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.”
87 Comments
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 128 pts · 212d
<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.
zd9@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 212d
Congress needs to get off its withering impotent ass and arrest Bondi (and impeach Trump of course)
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 211d
Unfortunately, the Grand Old Pedophiles don't have enough of a spine to stand up to the diddler in chief.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 211d
because most of them are likely on the files themselves.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 212d
Why are writing Trump-style bro? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 212d
It seems to WORK for him. Why NOT me?
pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org · 65 pts · 212d
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 211d
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 211d
Well he pardoned all the traitors from jan 6th so I wouldn't expect any less.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 211d
MAGA: Molesters Are Gutted Alive
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 31 pts · 211d
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.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 211d
He got what he wanted, elected and access to power and money (sweet corruption). The MAGA suckers can f off now.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 211d
Truth
the_q@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 212d
silvadinlabop@lemmy.cafe · 42 pts · 212d
Nothing legal.
Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub · 14 pts · 212d
thefluffiest@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 212d
Injustice is never legal
silvadinlabop@lemmy.cafe · 11 pts · 212d
Unless unjust people write the laws.
thefluffiest@feddit.nl · -7 pts · 212d
Something being a law don’t mean it’s legal
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 212d
No, it quite literally does. Something being a law don't mean it's moral.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 211d
If it is moral, you can be damn sure it's most likely not a law.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 211d
Lol who the fuck downvoted this?
silvadinlabop@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 211d
You don’t understand how laws work.
zd9@lemmy.world · -18 pts · 212d
Why write that? Congratulations, you're now on a list.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 212d
Pussy.
zd9@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 211d
Please, keep posting how you will do some kind of illegal activity against the government. I implore you. It's just stupid to write it online.
silvadinlabop@lemmy.cafe · 15 pts · 212d
Why are you trying to convince people to die quietly with the US?
zd9@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 211d
Do everything legally possible. But also if you're going to do illegal stuff it's stupid to write it online.
silvadinlabop@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 211d
I don’t disagree. But that’s not what you said. You sound like a fed. Or a magat trying to shut down Trump opposition. Maybe check yourself.
zd9@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 211d
lol ok, good luck
silvadinlabop@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 211d
Good luck with what?
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 211d
Very false
zd9@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 211d
lol my sweet summer child, sorry but those first 4 points aren't as strong as you think. The last point may still be valid. By all means Americans need to get this whole regime out, but it's just stupid to advocate online for illegal means. Why would you post something about it?
athatet@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 211d
The empire loves their damn lists.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 15 pts · 212d
Keep pushing your representatives to stay on this. Phone calls, letters, emails, etc., all can be used to make sure our reps know that this is important to all of us ongoingly. And that is why you are incorrect, We The People in fact can continue to do something about this matter. Don't give up hope now, that's exactly what the fascists would prefer you do. Don't give them what they want. Be brave, u/the_q , remember persistence furthers.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 212d
The only MO most members of congress have right now is to AVOID any kind of confrontation that will show that they don't actually have the ability to enforce anything. They will bend over backwards to make it look like the White House ignoring their actions is "normal" so they can maintain the illusion that they still function as a check, and they certainly won't push further than they think the white house is willing to go on its own. The white house knows this as well - it's to their benefit that the Congress still nominally APPEARS to be a functional branch of government so they don't have to risk open rebellion if they straight up dissolve it, although at this point, I don't think there is ANYTHING that can pierce the insane, deluded, mentally ill complacency of the majority of the American people.
dalekcaan@feddit.nl · 26 pts · 211d
ftfy
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 211d
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.
pupbiru@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 211d
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
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 211d
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.
dalekcaan@feddit.nl · 11 pts · 211d
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.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 211d
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.
RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 211d
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?
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 211d
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
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 211d
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.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 211d
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.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 212d
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
jj4211@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 212d
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.
artyom@piefed.social · 6 pts · 211d
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.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 211d
Actually, that tip didn't even pretend to redact Trump's name. This was not one of the documents where someone had to highlight/copy/paste to 'defeat' the redaction.
There may be other places where they did redact his name, I don't know. I haven't bothered and the specific examples that people bothered to highlight weren't Trump.
artyom@piefed.social · 4 pts · 211d
They retracted it and then republished it with his name redacted.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 211d
I missed that, currently it's published without that redaction.... https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00025010.pdf
When did they redact it?
artyom@piefed.social · 3 pts · 211d
My bad it was a different Trump Epstein reference.
https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3mahwlfgxdc2p
jj4211@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 211d
Ok, now that makes sense, and I can see the strategy.
Some unsubstantiated tip submitted during the 2020 election? Leave Trump's name in and emphasize how tenuous Trump's presence is in the Epstein files.
Your linked document appears to be a part of more substantial testimony, so redact Trump since it's not really suitable for debunking.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 211d
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.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 211d
Hey hey! Look over there, Venezuela! Pay attention to that!
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 211d
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.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 211d
They have as much power as the German parliament had in ww2.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 211d
Wag the dog.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 212d
Unreal. Aren't there any patriots willing to release the files and then be murdered?
We need someone suicidal to take one for the team.
Chuck Schumer says "what are they trying to hide?"; meanwhile, he's one of the redacted names. Oh, Chuck, you stinker
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 211d
hes old as, if not older than trump. there is still the SIlent generation congress aparently.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 211d
So stop whining about it and fucking imprison all of them for contempt and have someone else release it.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 211d
"Best I'm willing to do is whine on a platform for Nazis run by my political 'rival'" - Elected representative of the people Chuck Schumer
Tilgare@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 211d
Oh good! And here I was wondering if they were going to DO anything at all, but they're on the case! Silly me for doubting the dems.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 211d
remember both billionaire donors, ceos for both parties on the list, and most likely any d IS ON THE list, but gop probably makes up a large majority of it.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 211d
s/disgraced financier/child molester/g
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 211d
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.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 212d
97.3% are all about Donny Diddler.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 211d
I’m 197.3% innocent! 🫲🍊🫱
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 211d
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
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 211d
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.
fadhl3y@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 211d
"History's most transparent administration"
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 211d
I mean, they are the most transparently corrupt, so that's close, right?
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 211d
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.
adhd_traco@piefed.social · 7 pts · 212d
I feel like it's more important than ever to partition/set-up feeds to only see politics when one wants to.
Absolute madness. The really bad kind.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 211d
What is it called when you are 1% in compliance with the law.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 211d
Criminal behaviour?
HisArmsOpen@crust.piefed.social · 6 pts · 211d
Failure to comply with legal requirements whether in time or to this even being a substantive release.
hbar@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 211d
So Trump is the other 99%?
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 211d
No, he's also in the already released 1%.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 211d
I've started counting rocket artillery to go to sleep instead of sheep. Wherein those rockets land? You can prolly make a guess.
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 211d
At this point, we should use force to convince the DoJ to release 99.9% of those files
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 211d
When it's not working, it's working.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · -4 pts · 211d
The Q was right. The storm is coming
Dasus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 211d
Ugh I've been reading variations of that comment for like 30 years, get a new thing.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · -2 pts · 211d
Why do you think Q wasn't mentioned in the Epstein files
Apocalypteroid@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 211d
Dasus@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 211d
Why would he be?
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 211d
Because the multidimensional cabbal doesn't want him to be there. Gosh, make your own research
Dasus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 211d
Idk how serious you're being but that's hilarious af