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At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public.

The missing files, which were available Friday and no longer accessible by Saturday, included images of paintings depicting nude women, and one showing a series of photographs along a credenza and in drawers. In that image, inside a drawer among other photos, was a photograph of Trump, alongside Epstein, Melania Trump and Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hear a Streisand effect coming.

Those 16 files are probably the only interesting ones in the batch. I seriously hope they have been downloaded and saved somewhere outside the US jurisdiction.

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would they be on archive.org?

[–] excursion22@piefed.ca 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd say it's highly likely that archivists/data hoarders pulled all available photos at time of release. They'll exist somewhere.

[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I downloaded the entire archive as soon as I could, about 30 minutes after they released because I knew this shit would happen

[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I can upload them to archive.org later tonight, once I get back home, if someone hasn't already beaten me to it

Edit: seems they uploaded 3 more packs after I got them, I have the original 4 data sets

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Thank you for your dedication to the cause

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I saw the photo/file number 468 (I think, could be 486) and it had a pictures of the orange child rapist on a table. And Bill Clinton in another picture.
I'll see if I can find it...

Edit:https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/18342337

[–] Sprinks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Here it is!

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Taking a look at that picture, I'm sure that it was removed because it shows the sheer scale of documents and photos involved in this operation. That's just one picture of one desk drawer and you can see so many documents and pictures, way more than what had been released so far.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

It also has trump with multiple bikini girls on the photo on left down.

Make a torrent :D

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 99 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Clinton was impeached because he lied about a consensual blow job, yet this orange mf seems immune to consequences, more than that, actively shielded from them.

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I mean Trump was impeached too. It’s just impeachment means nothing now.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Trump was impeached twice.

Thing is, the bar for impeachment is a majority vote in the House. That's just the formal accusation of wrongdoing. It doesn't do anything to the President on its own.

Then you move on to decide whether to convict. That's a two-thirds supermajority in the Senate, and we've never met that bar.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's crazy that the people can't use impeachment to remove the president, but the president can unilaterally pardon unlimited crimes. One day in the future historians are going to be embarrassed for us.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Well, he can only pardon federal crimes, not state ones. For example, in Colorado he tried to pardon Tina Peters who was convicted of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election but his pardon is only symbolic and she remains in prison for her state crimes.

Trump then (because he's a little small bitch boy) is working to dismantle a really important climate science organization in Boulder, Colorado, as revenge. You know, because climate is a hoax and all.

Just DEI already

Still need a willing earthworm, centipede and spider.

Clinton was impeached, not removed as well. Requires a supermajority of the senate. So same shit really

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He promised a lot of people a lot of power and they now protect him. All of the people supporting him, especially his cabinet, needs to go down with him. No excuses.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I think he black mailed a lot of people. His promises are worthless

[–] ninjabard@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He was the president. Lewinsky was an intern. There's such an imbalance of power that consent shouldn't even enter the conversation.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world -2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Lewinsky almost cost him reelection, and arguably derailed the Democratic agenda that Clinton was selected by the American people to enact in his second term. Clinton could have cost her her career at most. From a national security perspective Lewinsky wielded and used power that changed the course of history in a way that few people have.

The national conversation in the early 90s about sexual harassment including the Clarence Thomas scandal with his assistant (forgot her name) was one of how sex could compromise powerful leaders (men generally) and it's worth considering whether Lewinsky was acting as an insider agent to compromise Clinton, perhaps as part of a nation state level attack on the integrity of of the office rather than it all simply being a man using the clout of his office unethically to have sex.

We don't know what is in Lewinsky's CIA file and it's entirely possible she was a Russian or other agent acting intentionally to cause chaos. Her family comes from a former Warsaw Pact country and she immediately fled the country to Canada to be on the Tom Green show after the scandal so it's plausible. We really don't know but the power imbalance may have been intentionally reversed in some ways. The Epstein files show Clinton to be easily compromised by young women so it would be an obvious avenue of attack by an adversary, and the scandal continues to have an effect on how we talk about power and sex to this day.

[–] ninjabard@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

You're only supposed to wear the foil hat. Not inject it intravenously. Try again with your insanely misogynistic crackpot conspiracy theories.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I’d be more inclined to give Lewinsky the benefit of the doubt if she hadn’t saved her Clinton-spermed dress? Did she want a memento?

I think she deliberately saved it at best for leverage, at worst for extortion. She’s wasn’t an innocent country girl.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago

I think it's more misogynist to assume the best of Lewinsky, like a woman can't be a powerful foreign agent that character assassinates a sitting president? Like, especially with what we're seeing of the Epstein disclosures, why is Lewinsky the only one of all the women that Bill apparently took advantage of that was able to have any effect on his career?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So these are just the ones they're realizing they forgot to hide on initial release. Give it a few days and Donald Trump will have never met Jeffrey Epstein.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago

Give it a few days and Donald Trump will have never met Jeffrey Epstein.

I'm getting the weirdest feeling of DejaVu from this...

Its 16 pages of gnome chompy and slick willy roasting the gatesmeister. The crackpots only care about their current bad guy.