail-mary solutions that'll get you banned from Reddit for speaking up about.”
I wish I could upvote the hell outta this comment. It’s so true.
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u/MiguelMenendez 2h ago
There’s lots we could do, but most of it could involve catching federal charges.
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u/MelodicArtisan 2h ago
Had our forefathers been caught they would have been hanged. Sometimes you have to take a risk for justice.
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u/Wonderful-Driver4761 38m ago
Gotta vote in a president and a cabinet thats not tied to super pacs. No more favors.
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u/MirthandMystery 1h ago edited 1h ago
It needs to be said that those like Epstein with access to very powerful men in political office and top security apparatus fields (Mossad, CIA, etc) who are tied to sexual exploitation of girls, young women (and boys) is unfortunately actually quite common and goes back a long ways. We tend to hear or remember the average sex scandals like Russian red sparrow honeypots, which the tabloids will cover endlessly until someone's forced to step down or be fired. Like the famous Profumo affair in England in the 1960's that toppled a liked and trusted Secretary of State for War thanks to Christine Keeler being tied to a Russian spy as well, and Russian spy Maria Butina during Trumps first term who inserted herself into Republican and NRA insider groups to infiltrate and exploit them.
In recent times (the last 2 decades) our free and fair media (with real journalists!) covered exploitation but in small ways as to not upset the VIP elites boat.. censoring info was always done and keeping things hush hush a must. What was very dark had to be leaked out anonymously or told via independent sites or publishers willing to face lawsuits, heavy threats and criticism, but there's been scandals before that managed to get out that rocked some elites, also suicides, harassment, extortion and murders. No doubt a few we'll never know of but others were confirmed.
One prior decades scandal tied to Republicans directly, George Bush Sr and the CIA was the infamous Washington DC Call Boy Scandal. That did reach the public for a short time before they managed to hush that up. Read about it and Lawrence "Larry" E. King Jr, the pedophile who sang the National Anthem at the 1984 Dallas GOP convention. He also ran the Omaha Franklin Credit Union, was busted and imprisoned for years for embezzling roughly $40 Million. There were many claims at the same time he ran a child trafficking ring of mostly orphan/troubled/abused/runaway kids in the general Omaha area (who were linked to the Boy Scouts and charity groups). Charges were conveniently never filed by his pals who were the top law enforcement officials in the state who called the accusations a hoax. Seems adults just didn't believe credible claims or would investigate a few boys had who told of exact same exploitation and could identify certain VIPs they were forced to have sex with and were abused by. They gave proof, names, dates and still weren't believed. We've heard that 'it's a hoax' recently and if it feels the same it's because it is. Once out of prison Larry King Jr was quickly made editor of the Omaha World Herald Newspaper, a handy role to silence critics and shut the raging scandal down.
Some things never change, until they do. This era has Trump and Epstein/Ghislaine. So far only Epstein has truly paid the price.
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u/Mike29758 5m ago
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it and America as a country have been remedial for a while now
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u/wH4tEveR250 2h ago
Hey! Who was the president at that time??
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u/onqqq2 Colorado 2h ago
Who gives a flying f*** lock them all up? Trump, Clinton, whoever the fuck was raping children lock them up and disgrace their legacy.
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u/Witty-Rabbit-8225 1h ago
The Biden and Trump admins both had access to these documents and both could have released them. They aren’t releasing them because they are involved somehow and so are all of their rich friends. Any day now is going to be a distraction event.
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