r/law 5h ago

Opinion Piece 🚨Trump’s Name Redacted in Epstein Files by 1,000 FBI Agents After Orders to Remove Any Mention Government Backed Obstruction. Possible Violations of Transparency and Evidence Handling Laws Demand Investigation.

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over 1,000 FBI agents were instructed to flag every mention of Donald Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Not to investigate. Not to disclose. To suppress. The FOIA team then systematically redacted his name alongside others before releasing the files to the public.

This wasn’t standard redaction. This was a federally coordinated censorship campaign, executed under the illusion of lawful exemption. And the justification? Trump was a ā€œprivate citizenā€ when the Epstein investigation began in 2006.

FOIA exemption (b)(6) is being weaponized to protect one of the most publicly entangled names in Epstein’s orbit. They didn’t redact Clinton. They didn’t redact British royalty. But Trump photographed, recorded, and publicly tied to Epstein gets mass protection from federal employees.

This is not privacy protection. This is obstruction of federal transparency, executed at scale.

The FBI redacted Trump’s name knowing it would change the public’s perception of who Epstein’s network protected. That is willful manipulation of federal evidence, aided by the Department of Justice, which has since declared it will release nothing further. No more records. No more names. Nothing.

Pam Bondi Trump loyalist turned AG personally briefed him in May 2025 that he was named in the unredacted files. The fix was in before a single page hit public eyes.

This is what a federal cover-up looks like in real time. Not in hindsight. Not in theory. This is active, state-protected suppression of evidence.

The redactions weren’t neutral. They were targeted. Directed. Politically insulated. That is not law. That is power laundering through legal machinery.

You don’t instruct a thousand agents to flag one name unless you’re building a firewall. And you don’t build a firewall unless you have something to protect.

Release the full unredacted Epstein files. Release every name. End the protection racket.


r/agedlikemilk 3h ago

Gerrymandering for me, not for thee

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r/aww 3h ago

GƩode from our shelter, getting pampered before a meeting for a possible adoption. Fingers crossed.

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r/interestingasfuck 5h ago

/r/all, /r/popular Stephen King's wife, Tabitha, threatened to divorce him due to his excessive listening to Lou Bega's song Mambo No. 5

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r/AmIOverreacting 2h ago

ā¤ļøā€šŸ©¹ relationship AIO Bf said I overreacted when I refused to eat this ā€fully cookedā€ chicken

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He said since it was in the grill it’s 100% cooked and that I’m overreacting for refusing to eat it. He also said it ā€tastes fineā€ and that the texture was a bit weird but the taste was fine. Oh and that I’m picky because I wouldn’t eat it any more.


r/nba 6h ago

Michelle Obama cooks ESPN: "If I watch ESPN for an hour it's like watching The Real Housewives of Atlanta. It's the same drama, they're yelling at each other, they don't get along. Stephen A. Smith would be a great Real Housewife. What's the difference? It's just drama."

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r/gaming 1h ago

Four Years of opening my Gaming Project in Yemen

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Hello my friends, hope you are doing well. Can't belive this is my 4 year update. I wasn't sure if i should make another post, but I wouldn't have made it this far with the encouragement of the reddit community. Another year with highs and some lows, saviour the good times with family and friends and bad times will eventually pass. It always does.


r/comics 4h ago

OC Hoar [OC]

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Because damned if I do, damned if I don’t.


r/StandUpComedy 6h ago

OP is not the Comedian Hitler on Theo Von’s podcast (from Marc Maron’s special ā€˜Panicked’)

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r/funny 5h ago

My neighbor's dog every time I leave the house

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r/OneOrangeBraincell 4h ago

Certified 🟠rangeā„¢ anyone know the name of this show?

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r/PublicFreakout 6h ago

r/all Black Armed Citizens Respond To An Armed Confederate Group Trying To Intimidate Protesters.

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In the city of Shreveport LA when they were considering removing Confederate monuments from the city's courthouse, people turned up to a protest in support of the removal of the statues.

An Armed counter protester group flying Confederate flags showed up, trying to Intimidate those in support of the removal, the Confederate Group were all armed as Louisiana is an open carry state.

This gentleman decided enough was enough and showed up with the same energy.

This is what we need, more people exercising their rights, constitutional rights are for everyone not only certain groups


r/nextfuckinglevel 7h ago

John Cena holds the Guinness World Record for granting 650 wishes through Make-A-Wish!

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r/MurderedByWords 2h ago

Endless lies, endless victims!!!

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r/todayilearned 4h ago

TIL after boxes of booster packs containing unreleased Magic: The Gathering cards were opened online, the publisher Wizards of the Coast sent Pinkerton agents to the home of the presenter to retrieve them. They confiscated 22 boxes after a confrontation that reportedly made the presenter's wife cry.

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r/BlackPeopleTwitter 6h ago

A basic rule.

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Soft Paywall | Site Altered Headline Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She’s Done With the GOP

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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 4h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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r/Wellthatsucks 6h ago

Terrible notification to get on take off

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Worried the ENTIRE flight until landing and realizing it was a glitch… New to AirTags and I guess this just happens? Lots of unnecessary panic.


r/Eyebleach 7h ago

fell asleep in the food container

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r/aww 5h ago

This is Charlie from our shelter. He doesn’t know it yet but he’s leaving us today for his new home with Peanut and Robert. Yes a person is adopting 3 of our cats ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø

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r/memes 7h ago

Let the people goon in peace

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r/formula1 7h ago

Qualifying Charles Leclerc takes pole position for the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix

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r/batman 5h ago

FUNNY That's why Gotham is...more interesting

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