The Department of Justice has released less than 1% of the so-called Epstein files, a court filing has revealed, as Democrats step up criticism of the Trump administration’s “lawlessness” for keeping records under seal.
The department conceded that only 12,285 documents, totalling 125,575 pages, relating to the disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been published to date, despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December.
Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, wrote a five-page update to Paul Engelmayer, the federal New York judge overseeing the case, on Monday, asserting that efforts to protect the identities of Epstein’s victims were a priority, and had slowed the process.
“There are more than two million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review,” she wrote in the letter co-signed by Todd Blanche, her deputy, and Jay Clayton, US attorney for the southern district of New York.
"What are they trying to hide?” Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said in a post to X on Monday accusing the justice department of failing to submit a required unredacted list to Congress “of all government officials and politically exposed persons” named or referenced in the files.
“It’s been 17 DAYS since the Trump DOJ first broke the law and failed to release all the Epstein files. It’s been 14 DAYS since Trump’s DOJ released anything at all – with the DOJ doing everything in its power to delay and obfuscate.”
<despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December.>
The very FACT that they have NOT released the files now is a CLEAR indication that they NEVER intended to release them at all.
Congress needs to get off its withering impotent ass and arrest Bondi (and impeach Trump of course)
Unfortunately, the Grand Old Pedophiles don’t have enough of a spine to stand up to the diddler in chief.
because most of them are likely on the files themselves.
Why are writing Trump-style bro? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
It seems to WORK for him. Why NOT me?
More damning evidence that high profile people are involved.
Look, I don’t give a shit if they’re all not released.
The way they’ve behaved, the way they approached the subject, the way they try downplaying it all. They’re all complicit child-fuckers.
And we the people can’t do a thing about it.
Nothing legal.
Injustice is never legal
Unless unjust people write the laws.
Something being a law don’t mean it’s legal
No, it quite literally does. Something being a law don’t mean it’s moral.
If it is moral, you can be damn sure it’s most likely not a law.
Lol who the fuck downvoted this?
You don’t understand how laws work.
Legal if you win. The American revolution wasn’t legal as far as the red coats were concerned.
Why write that? Congratulations, you’re now on a list.
Pussy.
Why are you trying to convince people to die quietly with the US?
Keep pushing your representatives to stay on this. Phone calls, letters, emails, etc., all can be used to make sure our reps know that this is important to all of us ongoingly. And that is why you are incorrect, We The People in fact can continue to do something about this matter. Don’t give up hope now, that’s exactly what the fascists would prefer you do. Don’t give them what they want. Be brave, u/the_q , remember persistence furthers.
The only MO most members of congress have right now is to AVOID any kind of confrontation that will show that they don’t actually have the ability to enforce anything. They will bend over backwards to make it look like the White House ignoring their actions is “normal” so they can maintain the illusion that they still function as a check, and they certainly won’t push further than they think the white house is willing to go on its own. The white house knows this as well - it’s to their benefit that the Congress still nominally APPEARS to be a functional branch of government so they don’t have to risk open rebellion if they straight up dissolve it, although at this point, I don’t think there is ANYTHING that can pierce the insane, deluded, mentally ill complacency of the majority of the American people.
Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, wrote a five-page update to Paul Engelmayer, the federal New York judge overseeing the case, on Monday, asserting that efforts to protect the identities of Epstein’s
victimsco-conspirators were a priority, and had slowed the process.ftfy
It would take fucking minutes to auto find each victim name, and censor it, and maybe, MAYBE, a few days for a team of people to review it and manually change what wasn’t caught.
If charges don’t come out of how this was handled, let alone for sure charging all of the child rapists and anyone that helped them, we need to burn this mother fucker down.
redacting information is a lot harder than that. you often have to redact things that allow people to draw correlations that lead to identity… details like that should be redacted
but this is ridiculous on its own, even without the enormous blunders that prove it’s about protecting co-conspirators rather than victims
I mean I do imagine it would take a bit of time, but they’ve got entire teams of people who’s entire jobs are handling that.
It wouldn’t take this long, even if they actually needed to both protect victims and help coconspirators. It’s been literal years, and even the mandate from a few months back was an extreme amount of time.
I completely agree with you, but I distinctly remember saying “There’s no way Trump comes back from this” five years ago today, and yet here we are. I have very little hope for the system as it is now.
Yeah, agreed. I wasn’t as hopeful then, just because all of the blatant crime starting 10 years ago and frankly decades ago, but every time I think there’s a line, like a party to or directly throwing a baby that was just murdered into a lake with witnesses around, I do think, this has got to be it.
Well he pardoned all the traitors from jan 6th so I wouldn’t expect any less.
Hear that MAGA? Next time you’re getting ready to parrot that nonsense about “Promises Made, Promises Kept,” remember that two of his CENTRAL promises of his campaign were releasing the Epstein Files, and America First - staying out of other countries business, specifically no regime change, and no nation building. And now we have both, AND they are still hiding the Epstein Files.
We should remind all MAGAs as often as possible.
He got what he wanted, elected and access to power and money (sweet corruption). The MAGA suckers can f off now.
That 1% contains Trump’s name hundreds of times and has credible evidence of him being party to his own child’s infanticide
What could even be worse at that point
Actually, the tip doesn’t allege that it was Trump’s child, it alleges that Trump was present when her uncle killed the baby. It makes no allegation about who the father is, and sadly the list of candidates would be very large in that scenario. He was there near the birth, no claim about who was there for the conception.
I also hate to admit it, but that specific “credible evidence” was a tip submitted via an online form in October 2020. Certainly worth searching for/demanding more to see where, if anywhere, the tip went, but by itself it isn’t credible evidence. There’s so much more credible bad stuff about Trump that makes this quite believable, but until linked to more substantive stuff, probably best to stick to the more concrete stuff. I suspect there were quite a few crafted attempts at ‘October Surprises’ during the 2020 race and Epstein was a solid topic well known by the populace to try those sorts of things.
So stop whining about it and fucking imprison all of them for contempt and have someone else release it.
“Best I’m willing to do is whine on a platform for Nazis run by my political ‘rival’” - Elected representative of the people Chuck Schumer
Hey hey! Look over there, Venezuela! Pay attention to that!
Unreal. Aren’t there any patriots willing to release the files and then be murdered?
We need someone suicidal to take one for the team.
Chuck Schumer says “what are they trying to hide?”; meanwhile, he’s one of the redacted names. Oh, Chuck, you stinker
hes old as, if not older than trump. there is still the SIlent generation congress aparently.
97.3% are all about Donny Diddler.
I’m 197.3% innocent! 🫲🍊🫱
I feel like it’s more important than ever to partition/set-up feeds to only see politics when one wants to.
Absolute madness. The really bad kind.
Failure to comply with legal requirements whether in time or to this even being a substantive release.
… as Democrats step up criticism of the Trump administration’s “lawlessness” for keeping records under seal.
Oh good! And here I was wondering if they were going to DO anything at all, but they’re on the case! Silly me for doubting the dems.
remember both billionaire donors, ceos for both parties on the list, and most likely any d IS ON THE list, but gop probably makes up a large majority of it.
I’ve started counting rocket artillery to go to sleep instead of sheep. Wherein those rockets land? You can prolly make a guess.
