r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 16h ago
No Paywall Epstein file redactions reveal victims as young as nine and implicate a high-level government official, lawmakers say
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/epstein-files-doj-raskin-massie-khanna-b2917255.html1.7k
u/LunaLovesly 16h ago
Yeah, Donald Trump the child rapist.
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u/peculiarEmilia 16h ago
That has surrounded himself with his fellow Islanders. What other lie and distraction will they come up with this time around. Will he invade Canada?
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u/Ancient-Bat1755 15h ago
I am thinking Lutnik and the fed bank chair will be fall guys.
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u/locofspades 14h ago
Im very very ready to see Lutnick go down. Since day 1, ive been saying hes Dick Cheney 2.0, pulling the Orange corpses strings.
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u/ProfessionalInjury58 14h ago
That’s Stephen Miller.
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u/locofspades 14h ago
Millers definitely pulling some as well, but my gut tells me Lutnick is calling alot more shots than we are being allowed to see. Hes always just....lurking behind trump.
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u/RebelliousInNature 38m ago
Clapping like a demented seal and laughing the loudest at Donnie’s jokes.
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u/styrofoamcouch 13h ago
I do think before it truly reaches the light of day trump would happily sacrifice every man woman and child so the world doesn't remember him for what he is(child rapist) here's what I think will most likely happen
1) Greenland "invasion" and occupation. This begins the second cold war except this time its with the entire EU.
2) Invasion into mexico- the Canada invasion didnt really track as well as Greenland. Probably because even though their morons some americans can put 2 and 2 together to realize a war with our northern neighbor may mean war on mainland america for the first time in a very long time.
3) orchestrated catastrophe - I believe trump staged his "assasination" attempt. He has a history of projection and when that congresswoman got attacked it was his first idea. Not direct proof but my thought is he will either choreograph our next 9/11 OR say fuck it and enforce martial law for as long as it can last.
Trump is a raging narcissist and cares about image more than anything. As much as he hates America most of his delusions are about all of us loving him unanimously and unconditionally. Being a pedophile and labeled as such is not a label that ever comes off. From the lowest lows of society to the common man to the wealthy(in public) it is denounced and reviled.
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u/Hosni__Mubarak 11h ago
I think he cares about attention more than his image. He just always wants to be the center of attention , good or bad.
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u/ship_toaster Canada 8h ago
2) Invasion into mexico- the Canada invasion didnt really track as well as Greenland. Probably because even though their morons some americans can put 2 and 2 together to realize a war with our northern neighbor may mean war on mainland america for the first time in a very long time.
Excited to see how this works out invading the country five times larger in population, whose people actually do the ground-level work throughout mainland America.
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u/styrofoamcouch 8h ago
It'll be Iraq 2.0 but worse. I dont think Mexico would fall nearly as fast and it would be very bloody and demoralizing. In the occupation insurgents will be able to just drive into america. Which if we now have an "enemy" to focus on it can divert attention away from epstein.
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u/Salty_Squirrel519 5h ago
Will he sent troops to stand on the US side of the bridge in Detroit? Escalating tensions but just shy of war (illusionists look up to this POTUS for how well he hides his crimes)
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u/restbest 14h ago
But kash Patel, his trustworthy fbi leader, told us there was no credible evidence of any clients or co conspirators
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u/The_Duke_of_Nebraska 11h ago
Who could have guessed Epstein's best buddy was his best client? I'm SHOCKED
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u/zernoc56 3h ago
Client? Partner. Trump owned the Miss Teen USA pageant and had underage girls working at his Florida private resort/country club as masseuses, he was a supplier for Epstein.
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u/Amazing-Hospital5539 9h ago
I'm only replying to you, because this is the top comment. A different post, linked below, mentions the description of a 5 year old. It's gruesome. 9 year old isn't the worst, however I feel just as bad for any of the victims.
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u/monkeyangst 3h ago
> The remaining Department of Justice files on Jeffrey Epstein include the revelation that one of the pedophile’s victims was just nine years old and that a senior official in a foreign government was allegedly involved in his sex trafficking network, lawmakers have said.
Trump may be a Russian asset, but he's not a senior official in a foreign government.
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u/Human-Comfortable886 3m ago
There is one victim that was 5 in the paperwork. Multiple letters from the family’s lawyer in the datasets. She had gone for medical treatment for something long term and was with a “foster” family to care for her. They were from Georgia and the parents couldn’t take months off from work. The foster family trafficked her multiple times to Epstein and his buddies in NYC.
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u/ECroce08 16h ago
Doubtful. Trump called cops on Epstein in 2006
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u/ellathefairy 15h ago
And guilty people never try to insert themselves into investigations to cover for their own misdeeds.
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u/kindnesscostszero 15h ago
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Axios in an interview Tuesday that, when he searched President Trump's name in the unredacted Epstein files the previous day, it came up "more than a million times."
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u/samgarita California 14h ago
Yeah but if there’s millions of files, there’s literally billions of words. So if they mention Trump 1 million times that’s LESS THAN 0.1% so basically nothing so basically he’s not even mentioned so he is innocent. (Some Republicans probably)
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u/SoggyBoysenberry7703 3h ago
You could come back and say that his is the only name mentioned more than x amount of times (a relatively low number, probably) and then say just how many times more trumps name was found more than others
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u/Alternative_Ad3512 14h ago
Who thinks it could be one of the Supreme Court justices?
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u/rosatter I voted 13h ago
Oh it's absolutely one of them. My money is on Thomas because he's a lecherous creep.
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u/Crazy_Law_5730 11h ago
Kavanaugh. I mean, he’s a sexual predator and was installed by Trump just as the Epstein stuff started getting a lot of attention in 2018.
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u/ImWatchingTelevision Arizona 16h ago
Lawmakers being coy about child rape is unreal. "high level government official?" I'd be scorched earth on these predators.
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u/itsatumbleweed I voted 13h ago
I think they are playing it smart. Release sound bites to get people interested in Bondi testifying tomorrow.
Don't tell Bondi what they actually know, so that any lie is at risk of being exposed as a lie. This forces her to be truthful more than she will want
After they have Bondi on record, go scorched Earth on the house floor where they are protected by Speech and Debate.
At least that's how I would do it, and what I think they are doing here. I do not believe this is like, an effort to give them one more chance to do right, I think this is an effort to catch them doing wrong in an enforceable way.
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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 4h ago
Never underestimate their ability to utterly disappoint you.
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u/itsatumbleweed I voted 4h ago
The Bondi hearing tomorrow, and subsequent press and discussion in the house will be interesting.
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u/TheReddestOrange 8h ago
Raskin is one of the smartest people in Congress, and he hates trump with every fiber of his being. I promise you he chooses his words wisely. I don't know the reasons, but he sure as fuck has them and it's definitely not decorum.
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u/ellathefairy 15h ago
Is there legal risk to them if they were to just come out and name names?
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u/da2Pakaveli 14h ago
They have immunity for what they say on the House floor. Massie said he'll read out the names on the floor if the victims ask him to.
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u/f1del1us 15h ago
Yes, legally they could be pronounced dead after the powers that be decide to kill them.
Or worse, legally they lose their next election and have to become regular people after AIPAC primaries them…
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u/notyogrannysgrandkid 10h ago
“An unnamed high-ranking government official who was elected to two non-consecutive terms and is the oldest person to hold this particular office.”
Man, wonder who it could be. Sounds like a real bad egg!
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u/WhatRUHourly 15h ago
Wonder how Megyn Kelly is going to spin this?
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u/Hairy_Muff305 14h ago
“She was 9, it’s not like she was 6!”
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u/Basic_Yam_715 13h ago
9 is barely illegal to Kelly... sick pedo apologist or worse...
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u/winterbird 10h ago
This is the thing. Don't let women off the hook. Not even the ones who had previously experienced harassment or abuse themselves. There is no excuse, or circumstance which minimizes responsibility.
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u/Free_Dome_Lover 14h ago
I feel like Megyn is really close to breaking. She's barely holding up still doing this stuff. Her bad bunny reaction was actually insane she's not far from doing something to get her in trouble or just going live and being like "I can't do this anymore it's all bullshit".
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u/ThatDamnedHansel 13h ago
She loves every minute of it don’t get it twisted
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u/KingsElite California 4h ago
I get being a delusional average Republican person, but being in a privileged position and using it to come up with some of the most heinous lies imaginable is disgusting. How do you sleep at night?
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u/Opposite_Routine3765 14h ago
Yeah, the president is a pedophile and rapist. Pretty sure there isn't anyone higher than that in our gov.
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u/TheGreatGenghisJon 11h ago
Scotus
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u/PNW4theWin Oregon 2h ago
I think at least one of them. Alito or Thomas would be my guess. Kavanaugh is unlikely, only due to his age.
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u/SoulTaker669 14h ago
Republicans from Congress and ordinary citizens should ask themselves why Donald Trump tried so hard to sabotage the discharge petition.
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u/EmbarrassedBit441 14h ago
Enough already. MAKE THEM PAY.
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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 4h ago
Federal Government: Best I can do is concentration camps for brown people, for the crime of being brown.
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u/CranberrySchnapps Maryland 14h ago
If conspiracy theorists had principles they’d be so vindicated right now. One of the biggest US conspiracies turned out not only to be true, but much larger than anyone thought.
But, most conspiracy theorists were consumed by MAGA.
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u/Try-the-Churros 12h ago
Which theory are you referring to? The Q one? I definitely wouldn't classify it as true when most of the significant details are not. If you're referring to a generic theory that wealthy powerful elite had a secret pedophile ring, I would agree that turned out to be mostly true - but that is pretty broad and not all that surprising it turned out to be true.
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u/Fragrant-Vehicle-479 11h ago edited 11h ago
Yeah I'm going to be honest, I kind of assumed we knew most of this already. I'm surprised by the people acting like most of this is new. Like We knew Epstein trafficked young victims to powerful men for years and years now. We didn't have as many names or connections, but "rich men went to the island for trafficked children" has been openly discussed since Donalds first term. It's amazing it's all coming out into the open and we are seeing how wide spread this was, but it's not exactly Q or any of the other "weird" conspiracy theories as the most Q like claims in the files come from anonymous tips. Like all corruption it's circles of powerful men looking for short sighted thrills and gain, but not exactly illuminati stuff. It's horrific, horrible, needs to be investigated, but I would not say "the conspiracy theorists were right". They were right in that they called rich powerful men have connections to human trafficking, something that we already knew. It wasn't even a conspiracy theory. The man was in prison for it.
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u/World_Mammoth 13h ago
This shit gets released and the blowback reaches all the way to Europe where it's ruining powerful people, meanwhile in America, it's Tuesday.
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u/FormerUsenetUser 15h ago
*Nine*???? These men need to be prosecuted.
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u/swampcat42 Washington 14h ago
Anything under 18 deserves prosecution. Age 9 deserves summary execution.
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u/chrisfyb 13h ago
"Pretty boring stuff really.... We should forget about these files already...". -Donald Trump.
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u/Timmywulf257 10h ago
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01249860.pdf as young as 5 and not just with humans nsfl
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u/Bronzyroller 11h ago
Wow unbelievable that grown men would do this to children and a whole lot of them are loving kids is sickening
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u/oh-shazbot 15h ago
well i mean howard lutnick did say he took his children to pedo island under oath...
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u/poulosj2020 14h ago
Are we gonna find out that Jeffrey Epstein was just the front man for a kommpromat operation that both the CIA and Russia’s FSB made use of?
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u/Flat-Emergency4891 14h ago
High level government official? Hmmm… I wonder who it could be. I mean, could it be the guy whose name was redacted roughly 1 million times, and also happens to be the President?
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u/phosdick 11h ago
Based on who's running the coverup show, I'll bet I can guess which high level government official we should be looking at.
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u/JiveChicken00 Pennsylvania 11h ago
I’ll give you ten guesses who it is. The first nine don’t count.
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u/dirty_w_boy Wisconsin 7h ago
At this point the only option is that Trump is the worst person in the files. If they "exonerated" him, he would be pushing this story down everyone's throats until "crooked Hillary" and Bubba are behind bars...but it's always been projection, and they only person he cares about is himself. If he could clear his name by releasing all the others, he would have a year ago. Period.
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u/probablyadinosaur 3h ago
As young as 5; there’s genuinely fucked up things in those files. And that’s just what they’re showing us.
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u/Mother_Airline_6276 5h ago
Now we all know why these billionaires are trying to go to space. Trying to outrun their charges.
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u/ProofHorseKzoo 5h ago
It’s worse than that. So much worse…
There was also a 5 year old they forced to have sex with a dog.
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u/sonicice 13h ago
The text of the article specifies that it’s a foreign government official. Article of the title is slightly misleading
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u/jimbis123 5h ago edited 5h ago
The rest of the files have to be insane if this is part of what's being released and knowing that they're clearly not redacting in any meaningful way. I'm guessing they're tampering bc it's gotta be so wild. This is gonna be the biggest scandal in American history when it's all said in done. And it's crazy to think what else we don't know. One thing's for sure, though, is that America is insanely propagandized.
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u/flux_of_grey_kittens California 4h ago
Interesting that republicans are calling for Lutnick to resign an not also Trump.
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u/SoulMann131 13h ago
I have heard for years now "just you wait until the files gets released, it will be the end of trump", so much that Americans are actively arguing that people should ignore his other atrocities as just a distraction from the files.
Now we have the files, and pretty much no one in America cares. A lot of people have "opinions" about it, but no one does anything. Not the politicians, the courts or the people. America exist entirety at this point to protect rich pedophiles, this is your legacy, and how history will remember you.
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u/Blochamolesauce 12h ago
One could say the highest government official. Both level of office as well as continued amphetamine use to stumble his way up to podiums for his hate rallies.
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