The Department of Justice has released less than 1% of the so-called Epstein files, a court filing has revealed, as Democrats step up criticism of the Trump administration’s “lawlessness” for keeping records under seal.
The department conceded that only 12,285 documents, totalling 125,575 pages, relating to the disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been published to date, despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December.
Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, wrote a five-page update to Paul Engelmayer, the federal New York judge overseeing the case, on Monday, asserting that efforts to protect the identities of Epstein’s victims were a priority, and had slowed the process.
“There are more than two million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review,” she wrote in the letter co-signed by Todd Blanche, her deputy, and Jay Clayton, US attorney for the southern district of New York.
"What are they trying to hide?” Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said in a post to X on Monday accusing the justice department of failing to submit a required unredacted list to Congress “of all government officials and politically exposed persons” named or referenced in the files.
“It’s been 17 DAYS since the Trump DOJ first broke the law and failed to release all the Epstein files. It’s been 14 DAYS since Trump’s DOJ released anything at all – with the DOJ doing everything in its power to delay and obfuscate.”
<despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December.>
The very FACT that they have NOT released the files now is a CLEAR indication that they NEVER intended to release them at all.
Congress needs to get off its withering impotent ass and arrest Bondi (and impeach Trump of course)
Unfortunately, the Grand Old Pedophiles don’t have enough of a spine to stand up to the diddler in chief.
because most of them are likely on the files themselves.
Hilarious that the elites are shoving AI up everyone’s ass and everyone in this admin seems to being doing literally EVERYTHING with AI.
But redacting the Epstein files is ONE task that has to be done manually.
Seriously any day now there’s going to be a letter written by Epstein filled with em-dashes that exonerates Trump.
Hear that MAGA? Next time you’re getting ready to parrot that nonsense about “Promises Made, Promises Kept,” remember that two of his CENTRAL promises of his campaign were releasing the Epstein Files, and America First - staying out of other countries business, specifically no regime change, and no nation building. And now we have both, AND they are still hiding the Epstein Files.
We should remind all MAGAs as often as possible.
You know what’s “funny”?
MAGA stands together against pedophilia, blaming the left. Their source? Some roll playing teenagers on 4chan. One even did an armed raid on a pizzaria.
Now, loads and loads of evidence stacks up of their dear leader being a pedophile and close friend to the world’s biggest pedophilia ring leader (already widely known before first term elections), yet they stand with their pedo criminal dictator.
I believe MAGA made a remarkable achievement, namely a discovery of a new level of hypocrisy, far higher than anyone ever theorized being possible.
They also moved the FBI headquarters, and I suspect they will claim they lost a lot of the files in transit. The more time they let it stew the harder it will be to disprove, so they will keep gaslighting as long as possible until they bring out the excuse.
They should call for a Congressional audit of the FBI. I bet they could get a lot of support for something like that from the public.
Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, wrote a five-page update to Paul Engelmayer, the federal New York judge overseeing the case, on Monday, asserting that efforts to protect the identities of Epstein’s
victimsco-conspirators were a priority, and had slowed the process.ftfy
It would take fucking minutes to auto find each victim name, and censor it, and maybe, MAYBE, a few days for a team of people to review it and manually change what wasn’t caught.
If charges don’t come out of how this was handled, let alone for sure charging all of the child rapists and anyone that helped them, we need to burn this mother fucker down.
redacting information is a lot harder than that. you often have to redact things that allow people to draw correlations that lead to identity… details like that should be redacted
but this is ridiculous on its own, even without the enormous blunders that prove it’s about protecting co-conspirators rather than victims
I mean I do imagine it would take a bit of time, but they’ve got entire teams of people who’s entire jobs are handling that.
It wouldn’t take this long, even if they actually needed to both protect victims and help coconspirators. It’s been literal years, and even the mandate from a few months back was an extreme amount of time.
Hey hey! Look over there, Venezuela! Pay attention to that!
That 1% contains Trump’s name hundreds of times and has credible evidence of him being party to his own child’s infanticide
What could even be worse at that point
Actually, the tip doesn’t allege that it was Trump’s child, it alleges that Trump was present when her uncle killed the baby. It makes no allegation about who the father is, and sadly the list of candidates would be very large in that scenario. He was there near the birth, no claim about who was there for the conception.
I also hate to admit it, but that specific “credible evidence” was a tip submitted via an online form in October 2020. Certainly worth searching for/demanding more to see where, if anywhere, the tip went, but by itself it isn’t credible evidence. There’s so much more credible bad stuff about Trump that makes this quite believable, but until linked to more substantive stuff, probably best to stick to the more concrete stuff. I suspect there were quite a few crafted attempts at ‘October Surprises’ during the 2020 race and Epstein was a solid topic well known by the populace to try those sorts of things.
The more interesting thing about that particular piece of evidence is that it’s concrete proof of what we already know: that they’re censoring Trump’s name in the documents.
