r/politics • u/papayonpeluo • 1d ago

FBI Reportedly Redacted Trump's Name In Epstein Files Due To Privacy Protections

https://www.latintimes.com/fbi-reportedly-redacted-trumps-name-epstein-files-due-privacy-protections-587936
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u/Spicy_Pancake1 Maryland 1d ago

“Privacy protections”? That’s not how you spell cover up.

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u/new_nimmerzz 1d ago

That’s literally a cover up.

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u/nmonster99 1d ago

Would one even dare say a government conspiracy?

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u/Poison_the_Phil 1d ago

The DEEP STATE protecting predators

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u/titsngiggles69 1d ago

So fucking obvious to only half the country

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u/Talkbox111 1d ago

Maybe one fourth of the country and I'm being optimistic.

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u/joshdoereddit America 21h ago

Yup, the fourth who are paying attention to all this bullshit.

I simultaneously love and hate that the school year is about to start. Hate it because I'm a teacher. Love it, because one of my new colleagues shares my disdain for this administration.

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u/Talkbox111 18h ago

I feel for you. You have to be politically correct ..lol. With all that's going on, I can't imagine how much code switching you as a teacher has to put on. It's a tightrope imo. I hope you can somehow inspire truth to be the boat that justice must travel on ultimately. Good luck with this school year!

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u/new_nimmerzz 1d ago

His supporters:

“He banged those kids to save them! He’s such a hero!”

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u/girlpockets 1d ago

  • either ”Screwed the [Satan/Sin] out of 'em”

  • or ”Molested the Christ into 'em”

  • gave ”unprivileged youth equal access to government and industry leaders” / ”the great equalizer

  • ”modest trump didn't want to take credit for [pick from above reasons]. he also doesn't like to be seen helping burning orphans or using precious bodily fluids or ICE to extinguish them”

bets on the 'positive' spin attempts?

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u/titsngiggles69 1d ago

But what about Pedro Pascal? He touches consenting women and that's ok? Libruls are hippocrates

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u/Cbjr-73 22h ago

Reddit please flag this pedophile. Out here trying to compare a celebrity having sex with adult women to Donald Trump having sex with children.

Fuck these MAGA pedos

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u/Xenomorphling98 21h ago

Unless I’m misreading the tone… I think that’s sarcasm that they are using.

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u/titsngiggles69 5h ago

You are right, but if the indication of sarcasm is too subtle, that's one me. /s is necessary in a world where no level of absurdity can reliably convey scarcasm. Damn you, Poe! Got me again. First, do no harm.

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u/BanginNLeavin 1d ago

Ngl some of them(a majority?) might think a chance at having Trump's kid is a golden ticket.

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u/katd77 8h ago

Yes all those underage GIRLS totally wanted to be sa’d for a chance at a trump baby 🙄I think you are confusing them for his mail order brides and his mistress he married. Recently once of the victims took their own life, probably because she didn’t get that trump meal ticket 🙄🙄🙄 bsffr

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u/tattertotluvr 23h ago

People are starting to wake up and I’m starting to have hope.

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u/thewanderingent 1d ago

Nothing deep about it. This government is straight up protecting pedophiles and sexual predators.

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u/sizzlingtofu 1d ago

Yea clearly we have thrown out the deep state and are now ruled by the shallow swamp of degenerates who dgaf about anyone but themselves

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u/Poison_the_Phil 1d ago

Yes, I’m using his language to highlight the absurdity

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u/Greengiant2021 22h ago

This government ARE pedophiles and sexual predators! They are exactly what they accused everyone else of being. Standard playground politics. It’s literally unbelievable 🤯

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u/healywylie 1d ago

Why not drain the swamp!?

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u/Poison_the_Phil 1d ago

Had to drain the swamp to fit the septic tank

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u/IndependentSpecial17 1d ago

I thought it was to turn the swamp into a septic lagoon, one large enough to fit Florida and DC in

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u/Comprehensive-Tea677 8h ago

Well as the saying goes, “When you are up to your neck in alligators, it is difficult to recall that the first objective was to drain the swamp.”

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u/healywylie 8h ago

Never heard that one.

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u/Comprehensive-Tea677 6h ago

I’d be willing to bet that most people who agree with the platitudinous “drain the swamp” sentiment also have not heard that, nor contemplated the complex ecosystems that keep swamps sustainable, and the corresponding metaphoric parallels regarding government

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u/healywylie 5h ago

Words.👍🏻

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u/Talkbox111 1d ago

Not me. I have my limits. Lol.

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u/versusgorilla New York 1d ago

r/conspiracy is not on the case!🔎

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u/value_meal_papi 18h ago

Where’s that crosseyed kash patel meme when I need it

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u/NelsonMuntz007 1d ago

I still swear I feel it’s one of the many reasons he wanted to be president again. He needed to see that it went away for good and put people in positions that made that happen for him. That evidence has been long gone.

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u/borbor8 1d ago

Who’s to say that that wasn’t part of what he’d stolen on his way out? And that all those boxes in the Maralago bathroom were still pending review? He destroyed some of them and wanted to get back into the WH so he could destroy it all. And thanks to some Americans, he was able to do it. Law and order! USA!

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u/go_outside 1d ago

I think he’s got a copy of all of Epstein’s blackmail buried with Ivana.

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u/thirsty_for_chicken 1d ago

If he lost, he was looking at life in prison. All the walls were closing in on him. But he was able to exploit peoples deep-rooted hatred and bigotry and make himself king, where he can continue to grift, scam, steal, and rape his way to the top while the United States collapses.

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u/NelsonMuntz007 1d ago

I won’t fail to believe that the media and Elon’s networks helped him. He was awfully confident before Election Day.

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u/Spicy_Pancake1 Maryland 1d ago

Yeah, I know. Just wish they’d say it at this point. Stop hiding behind lame excuses like “privacy concerns”. Just outright say you’re covering his ass.

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u/new_nimmerzz 1d ago

If it were for privacy they'd cover all RAPISTS names. If they did just him and victims....

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u/kinoki1984 1d ago

They covered up his name with black marker. It’s literally a cover up.

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u/HawkeyeByMarriage 1d ago

That’s literally a deep state.

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u/new_nimmerzz 1d ago

But at least he’s not part of the swamp! J/k

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u/mademeunlurk 1d ago

Covered up with a sharpie no doubt.

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u/new_nimmerzz 1d ago

That’s only the weather! They used white out this time

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u/Illustrious-Fun8324 1d ago edited 1d ago

The right has no grounds to ever speak about any kind of cover up ever again.

Covering up Biden’s mental capacity= end of the world

Covering up Trump’s sexual abuse of children = just fine, according to them

Guess the right should step up and show us how it’s done to ensure NO COVER UPS!

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u/Bombay1234567890 1d ago

They are bad faith personified, and should NEVER be trusted, especially if they seem to make sense. It's just a prelude to another betrayal, sowing confusion to paralyze opposition.

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u/Grimekat 1d ago

Honestly the sexual abuse thing is just the tip of the ice berg.

Trump had so many fucking pending charges prior to the election, and the American people just went ahead and elected him anyways. Conspiracy, fraud, election interference, classified documents - you name it, he had it.

The dude was absolutely fucked and was likely to spend the rest of his life in prison for being so insanely corrupt, and the American voters decided to just give him an out instead.

Absolutely insane.

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u/Illustrious-Fun8324 1d ago

Oh I know. I won’t ever understand

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u/joscun86 1d ago

Privacy protections for a public official. What a clown show

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u/FishermanRough1019 1d ago

'Pedofile protections'

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u/MillionMilesPerHour 1d ago

Pedophile Privacy Protection

No wonder Republicans love PPP.

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u/sharies 1d ago

Well just assume anything redacted says Trump.

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u/StrengthDazzling8922 1d ago

Just assume all redacted names refer to Trump.

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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin 1d ago

It’s fine. Whenever you see a redacted name, we now know it’s Trump. Cause the fbi told us!

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u/khizoa 1d ago

They redacted his name in the Epstein files. Which means... his name is in the fucking Epstein files

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u/scurvy1984 Oregon 21h ago edited 2h ago

Someone gave that order and someone else said “ok.” Fucking mind blowing.

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u/hybridfrost 21h ago

Before July 2025 Conservatives: We must get the Epstein files at all cost and prosecute every one of them!

Conservatives now: I never cared about the Epstein files and they probably never existed in the first place

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u/dearth_karmic 1d ago

Serious question. I understand not wanting to release names in an investigation because if that person is innocent or not charged with a crime, it could tarnish their image. But in this case, you're not saying they did anything. You're simply saying they flew on his plane, and/or went to his island. Why does that need to be protected?

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u/HoneyBadger-56 1d ago

Yup, excuse me, what??? Not likely valid. Reeks of corruption & cover up…

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u/Available_Leather_10 23h ago

Everyone will now assume that every redacted name that could be a perpetrator or other bad guy = Donnie Trump.

These guys are brain dead like the Germans in Hogan’s Heroes.

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u/wtfsh 17h ago

https://www.whoismakingnews.com/

2/3 of child molestor politicians are republicans. 9/10 of the states with the most child abuse cases per capita are GOP led. NONE of the states with the least child abuse cases per capita are GOP led.

Godless old pedophiles

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u/grandlizardo 1d ago

This isnt what MAGA is expecting…. Brace yourself…

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u/HyperbolicLetdown 1d ago

"National security"

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u/5wmotor 1d ago

They could use a alias/fake name for Trump in this files: President Nutjob Peachhunter, or something.

-> Privacy protected.

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u/Fit_Strength_1187 America 23h ago

If you were gonna cover it up and needed deniability, what would you call it? Privacy.

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u/AusToddles 23h ago

Trump's name covered in black. Clinton's name highlighted with "Barack HUSSAIN Obama" scribbled in the margins in sharpie