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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.”

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[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 127 points 4 days ago (2 children)

<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 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Congress needs to get off its withering impotent ass and arrest Bondi (and impeach Trump of course)

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, the Grand Old Pedophiles don't have enough of a spine to stand up to the diddler in chief.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago

because most of them are likely on the files themselves.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why are writing Trump-style bro? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org 65 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He got what he wanted, elected and access to power and money (sweet corruption). The MAGA suckers can f off now.

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[–] fadhl3y@feddit.uk 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"History's most transparent administration"

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, they are the most transparently corrupt, so that's close, right?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago

s/disgraced financier/child molester/g

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hey hey! Look over there, Venezuela! Pay attention to that!

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

Wag the dog.

[–] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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~~ co-conspirators were a priority, and had slowed the process.

ftfy

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 points 3 days ago

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

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 points 3 days ago

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 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 30 points 4 days ago (2 children)

And we the people can't do a thing about it.

[–] silvadinlabop@lemmy.cafe 42 points 4 days ago (19 children)
[–] Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub 13 points 4 days ago

Legal if you win. The American revolution wasn't legal as far as the red coats were concerned.

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What is it called when you are 1% in compliance with the law.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Criminal behaviour?

[–] Tilgare@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

... as Democrats step up criticism of the Trump administration’s “lawlessness” for keeping records under seal.

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.

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So stop whining about it and fucking imprison all of them for contempt and have someone else release it.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago

"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

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So Trump is the other 99%?

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

No, he's also in the already released 1%.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

At this point, we should use force to convince the DoJ to release 99.9% of those files

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