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.”
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.
<despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December.>
The very FACT that they have NOT released the files now is a CLEAR indication that they NEVER intended to release them at all.
Congress needs to get off its withering impotent ass and arrest Bondi (and impeach Trump of course)
Unfortunately, the Grand Old Pedophiles don’t have enough of a spine to stand up to the diddler in chief.
because most of them are likely on the files themselves.
Why are writing Trump-style bro? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
It seems to WORK for him. Why NOT me?
“History’s most transparent administration”
I mean, they are the most transparently corrupt, so that’s close, right?
I mean we’re going to be finding little bedbugs of corruption from the trump admin for the next 50 years. As transparent as an iceberg.
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.
MAGA: Molesters Are Gutted Alive
Well he pardoned all the traitors from jan 6th so I wouldn’t expect any less.
s/disgraced financier/child molester/g
What is it called when you are 1% in compliance with the law.
Criminal behaviour?
This thing is over now, isn’t it?
A war has starte the and news media lost interest in the president being a pedophile
Fuck, America is predictable if anything
I don’t think it will ever be over. The minute news slows from Venezuela the files are back in the headlines. They have to keep doing things to distract, going to be a wild ride.
Hear that MAGA? Next time you’re getting ready to parrot that nonsense about “Promises Made, Promises Kept,” remember that two of his CENTRAL promises of his campaign were releasing the Epstein Files, and America First - staying out of other countries business, specifically no regime change, and no nation building. And now we have both, AND they are still hiding the Epstein Files.
We should remind all MAGAs as often as possible.
He got what he wanted, elected and access to power and money (sweet corruption). The MAGA suckers can f off now.
Truth
More damning evidence that high profile people are involved.
Look, I don’t give a shit if they’re all not released.
The way they’ve behaved, the way they approached the subject, the way they try downplaying it all. They’re all complicit child-fuckers.
Hey hey! Look over there, Venezuela! Pay attention to that!
Why even make a distraction? They could brazenly come out and say “we’re not releasing anymore. What are you going to do about it?”
And Congress will just sit there going 👉👈 and nothing would happen. I truly believe that Congress has lost all power at this point. They are a collection of figureheads that couldn’t enforce a parking lot, let alone the laws of a country. They can pass whatever law, or make whatever sanction they want, but there’s no one around to actually enforce it anymore. All that power has gone to the Executive branch.
They have as much power as the German parliament had in ww2.
Wag the dog.
So Trump is the other 99%?
No, he’s also in the already released 1%.
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.
Don’t take this personally, your heart is in the right place.
I think you can’t see the forest for the trees. There will be no charges. It will not be released. Trump will ratchet up the insanity to the level that’s needed to make child sex trafficking irrelevant.
The only option at this point is extreme, active, hot and visible resistance. It’s the only thing that will break through. There will be no meaningful midterms. You’re in a fight for your life, and if you fail your country will become history’s next fascist experiment. Every American has to consider the world after America has subjugated it, causing untold suffering and destruction - will you be okay to live in that country? Will you be able to push the death out of your mind and live a happy life?
I couldn’t, it’s constructive advice and it’s appreciated, but I do see it that way. Maybe not as deeply and as eloquently as you put it, but yeah that is exactly how I view it, but with a dash of hope I likely shouldn’t still have.
Thanks for chiming in
redacting information is a lot harder than that. you often have to redact things that allow people to draw correlations that lead to identity… details like that should be redacted
but this is ridiculous on its own, even without the enormous blunders that prove it’s about protecting co-conspirators rather than victims
I mean I do imagine it would take a bit of time, but they’ve got entire teams of people who’s entire jobs are handling that.
It wouldn’t take this long, even if they actually needed to both protect victims and help coconspirators. It’s been literal years, and even the mandate from a few months back was an extreme amount of time.
I completely agree with you, but I distinctly remember saying “There’s no way Trump comes back from this” five years ago today, and yet here we are. I have very little hope for the system as it is now.
Yeah, agreed. I wasn’t as hopeful then, just because all of the blatant crime starting 10 years ago and frankly decades ago, but every time I think there’s a line, like a party to or directly throwing a baby that was just murdered into a lake with witnesses around, I do think, this has got to be it.
At this point, we should use force to convince the DoJ to release 99.9% of those files
