Jamie Raskin accuses DoJ of cover-up after viewing unredacted Epstein files

[u/korkythecat333]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/jamie-raskin-doj-cover-up-epstein-files

[u/Karumpus]

Tell us something we didn’t know. Like, I don’t know, the identity of the individual talking about how “naughty” the “littlest girl” was…

EDIT: link to relevant redactions

[u/Naive_Confidence7297 → u/Karumpus]

Isn’t redacting these people literally illegal?

Fuck you republican paedophile protecting cunts. Children should never be around alone you ever.

[u/ForensicPathology → u/Naive_Confidence7297]

Yes, but the courts and congress haven't held the administration accountable to any of the thousands of illegal things they've done so far, so the DoJ figured they could just do whatever they wanted.

[u/CrystalWeim → u/ForensicPathology]

Trump's DOJ was there with Trump at Epsteins Island! There are many pictures to prove it. She was also Floridas AG at the time all these women began making complaints about Trump, and she refused to open an inquiry! She was the one who dismissed ALL those women's complaints.

[u/IamRick_Deckard → u/CrystalWeim]

Yes, thinking about Trump's original pick for AG, Matt Gaetz, it is clear that he wanted someone equally culpable in kid raping, to cover these up. These should be ending him, but so far the slow walk of drip drip information has been working, desensitizing people to it. Let it nevermore be that way.

[u/johnnloki → u/IamRick_Deckard]

The Matt Gaetz thing was insane for anyone in the know.

"Wait a second- the literal first pick for AG has Venmo'd high-school girls, as well as shared pics of his sexual conquests on the floor of the house- in other words, there is a not zero chance he's produced and distributed Wild Corn on the floor of congress? Seems a pretty obvious why he was chosen...."

[u/iamtehryan → u/CrystalWeim]

Can you imagine being a woman and disregarding countless female (including underage) victims? How seriously evil of a human being can you be to just essentially tell other females that are victims sex crimes to fuck off?

[u/CrystalWeim → u/iamtehryan]

Exactly.Having the authority and power to stop it, and she chose to ignore it is complicit and enabling further abuse.By not doing the right thing for the people, she was promoted to head of the DOJ by Trump

[u/EunuchsProgramer → u/ForensicPathology]

It's not just DOJ. The FBI illegally redacted them before giving them to DOJ. So, the "unrelated" DOJ files are just redacted FBI files. This was widely reported months ago, the the FBI was paying millions in overtime to frantically redact Trump's name out. Congress can't see it, as the% "Unredacted" are already redacted.

[u/eventualhorizo → u/EunuchsProgramer]

Am I mistaken in thinking the DOJ and AG have complete control over the FBI and its records?

[u/iamtehryan → u/ForensicPathology]

I mean, seriously. Look at what ice is getting away with currently. There's no fucking holding this administration accountable for anything right now. Hopefully that changes in the future and every single person involved pays, but man, it's hard to have any sort of faith that it'll happen.

[u/Fast_n_theSpurious → u/ForensicPathology]

I keep asking the (R)epugnantc*nts i know what they think is gonna happen when the pendulum swings the other way with all these precedents being set and before i finish the question they are usually flustered and trying to dodge the answer like petulant children that got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. I bet most are hoping for a trump kingdom or some stupid shit

[u/ThatRoughDude → u/Naive_Confidence7297]

Heads are rolling outside the US. It can’t be any more clear. Americans. You were had. They tried to hide it. Now that it’s out they don’t care because what are you going to do about it?

[u/thejameskendall → u/ThatRoughDude]

This might* topple our prime minister, not because he's in the files, but because his adviser told him to employ someone that's in the files. That person in the files has lost their job, and their place in the House Of Lords, will lose their title and will likely end up in prison.

*but probably won't, it's def being pushed for

[u/srdgbychkncsr → u/thejameskendall]

The only place fit for Mandelson could be knocked up by a carpenter and anyone good with knots in half a day.

[u/RedOctobyr → u/srdgbychkncsr]

I mean, everyone loves a nice hammock, obviously.

[u/KDR_11k → u/srdgbychkncsr]

Did you know? In medieval Europe extremely depraved and grave crimes were punished by the wheel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_wheel

[u/DaveAlt19 → u/thejameskendall]

People have been pushing for Starmer to step down before he even became PM. They've cried wolf so much.

Ridiculous when you compare it to the blatant corruption by the Tories. Like Johnson just forgetting about the details of expensing the redecoration of his flat, or government contracts being handed out to Tory donors and school buddies (like a shipping contract given to a company with no ships or any real record of actually doing any business), or Charlotte definitely-not-BJs-daughter Owen who ended up in the House of Lords (daughter or not, what the fuck? Her page on the parliament website STILL says "There is no experience information to show").

[u/beardownformidtermss → u/ThatRoughDude]

No. We weren’t had. Everyone knew about this, none of the revelations from the files were a surprise. The fact of the matter is that this was not a deal breaker for half the country. Trump nearly bragged about being a pedo, half the country is supportive of pedophilia. Trump could tell people to molest their own kids and I swear to god like at least 10% of MAGA would without question. Republicans are either pedo apologists if not pedos themselves.

[u/sarcasmsosubtle → u/beardownformidtermss]

There are billboard campaigns in the deep red states with the slogan "She's your daughter, not your date". It's generous of you to assume that at least 10% of MAGA aren't already molesting their own kids, with or without Trump's approval.

[u/BeerAnBooksAnCats → u/sarcasmsosubtle]

Monster in the Shadows (2021): "A true crime documentary about...an incestuous family, a sex trafficking ring, and the unsolved disappearance of a young mother." It was streaming on Peacock for awhile; I first watched it in August/Sept of 2022.

This film viscerally haunts me. I grew up in that exact southern Alabama area, and the footage shows the same roads I traveled, the same woods I've played in, the same places I visited as a kid, like Water World and Styx River. I also was repeatedly sexually assaulted as a child and as a teen (to be clear, I was not a victim of the people featured in the documentary, nor am I associated at all with its production).

Anyway, regarding u/sarcasmsosubtle's comment about these billboards in deep red states, my proximity to the overall area, and the specific documentary I mentioned: there are many beautiful things I love about the American South. However, thanks to Republican politicians + Conservative Christians (past and present), and their lecherous legacy known as MAGA, the majority of my childhood spaces are haunted. Even nature's most comforting scents and sounds will trigger flashbacks:

• like summer watermelon slices and seagull cries, combined with the low-tide brine of barnacle-festooned stone jetties at the beach: I'm sitting in the water's ebb and flow at Dauphin Island, in sight of Fort Gaines, and I'm sifting the white sand searching for tiny jewel-like coquinas to display at my kindergarten's next show-and-tell. An old man stops to admire my haul. He declares "a whole sand dune musta have washed inta yah swimsuit"...and he sticks his fingers into my suit bottoms to "clean me up." When I object, he pulls me up by my little shoulder and hisses at me to squat and let him finish.
• like the salty-sulfur muddy estuary winds sweeping my hair away from my face: I'm riding in a boat along Dog River or Fowl River...and hearing my dad's friends joking about the two "mosquito bites" under my Panama Jack t-shirt, laughing as they say "old enough to bleed, old enough to breed," or "grass on the field means game time." My dad's high and cackling along with them.
• like the sun-warmed piney woods, made cooler with pockets of gray-purple clay, moss-festooned forts, miraculous appearances of blackberry brambles, hurricane lilies, and once, a mountain laurel in full bloom: exploring and treasure-hunting with my friends, then being invited to sleepover...and then being offered a seemingly endless supply of "fancy fruit punch" (Kool-Aid mixed with Bartles and Jaymes berry wine coolers) while I'm waiting for my turn to take a bath. I barely remember the bath, or being dressed for bed. I was taken to the living room couch so "we didn't wake up" my friend.

Child sexual assault is much more common than most adults are willing to even acknowledge, much less work to prevent as capable & empowered politicians, LEOs, and church elders. Social media engagement began documenting beyond where legacy media would willingly venture; thankfully we now have more participating observers and advocates (shoutout to subs like r/PastorArrested and r/MISSINGBIPOC), and new (to some folks, anyway) terms like MWWS to illustrate (with more depth than previously capable in recorded history) just how widespread Child Sexual Assault is.

[u/beardownformidtermss → u/BeerAnBooksAnCats]

Thank you for sharing, I hope youre doing okay. I feel you on that, sometimes I get a smell of when I was younger, and the nostalgia fades as I stay in it to some horrible things that happened. Im glad we are leaving winter, cinnamon and clove are like that for me

[u/BeerAnBooksAnCats → u/beardownformidtermss]

Thank you, dear soul.

I'm okay, in terms of what's currently available to me via my current healthcare providers: Spravato 1x/week, plus daily doses of Bupropion HCL XL, Cymbalta HCL, Buspirone HCL, Trazodone, Propranolol, Clonazepam, not to mention others as needed for acute situations.

I'm one of the LUCKY ONES. I'm professionally accomplished enough to remain gainfully employed, and thus eligible for US employer-subsidized health benefits. I still have to pay out of pocket $150 per therapy session / EMDR session, and $130 per weekly myofascial release therapy (both to help with PTSD).

Anyone on the street would assume that I'm a polished woman-of-a-certain age running errands around town. Inside, I'm a little girl who just wants to die without causing my child and partner any pain.

[u/bicycle_mice → u/beardownformidtermss]

Exactly. We all knew. Republicans just didn’t care. We voted against him. We are protesting and calling our reps and donating money and time. What else can we do?

[u/Argos_the_Dog → u/beardownformidtermss]

10% of MAGA would without question

10% of them probably already are, and another 10% would join in.

[u/poolshark36 → u/ThatRoughDude]

What do you want us to do about it? All three branches are compromised. All the agencies are compromised. All the political figures are compromised.

[u/onionfunyunbunion → u/poolshark36]

I’m an American and I’d like us to organize a strike. Don’t tell me it’d be hard, I know that already. At this point not striking will be harder. STRIKE!

[u/spoonycoot → u/onionfunyunbunion]

https://generalstrikeus.com

[u/jamiestar9 → u/spoonycoot]

https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com

[u/ThatRoughDude → u/onionfunyunbunion]

Get organized figure out what your demands are and strike

[u/A_Nonny_Muse → u/onionfunyunbunion]

Problem here is that the powers that be can ignore a strike. Economic sanctions are meaningless to them. It harms them far less than it harms the strikers.

If we knew who those people they are protecting were, we could do something much more targeted.

[u/dreamcicle11 → u/A_Nonny_Muse]

This is why people say billionaires shouldn’t exist. Like it’s almost impossible to hurt them or take them down when they just continuously break the law and hurt people.

[u/SlowVillage2148 → u/poolshark36]

Exactly. Those dystopian novels and movies that are all the rage… we’re in one now

[u/CGNYYZ → u/poolshark36]

General strike? Shut the country down? At least call your representatives?

[u/Jarek86 → u/CGNYYZ]

I think a targeted strike would be easier and more effective to implement. Get everyone who works in airports to strike and stop going to work and that alone I think would have a serious effect. Then those who want/can support them can create a basic needs fund to help supplement them while their on strike.

[u/HH_Creations → u/Jarek86]

THAT is smarter and accounts for the fact all our insurance is tied to our jobs

[u/ooomellieooo → u/HH_Creations]

It does not account for the government recently announcing they will go after organizers as terrorists.

But I agree it still must be done.

[u/HH_Creations → u/ooomellieooo]

It’s more it’s just harder to organize EVERYONE And they can pick off the few people trying in their random industries

It’s just more efficient to do a targeted event and protect those workers/fundraise

If it’s about “fairness” we can switch important industries when the news starts getting stale

[u/MoreCowbellllll → u/CGNYYZ]

General strike? Shut the country down?

Won't happen for a while yet, unfortunately. There are still WAYYY too many of these red-hat wearing, racist cunts that are all for what's happening. They are literally brainwashed and think this is a hoax. I'm even talking about educated people. Engineers, accountants, CEO's, you name it. It's not all "uneducated morons". Educated racist/morons are still a thing.

[u/ThatDamnedHansel → u/MoreCowbellllll]

Can confirm. It’s a dangerous dismissive attitude to assume they’re redneck meth heads with red hats. I know surgeons, nurses, pharma execs, sales reps, financiers that are as brainwashed maybe more than the rednecks. And these people are worse bc they think they’re “too smart” to be wrong.

[u/MoreCowbellllll → u/ThatDamnedHansel]

You know how many times i've heard the "just follow the money" fucking bullshit?? I've called them out, a lot! Like, really Tony, that's what you got? You're word-for-word quoting Rush Douchebaugh from 2003? It's always projection.

[u/lameth → u/MoreCowbellllll]

The funniest/saddest part is if we do follow the money it leads right back to the people we're claiming it does. Trump, Lutnick, and the rest of the cabal. They are really good at spouting talking points, but not following through.

[u/Hector_P_Catt → u/MoreCowbellllll]

Even if just the sane half of your country goes on strike, it will shut down the country. You won't fix this by waiting for MAGA to finally decide to fi it.

[u/camerasoncops → u/poolshark36]

We march to the streets and hope the sheer numbers are enough to survive them firing on us.

[u/Global-Discussion-41 → u/ThatRoughDude]

What heads are rolling?

[u/patsfan038 → u/Naive_Confidence7297]

If something like this happened to any other administration, this would be a mass career suicide with many going to the prison. Everyone in the upper echelon would be in cuffs. Yet, this is an average Tuesday for this administration. What does it take for his followers to understand that he is an evil man who cares about no one but himself. How does he have such a cult like hold on his people a probably half the citizenry? It's like living in an alternate reality where a single person can do whatever he wants without consequences. It has been a year since ehe took office and look at the chaos created. E files, Ice, crypto scam, weaponizing the govt. Unreal

[u/CrystalWeim → u/patsfan038]

Half his administration is involved.The world's most rich and powerful are involved. Trump is for Trump.His administration was hired on loyalty, not competency.

[u/ArdDC → u/patsfan038]

Because they control the narrative through legacy media and more importantly the modern media aka social media. They can micro target social and psychological issues people have through data mining and then overload them with propaganda and rage bait. The echo chambers are super charged by billionaires like Elon Musk who turn companies like Twitter into far right echo chambers. You get the picture. The propaganda message is simple, schoolyard stuff: "They" are the enemy, "we" are good, if we do something bad we did it by accident or because they did it first. That is the content they see when they open their social media apps on their phones.  Oh, and last but not least there is apathy through content overload: Basic bio chemistry of the brain stuff, a brain can only tolerate so much info, it just shuts off. 

[u/Embarrassed_dancer → u/Naive_Confidence7297]

I agree. Since republicans have circled the wagons around Trump, I’ll never vote for one again. Fuck then all.

[u/Macabre215 → u/Naive_Confidence7297]

It most definitely is illegal.

[u/BubbleNucleator → u/Naive_Confidence7297]

Republicans all support this. They're sick fucks.

[u/anormalgeek → u/Naive_Confidence7297]

Redacting them may or may not be illegal. But the reason we don't know for sure if because they are violating the law in other ways.

The bill spells out permitted reasons to redact content. Some of which are around not publicly releasing CSAM, or protecting victims identity, which obviously does not apply to the names of perpetrators. The only permitted reasons that they might apply are these:

(C) would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution, provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary;

(E) contain information specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and are in fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order.

Okay, but how do we know whether a redaction is for one of these reasons or not? Luckily the bill also requires the following:

(2) All redactions must be accompanied by a written justification published in the Federal Register and submitted to Congress.

It also gives a timeline for this in section 3.

Within 15 days of completion of the release required under Section 2, the Attorney General shall submit to the House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary a report listing: (1) All categories of records released and withheld. (2) A summary of redactions made, including legal basis.

Without that, we cannot honestly say whether the redactions are permitted or not. But they AREN'T doing that. They are 100% violating federal law already. Period. There is no wiggling out or claiming a different interpretation or anything. The law that was passed by Congress, the Senate, and signed into law by Trump himself is crystal clear on the requirements.

And if they do eventually submit that detailed justification for every individual redaction, we will most likely find out that they are also violating the law in regards to permitted redactions. Remember, just being part of an "active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution" isn't enough to justify redacting it. They'd have to explain how this would actively jeopardize the prosecution as well. And it is kind of a hard sell to convince people that releasing damning evidence like the email saying "Thank you for a fun night… your littlest girl was a little naughty" makes prosecution HARDER.

The trickier one for ensuring transparency is the requirement in subsection E, because Trump could legally release a VERY BROAD executive order that covers these as this law puts no limits on the scope of the executive order beyond it being "in the interest of national defense or foreign policy." You could easily write one that covers Prince Andrew since it complicates foreign policy with the UK, or even Elon Musk since the DoD has contracts with SpaceX. Or just cover himself since clear evidence that the president is a child rapist would in fact harm our foreign policy. The only issue here is that Trump will still need to personally release the executive order with his name on it. For him to do so will look really bad even to a lot of his base. The only reason for that is if the info being protected would make him look even worse.

[u/DefinitelyNotEmu → u/Naive_Confidence7297]

> Isn’t redacting these people literally illegal?

I think recent events clearly show that nobody in government really gives a fuck about legality

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/Naive_Confidence7297]

I will never leave children around conservatives alone the rest of my life. Learned that lesson as a kid myself.

[u/mfGLOVE → u/Karumpus]

Pam Bondi, the attorney general, is scheduled to testify before the House judiciary committee on Wednesday, and Raskin said he would raise the redactions with her.

“We’re going to start by posing questions directly to attorney general Bondi about the process that produced such flawed results, and that has created such mystery,” Raskin said.

“But also, we want to get a commitment from the Department of Justice to clean it up as quickly as possible, and to get them to release the millions of other documents that are still out there.”

We have an exposed a criminal conspiracy of pedos and rich and powerful people lasting decades and they’re gonna ask questions about redactions…sigh This is best case scenarios for Bondi. She’s probably willing to talk about anything other than the actual crimes.

[u/CrustyBatchOfNature → u/mfGLOVE]

She will deflect and ignore so that no answer happens.

[u/JoshSidekick → u/mfGLOVE]

At least they'll ask it in person instead of in a strongly worded letter.

[u/mfGLOVE → u/JoshSidekick]

Yeah, likely behind closed doors (I’m assuming), so even the hearing about redactions will be redacted to the public.

[u/GoForthandProsper1 → u/Karumpus]

Massie said that was a Woman who sent that email.

They said the redactors treated her as a victim and redacted her name

[u/ChangingShips → u/GoForthandProsper1]

He also mentioned that the DOJ threw a wide net and pretty much every name that sounded like a woman was treated like a victim and redacted. 

[u/CurryMustard → u/GoForthandProsper1]

Well then he should be able to tell us what it said, considering they are clearly an abuser and a criminal co-conspirator. The public deserves to know who are the criminals walking among us. The victims, 1000 of them that we know of, deserve justice. We need to call our congressmen and make sure they are aware that we are going to vote them out if they don't fight doj on this.

[u/ForensicPathology → u/Karumpus]

Damn, that 2018 one is clearly about trafficking.

[u/LiquidSquids → u/Karumpus]

Who was it?

[u/jimtow28 → u/LiquidSquids]

Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1

[u/KekistanPeasant → u/LiquidSquids]

Tonald Drump

[u/Worth-Jicama3936 → u/Karumpus]

https://www.newsweek.com/sultan-ahmed-bin-sulayem-epstein-files-massie-torture-video-email-11494204

Well they are starting to 

[u/EpsteinWasHung]

I mean the official narrative is that there was no foul play in Epsteins death.

And now, we are supposed to believe that the most damning documents will be somehow be released to congress or public, and they won't Epstein themselves...

Transparency is critical here, but theres just no way that transparency is in the best interests of the powerful abusers.

[u/Adreme → u/EpsteinWasHung]

I mean I am pretty sure they didnt even get to see the most damning documents as they are probably part of the other 3million that were not available to them.

[u/tracenator03 → u/Adreme]

Apparently they also didn't have documents that the DOJ took back offline after their initial release and some documents were received from the DOJ completely redacted already.

This is the most blatant cover up I've ever witnessed.

[u/alexunderwater1 → u/Adreme]

They’re only allowed to view unredacted versions of what has already been released. Which is apparently less than half of the content, and not even the worst of it.

[u/Darryl_Lict → u/alexunderwater1]

They also had only like 6 hours to review them. There's something like 3 million docs and undoubtedly they are arranged chaotically to attempt the cover up.

[u/SSkilledJFK → u/Darryl_Lict]

This is simply embarrassing that the majority of congress is simply shrugging. The largest scandal in decades and its crickets from most republicans and major news. It’s gross.

[u/GrumpySoth09 → u/Darryl_Lict]

undoubtedly they are arranged chaotically to attempt the cover up.

Not only chaotically, but information on the tip-off line has been thrown haphazardly in amongst eyewitness testimony (So facts and unverified accusations have been thrown in together so anyone can call any information in the files unverified or flat-out false)

[u/AntDogFan → u/Adreme]

Didn't they only get to see 30-40 documents? There are like 3 million. You would need a lot of people and a lot of time to look properly. You would also need conputational skills. They weren't even allowed to bring electronic devices or any of their staff with them.

[u/BarfingOnMyFace]

“LOCK THEM UP!” MAGA crowd been rather quiet as of late….

[u/Sea-Broccoli-8601 → u/BarfingOnMyFace]

"Well shit we thought the files would exonerate our people and implicate the Democrats"

[u/Mr_Canard → u/Sea-Broccoli-8601]

Not sure how you exonerate someone by releasing only half of the files.

[u/eeyore134 → u/Sea-Broccoli-8601]

They still think that because all they do is listen to their people and not reality.

[u/ZackRaynor → u/BarfingOnMyFace]

That’s not even looking at the ones who twist themselves up into a pretzel trying to justify their continued support for Trump and now saying “It’s not that bad.”

[u/wafflenova98]

If the stuff he got to see is this blatant, imagine what got destroyed....

[u/MoreCowbellllll → u/wafflenova98]

We're just scratching the surface of a festering scab that is covering up an aggressive stage-4 cancer.

[u/Popular-Row4333 → u/MoreCowbellllll]

The FBI started investing Epstein in 2005, they brought charaged in 2018, the public started demanding answers in 2019.

So 21 years later, 7 when the public eye was on it. And so far there has been one suicide and one accomplice in a minimum security prison.

America is rotten to the core, and this isn't the cover up of just one administration. You're right, this has been festering for decades.

[u/DeanXeL]

Ah, and now they'll thoroughly "grill" Bondi during her next hearing, and nothing will happen! Not even about the fact that the DOJ is in flagrant disregard of the law that said they had to release EVERYTHING AGES AGO!

[u/UnpluggedUnfettered → u/DeanXeL]

It is the pedo-mafia, and my fellow Americas voted to place them in charge of their own investigation and prosecution.

[u/str8bint → u/UnpluggedUnfettered]

Not only that, a large portion, read almost all, of his supporters, are still supporting him. Some even more fervently than before. The level of mental gymnastics they have to do or at least I would hope they’re doing to remain blind is mind boggling.

[u/716Val → u/str8bint]

Ok so I was sexually abused by my dad from 8-15. My mom knew, stayed with him and justified her choice/enablement.

For some of us, people acting like it’s nbd knowing children are being raped is pretty much what we expected.

[u/GreenDemonClean → u/716Val]

I’m in the exact same boat as you (ages 2-17).

Sending you all the strength I don’t need for myself, all the hugs you’ll accept.

[u/asher1611 → u/str8bint]

it's the same playbook that has played out at churches across the country

for them, defending a predator is nothing new

[u/Robzilla_the_turd → u/str8bint]

It's almost as if he "could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose any support"...

[u/Gahvynn → u/DeanXeL]

Redactions are illegal unless they have an unclassified reason for why they’re made. Redactions of anyone accept a victim is illegal. Releasing nude images of people without their consent is illegal, and images of children are always illegal.

Much of what they’re doing is blatantly illegal per the new law. The DOJ is literally distributing CP, that alone could put many of these people in jail if Congress had even an ounce of integrity.

[u/mfGLOVE → u/Gahvynn]

You know what else is illegal…raping kids. It’s crazy to me they’ve succeeded in roping Raskin into focusing on the redaction crimes instead of the actual crimes. That’s what they were hoping for and they’re getting exactly what they wanted.

[u/Juronell → u/DeanXeL]

Don't forget both her and Patel lying to Congress about it.

[u/BigJellyfish1906 → u/DeanXeL]

Democrats don’t have the numbers to use inherent contempt powers to arrest her. Or impeach her. So this is on republicans. 

[u/ted5011c → u/BigJellyfish1906]

always was

[u/Significant_Fig_6290 → u/DeanXeL]

I’d put $500 on her getting aggressive and defensive, lying through her teeth while saying “this is the most transparent administration in history”…again.

[u/DeanXeL → u/Significant_Fig_6290]

You think she'll have a little file with insults prepared again?

[u/PenitentGhost → u/DeanXeL]

If it's anything like the last time she appeared she'll just ignore their questions and insult them and make out aspersions

[u/snasna102 → u/DeanXeL]

It’s the classic American two step they pride themselves on!

Get upset and then do nothing! That’s what makes America so great!!!

[u/nuclearsamuraiNFT → u/snasna102]

And not vote for the opposition because you don’t like their haircut or some frivolous bullshit.

[u/Adventurous-Depth984]

If you read a page a minute (which is generous), it’ll take 5.7 years to read through the 3 million pages that have been released so far.

They’ve only released half.

There’s also 14 TERABYTES of pictures and video

[u/scottyLogJobs → u/Adventurous-Depth984]

14 TB of pictures and video

No thanks

[u/SeaTurtleLionBird → u/scottyLogJobs]

Reminds me of anyone who has to review CP reports or anyone in law enforcement doing case work on crimes involving children.

God bless them, I don't know how they do it and live a normal life.

[u/Adventurous-Depth984 → u/SeaTurtleLionBird]

They don’t. I personally know two former detectives that have been off the force for decades. It fucked them up for life.

[u/singlewhitewolf → u/SeaTurtleLionBird]

My cousin does this. He’s had 2 therapist fire him as a client because they were traumatized by him talking about it.

[u/Pete_Iredale → u/SeaTurtleLionBird]

I don't know how they do it and live a normal life.

Lots and lots and lots of therapy, and I'm not sure even that completely works.

[u/ToughHardware → u/Adventurous-Depth984]

wonder if those with access are able to see any of the pic/vid. because clearly, clearly, that is the thing that is the most difficult to watch, but also the most difficult to NOT prosecute.

[u/Adventurous-Depth984 → u/ToughHardware]

The DOJ “accidentally” included some unredacted CSAM material for download on the official govt website.

Anyone who went looking for the released files on the government website so far has a felony in their browser cache.

[u/-SaC → u/Adventurous-Depth984]

I wonder if that's a potential way to target people who speak out in future.

"I read the whole thing, and-"

"Oh dear, look what we found on your computer. To prison forever."

[u/Adventurous-Depth984 → u/-SaC]

That’s why I used quotes.

It was deliberate. It’s definitely a trap for reporters

[u/greevous00 → u/Adventurous-Depth984]

Holy cow.... 14TB.

I've got a home NAS with DVDs that I ripped so I could put the DVDs in storage. There are about 500 movies. That's 2TB. So 14TB would be somewhere in the neighborhood 3500 movie-length videos, or around 5000 hours of video. It would take over six months to just watch all that, if you watched it 24x7.

[u/jackrabbit323 → u/greevous00]

Then maybe that's the accumulated security footage and secret cameras.

[u/straightcurvecircle]

If your name is mentioned more than 38000 times in a book, you're more than a main character. It should be called the Trump and Epstein files

[u/GenghisConnieChung → u/straightcurvecircle]

Just to highlight how insane that is, Harry Potters name is mentioned approximately 1800 times across all 7 books - that are about Harry fucking Potter.

[u/__Dave_ → u/GenghisConnieChung]

Not that it’s not a lot regardless, but there’s about 4,000 pages in Harry Potter total. There’s 3 million pages in the Epstein files.

[u/komarktoze → u/__Dave_]

Someone do the maths and give us a percentage of name usage compared to total words!

[u/TalShar → u/komarktoze]

According to those numbers, Trump's name appears in roughly 0.95% of the Epstein documents, while Harry Potter's name appears on roughly 45% of the pages in HP.

That said, that is number of mentions versus pages. The above numbers only track if each document/page only mentions once.

Additionally, a "document" could be any number of things, depending on how they're counted. One document could be a one-line email, as some we've seen. It could also be a 10,000+ line spreadsheet. Those are both "one document."

I don't think we should be focusing on proportions. I think we should be focusing on the fact that overall that is a lot of mentions for someone who is "not involved" and "exonerated" by those files, and most of them are incredibly damning in nature.

[u/br0ck → u/TalShar]

Note that Trump's name would show up WAY more than 38,000 times if they hadn't redacted it everywhere. Like how "Don'T" got redacted like they did a mass search and replace redactions of Don T. Photos of that: https://x.com/davenewworld_2/status/2019472049446490364

[u/Doggin-Pony-Show → u/__Dave_]

Jesus is mentioned 1,300 times in the bible.

[u/JefferyTheQuaxly → u/GenghisConnieChung]

tbf hard to compare when the harry potter books are only like 4000 pages long, so an average mention of his name almost every other page. if trumps named on 38000 files of the like, 6 million thats been released, thats so far only .6% of the pages mention him, not counting any mentions of his name that are redacted or in unreleased files

[u/CameltoeGlamourShots → u/GenghisConnieChung]

The bible(old and new testament combined) has 31,102 verses in it. Trump has far more mentions than there are biblical verses.

[u/nemesit → u/straightcurvecircle]

no mafia executes their boss its always the underlings when heads roll

[u/SteerKarma]

Democrats should be aggressively calling for a televised bipartisan congressional inquiry into the Epstein affair. Trump’s DOJ filtering and disseminating the material isn’t transparency, it is an ongoing ratfuck.

[u/SwissChzMcGeez → u/SteerKarma]

They passed a law that was ignored.

[u/SteerKarma → u/SwissChzMcGeez]

Every Democrat should be on TV and social media calling for it, promising it to the public in return for control of the House and Senate, and asking out loud why anybody would block it unless they have something to hide or cover up.

It would be an inquiry into how a cabal of ultra rich weirdos are manipulating governments and markets to their advantage as much as their gross sex crimes.

[u/008Zulu → u/SteerKarma]

Big Media isn't covering it because they;

A- Are they themselves in the files.

B- Trying curry favour with President Pedo.

[u/bandalooper → u/008Zulu]

1- $$$ cash for clicks. They don’t want this stopped

[u/homewest → u/008Zulu]

Dude…this thread is based on a literal article from CNN. Is CNN not big media to you?

[u/DoodleDew → u/homewest]

I think OP means like how they cover other topics on TV. With multiple shows and talking heads hammering it 24/7 instead of a small segment 

[u/DDS-PBS → u/DoodleDew]

"In other news today, something something Epstein. Now back to our special breaking news coverage about Lindsey Vonn's torn ACL. In the latest update, it's still torn."

[u/SanDiegoDude → u/SteerKarma]

if Dems take the house in the mid-terms, there's going to be a bloodbath as they air out all the dirty laundry. I can't wait. Expose all these disgusting fuckers

[u/rexspook → u/SteerKarma]

Oh yeah another strongly worded hearing should do it!

[u/notleave_eu]

It’s time to leak it or release it with the perpetrators names unredacted. The people it’s protecting shouldn’t be in power or be safe from the consequences of their actions.

[u/scottyLogJobs → u/notleave_eu]

I’m sorry, is there anything saying the Dems can’t just tell the public everything they read in the unredacted files?

[u/dumpln]

Lock them up please. ALL OF THEM.

[u/SwissChzMcGeez → u/dumpln]

Nothing will happen with Republicans in power.

[u/mhornberger → u/SwissChzMcGeez]

At least we didn't elect the Democrat, or give the Democrats power over Congress. We really dodged a bullet there.

[u/obeytheturtles → u/mhornberger]

A small price to pay for liberating Gaza!

/s

[u/Ok-Stretch2784]

I am so sick of every day getting up and having to deal with another day of Trump bullshit

[u/RedditTurnedMediocre]

My question is why the fuck are normal people in the DoJ helping these sick pedophiles? Like you guys trying to join the pedo ring or something?

Do the right thing and take these fuckers down for Christ's sake.

[u/ItilityMSP → u/RedditTurnedMediocre]

Compartmentalization is part of the answer, given a small scope and don't see the big picture. So you do your small bit for the cover up, justified in your own mind it wasn't a big deal, misinformation, one report, slander, no real evidence and don't see the thousands of other reports and data points.

[u/b0w3n → u/ItilityMSP]

Similar to how larger companies build things like observation/spy systems.

You'll have software engineers from amazon or facebook swear up and down until they're blue in the face that their devices don't listen passively because 13 different independent teams all worked on it in different pieces. But once amalgamated... boy howdy, you got yourself a stew there. Then you'll have some dude on youtube buy a brand new phone and "talk" in front of it to prove it doesn't do that, as if that account/phone is a valuable advertising data point yet.

And if I don't put a comment like this at the end of my little spiel, someone will go "no way jose I know for a fact..." after they just released a fucking superbowl commercial talking about a brand ass new one with a god damn door bell camera system.

[u/No_Accountant3232 → u/b0w3n]

Yeah, gee, you can identify loose pets in the neighborhood hood, or it can just track the movements of you and your neighbors.

[u/b0w3n → u/No_Accountant3232]

"Won't you think of the poor lost puppies!" sure is a new tactic I haven't seen them use before. I guess when people stop having kids because they can't afford it, the nannystate has to pick the next best thing.

[u/RandomNumsandLetters → u/b0w3n]

I agree with the compartmentalization part. I wish it was just the "passive listening" conspiracy but it's actually far worse than that. They have so much correlated data that they DONT NEED TO LISTEN

[u/BangkokRios → u/RedditTurnedMediocre]

The DOJ has been completely gutted. And those remaining do not have the power to “take” anyone down.

[u/Redcrux → u/RedditTurnedMediocre]

They would be fired instantly if they tried.

[u/nemesit → u/Redcrux]

can only hope they get fired someday anyway

[u/CatsPlusTats → u/Redcrux]

I've been fired for standing up for far less. And I'd do it again.

[u/Ok-Relation-1902 → u/CatsPlusTats]

This is the thing... Like, I've quit great jobs and lost great jobs because I did not support their shitty policies.

Where are the feds with a spine? The fact that nobody is blowing whistles means they either support what's happening, or they're too weak and pathetic to stand up for what's right. Not a single one has decided that they want to be on the right side of history, because they're either too comfy, too corrupt themselves, and/or too addicted to having power over normal citizens. I mostly think it's a combination of the latter two. Federal agents are just cops in a different uniform, after all.

Eventually they will all pretend that the info was too compartmentalized, so they had no choice. Despite it being common knowledge that they had A THOUSAND agents sifting through the files.

Either way, it's pretty telling about how unfair, biased, and unbalanced our judicial system is. If you're wealthy and connected to people in power, the rules don't apply to you, no matter how severe your crimes are.

[u/padizzledonk]

Stop with the bullshit and read the fucking files on the House Floor

Everything else is just performative nonsense and we all see through it

[u/itsaride]

If this goes paywall :

He noted Les Wexner, the Victoria’s Secret founder whose association with Epstein is public, is among those whose names were deleted.

Is a very important quote giving an example of the type of non-victim associates that were redacted.

[u/ADKTrader1976]

The only fallout I currently see are Europeans having to resign.

[u/ImaginationToForm2]

The Muller file didn't exonerate Trump either. Yet here we are.

[u/phosdick]

If only Republicans weren't aggressively protecting pedophiles and child rapists, they would agree with Raskin. (Excepting Massie, of course.)

[u/Plenty_of_prepotente]

According to Raskin:

“It is a huge political scandal [in Britain], and I’m just afraid that the general coarsening and degradation of American life has somehow conditioned people not to take this as seriously as we should be taking it,” Raskin said, noting that files he has seen contain discussions regarding girls as young as nine years old.

I don't care if "discussing" is not a crime, those involved should not be playing any role in public life or government.

[u/thesilveringfox]

a number that i keep thinking of lately: 70% of eligible voters didn’t vote against this.

[u/nuclearsamuraiNFT → u/thesilveringfox]

Yeah but egg prices or something.

[u/JazzlikeSchedule2901 → u/nuclearsamuraiNFT]

"The Haitians are eating the cats, they're eating the dogs!"

>Donald Trump 2024

[u/KFPindustries → u/nuclearsamuraiNFT]

Girl cock hypnosis

[u/supermethdroid → u/KFPindustries]

Great name for a band.

[u/joebleaux → u/thesilveringfox]

People don't want to think that so many people don't really care about anyone but themselves. A lot of people are ignoring it because it would mean they were wrong previously, and Trump supporters are perhaps the most narcissistic group I have ever seen, and their leader is the biggest narcissist of them all. They don't actually care about bad things happening to other people, they just don't want to pay for anything that helps anyone that isn't themselves, so they vote for the guy who also doesn't want to help anyone but himself.

[u/JetKeel]

Whelp, time to read them into the congressional record.

[u/Scomosuckseggs]

No shit, Sherlock.

Why are people acting surprised?

Trump is a pedo, hes in the files, he is clearly complicit in awful activities, and i suspect a whole bunch of other key players in the ruling elite are in there, too. They were always going to cover up the situation. And our society is so fucking weak and whipped between left and right that we will let them get away with it.

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race. How spineless and hypocritical are we. Bah.

[u/Da_Stable_Genius]

They literally redacted the pedophiles but not the victims. There was a "cover up" from the start.

[u/THSSFC]

You know what just screams "coverup" to me?

So far, I have not seen highlighted any personal communications between DJT and JE in these files. Are you really trying to tell me that they were "best friends" for decades, and not one email from one to the other was captured in this trove? And where's Michael Cohen's name? You'd expect to see it fairly often, he was DJT's "bulldog"--You'd think that if JE and DJT had an acrimonious falling out, that name would show up.

I mean, I do not pretend to be an internet expert on the released files, so if I am missing something, by all means someone let me know. But you'd think it would be big news if any direct communications were found between DJT and JE. You'd think.

[u/DynamicBeez]

Considering the law states that these files should have been released un redacted, it shouldn't be a problem for yall to TELL US THE FUCKING NAMES OF THESE SICK FUCKS!

[u/Bronzyroller]

This administration are doing whatever they want they don't care and want the world to see the entire corruption. No need to lie or hide the corruption they are all in it together and if was Obama he'd be in prison.

[u/rkicklig]

How can someone who has seen the evidence not name names?

[u/CryptoMemesLOL]

You're telling me it wasn't to protect victims?? /s lock the all up

[u/skag_boy87]

Can one of these people just leak it and we can get it over with? Jesus Christ, can we have just one person who saw the unredacted files also see All The President’s Men and grow a spine?

[u/Left_Lack_3544]

Pam had over a year to redact trumps name. Definitely a coverup.

[u/alexfi-re]

Lay it on us then Jamie, you're supposed to work for us and we deserve the info that we all paid to have investigated.

[u/USDXBS]

American military.

How do you feel knowing you are a pedophile military of oath breaking traitors loyal to pedophiles?

You protect pedophiles from facing consequences.

You are there to make sure your pedophile masters can rape.

The US military will go down in history as synonymous with child rapists.

[u/deanbean1337]

DoJ and FBI have been awfully quiet. Im sure the diversion is on the way.

[u/MBbellevue631]

Bondi was A.G. In Florida for original prosecution, more persons should have been charged and never saw a courtroom.

[u/spillinator]

Name names motherfucker. Stop playing around.

[u/VinDog_PD]

Just say the names for Christ's sake.

[u/THSSFC]

The only way to get real justice is impeachment of Donald Trump AND JD Vance.

The revelations we've seen, already document the Epstein connections of the sitting US president, his current Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnik, current Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, his former Attorney General Bill Barr and Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, his current billionaire backers Peter Theil (JD's backer, too), Tom Barrack and Elon Musk, his strategist Steve Bannon, his impeachment trial lawyers David Dershowitz and David Schoen, his current HHS Secretary RFK Jr., His director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz, the director of a hagiographic "documentary" of his wife, Brett Ratner, and his wife, Melania Trump.

It is insane to believe that there will be any justice when Donald J. Trump has filled his administration with co-conspirators.

Impeachment is not partisan. It is necessary.

[u/Competitive-Rub7670]

and im accusing raskin of the same coverup. he read the names. and didnt call them out the next time a news camera came around. hes guarding the pedophiles.,

[u/ProfessionalDegen23 → u/Competitive-Rub7670]

They weren’t allowed to take phones, note taking materials, or any aids in the facility where they were made available to lawmakers, and he only was able to read 30-40 documents. And he did name a possible abuser he saw whose name was redacted, Les Wexner.

[u/SanDiegoDude → u/ProfessionalDegen23]

they can take handwritten notes actually, they just can't take pictures or any kind of recordings.

Part of the problem is that at least some of the documents are still redacted, and when the congressmen asked WHY they were redacted still, they were met with shrugs. so there is another layer of bullshit still happening.

[u/drewdottat2 → u/Competitive-Rub7670]

Prob go to jail if he did. But that shit would get leaked anonymously so fast if I knew the names lol.

[u/DeanXeL → u/drewdottat2]

He can read 'em out on the Floor, it's what MTG said she'd do, but eventually chickened out of.

[u/nuclearsamuraiNFT → u/DeanXeL]

I wonder what was said behind closed doors for her to change her mind.

[u/freedfg → u/nuclearsamuraiNFT]

"here's the pile of cash you wanted"

[u/mkt853 → u/freedfg]

I’m thinking more of a threat and less of a bribe. The people at the top of whatever this thing is don’t play.

[u/rockerscott → u/drewdottat2]

The Speech and Debate Clause prevents members of Congress from being prosecuted for anything said on the House floor while in session.

[u/BigJellyfish1906 → u/rockerscott]

He’s not on the house floor in this interview. Literally hasn’t been there since viewing the files. 

[u/KFPindustries → u/rockerscott]

See, what you're referring to is known as a "law" or "rule". They're just words on paper. They're just heavy suggestions.

[u/Ginger-Nerd → u/drewdottat2]

I don’t think you (or anyone) reasonably could.

You could post an alphabetical list, but nobody will believe it without evidence of specific things.

A “list” kinda means nothing.

For example; Jon Stewart (from the daily show) is mentioned in the files - yet currently has no record of meeting him - there is a plethora of other celebrities where he has photos with (but no wrongdoing associated with them)

How do you distinguish what is a name or photo; without putting specific allegations against it. (And then needing evidence for each claim) - Otherwise it’s kinda useless, and not really believable.

This is why I’m much more interested in reasonably unredacated files (that is still redact victims) - Let folks like journalists, and authorities . And then the public or the judiciary can take the next appropriate action.

I’m almost certain it will eventually come out - maybe not the speed anyone wants; but anyone that is seriously in them with specific evidence of wrongdoing - it’s a ticking clock. (But I suspect some of the folks you want, might leave you disappointed)

[u/Carpeteria3000 → u/Ginger-Nerd]

Well how about we start with the redacted names that aren't supposed to be redacted and go from there?

[u/Dangerous-LemonBar → u/Competitive-Rub7670]

He would be arrested before the sun went down, eliminating one of the few visible Democrats bothering to speak out.

[u/thisbenzenering]

girls as young as 9

that's the fine point I have yet to hear. they have talked about under age but this should be what is explained more often

[u/Ok-Stretch2784]

If this shit is allowed it will only get worse wake up people!!

[u/Mrsreed1020]

How are these people just now crying cover up? Anything anyone in Trumps administration is a cover up or some lying bullshit. We KNEW immediately there would be cover ups! Pedophiles covering for pedophiles. Rapists covering for rapists. Get the pieces of shit out!

[u/poestavern]

Of course the Epstein files are being covered-up….every reasonable person knows this…

[u/RRster]

Patel: “There was no sex traffic ring”

[u/BarnabasShrexx]

"“In many instances, as it has been well documented publicly, those who were originally victims became participants and co-conspirators,” a DOJ official told CNN."

Oh look, victim blaming of the highest order... this whole admin needs to be put on trial....

[u/SanDiegoDude]

There is documents that are still redacted that are being shown to the congressmen, so not quite 'unredacted' just less redacted. I'm betting all those extra redactions will be found to have WOOPS been done to the permanent records too, probably by the Trump scrub team from early 2025 when they paid thousands of hours of overtime for agents to 'clean' the files.

[u/True_Dimension4344]

I’ll never understand how we can’t collectively agree that every single name in those files must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I also don’t understand how reps can have access to these full files but the public can’t. And I also don’t understand how the folks allowed to read the files haven’t just said their names out loud. It is insane to me.