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Trump just refused to answer any questions regarding this.

The trump Justice Department breaking the law.

Is anyone really surprised they didn't reach the deadline? If they are they shouldn't be.

They say they need more time to redact names of innocent victims. Plausible I suppose.

No matter. I don't get the urgency at this point. The files have been in the hands of the DOJ for 4-5 years. If such a big deal now, why not 3-4 years ago?

I think it is more a bunch of noise than anything else.

Please, don't start on some tirade that I am trying to protect pedophiles.

well, that was underwhelming... The release of Redacted files means nothing to me. I think the FBI and DOJ have NOT complied with that law that was signed 30 days ago.

I can understand wanting to keep the names of victims secret.... But redacting whole pages doesn't tell me that they are all the names of victims. What are they hiding? Can Bondi and Patel be held accountable?

But in the end, I wasn't surprised by the lack of Complete data. I knew that the MOST incompetent administration ever, headed by the most criminal president ever, would find a way to extend the release of REAL data..

Protecting pedophiles is just the strangest thing for the Party of Law and Order.... The party of Christian Beliefs.... The party of Charlie Kirk.... (ok, that's a bit of a stretch)

It's just my opinion, but if you agree with what they hid, you are protecting Pedophiles......

Quite simply, congress passed a law and trump signed it making yesterday the final deadline for the full release of all the files. You still remember what laws are, right? But I understand that many people these days don't allow silly little things like laws to get in the way of their feelings.

Maybe you should be asking why those who have come out and telling their stories of being abused as victims of Epstein and his clients are upset because none of their stories were released in these files nor were the names of their abusers listed. No big deal though am I right?


You don't have to try to protect pedophiles Peen. After seeing how much was redacted and where it was redacted, it seems the DOJ is doing that job for you.

I haven’t seen ex Prince Andrew’s name come up in the released files. Mmmm must have a deal with Trump …I won’t tell if you don’t. Some of the best secrets indeed.

In my best Scarface impersonation.....

"Laws? We don't follow no stinking laws!"

Can the DC police force arrest the FBI and DOJ director for not following letter of the law congress wrote and signed by Trump?

Letter apparently sent from Epstein to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar mentions Trump

Another file released on Tuesday is a letter that appears to have been sent by Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar, the US gymnastics team doctor convicted of sexually abusing scores of young gymnasts, while he was in jail.

In the letter, postmarked 13 August 2019 and sent from jail, the letter reads:

Dear L.N. as you know by now, I have taken the “short route” home. Good Luck! We share one thing … our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they’d reach their full potential. Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to “grab snatch,” whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein.

Epstein was found dead in his cell on 10 August 2019. The death was ruled a suicide. Donald Trump, who was president at the time of the letter being written, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

In a post on X earlier, the US justice department said that some of the documents it has released “contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”

The letter is also mentioned in another file, an FBI Laboratory Examination request, where it states that on 25 September 2019, an FBI agent received a phone call from Bureau of Prisons Special Investigative Section Lieutenant regarding a letter that was received by the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

It says that the letter was a “return to sender” and “the following was written at the top left corner of the letter: J. Epstein Manhattan Correctional NYC NY 10007 The letter was postmarked NOVA 220 13 August 2019 and was addressed to Larry Nassar”.

The file states that it was sent to another Federal Bureau of Prisons facility and that the reason for the “return to sender” was that the addressee was “no longer at this address”.

The FBI document, which is dated July 31 2020, states that FBI New York is requesting the lab to “perform a handwriting analysis comparing the letter” to the “handwriting of Jeffrey Epstein to conclude if the individual who wrote the letter was Epstein or another unknown person.”

Some Epstein documents include ‘untrue and sensationalist claims’ against Trump, says DoJ

The US Department of Justice has released nearly 30,000 of additional pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. Unlike the last batches, this tranche features many more references to Donald Trump.

In a statement accompanying the release, the department said some of the material includes “untrue and sensationalist claims” submitted to the FBI shortly before the 2020 US election, including allegations made against Trump.

The department said the claims are “unfounded and false”.

The statement on X continued:

To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.

Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ne-maxwell-us-politics-live-news-updates

Of course the DOJ is running subterfuge for trump. When did that become part of their job? Oh that's right, since Bondi took over.

Looks like another document dump today

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news...ludes-many-mentions-of-trump/ar-AA1SRUG9

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news...dump-with-wild-damage-control-statement/

Trump flew on Epstein's private jet 'MORE times than we knew'... along with pedophile and 20-year-old woman, new files reveal
By IMOGEN GARFINKEL - SENIOR FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER and WILL POTTER, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

Published: 05:29 EST, 23 December 2025 | Updated: 09:57 EST, 23 December 2025

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A huge new trove of Epstein files have alleged that Donald Trump flew on the pedophile's private jet 'many more times than has been previously reported', including one journey with a 20-year-old woman.

Some 8,000 more documents including videos and photos related to the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been released on the US Department of Justice's site (DOJ).

Among the documents is an email from a New York assistant US attorney, which states that Trump was listed as a passenger on eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including at least four where Epstein's co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell was also present.

Trump's presence in the Epstein files does not imply any wrongdoing. The president has not been accused of any malpractice concerning the disgraced financier.

The email says: 'For your situational awareness, wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump travelled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware), including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case.'

It continues: 'On one flight in 1993, he and Epstein are the only two listed passengers; on another, the only three passengers are Epstein, Trump and then-20-year-old [redacted].'

The new release follows the more than 300,000 files which were released by the DOJ on Friday.

The department has been accused of withholding information and was criticised by Democrats over the slow release and heavy redaction of records from the investigation into Epstein.

It failed to meet its deadline for complying with a 'transparency' law requiring the broad release of remaining Epstein files, sparking widespread outrage among Democrats and Republicans.

Among the documents is the suggestion that US President Donald Trump travelled on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet 'many more times than previously has been reported', including one journey with a 20-year-old woman
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Among the documents is the suggestion that US President Donald Trump travelled on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet 'many more times than previously has been reported', including one journey with a 20-year-old woman

US President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein pictured in a photo together released earlier this month
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US President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein pictured in a photo together released earlier this month

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Following the latest dump of evidence from Epstein's case files, the Department of Justice issued a statement downplaying the files that included Trump's name.

'Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already,' the DOJ wrote on X.

'Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims.'

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The new files include hundreds of videos and audio recordings, notably surveillance footage from August 2019, the month Epstein was found dead in his jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

The DOJ posted around 11,000 links to documents online, some of which direct viewers to pictures of Epstein's old United States passport.

It was issued in February 1985 and expired in 1995. Below his signature is a black and white passport photo of Epstein dressed in a suit and tie.

Congress nearly unanimously passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), which mandated the complete release of the Epstein files by last Friday.

A group of victims earlier complained that only a 'fraction' of the files were released and even those were 'riddled with abnormal and extreme redactions with no explanation'.

EFTA co-sponsors Ro Khanna, a Democrat, and Thomas Massie, a Republican, threatened to bring contempt charges against Attorney General Pam Bondi for failing to comply with the law.

Within this latest release are images of an old United States passport belonging to Epstein
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Within this latest release are images of an old United States passport belonging to Epstein

Epstein pictured in a helicopter with a redacted woman, in a document released by the Department of Justice on December 19, 2025
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Epstein pictured in a helicopter with a redacted woman, in a document released by the Department of Justice on December 19, 2025

This redacted photo released by the US Department of Justice shows a framed photograph of Jeffrey Epstein with a person on his lap, documented on August 12, 2019, during a search of his home on Little St. James island in the US Virgin Islands
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This redacted photo released by the US Department of Justice shows a framed photograph of Jeffrey Epstein with a person on his lap, documented on August 12, 2019, during a search of his home on Little St. James island in the US Virgin Islands

A photo released by the US Department of Justice on December 19 shows Epstein posing shirtless with what appears to be a child's foot in frame
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A photo released by the US Department of Justice on December 19 shows Epstein posing shirtless with what appears to be a child's foot in frame

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced a resolution on Monday calling for legal action against the administration for failing to release the complete Epstein files.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche blamed the delay on the need to redact the identities of Epstein's more than 1,000 victims, and on Sunday denied allegations of protecting Trump, who was formerly a close friend of Epstein's.

Trump had initially tried to block the disclosure of the files.

But the president, who cut ties with Epstein years before his arrest and faces no accusations of wrongdoing, finally bowed to mounting pressure from Congress and signed the law compelling publication of the files.

Also featured in the documents are court transcripts, FBI and DOJ records, emails and news clippings.

Friday's disclosure represented only a fraction of the total data the FBI and Justice Department have said they possess related to Epstein and was heavily redacted, including several documents or 100 pages or more that were entirely blacked out.

Also notable was the dearth of references to Trump, who had a well-publicised friendship with Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Instead, the released files extensively featured former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat and political foe.

The Department of Justice released hundreds of thousands of files on December 19 related to disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
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The Department of Justice released hundreds of thousands of files on December 19 related to disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein is seen at an undisclosed location, watching people meditate
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Epstein is seen at an undisclosed location, watching people meditate

Former president Clinton poses with an unknown woman
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Former president Clinton poses with an unknown woman

Clinton swims in a pool with Maxwell and an unidentified woman
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Clinton swims in a pool with Maxwell and an unidentified woman

A photograph of two woman without shirts features in the released files
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A photograph of two woman without shirts features in the released files

'The DOJ needs to quit protecting the rich, powerful, and politically connected,' Representative Massie, a maverick conservative Republican from Kentucky, said in a post on X.

Clinton spokesman Angel Urena issued a statement urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to immediately release any remaining materials in the Epstein case that refer to Clinton in any way, including photographs.

'Someone or something is being protected. We do not know whom, what or why. But we do know this,' Urena said, adding: 'We need no such protection.'

Urena said there is 'widespread suspicion' the Justice Department is 'using selective releases to imply wrongdoing about individuals who have already been repeatedly cleared by the very same Department of Justice'.

He did not detail who else harbored that suspicion.

A photograph of Trump flanked by women in bikinis was mysteriously removed without explanation from the Epstein Files, before being reinstated.

The photo showing a desk with an open drawer containing the image of Trump was flagged by the Southern District of New York for review to protect potential victims.

Following furious backlash, it was reinstated on Sunday morning after it was determined that ‘there is no evidence that any Epstein victims are depicted in the photograph’, a statement posted on X said.

Among the hundreds of photographs released on Friday, one showed an open desk drawer containing two photos of President Trump
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Among the hundreds of photographs released on Friday, one showed an open desk drawer containing two photos of President Trump

Ghislaine Maxwell is pictured at the wheel of a car while wearing a white robe
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Ghislaine Maxwell is pictured at the wheel of a car while wearing a white robe

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is seen lying across women at a black-tie event with Maxwell at the royal estate in Sandringham, UK
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is seen lying across women at a black-tie event with Maxwell at the royal estate in Sandringham, UK

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said earlier on Sunday his office removed the photo because of concerns about women in the photo. 'It has nothing to do with President Trump,' Blanche said during a Sunday morning appearance on NBC’s 'Meet the Press with Kristen Welker'.

During an ABC News interview on Sunday, Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called for a 'full and complete investigation as to why the document production has fallen short of what the law clearly required'.

The 300,000 pages of released files on Friday largely dealt with three police investigations into the convicted paedophile. First, a Palm Beach police inquiry from 2005.

Then a probe by federal prosecutors in Florida that ended with the financier's 2008 plea deal, in which he was handed a notably soft sentence.

And finally, the 2019 inquiry by Manhattan prosecutors that was cut short when Epstein died in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in New York City.

There was a series of never-before-seen photos of former President Clinton, including images of him relaxing in what appears to be a hot tub and smiling at parties with women.

A spokesman for the former president commented on the new photos, saying they were decades old.

'They can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn't about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be,' Ureña wrote on social media.

'There are two types of people here. The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light. The second group continued relationships with him after.

'We're in the first. No amount of stalling by people in the second group will change that.

'Everyone, especially MAGA, expects answers, not scapegoats.'

Bill Clinton is seen with his arm around Michael Jackson. The pair pose with Diana Ross
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Bill Clinton is seen with his arm around Michael Jackson. The pair pose with Diana Ross

Two young women pose in bikinis, with one smoking a cigarette, in a picture from the files
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Two young women pose in bikinis, with one smoking a cigarette, in a picture from the files

He has never been accused of wrongdoing by survivors of Epstein's abuse, and has denied knowledge of his sex offending.

'I don't like the pictures of Bill Clinton being shown. I don't like the pictures of other people being shown. I think it's a terrible thing,' Trump told reporters on Monday.

'I think Bill Clinton's a big boy, he can handle it. But you probably have pictures being exposed of other people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago ... and they're highly respected bankers and lawyers and others.'

Another photo appears to show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor lying across five women’s laps.

Dressed in black tie, the former Duke of York is seen laughing with Maxwell, who is standing in the background.

Andrew has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, and said he did not 'see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...es-including-videos-photos-released.html

The Epstein files on the DOJ website allow you to highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it into another document, which reveals what was hidden," one X user wrote."You can also press Ctrl+F and search for Trump ' (with a space) to see his name appear more than 600 times

It just occurred to me that there is a thing that defense attorneys do that might explain a lot.

They dump reams of paper on the their opponents in an effort to hide the one piece of paper that is missing/hidden/not disclosed because it shows that their client is guilty as suspected.

I'm not sure what it's called but I know it has a name.

So I gotta ask again, what might they be hiding?

My hope is that those in the senate and house are smart enough to see that possibility and pursue that angle.

If there was evidence in that report that Trump had done anything wrong the Dems would have released that file ASAP during the Biden Admin. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Then why are they redacting so much and been fighting so hard not to release the files? There are probably people from both sides in those files and neither side actually wanted them released. Until,now. Now it was overwhelmingly voted by both parties in congress to release them. And still Bondi and the DOJ broke the law by refusing to release them by the deadline. But we get it. It's your side that broke the law so the law doesn't matter. Sorry to burst your bubble.

I agree that the Epstein file was not handled correctly. If you're a pedophile I don't care what the financial hit is when you're brought down but you need to go down. Trump ran on releasing the files and I think he never expected some of the names to be as powerful and important to the economy people as they were.

I agree that I don't care what party or how powerful the people are on that list. They all need to go down. A lot of Republicans ran on releasing the Epstein files until it came time to release them.

It is accurate that some prominent Republicans and the Trump administration shifted their stance on releasing the full Jeffrey Epstein files. Initially, the administration opposed the release, but a growing bipartisan push in Congress, which included some Republicans, forced a reversal, leading President Trump to ultimately sign legislation mandating the disclosure.

Shifting Positions

Initial Opposition: For months, the Trump administration and some Republican leaders in Congress worked to block or slow-walk the release of the files, with some calling the push a "Democratic hoax" or a distraction. The White House reportedly lobbied senators to oppose a vote on the matter.

Growing Bipartisan Pressure: A group of Republican representatives, including Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Nancy Mace, joined with Democrats to force a vote on the "Epstein Files Transparency Act" through a discharge petition. This reflected significant pressure from a large segment of their base, who widely supported transparency on the issue.

The Reversal: When it became clear that congressional action was inevitable and enough Republicans were poised to vote for the bill, President Trump abruptly changed his public position. In November 2025, he posted on social media that Republicans should vote for the release because "We have nothing to hide," and he later signed the bill into law.

Congressional Vote: The House ultimately passed the legislation in a near-unanimous 427-1 vote (with Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana as the sole dissenter), and the Senate approved it unanimously, sending the bill to the President.

Sorry man, you aren't being realistic.

I am not going to comment on redactions. I don't know what should and what shouldn't. Neither do you.

It's apparent the scope of the files is massive. It's not realistic for the DOJ to basically shut down and concentrate all their efforts to have vetted a million pages of documents in 30 days.

I am sure you have read 3-4 500 page books in your day. You know how long that takes. The average Bible is around 1200 pages. You don't read that in a few weeks.

You want realistic? Ok

12,13,14,15,16,17 year old girls being molested by men in their 40, 50 and up. That is simply WRONG! There is nobody in America that should stand for that.

What should be redacted,,, That's simple, if it has an adverse effect on the victims, it should be held out of the public eye. That's pretty simple..

As for the Millions of pages of documents, that stuff has been around for a number of years.... And this falls on Democrats and Republicans.. It should have been reviewed LONG before now. But by now, there is no excuse.

So anyone that makes excuses, well, you know what I think of them!

You do realize that every congressman but one voted for the release date, right? The vote was 427-1. That includes 216 Republicans.

It seems you are trying to indicate that they all gave the DOJ an "impossible task". And somehow that's partly the fault of democrats?

The instructions from congress was to protect the identity of the victims. Are you saying that it takes redacting entire pages over and over again to remove their names? Come on man.

Let me show you something you may not have known. Did you know the DOJ thought it was proper for career government prosecutors to help in this process? Because they did. Yet they didn't ask for their help until AFTER the deadline and then only career prosecutors from Florida. Why did they wait until AFTER the deadline had passed and then only career prosecutors from Florida? Did they only consider those who favored trump to be included in this process? I don't know. If they had any intention of hitting the deadline from the very start they could have done this from the very beginning and included career prosecutors from other states.

This makes it more than obvious they had no intention to try and honor the deadline from the very start. Somehow they think they're above the law or they wouldn't have waited until after the deadline passed to use every resource they had available. Sorry man....................

Exclusive: Justice Department scrambling to find holiday volunteers to redact the Epstein files, internal DOJ email says

The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files, in the latest Trump administration push toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A supervising prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida’s US Attorney’s Office emailed the entire district office on Tuesday — two days before Christmas — announcing an “emergency request from the [Deputy Attorney General’s] office the SDFL must assist with,” according to a copy of the email reviewed by CNN. “We need AUSAs to do remote document review and redactions related to the Epstein files,” the email said.

The email raises the possibility of more Epstein files being released over the coming days, including the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. It also underlines the public and political backlash the Justice Department has faced since the deadline passed on Friday to release all documents in the federal government’s possession, as mandated by an act of Congress calling for transparency around Epstein files. The Justice Department acknowledged it had not gotten through redacting many of the files by Friday and has continued to release documents this week.

The Christmas-week request, from a top career prosecutor in the US Attorney’s Office, attempts to entice volunteer attorneys to work on the files now, in exchange for days off later. It’s also possible that the call for volunteers frustrates busy career Justice Department employees after a year of departures and firings across the ranks by Trump administration leadership, as well as several in-court incidents that have hurt the department’s reputation in the legal community.

“I am aware that the timing could not be worse,” the US Attorney’s Office leadership wrote on Tuesday. “For some the holidays are about to begin, but I know that for others the holidays are coming to an end.”

The Justice Department was using hundreds of lawyers at its headquarters, especially national security specialists, to process the files over the past month, picking up a project the FBI and other agencies had worked on in slivers previously. The Tuesday request appears to seek to add lawyers to the project, more than a month after Congress passed the transparency act and President Donald Trump signed it into law.

The redaction guidelines provided by the department have been described by some sources familiar with them as being as being confusing or overly cautious on what is being redacted.

And the department also failed to meet the deadline, only releasing on Friday a portion of the files — many of which had already been in the public domain. Overnight, the Department released nearly 30,000 more records that contained many more new documents such as a prosecutor email noting Trump’s name on flight logs found in the criminal investigation of Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, and the paperwork documenting investigative subpoenas and interviews in 2019 through 2021, when Maxwell was convicted for sex trafficking minors.

Trump has never been accused by law enforcement of wrongdoing related to Epstein’s crimes, and he has denied any wrongdoing.

“We have an obligation to the public to release these documents and before we can do so, certain redactions must be made to protect the identity of the victims, among other things,” the Southern District of Florida leadership wrote in the email asking for volunteers on the Epstein redactions on Tuesday.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/23/politics/justice-department-redactions-review-epstein-files

An old saying I'm sure we both know comes to mind. "A day late and a dollar short."

I know exactly what should and shouldn’t be redacted.

Names of the victims should be redacted
Everything else shouldn’t

I am sure a programmer could get the list of all victims, run a script on all million plus documents and have it finished within hours. Anything else is obstruction.

Don't be silly. You're talking about aging Republicans here. They have no idea what any of that is. In their world technology doesn't exist and this is still impossible. Plus, I mean is anyone foolish enough to believe the victims names are all they are redacting?

But then again Peen you may have a point. There are those over one million documents related to Epstein they claimed to have magically found they idea even existed AFTER the deadline. Like that's a real thing.

DOJ says it has found over a million additional documents potentially related to Epstein

The Justice Department on Wednesday said it has uncovered over a million more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein case and may need “a few more weeks” to review and release them to the public.

The department made the revelation in a post on X, saying the the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI had informed the department of the new documents.

“The DOJ has received these documents from SDNY and the FBI to review them for release, in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, existing statutes, and judicial orders,” the post said.

“We have lawyers working around the clock to review and make the legally required redactions to protect victims, and we will release the documents as soon as possible. Due to the mass volume of material, this process may take a few more weeks. The Department will continue to fully comply with federal law and President Trump’s direction to release the files,” the post continued.

The announcement on Wednesday comes after a week of intermittent releases as required by a new transparency law that Congress passed last month. The department already had been facing criticism for not releasing everything as required on December 19, though officials insisted they needed time to redact information to protect victims and alleviate other possible legal concerns.

Even before the revelation Wednesday of more possible documents, the Justice Department had been scrambling to get out everything in its possession. CNN reported Tuesday that Justice Department leadership had asked for volunteers in a prosecutor’s office in South Florida to help with redactions.

The Justice Department first posted a massive trove of documents required to be released under the new law on the Friday deadline. That was followed up with another drop early Saturday, and another major release on Tuesday, which contained several notable references to President Donald Trump.

A bipartisan array of lawmakers and a growing number of survivors of Epstein’s abuse have criticized the Trump administration’s rollout of the documents. Some have raised questions about the heavy-handed and seemingly haphazard redactions that shielded Epstein’s associates from scrutiny. Others have expressed anger over under-redacted materials that exposed victims’ information.

After the department’s revelation Wednesday, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna – who, alongside GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, had pushed for the bipartisan bill that compelled the Justice Department to make public the Epstein files – said that the two of them would “continue to keep the pressure on.”

“After we said we are bringing contempt, the DOJ is now finding millions more documents to release,” the California Democrat posted on X, adding, “The Epstein class must go.”

Massie, meanwhile, re-posted a video of Attorney General Pam Bondi telling reporters that when she appeared to claim in February an Epstein client list was sitting on her desk, she was actually just referring to an Epstein file.

“So what you’re saying is the files were never on @AGPamBondi’s desk like she claimed in this video?” Massie wrote.

Rep. Robert Garcia, the highest ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement, “It’s outrageous that Trump’s DOJ has illegally withheld over 1 million documents from the public,” adding that his committee wanted to hear from whistleblowers or “anyone at the DOJ who can assist us in bringing justice for the survivors.”

Frustration has also been mounting inside the White House about the handling of the files, with the drip-drip-drip nature of the releases prolonging a story Trump has long been loathe to discuss and the administration’s own message shifting dramatically in recent days.

The newly released documents revealed that federal prosecutors collected evidence in 2020 that Trump flew on Epstein’s private plane multiple times in the 1990s, and that the Justice Department subpoenaed Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club before the trial of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in 2021.

Also in the documents was a letter purportedly signed by “J. Epstein” to convicted sex offender Larry Nasser, containing what appeared to be a lewd reference to Trump. But the Justice Department said Tuesday that the letter was fake in-part because it didn’t appear to match Epstein’s handwriting. On Wednesday, the department testily responded on X to a journalist who questioned why officials would include a dubious document in its release.

“Because the law requires us to release all documents related to Jeffrey Epstein in our possession so that’s what we are doing, you dope. Are you suggesting we break the law?” the department’s official X account said.

Trump has never been accused by any law enforcement agency of involvement in any of Epstein’s crimes. He denies wrongdoing.

Other documents released last week contained never-before-seen pictures of former President Bill Clinton with Epstein, swimming in a pool with Maxwell, and sitting in a hot tub with a woman whose face was redacted.

Clinton also has never been accused by authorities of any involvement in Epstein’s crimes. In response to the disclosures, Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña said: “There are two types of people here. The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light. The second group continued relationships with him after. We’re in the first.”

That more documents have come from the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York is not itself surprising. That is the office that investigated and charged Epstein in 2019 and followed that up with a successful sex-trafficking prosecution against Maxwell in 2021.

Clinton also has never been accused by authorities of any involvement in Epstein’s crimes. In response to the disclosures, Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña said: “There are two types of people here. The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light. The second group continued relationships with him after. We’re in the first.”

That more documents have come from the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York is not itself surprising. That is the office that investigated and charged Epstein in 2019 and followed that up with a successful sex-trafficking prosecution against Maxwell in 2021.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/politics/epstein-documents-doj-million

I would believe a kid who told me his dog ate his homework before I would believe this BS.

"It seems you are trying to indicate that they all gave the DOJ an "impossible task". And somehow that's partly the fault of democrats?


Woooo there big fella, I'm not saying that at all...you need to get your timeline meter fixed. That vote you refer too took place around the 19th of Nov. I'm talking about the fact they've had these documents for YEARS.., So yeah, to some extent, that does fall on Democrat and Republicans alike....

The usual scrubs talking like they know what they are talking about.


Carry on.....I'm out of here, and not for reason some will claim.

You might be right Peen. You could equally be incorrect. There's not a lot to go on.

I guess my biggest take aways are that there are cover ups across the board - both sides of the policital spectrum, the rich and pwerful and people in positions of influence. That was Epstein's M.O. - he was networking before 'networking' became a buzzword.

With that said - personally what I have seen and know as fact, there is a 2003 50th 'book' that was assembled by Ghislaine Maxwell long, long before Trump aspired to be POTUS.... in it there is a "poem" by Trump and a sketch and signed by Trump. The idea that this was planted 20+ years ago as a 'gtcha' to Trump is idiotic. Even for someone that likes to call Democrats Commies, you have to know in your heart that the note was written by Trump and it absolutely indicated to any rati nale individual with a brain that Trump knew all about Epstein's secrets and between the note and numerous first hand accounts of the girls who were abused by Epstein, Trump partook of those "services" .... another fact is that Ghislaine Maxwell is a monster who deserves to serve every second of her sentance. BUT Trump's cronnies interviewed her, she made some statements and agreed not to incriminate Trump .... and has since (like a week later) moved to a minimum security prison.

If you think that's kosha - either the note from 2003. Or Ghislaine Maxwell being moved to a minimum security prison after suddenly being interviewed by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche ... there's something seriously wrong.

Ahh the old run and hide thing... Seen a lot of that lately from the likes of Mike Johnston... It's become part of the MAGA playbook

Are you excluding yourself from that group of scrubs? If so you need as mirror. Having a superiority complex is not attractive.


When all else fails, bow out and blame others because in your heart you know none of this is kosher. The party of personal responsibility no longer exists.

You can't in good faith defend what's going on and somehow that's the fault of others. It seems to be a theme among your kind these days. Carry on.