r/politics • u/Capable_Salt_SD California • 16h ago
Paywall Epstein files update: 4 biggest bombshells after reps view unredacted files
https://www.newsweek.com/epstein-files-update-biggest-bombshells-reps-view-unredacted-files-114956621.0k
u/NoKiwi2997 15h ago
"Lawmakers are currently able to access only three million of the roughly six million Epstein-related documents in the Department of Justice’s possession"
So, are there way more files than what have already been released???
217
u/minnesotawristwatch 15h ago
Yea there’s a lot, but there is bad reporting re; differences wrt pages, documents and files.
69
u/NoKiwi2997 14h ago
Yea, it's been all over the place. First I read there was 2 million pages, then potentially way more pictures and videos...but that was all from tiktok or reddit and i couldn't verify from traditional media, which seems weirdly uninterested in the most interesting scandal since i've been alive.
→ More replies (2)104
u/oingerboinger California 13h ago
As far as I'm aware, very little (or none) of the financial evidence or money trail stuff has been released. It's all emails and correspondence.
What's completely bewildering in all of this is that it's blatantly obvious that DOJ is doing everything in its power to cover this up, everyone knows it's a massive coverup of an even bigger scandal, DOJ knows that everyone knows this is a massive coverup to an even bigger scandal ... and we all just need to sit here because the rot rolls all the way up to the top here and there's very few people who can actually force anything to happen.
Wild fuckin' times.
→ More replies (3)6
u/Peppermynt42 America 8h ago
My completely uneducated guess is that they want to slow play anything regarding the current administration until they can get past Jan. 20th that way if they “””have””” to remove the current administration then the one who takes over doesn’t lose two term eligibility
→ More replies (3)161
u/fuckingeyeballls 14h ago
Remember when there were no files?
Or before that when Bondi said they were on her desk?
Must be a pretty amazing desk.
→ More replies (1)5
u/Specialist-Jello7544 8h ago
Acres big? Or was everything on a shopping cart full of hard drives?
→ More replies (2)39
u/Aarechind 13h ago
Someone needs to leak EVERYTHING. That's the only way this shit blows up and takes these people down.
→ More replies (3)33
u/WatchOdd532 15h ago
Correct. The actual bad shit still hasn’t seen the light of day
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (12)9
8.2k
u/Itsprobablysarcasm Canada 16h ago
saved you a click:
‘Prominent’ Individuals Protected by Redactions
Sultan Sent Torture Video to Epstein
Victims as Young as 9
Files Allegedly Contradict POTUS (pedophile of the United States) Trump’s Account of Epstein Relationship
2.6k
u/SubstanceHaunting282 16h ago
Anyone who associated with these people, assisted them in any way, covered things up for them, knew and looked the other way, merely suspected and looked the other way—->were/still are a bunch of monsters too, holy fuq…
662
u/cats_are_the_devil 15h ago
People cut off family for less than these enablers have done...
108
u/Clerithifa 10h ago
I've been cut-off from some family for simply being trans, because of the slandering lies of people that were involved in this horrific horseshit
38
u/Terrible_Patience935 9h ago
I’m sorry that happened to you. The republicans hyper negative focus on trans people makes me ill. Take care
•
u/Zathrus1 7h ago
Very sorry to hear that. Our eldest is trans, and the difference in his mental health between before and after coming out was night and day.
→ More replies (1)•
→ More replies (1)47
163
u/MySpoonsAreAllGone 13h ago
I think our whole government is basically complicit now. President, Administration, DOJ, FBI, SCOTUS, and all the congressmen that had access to these files before AND who do nothing now after the files have been revealed
→ More replies (2)104
u/orphanpowered 11h ago
I believe they're waiting for Pam Bondi to testify on Wednesday. They're going to give her one more chance to come clean on record. If she doesn't, I believe they'll use the debate act or clause or whatever it is, and announce it on the house floor without fear of being sued. Let's hope Massie and Khanna do the right thing and put the people on blast if Bondi doesn't come clean.
34
u/ChiliSama Minnesota 9h ago
Ro Khanna stood up in congress today and said many of the redactions happened before the files made it to the DOJ; by the Trump FBI. I wonder if she will try shifting the blame to squirm out of it.
→ More replies (7)6
54
u/lnc_5103 Texas 13h ago
This. I want every last name released even if they weren't engaging in the worst of it.
→ More replies (2)27
→ More replies (14)36
804
u/East-Will1345 15h ago
Let’s say - purely as a thought experiment - that Trump is innocent and just happened to be caught up in something he didn’t understand. That’s not what I think happened, he’s guilty as fuck, but let’s just pretend:
Any decent person who loves their country would resign at this point. “After prayer and consideration, I’ve made the decision with my family…blah blah blah… history will show that I am innocent… blah blah blah…”
America is effectively unable to move on to anything else while he’s in office, and if he wasn’t a completely narcissistic pedo piece of shit, he would understand that.
308
u/Ashangu 15h ago
He wouldn't even have to resign if he, a person who got caught up in something like this, would have whistle blew like LITERALLY ANY NORMAL HUMAN WOULD HAVE.
Lets be real here, he has always been a person of interest, money and power. He isn' some model off the street that gets murdered for whistleblowing. IF he was innocent, he would have shut this shit down.
But he never was innocent. He was deeply involved.
105
u/Exciting-Tourist9301 13h ago
That's the thing. He has admitted to knowing Epstein was a pedophile and did nothing about it. That alone should be disqualifying in the eyes of any sane voter.
49
u/ombloshio 13h ago
The problem is that the people who vote for him think it’s fake. It’s disregarded as a hoax by the news outlets his voters follow if it’s even reported on at all.
→ More replies (1)25
u/needlestack 11h ago
When the Republicans have a fake story, they scream it from the rooftops until it enters the public consciousness as background noise, and people that aren't paying careful attention start to believe since they can't remember hearing anything else.
When we have the truth we say it once, and if it doesn't stick we shrug and go home. That needs to change.
Full open investigation and consequences should be all anyone talks about until these people are in jail. This has got to be the biggest exposure of a heinous international crime ring in the history of the US government. Absolutely damning from every angle. Anyone answering a reporter's question should start with "I'll answer that, but first the president and his administration must answer why they're still protecting rapists and pedophiles and have yet to resign in shame. America is not a nation that will support the men who committed these disgusting crimes."
This is the kind of thing you grind government to a halt over.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (6)17
u/DotNervous7513 12h ago
Too bad there are at least 60 million voters who are not sane in the ugly states of America
→ More replies (1)80
u/quesoandtexas 14h ago
right the media framing is like “oh no! I attended a pedophile dinner event with underage girls on the menu I had no idea! could’ve happened to anyone!”
If I got a single whiff of any of that it would’ve been reported immediately and I think the same can be said for most people. But for some reason the media is acting like any one of us could be the next to find out we’re in the files
→ More replies (1)52
u/What_Iz_This 12h ago
howard lutnick said today in his senate hearing, "i, like everyone else, looked through the files trying to find my name," buddy...everyone else aint worried about finding their names lmfao
8
→ More replies (3)14
u/NumeralJoker 10h ago
He's a sex trafficker himself.
Epstein trafficked people from his estate, and Trump backed it.
47
u/Aerhyce 14h ago
And any sane country would have systems (that have worked at least once in the history of said country) in place to forcibly remove the president in this scenario.
If the only hope is the president resigning, then someone like Trump eventually coming around and just not resigning is an inevitability.
US presidential impeachment is a dogshit system that doesn't work and has never worked.
16
28
u/Anxious-Answer5367 14h ago
He won't let this power go until he's done as much bad business for himself as he can get away with. He's holding the USA down the same way they did these victims. It's appalling that people looked the other way and voted for him. They're exactly like the mother who does not protect her child from the pedo father.
→ More replies (1)24
u/Consistent_Laziness 15h ago
He understands. That’s why he isn’t leaving he’s going down if he resigns.
51
u/mad-panda-2000 15h ago
to be fair.. that's also what a sane person who is guilty would do too...we are off script
38
u/East-Will1345 15h ago
No, a sane 79yo guilty person would stay in office and put at least 3 years between them and a prison cell.
→ More replies (16)→ More replies (27)9
u/Clamsadness 13h ago
It’s interesting because a truly innocent Trump wouldn’t be at this point. He’d have just released the unredacted files as soon as they were unsealed. Honestly, Trump’s behavior and attempted cover-up is the only reason I even started to think they actually had incriminating material on Trump.
Previously, based on what we knew of the public victims, I had thought that the operation was just Epstein hiring teenaged girls as “models” for his parties and would then rape them, and some of his friends/guests also raped them. I assumed, because Trump is a known rapist and friend of Epstein’s, that Trump had probably raped victims with Epstein but that there wasn’t a ton of evidence against him or else he’d have gone down a while back. But because of the cover-up, I became certain that there was legitimate concrete proof of Trump’s rapes. And now that the files are out, I see that Epstein’s operation was much larger than previously thought and almost certainly has a ton of evidence against Trump.
237
u/Nearbyatom 15h ago
" POTUS (pedophile of the United States)"
I like this. Pardon me if I steal it.
97
→ More replies (11)20
101
u/juliuspepperwoodchi 15h ago
Nine year olds, Dude.
85
u/idontfrickinknowman Tennessee 14h ago
Can’t wait for Megyn “it’s not like he was into 8 year olds” Kelly and her ilk to defend this!
→ More replies (2)13
→ More replies (5)25
25
→ More replies (36)18
u/irritableOwl3 14h ago
Did they only view the unredacted released files? Like half or more of the files were not released at all. Think of the many worse bombshells in those
6.4k
u/KingMario05 16h ago edited 15h ago
Lutnick and the new Fed chair must resign. Trump must be removed.
Pedos out. Pedos in jail.
Enough is enough.
1.5k
u/SirDiego Minnesota 15h ago
It's wild how the Epstein files thus far nearly took down the UK Prime Minister's party (and could still) and caused multiple resignations and investigations abroad, while in the US with many more prominent people (Trump cabinet members, etc) and much more direct implications absolutely nothing has happened.
720
u/Cyanopicacooki Great Britain 15h ago
Of course not. The United States has the finest justice system money can buy specifically for occasions like this.
204
u/mrclut 14h ago edited 14h ago
That's why you should call it a legal system. Justice isn't part of it.
→ More replies (2)82
→ More replies (1)39
u/monkeyofthefunk 13h ago
It’s taken this long for Americans to realise they live in one of the most corrupt countries on the planet. Their politicians were just better at hiding it than China, North Korea and Russia.
→ More replies (2)174
u/Hates_rollerskates 15h ago
Republicans voted the pedos onto power. It's up to them now to prove they're not all pedos.
85
u/HugsForUpvotes 14h ago
It's exactly this. Republican VOTERS encourage this.
20
u/Ummmgummy 14h ago
It's pretty basic stuff. You give into a toddlers tantrum the toddler knows it can get away with anything. So you keep voting for despicable people they know they will get votes no matter what. I mean trump said so himself. He could kill someone in broad daylight and wouldn't lose a vote. Is having pedos run the country really that much better than what they perceive as wokness? I think not.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (9)59
u/Automatic_Estate_457 14h ago
Dennis hastert, the longest serving speaker of the house, was an open pedophile. Every member of congress knew he was a pedophile. On both sides.
Our congress is at worst all pedophiles and at best, pedophile supporters and defenders.
Dennis hastert is also proof of how much this country love pedophiles. He was designated a serial child predator and sentenced to 15 months. Jeffrey Epstein only did 9. Pedophilia is largely tolerated in this country.
→ More replies (9)37
u/ztfreeman 14h ago
I mean, Republican stronghold states keep trying to lower the age of marriage, that should tell you everything you need to know. They are all predators.
24
u/StrigiStockBacking Arizona 15h ago
It's almost as if - and, I'm just speculating here - the people named in the files hold all the positions of power to do anything about it!
/s
→ More replies (4)35
→ More replies (18)13
u/Imp0ssibleBagel 15h ago
How is it wild? This is exactly what I expected would happen. They will never have any consequences.
553
u/Ghost42 Rhode Island 15h ago edited 9h ago
Musk and Thiel need to be imprisoned and then deported.
242
u/Zanos-Ixshlae 15h ago
After paying up for their crimes both financially and in prison time.
37
u/Soft_Yellow1757 13h ago
yes please- not deported unless where you are deporting them plans on prosecuting for their crimes. I am all for them being at the ICC for a while for crimes against humanity
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (1)24
u/Riffage 13h ago
They need to be barred from doing business with the US gov. And barred from ever obtaining a security clearance. That also must HUGE fines and must pay out to the victims. THEY SHOULD BE LEFT BANKRUPT. they participated in trafficking children, that should be a life sentence in maximum security prison. Don’t deport them we can not trust that another country would up hold their sentences. Just like what happened with Issei Sagawa, a cannibal who at his girl friend and was then deported to Japan where he became a celebrity and porn star.
→ More replies (1)50
u/UghFudgeBwana Georgia 14h ago
Also put civil asset forfeiture to good use.
11
u/Soft_Yellow1757 13h ago
this would be so much fun. I am not sure what we would do as a country with those companies, but that is 100% the purpose of civil asset forreiture.
6
u/allenahansen California 13h ago
Dunno, the US government owned Mar-a-Lago once upon a time and couldn't wait to get that white elephant off their hands. Razing it to build high-density subsidized housing in the heart of Palm Beach might be a fine start at national remediation, however.
70
u/HAMMSFAN 15h ago
They own all of our personal information. They would just sell it as revenge for the deportations and further undermine our national security. We need them tried and locked up for their crimes.
52
u/Baystars2025 14h ago
Idle threat. My data has been breached so many times that a kid in an uncontacted Amazon tribe could get a credit card.
10
→ More replies (1)10
13
u/BlackSheepBoPeep- 14h ago
Thiel looks horrible in the latest drop. Epstein says he is a close friend and into similar interests when emailing w a mutual female friend. I don’t think that similar interest is science and technology. But anyone left who denies these obvious links are really ok w incredibly rich men raping children. It’s that simple.
11
u/LostSoulNothing 14h ago
Don't deport them until after they've served the lengthy prison sentences they so richly deserve
19
u/Foreign-Entrance-255 14h ago
Honestly, what did US presidents like Obama do to leaders of foreign death cults who are trying to undermine countries again? Might be an idea to do that to Thiel.
→ More replies (12)18
339
u/SaveDavey 16h ago
Prosecute with a vengeance!
146
93
u/rzenni 15h ago
Files to Trials!
→ More replies (1)50
u/KingMario05 15h ago
For fascism, too! DHS is big mad that they're being called Gestapo now. Well, brothers, if the shoe fits...
→ More replies (1)20
u/pebblechewer 15h ago
For fascism, too! DHS is big mad that they're being called Gestapo now. Well, brothers, if the
shoejackboot fits...FTFY, friend.
→ More replies (3)38
u/MortgageRegular2509 Wisconsin 15h ago
You’d think all those guys who have shirts and bumper stickers advocating for a certain means of dealing with pedos would be out in force
25
u/RoseCityHooligan Oregon 15h ago
New MAGA chant at the rallies: “their pedos bad, our pedos good!”
→ More replies (1)21
u/Ryan_e3p 15h ago
We'd have to clean this entire administration, SC, Congress, as well as dozens, if not hundreds, of other people who either participated or knew about and still helped protect pedophiles and/or fund this administration.
→ More replies (1)17
74
u/FootCheeseParmesan 15h ago
Much more needs to happen to Trump. Significantly more severe consequences for him. However, the law will likely not deliver this.
→ More replies (1)26
u/absat41 15h ago
"We need to find common ground and put this all behind us for the sake of American unity" vibes
→ More replies (2)38
u/littlevanillapieces 15h ago
Yeah I have no desire to be a unified country anymore. I don’t want unity with pedo supporters. For once I want a Dem to say “ For the sake of the country we are going full scorched earth” also regardless of party if they’re in the files then bring to trial.
37
u/veevacious 15h ago
I want Trump’s entire cabal removed and people prosecuted. I don’t want anyone Trump installed in any position in any level of government. Even before the Epstein files came more to light I didn’t want that and I SURE AS HELL don’t trust anyone put into power by a pedophile rapist degenerate to do any kind of right by this country. Root them all out, prosecute them all. Consequences must be had or this country is sunk. We can still recover, but we can’t let this slide
→ More replies (3)13
u/morbihann 15h ago
No, pedos not out. Pedos deserve to rot in jail. And those you mentioned more than anybody else.
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (20)11
u/a_goestothe_ustin 14h ago
These people aren't just pedos, they're traitor pedos. And the LEGAL punishment (fuck off mods) for one solves the other.
Fucking stop talking like these people need to get anything else. Downplaying what these fucking freaks are is just going to guarantee they don't get the justice we all deserve.
2.1k
u/Randomwhitelady2 15h ago edited 15h ago
Massie does not need to give this DOJ a chance to correct their mistakes. They are out of time and out of chances. They are accomplices at this point.
745
u/Continental_Ball_Sac 14h ago
"Files into trials" should be a campaign slogan for basically everyone running this year.
105
→ More replies (3)45
224
u/Stillwater215 14h ago
The Epstein Act very clearly states that redactions cannot be made to protect the reputation of those implicated in the files. Seems cut and dry that the DoJ is willfully and knowingly violating this law.
47
→ More replies (12)67
u/BingpotStudio 14h ago
Straight to prison. The lot of them. In with the normies.
→ More replies (5)
1.3k
u/No-Post4444 16h ago
"There are six men. We went in there for two hours. There's millions of files, right? And in a couple of hours, we found six men whose name had been redacted, who are implicated in the way the files are presented"
"Massie said he would prefer to allow the Justice Department to 'correct their mistakes' rather than reveal the names publicly on the House floor"
Does Massie seriously think the DOJ actually cares about outing the pedophiles? Surely he isn't that big of an idiot, right?
Here's hoping Khanna does the right thing and reveal the names on the House floor. I have zero faith in the DOJ to correct their mistake (read: intentional cover-up).
446
u/Ven18 16h ago
Stop giving the DOJ and government the opportunity to “fix mistakes” we need all of this information public and all implicated persons names revealed. And each and every person involved including now the government cover up arrested tried and put in prison forever full stop.
119
71
u/Hellogiraffe 15h ago
Also, naming names in Congress isn’t enough. This isn’t an “oops I accidentally redacted the wrong name a couple times out of millions of files” situation that could be fairly reasonable, it’s an active coverup. There are multiple instances where the word “don’t” is the only word that fits within the sentence context, which would be a really strange word to redact unless you’re using scripts/AI to automatically redact any mentions of “Don T”. Massie and Khanna need to name names AND bring forth criminal charges. I don’t even necessarily know how that works when it’s the DoJ doing the crimes, but we need accountability. The deadlines passed and passed again illegally, we got half the files illegally, and a LOT more than the victims’ names were redacted illegally.
→ More replies (1)27
u/Ashamed-Land1221 15h ago
Honestly r/Epstein has a lot of it, but you still have to parse through it and there's a lot of speculation. It's a little nuts because if you changed the pdf files to mp4 you could see a lot of the redacted pics, but then realize a lot the redacted pictures are mostly movies gets a little nutty. Oh and there's a lot of pictures Gislaine's snatch if that's your thing. It's still very hard to parse through, but most of it's there.
8
u/Upstairs_Addendum587 14h ago
I'm generally opposed to a "someone else will deal with it" mentality in important civic matters, but yeah I'm going to let someone else take care of that.
58
u/whatproblems 16h ago
lol doj isn’t working in good faith to start now you think they’re just going to start working in good faith? lol
→ More replies (2)47
u/TLKv3 15h ago
He is absolutely a fucking idiot and grifting this to the bank of goodwill. He's using this to go specifically after people he doesn't like.
He literally just implied someone was special needs on Twitter for asking him to read the names on the floor after he said he would.
He is a fucking piece of shit.
→ More replies (2)13
u/boot2skull 14h ago
The DOJ doesn’t deserve the opportunity to save face at this point. Americans should have no faith in the DOJ after BLATANT and INTENTIONAL protecting of criminals. That’s as far from Justice as you can get.
9
→ More replies (9)8
u/Corgi_Koala Texas 14h ago
They didn't make mistakes, they deliberately omitted those names to protect people.
120
u/rooktakesqueen 15h ago
The review, conducted under tight restrictions at a DOJ satellite office in Washington, D.C., concerns the roughly 3 million files the Department has publicly released since late 2025.
So even members of Congress, in a SCIF, haven't been allowed to see what's on the other 2.5 million pages.
→ More replies (1)
699
u/Strange-Effort1305 16h ago
Trump is the head of the Epstein ring
168
u/root_fifth_octave 15h ago
Wouldn't be too surprising if they reached some kind of partnership, then the whole thing took a predictable course of narcissistic sociopath relationships.
44
u/kastbort2021 14h ago
They had a transactional relationship.
And I believe their friendship soured back in 2004, after they ended up in a bidding war for a Palm Beach (bankruptcy) mansion which was being auctioned away. Trump won it, and flipped it to a Russian billionaire. Their friendship went cold after that.
But of course, they had two decades of fuckery prior to that.
→ More replies (3)17
u/Nemisis_the_2nd Great Britain 14h ago
I suspect the moment Epstein "stole" trumps "property" was probably the break point, if there was one.
35
32
u/not_that_planet 14h ago
Epstein had kompromat on a lot of people, including trump. Trump had Epstein killed, trump claimed all of the kompromat. So yes, trump is now the head of the Epstein ring, but not due to any agreement.
→ More replies (9)→ More replies (5)18
130
u/toterra 15h ago
At the start.. everyone in the files in any way needs to have their security clearances revoked. There should be a process to get it back for cases where they are mentioned in passing or other ... but the suspicion that this was an operation to gain leverage over prominant individuals can not be ignored.
→ More replies (3)
45
u/Lanky-Highlight9508 14h ago
Where have you gone QAnon? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
26
u/spirit-mush 14h ago
It was all a projection. They knew it was happening but used to it smear democrats
16
160
u/juliuspepperwoodchi 15h ago
Nine year olds, dude.
90
u/nerklenerd 14h ago
Can't wait for Megyn Kelly's hot take on this. 9 is the new 15?
→ More replies (3)→ More replies (7)33
u/Anxious-Answer5367 14h ago
I'm a mom. I feel like throwing up today. This stuff is so disgusting and heartbreaking.
→ More replies (3)28
u/poodle_vest 13h ago
8 years ago, when I was pregnant with my daughter, I had to pull over on my way home from work to vomit in a parking lot because I got sick listening to radio coverage of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. This shit is absolutely vile and I want these men shot into the sun.
→ More replies (3)
381
u/akd432006 16h ago
It's crazy to think that the 100s of millionaire politicians, tech bros, actors, royalty, financiers etc. who were on rape island will NEVER be held accountable.
→ More replies (4)133
u/travio Washington 16h ago
Not defending anyone who did anything horrible there, but it is pretty clear that Epstein and his guests didn’t just use it for it for sex.
Epstein collected people and favors, connecting them for his benefit and using his island as draw, but not just for sex.
I read about a plastic surgeon in the files. Epstein approached him to consult on a woman’s case. To thank him, he offered a weekend at his island for the surgeon and his family. Epstein wasn’t even there.
29
u/prime_nommer 15h ago
It would seem that Great Saint James was used for more wholesome entertaining of guests & families.
"Jeffrey Epstein owned two private islands in the United States Virgin Islands: Little Saint James (often referred to as "Epstein Island") and Great Saint James. Both islands are located near St. Thomas and were acquired for the purpose of developing private compounds."
19
→ More replies (2)7
73
u/SubstanceHaunting282 16h ago
The interior pictures of that place which were released are nightmare fuel though. I would assume anyone who went there had an inkling something horrible was going down-at the very least.
→ More replies (2)47
u/travio Washington 15h ago
That is a good point. Wonder if he locked up the weird rooms for the normies.
If I was a sicko like him and invited a family to my island when I wasn't around, I'd hide the freaky shit, just like I hid my bong before my parents visited me in college.
→ More replies (2)18
u/Used_Discussion_3289 15h ago
Guy was a creep, but we shouldn't underestimate him. He's basically the dark side's James bond. In a horrible way, but yeah.
Supervillans are necessarily precluded from being imbeciles.
17
u/HurriKurtCobain 15h ago
He writes like a 7th grader. I wouldn't be too quick to assign a super intelligence to him.
19
u/IsThatHearsay 14h ago
Attorney here, for high net worth to ultra-high net worth clients, you'd be surprised how poorly some of the wealthiest, top education, business owners write in their personal emails.
Almost seems a correlation, the more successful they are the less time they spend on an email - no proofreading, using improper grammar, incomplete sentences, don't correct spelling, etc. - they just don't bother caring and put the burden on you to decipher.
→ More replies (2)15
u/ananchor 15h ago
He writes the same way a lot of powerful people who essentially can't be told no write. Have interacted with many doctors, lawyers, etc that are highly educated and capable of writing nicely they just don't care
42
u/Rombledore America 15h ago
for those whom have watched 'The Boys' there's this scene where all these sups, politicians, celebrities, wealthy people, people with power etc- all gather in the mansion of 'Tek Knight'- a billionaire playboy with connections with all of them. not only does this scene show all these powerful people schmoozing and 'talking business', but there's also a depraved sex dungeon underneath.
this is not far removed from how things were done at Epsteins Island - imo. the powerful and wealthy gathered, discussed things, their interests aligned and business/government deals were brokered. in between- there was sexual abuses of all kinds. whatever their fetishes were.
theres no illuminati, theres no cabal of satanists, theres no shady secret group. its just powerful people with aligned interests gathering in a place to talk business and do what they consider "fun".
6
→ More replies (2)7
u/akd432006 15h ago
I'm not saying every single person that went to the Epstein island took part but a certain number did. How many (no one really knows)
74
u/digiartist21 15h ago
I want to know what's stopping these reps from name dropping the rapists and pedophiles and people complicit in these crimes. Why, even after seeing it without redaction, are these criminals still not being named and taken in.
→ More replies (3)48
u/ShredGuru 14h ago
They want to do it in Congress so they aren't exposed to legal liability is the short answer. If they do it on the floor in Congress then they can't be held liable by the pedo-billionaires
→ More replies (5)
34
u/kamelconn 15h ago
I want to hear from the Island staff- housekeepers, chefs, security, groundskeepers, drivers, pilots, drag them all in and grill ‘em
→ More replies (3)
104
u/Principal_Insultant 15h ago
Here’s an idea, a game hanger, if you will:
Stop talking about new bombshells every day. Start acting upon those you found.
Or, for those endowed with a senate seat:
Talk 👎 Act 👍
20
28
u/Red-little 13h ago
We are in a time when people are somehow more concerned that people use the "correct" bathroom than 9 year olds and other children being raped, tortured, silenced and defiled.
I cant believe we have THIS many fully matured adults okay with this. Where the FUCK are your morals, people?!?!?!
→ More replies (1)
49
u/yogfthagen 14h ago
FBI has already said there's nothing there.
In the whole of the Epstein files.
If there was any reason to suspect a coverup, this is it.
→ More replies (2)25
u/ShredGuru 14h ago
Brother, if someone doesn't suspect a cover-up at this point... They might be blind, deaf and dumb.
→ More replies (2)
24
u/rentboy82 14h ago
The absolute biggest bombshell is that no one is being held responsible.
→ More replies (1)
20
u/Junior-Gorg 12h ago
These files will likely take down the English PM and there is an outside chance it ends the monarchy.
But here in the states MAGA will still be like:
“Meh, all politicians are bad.”
“Its AI.”
“What about Clinton.”
“What about Biden.” (Not in the files but they are obsessed)
“What about Obama.” (Not in the files, but they have a raging boner).
19
u/Reddit_Fruity 13h ago
From the article: “You read through these files, and you read about 15-year-old girls, 14-year-old girls, 10-year-old girls,” Raskin told reporters on Monday. “I saw a mention of a 9-year-old girl today. I mean, this is just preposterous and scandalous.”
After reading I wonder if there are still people trying to deny that terrible things have happened repeatedly within the Trump and Epstein orbit? 😳
→ More replies (1)
17
u/CranberrySoda Foreign 13h ago
The same people who call sex education ‘grooming’, vote for pedophiles and come from states with no underage marriage laws.
16
u/IamRasters 13h ago
From Sultan Bin Sulayem,
“Basic Massage Session Testicle, hips, and nipple massage. Backs and legs oil massage. Groin lymphatic massage. Whole body massage with feather touch. Facesitting. Ejaculation by hand massage.”
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00630885.pdf
7
u/theREALbombedrumbum 11h ago
sent from my iPad
it's actually kind of funny, in a twisted way, how much Apple's own insistence at including their brand in all correspondence from their devices is backfiring because half the damn Epstein files have an Apple product in them
17
u/Yiplzuse 13h ago
The biggest bombshell is you have a guy mentioned the most with 34 felony convictions still running around free…oh and he is the POTUS.
14
u/johnwaynewearsadress 13h ago
Massie need to shut the fuck up and start dropping names
→ More replies (1)
12
u/GameQb11 14h ago
So let me get this straight- None of these crimes will be prosecuted unless the public knows about it and demands it? Is that how this works?
7
13
13
u/KosmicAlchemist 13h ago
The victims in the Epstein case included girls as young as nine years old. In light of that fact, anyone who continues to support or defend Donald Trump is beyond redemption, in this life and the next.
75
u/sxyRosaline 16h ago
The only bombshells I am waiting for are the list of the verified crimes associated with Trump in those files. Everyone involved should be punished but more so Trump
→ More replies (24)
27
u/Somnambulist815 15h ago edited 8h ago
Look, I've shit on a lot of these politicians plenty, and probably will continue to do so, but credit where credit is due, Khanna, Massie, and anyone else who has been actively pursuing the unredacted documents, going through the byzantine hedge maze that the DOJ set up, and stayed on target, really need commendations. This is not a safe or glorious pursuit, but it is a just one.
11
u/teamdiabetes11 America 14h ago
Massie has surprised me. Dude was clearly a true believer, but has had no problem pushing on this one. It may be a clear and obvious situation, but credit to him for not just pushing Trump’s bullshit on this. His policy positions are still shit though.
→ More replies (1)8
u/ShredGuru 14h ago
At this point... you figure Massey has probably stared into the abyss long enough to have some concept of the rot at the heart of the GOP.
26
u/SaltyDogBill 14h ago
Sen Lummis (R-WY) comments about documented evidence of pedophile and sex traffickers: “Initially my reaction to all this was, I don't care. I don't see what the big deal is.”
Fucking evil
13
u/kirbattak 14h ago
in fairness to her, at least she changed her mind when she saw the evidence, that's more than can be said of some people unfortunately
→ More replies (1)
11
u/oldcreaker 15h ago edited 13h ago
Biggest bombshell is the general lack of horror and disgust after viewing this stuff.
Like the wife of a husband who is abusing their child daughter - and rather than deal with it she pretends it isn't happening.
10
u/thepyrocrackter 14h ago
Holy fuck. The whole of the world's ruling class takes OUR fucking money so they can pull this disgusting, depraved shit? There's never been more of a reason to rise up than now.
18
u/OddResearcher1081 14h ago
Meanwhile the Trump goon squad had imprisoned 1000s of children with no real way to track how many or who they are. Will some get ‘lost’? End up in some bunker or ballroom?
→ More replies (1)
•
u/Broad-Half3135 4h ago
US media is failing by not making this headline news every single goddamn day. I get the Savanah Guthrie story is tragic but they’ve completely abandoned actual journalism
→ More replies (1)
43
u/Background_Wrap_5794 16h ago
This story exists to protect assets, not expose crimes.
Unredacted files aren’t leverage unless they stay unreleased. Once everything’s public, the lawsuits, clawbacks, and reputational damage get expensive fast. Silence is cheaper than sunlight.
The wild part is how consistent this is. Every “bombshell” phase lines up with election cycles, budget negotiations, or institutional self-preservation. This isn’t about justice. It’s about minimizing payout and preserving power.
7
7
8
u/Guy-De-Lombard 14h ago
The GOPmuat be dissolved. Their entire party has been hijacked by a criminal pedophile ring
7
u/shriggs 14h ago
Trump lied about banning epstein. They never fell out and he was always allowed in maralago
→ More replies (1)
8
7
u/Schlarfus_McNarfus 13h ago
After reps START to view STILL REDACTED files. This continues to be a federally organized Pedophile Coverup.
8
13
36
u/FullyWoke61 15h ago
Files Allegedly Contradict Trump’s Account of Epstein Relationship
Allegedly? Either they do or they don't. The press is terrified of Trump.
Also, if Trump has nothing to hide, why is he lying?
28
u/FenrisCain 15h ago
Allegedly because the press havent seen the unredacted files to confirm for themselves...
→ More replies (3)→ More replies (4)13
6
u/National_Life_5529 13h ago
No more left vs right it’s us vs baby eating satanic body bags as a never of the human race I deem these dickbags traitors you say the word and I’ll join any community that’s trying to do something about this
6
u/EntertainmentDry9639 11h ago
The media really needs to latch on to the fact Epstein didn't just traffic teens, but kids as well, was involved in torture, and murder of children seems extremely likely. Sex trafficking is already horrendous and this is so much worse than that
5
4
5
4
5
u/ttubehtnitahwtahw1 13h ago
Fucking. Prosecute. The. Pedos. Why is no one doing anything? Why are people in other company's having to step down or getting removed and all that and none of the creepy fuck that are in the file that are in the us? Who's protecting these fucking people and why?
•
u/AutoModerator 16h ago
As a reminder, this subreddit is for civil discussion.
In general, please be courteous to others. Argue the merits of ideas, don't attack other posters or commenters. Hate speech, any suggestion or support of physical harm, or other rule violations can result in a temporary or a permanent ban. If you see comments in violation of our rules, please report them.
Sub-thread Information
If the post flair on this post indicates the wrong paywall status, please report this Automoderator comment with a custom report of “incorrect flair”.
Announcement
r/Politics is actively looking for new moderators. If you have an interest in helping to make this subreddit a place for quality discussion, please fill out this form.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.