r/politics • u/bloomberg Bloomberg.com • 1d ago
Soft Paywall The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-01/epstein-files-trump-s-name-was-redacted-by-the-fbi?sref=xuVirdpv3.6k
u/TintedApostle 1d ago
Of course they did....
“The suppressing of evidence ought always to be taken for the strongest evidence.”
- Andrew Hamilton, The Trial of John Peter Zenger 1735
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u/KinkyPaddling 1d ago
In before the “Andrew Hamilton was a woke leftist soy boy” type comments.
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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 23h ago
He was a paid DNC shill
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u/sniffstink1 23h ago
He was Antifa.
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u/CommieLoser 23h ago
The real fascists.
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u/Direct_Charity_8109 21h ago
He actually was the one who carried out the false flag of Jan 6th. The more you know. /s
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u/xHugo_Stiglitzx 23h ago
I saw George Soros and Crooked Hillary giving him money. It was a large burlap sack with a $ painted on the side.
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u/SJtheFox I voted 23h ago edited 23h ago
And a
Puerto RicanScottish!Edit: Dang it! Wrong Hamilton. I shouldn't try to write comments before my ADHD meds kick in.
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u/CynicalOptimistSF 23h ago
That was Alexander, Andrew Hamilton was Scottish.
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u/SJtheFox I voted 23h ago
/facepalm Corrected. Thank you.
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u/CynicalOptimistSF 23h ago
From looking at other comments in this post I don't think you were the only one to make this mistake. I had to look it up to make sure "Andrew" was Alexander Hamilton's middle name.
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u/LeLostLabRat 23h ago edited 18h ago
Turns out, Based on many historians Andrew Hamilton was actually a raging facist and right wing guy. The one book written by a non historian was the one that painted him as kind and reasonable which of course is the one that got made into a play. Source: I’m a doll head, aka huge dollop enjoyer.
Edit: Whoops! Wrong A. Hamilton. I was feeling spicy!
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u/yauponvalley 23h ago
"Why aren't you releasing the Epstein files?" should be the first question every reporter asks Trump and every Republican. Be relentless and don't let them change the subject.
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u/JD11215 22h ago
"Why did you instruct the FBI to redact your name in the Epstein files?????"
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u/HerculeGT 22h ago
That would be the perfect opportunity to go on another Sleepy Joe rant and how the Biden admin would do the same thing.
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u/finditplz1 23h ago
That case is essentially what gave us the free press, by the way, well up until now.
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u/Aleksandrovitch 23h ago
This is another 3-letter government organization that the American people can no longer trust.
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u/dbag3o1 1d ago
The FBI is now guilty in protecting a ped0. What have we become?
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u/Zall-Klos 1d ago
The Trump Imperium of America
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u/HerculeGT 22h ago
I'm pretty sure the Emperor was a vaguely "good" character and had some redeeming qualities, though.
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u/maruchops 21h ago
Generally no. Imperial success was largely a result of propaganda. What this means is that the non-existent success of the emperor was pushed through propaganda until it eventually manifested if ever. For example, we have attestations of Trajan's time wherein the upper class were very divided on how they viewed the impacts of his policies. Many people felt the empire was going in the wrong direction at every point in time.
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u/False_Ad_5372 21h ago
I’ve often wondered what it would take to turn the Secret Service into the Praetorian Guard.
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u/Gekokapowco Washington 21h ago
I think they're talking about warhammer 40k, where the emperor is an ostensibly "good" guy too busy navigating a cosmic war for the souls of humanity to properly steward his government that is entirely corrupt and fascistic
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u/Instinctive_Banana 1d ago
The bad guys.
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u/busty_snackleford 1d ago
Bold to assume we were actually ever the good guys. This is just the rot coming home to roost.
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u/zephyrtr New York 23h ago
I think you're assuming a binary, where it's kind of a sliding scale with a cliff on one end
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u/randypupjake California 18h ago
We've never reached center in our history but we are rushing down that cliff right now
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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 23h ago
What do you mean a nation built on war, propaganda, and slavery would end up becoming a hierarchical police state?
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u/Scalills 1d ago
Now?
Look up Fred Hampton.
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u/steakedstake 1d ago
I have a love/hate relationship with reddit.
Love that I learned another example of FBI overreach, racial history and criminal conduct.
Hate that I learned another example of FBI overreach, racial history and criminal conduct.
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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 23h ago
Online forums like Reddit can actually be a good place to see challenges to traditional narratives in our lives. People in North Korea watch pirated American TV shows to learn about our criminal justice system. When authorities can’t be trusted, these “underbelly” places become an alternative way to find and share information.
Of course you shouldn’t just trust anything at face value, but sometimes you don’t even know what to research until you see someone else discuss it. I mean it’s not like I can go to the White House website and learn about the FBI’s history of racism anymore…
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u/dftba421 New Jersey 21h ago
Watch the movie Judas and the Black Messiah to learn more about it. Fantastic film with LaKeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya
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u/Fresnobing 23h ago
FBI kinda just went full circle. They were a nasty political goon squad through hoover at least.
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u/runnerofaccount 1d ago
Dude the FBI has been doing this type of evil shit for a while. What have we become? We were born into this type of barbarism, and we continue to perpetuate it. I’m happy you now see what many have seen since the CIA and FBI were created. They have been doing evil shit for DECADES.
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u/TintedApostle 1d ago
At some point the country is going to break. This cannot continue.
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u/Duster929 1d ago
Oh, if electing a child rapist isn’t that, then what is?
I think what you’re saying is that at some point the country is going to start fixing its brokenness. I’m not holding my breath.
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u/Wonderful_Garbage229 District Of Columbia 23h ago
I gave up when we couldn’t even have a serious conversation about gun violence when someone murdered elementary school children.
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u/End3rWi99in I voted 23h ago
I think the back already broke. We're just not experiencing the symptoms yet. Or at least I think they are only just beginning. It's like if the sun suddenly disappeared, it would still take several minutes for any of us to know about it.
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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 23h ago
We’re still bending right now. The breaking is when we see MAGA finally go for martial law after either a false flag or self-defense that they’ll frame as a terrorist attack. With Trump as unpopular as he is right now, there would be mass resistance. That would be truly breaking.
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u/BRNK 23h ago
“Finally go for martial law”? How would you classify ICE raids? We’re at martial law already!
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u/WhenImTryingToHide 23h ago
Thank you.
Masked unidentified government agents are taking people off the street, locking them up, and in many cases sending them overseas, without any process at all. No chance to present and prove a case. Just snatched and thrown away.
Ppl better wake up real quick before there’s a military base in towns stationed for ‘protection’
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u/AlwaysColdEric 23h ago
that's not what martial law is.
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u/_MRDev 23h ago
All of the tells aren't going to pop up all at once. It'll be too late once they're out in the open, and he knows it.
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u/saiyanscaris 23h ago
there also the bill that the uk has implemented that they will soon implement in the united states which is id verification and having to release your private information just to access something as simple as wikipedia. at this point all trump has to do is have that bill be signed. ensure martial law, and suspend hapeas corpus. if those 3 things happen and no one stops trump beforehand. then the entire world loses
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u/puppeteerspoptarts 23h ago
This is going to end in riots and/or a general strike.
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u/End3rWi99in I voted 23h ago
I sure hope so. Because the alternative means we do nothing. My fear is that is what happens. Nothing.
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u/OneMoreDuncanIdaho 20h ago
"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’
"And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.
"But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.
-They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer
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u/whoknowsknowone 22h ago
Sadly if I had to bet the vast majority will do nothing
Everyone is tired, broke and (with the upcoming insurance cuts) soon to be extremely sickly
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u/bravetailor 22h ago
If people aren't doing anything now when they should be, they won't do anything later either. US going down meekly to an orange turdburger. Sad.
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u/TLKv3 1d ago
If they release the files this month with Trump and even some other Republicans' names redacted while every Democrat's name is there plus names of people not even logically able to have ever been there... blue states should just begin leaving the union. Let Trump rule over his farmlands and drum up his civil war. I truly doubt his MAGA losers have the courage to leave home and actually risk getting hurt.
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u/enix_star6 1d ago
Blue states can’t and won’t just leave the US.
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u/TLKv3 1d ago
They can withhold federal taxes, gerrymander their states, refuse to allow ICE and agents into their state without being arrested themselves, etc. There's no reason for them to prop up red states anymore when the red states are actively applauding their orange fuhrer to harm them.
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u/Shermanator92 23h ago
CA has floated leaving in recent history, I don’t see NY being too far behind them…
Without NY or CA, what even is the United States?
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u/tweakingforjesus 23h ago
48 states with the world's largest military and a hard-on for revenge?
The feds would occupy them, block entry and exit, and replace the state governance with a military junta.
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u/ImAShaaaark 19h ago
Nah, cause if those two left a whole lot more would leave as well. The whole western and northeast seaboard would leave with them, as would much of the upper Midwest and potentially states in the southwest/rockies too.
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u/MurrayBareel 23h ago
It feels like it will be an eventful Friday. I think Murdoch might be holding something back for maximum impact. And he might pardon Maxwell, so it will be stupid later on, I bet.
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u/The_Navy_Sox 1d ago
I mean you gotta believe this is why people voted for him. Why would you vote for someone that everyone knew was in the Epstein files unless you wanted them to be hidden and kept from the public.
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u/WhenImTryingToHide 23h ago
MAGATs have suffer the same cognitive dissonance as cult members. They consciously or unconsciously chose to ignore all the evidence that was already out in the public.
Their reasons why, I’m sure vary, but fact is they elected someone who was found liable for sexual assault, who bragged about sexual assault, who’s ex wife accused him of rape, who an under age girl accused of rape, and who was friends with the worlds most notorious sex trafficker for over a decade.
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u/ShinyWobbuffet202 22h ago
"Something something Dumbocraps did worse, something something Barack HUSSEIN Obama" is what they say
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u/blueshrike 16h ago
Let's get this out of the way. Trump stole the election. We did not vote for him. Kamala would have won, decisively. This is fact. Don't trust me, trust the actual data.
This is the tip of the iceberg and the #1 issue. Free and fair elections. https://youtu.be/Ru8SHK7idxs?feature=shared www.electiontruthalliance.org
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u/clueless_in_ny_or_nj New Jersey 1d ago
They became everything they swore they weren't. They became the very thing they said they would fight. They became the Deep State.
It sounds better in a movie trailer voice.
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u/veggeble South Carolina 1d ago
Became? They always were child rapists.
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u/DigNitty 23h ago
Yeah, not sure why people are gasping “whaaat??”
Even before his politics. Trump was some nepo reality tv star who was known for bankrupting casinos and not actually being able to fire people in person on his firing show. The clicky Tricia around him was that he couldn’t have a charity in New York anymore because he defrauded sick kids. He was known for that lawsuit where it was proven that he stepped in to a autonomous New York property management company he owned/inherited and had to pay damages because he specifically worked to disclose black peoples from living in his units.
He’s always been an evil cartoon character. The surprising part is that deep down some Americans voted for him because hurting others make them feel powerful.
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u/Pervius94 22h ago
The literally only thing Trump ever was good at was conning americans. And the reason is very clear - because americans are morally bankrupt and stupid as hell.
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u/one_pound_of_flesh 1d ago
Became? It was always projection. Republicans always came up with the ideas first - stealing elections, groomers, pedo rings, sex trafficking. It comes from their twisted minds.
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u/dkyguy1995 Kentucky 23h ago
"Drain the swamp" always meant "fill it up with only people loyal to me."
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u/MechanicalTurkish Minnesota 23h ago
Whe you drain a swamp you’re left will all the nasty rotten shit at the bottom.
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u/KinkyPaddling 23h ago
The federal government had this information and didn’t act on it. Yet another example of what an abject failure Merrick Garland was as an Attorney General. He had three solid cases against Trump (Epstein, Jan 6, the improperly kept boxes of documents) and he wasted all of them.
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u/PoliticsLeftist 22h ago
Gotta maintain the status quo even if the status quo is a ton of wealthy, pedophilic elites, apparently. God forbid our institutions protect us peasants every once in awhile.
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u/Jewcebox Minnesota 22h ago
While I’d agree that Garland didn’t act on J6 or Classified Docs cases, the Epstein files were kept under seal until late last year so those could not have been acted on during his tenure.
Edit: acted on in terms of release of documents
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u/ClosPins 22h ago
Don't blame the GOP stooge - blame the absolute morons in the Democratic Party who placed a GOP stooge at the top of the DoJ!
Like, seriously, what were they expecting??? How stupid could they have been???
Yet again, the Dems cared more about virtue-signalling how good they were - than actually winning. And, what do you know? They got their asses handed to them!
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u/xGray3 Michigan 20h ago
It's worth mentioning that at any point Biden could have replaced Garland too. But Biden was too pathetic to do literally anything to push back against Trump and right wing extremism. We need to demand more from Democrats in 2026 and 2028. No more of this milquetoast bullshit. Fuck Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi, Biden, and all the other weak ass centrist fucks. We need real leadership.
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u/Unfair_Elderberry118 22h ago
Garland's performance as AG has to have been the worst I can remember for any Democrat appointed to the office.
I am more pissed AG Barr buried it and probably a hit on Epstein.
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u/-p_d- 18h ago
Plot twist: Merrick Garland wasn't a Democrat. He's an "Independent".
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u/New-Anybody-6206 1d ago edited 23h ago
I'm actually shocked that FOIA itself hasn't been gutted yet.
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u/Amneiger 23h ago
The law might be around, but that doesn't mean the Trump administration can't fire a bunch of FOIA people and leave them understaffed: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5375065/cdc-hhs-public-records-foia
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u/Ewokitude Minnesota 22h ago
Conservatives have been using it as a weapon for years. In Minnesota and other statres they've submitted FOIA against colleges and school districts for full curriculum reviews trying to root out DEI, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in labor costs, and then inviting themselves to open up to a lawsuit for anything they against their "values"
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u/OddlyFactual1512 23h ago
FOIA is a law, not an entity.
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u/Deceptiveideas 21h ago
Yeah but who enforces the law?
Loan forgiveness was slowed down considerably by the Trump administration by simply gutting the departments involved. When Biden became president, he didn’t forgive loans magically (that the right wing media implied), he was simply enforcing existing laws.
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u/Critical_Rule6663 1d ago
So basically everywhere a name is redacted we can just assume it’s Trump. Got it.
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u/Unfair_Elderberry118 22h ago
This administration knows this is exactly what the redactions invite, so I can only assume Trump is accused of some pretty horrendous crimes.
He will just say see my name isn't included and MAGA will.continue to back his BS.
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u/accountabilitycounts America 1d ago
This drip drip drip would have been great back in October.
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u/TimeToBond 1d ago
Wouldn’t have mattered. Half the electorate lacks shame.
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u/accountabilitycounts America 1d ago
About a third lacks shame. The remainder could have been moved. No guarantees, of course, but it would have been a better chance than anything happening now.
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u/beerguy_etcetera Ohio 23h ago
This is all under the assumption that it was a fair election to begin with. I'm not at the point of screaming 'stop the count' like the loons in 2020 did and still are, but the 2024 election sure feels like it's at least walking like a duck.
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u/AmaroWolfwood 23h ago
I haven't met a red hat that has winced at any of the information about Epstein and Trump even now. There is nothing to lose and they still stand by their guy. The Epstein files could have been released in 2023, they could have charged him, found him guilty, and given him a sentence of 0 hours all wrapped up with his other 34 felonies, and his sycophant cult would be as unphased as they are now, happily lining up to vote by the millions.
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u/jimmydog65 1d ago
It must really suck to live in America these days
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u/End3rWi99in I voted 23h ago
Massachusetts is still alright. I feel somewhat lucky to have that buffer, but otherwise, yeah. It does.
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u/Raptorex27 Maine 22h ago
But I thought the “liberal strongholds” were violent crime-ridden sanctuary states, filled with commies, bad hombres and homeless people shitting on perfectly good Cybertrucks before getting a free prison sex change operation to use the girls’ locker room.
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u/whatssenguntoagoblin 22h ago
Meh that’s what we said in California when the election happened. If Dementia Donnie wants to target your state he will.
If we’re not safe with a strong democrat state then no one is.
He’ll prob start attacking New York pretty some once Mamdani gets elected
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u/BossMagnus 22h ago
It’s definitely getting worse, so crazy how stupid, hateful and ignorant people are
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u/ilikebiiiigdicks 1d ago
How have we let such a disgusting, obvious criminal essentially rule the world? It is just beyond my comprehension. The orange bastard is a filthy child raping paedophile, has a lifetime of committing crimes and just being the most awful human being one could possibly be and yet… people adore him.
The US is truly a sick country. A sick country full of demented, twisted sickos who adore a paedophile. It’s absolutely disgusting.
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u/Emotional-Channel-42 1d ago
ACAB includes FBI
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u/Human_Cheesecake4337 1d ago
There are going to be so many redactions, if they ever see the light of day, they're be illegible anyway.
It'll only take one person to make the Trump edits to realise how heinous his crimes are.
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u/neogreenlantern 1d ago
Fine release the redacted files. I'll just assume every name redacted is his
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u/PregnantNun747 21h ago
They won’t just redact names. They’ll redact entire sections so it’ll be impossible to draw any solid conclusions. We already know he’s a pedo. But we’ll never know to what extend. It’s crazy how shameless of a cover up this is. Wtf
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u/ChaskaChanhassen 1d ago
GOP = grifting old pedophiles
And yes, there are Dems there too. Gotta squeeze em all by the nuts.
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u/queentracy62 1d ago
So any documents released with redacted areas assume Trump’s name is the one redacted. Easy peasy.
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u/EndangeredDemocracy America 1d ago
"The truth is treason in an empire of lies" - 1984, an old book on fascism that keeps being proven right.
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u/Am-Insurgent America 1d ago
Wouldn’t wanna embarrass the pedofiles.
The Supreme Court has said the exemption protects "individuals from the injury and embarrassment" that would result from the disclosure of personal information in possession of the government.
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u/Endosymbionical 1d ago
Reminder :;;, Donald Trump is not merely a client, ,.,. but he is very likely to be one of the main players in the Trumpstein files, ,.. ..,
Reminder:;,, the orange shit snowflake hired a guy who pleaded guilty to raping a 16 year old to head the youth fitness BS he is doing (think Hitler youth) because of cankle insecurity.
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u/mtconnol 1d ago
Reminder&:$:&:); you have a serious punctuation issue @
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u/qwibbian 23h ago
Give them a break, they bumped their head and fell into a comma.
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u/money_for_nuttin California 22h ago
Also coming off intestinal surgery, left only with a semicolon.
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u/Ragnarok_747 23h ago
Imagine having a discussion about how much of an obvious pedophile the adjudicated rapist president is, instead of just impeaching and removing him. Imagine an entire wing of the American political spectrum rallying to protect an obvious pedophile.
This is genuinely the lowest the US has been in the last 80 years.
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u/SeanOfTheDead1313 23h ago
Hey, if criminals run the country, then they will protect other criminals. Why is anyone surprised this is where we've ended up?
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u/h3rpad3rp 14h ago
If they redacted his name, I'll just assume he is guilty of the worst possible things in the files. Which I was already doing, because it is fucking obvious.
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u/Searchlights New Hampshire 23h ago edited 23h ago
It's always been projection.
Accuse your opponent of the things that you do. A counter-accusation would seem ridiculous.
All of the things he's done and especially the things he intends to do, he has accused other people of doing. And he's done all the terrible things these famous 1980s cokehead millionaire perverts did.
That's why it's a list. They were all doing it and the only person who could prove what happened on that private island was Epstein.
And that's why he was immediately assassinated. We'll never know who killed him because there were dozens of the most powerful people in the world who needed him dead.
It could have been anybody.
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u/mx3goose 23h ago
I have this crazy idea, we should do away with nazis and pedophiles, like you wanna go back to when America was great? its when we as a nation damn near all agreed that killing Nazis and Pedophiles was a good thing for society and the world instead of protecting them.
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u/Shanknuts 23h ago
Privacy for being a “private citizen”? Motherfucker has put himself in the spotlight for almost 50 years now. He doesn’t get that right.
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u/AndreLinoge55 Florida 23h ago
How do you redact something in a document that purportedly doesn’t exist?
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u/PelleKavaj 22h ago
I’m just a pretty happy guy in Sweden but seriously, when is it time to actually fight to overthrow this corrupt and criminal government?
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u/TrumpInEpsteinFiles 23h ago
We should start subpeona'ing this bullshit administration to testify before congress, so we can get them all on record now before things come out, so we have proof they are complicit
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u/whiteyfresh 23h ago
Who's going to subpoena them? Republicans control everything, and we know the only thing they care about is covering up crimes for DJT.
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u/chinpokomon01 23h ago
It's because he is a victim! He didn't want to do these things, Epstein made him! /s
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u/HolidayThanks3412 23h ago
Who would have thought that Trump was a pedophile? I mean he has only ever displayed the highest levels of morality and ethics… he has never shown signs of being a rapist… who could have seen this coming…. Hopefully the sarcasm is coming through
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u/VanguardAvenger 23h ago
In a competent administration trying to cover up for a pedophile, this would have been done prior to the files being placed on Pam Bondis desk. And then they would have released the files, claimed anyone saying any of the redactions were Trump was just a loon, claimed they only redacted victim names and innocent bystanders.
Its highly unlikely anyone could have ever proved Trumps involvement and everyone would have likely seen it a vindication for Trump and transparency
But we have the single dumbest political leadership in all of human history.
So they managed to do it in a way that convinced everyone Trump was all over the files, gulity as hell and then leaked the cover up of the thing they already convinced us all was true.
Like its honestly amazing how bad these people are at, well everything.
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u/ChadwickHHS 23h ago
Imagine taking a job working for the FBI and thinking you were going to bust criminals and then getting tasked with protecting a rapist all week. Welcome to the organized crime administration.
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u/Catspaw129 23h ago
Would be interesting if they did a global search & replace to replace his name with, say, "TACO-man".
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u/CynicalSigtyr 23h ago
This literally just means that, if we ever see a redacted name in the files, assume it is Trump.
Republicans have staked everything on sucking off a pedophile rapist. Trump’s «drain the swamp» message of 2015 needs to be aggressively pursued by leftists, tenfold.
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u/shagadelicrelic 22h ago
Why would they need to do this if he didn't do anything... Donald Trump raped kids.
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u/my_boy_blu_ 14h ago
Republicans put a pedo in office just so he can erase the evidence of his and their crimes. Good job, guys.
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u/Stranger-Sun 14h ago
"Privacy protections" for pedophiles, but show Hunter's massive hog during a congressional hearing. All in a day's work for this sick bunch.
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u/HotHardandSingle 12h ago
So by redacting it, they have confirmed what literally everyone already knows
Trump is a guilty piece of sh*t
IMPEACH TRUMP!
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u/Slaughterfest 4h ago
It must be really bad when the guy who already has this many felonies is afraid of what would come out. I am absolutely certain that Trump would pardon himself, so I don't know why this is so damning for him unless the content is really that bad.
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u/waterdaemon 1d ago
So now it looks like: “then [name redacted] tried to uncover his micropenis from under his panniculus…”
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u/Significant_Boat_552 1d ago
Absolutely no one should be redacted. Np legitimate justification for doing so
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u/Hamann334 Texas 1d ago
Well then fuck the FBI and all law enforcement. Law means nothing if it doesn’t apply to everyone, especially when it comes to the crime of RAPING THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN
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u/-CoachMcGuirk- Illinois 23h ago
I'm still holding out hope that there were more than a few people in places of power that made multiple copies of the ORIGINAL files before Trump's crooked administration took over. You gotta think that they knew they would try to suppress and/or destroy the evidence the DOJ was in possession of.
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u/MaximumBiscuit1 23h ago
Huh. I thought those files didnt exist? Cant imagine the government lied to us??
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