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Friday, July 18, 2025

FBI agents assigned earlier this year to review investigative files in the criminal case against notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were instructed to "flag" any documents that mentioned President Donald Trump, Sen. Richard Durbin said Friday. Durbin's claim came as the Illinois Democrat sent the Justice Department and FBI letters asking them to explain what his office called "apparent discrepancies regarding the handling of the Epstein files and findings from a July 7 Department of Justice (DOJ) memorandum and instructions reportedly received by FBI personnel."

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More: "According to information my office received, the FBI was pressured to put approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division (IMD) ... on 24-hour shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records in order to produce more documents that could then be released on an arbitrarily short deadline," Durbin wrote to Patel.

"This effort, which reportedly took place from March 14 through the end of March, was haphazardly supplemented by hundreds of FBI New York Field Office personnel, many of whom lacked the expertise to identify statutorily-protected information regarding child victims and child witnesses or properly handle FOIA requests," the letter said.

"My office was told that these personnel were instructed to flag' any records in which President Trump was mentioned."

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2025-07-18 01:56 PM | Reply

flag' any records in which President Trump was mentioned.

These would be the not "credible" or "pertinent" records.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-18 02:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What's that saying about it's not the crime, but the cover-up that usually gets them?

Anywho... Obligatory:

www.youtube.com

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-18 02:01 PM | Reply

How many times is Doe 174 mentioned in the Epstein Files and Lolita Express flight logs?

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-18 02:03 PM | Reply

How many times is Doe 174 mentioned in the Epstein Files and Lolita Express flight logs?

After the redacting is finished? None.

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-18 02:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

FBI told to flag destroyany Epstein records mentioning Trump

That sounds right.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-18 02:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

www.youtube.com

about 3:40 in..... a bunch of (really awful) Trump-drawn and signed pics that look suspiciously just like the one in the letter he said he didn't write and the picture he said he didn't 'write'.

It's almost like he's a liar.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-18 02:24 PM | Reply

also.... England is getting ready for Trump's upcoming visit... with life-size pics of him and Epstein at trolley stops... and Brit comedians are having a field day:

www.youtube.com

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-18 02:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What strikes me about this young girl, who claims Trump raped her when she was 14, is just how much she looks like a young Ivanka:

KittyKatGirl
@mary1kathy.bsky.social

Yo DonOLD, is this in the Epstein files?! Inquiring minds want to know!

bsky.app

A picture is worth a 1000 words:

Colin Boylett @baggiesman.bsky.social
@baggiesman.bsky.social

I was the same age as his daughter', said Katie.

bsky.app

#9 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-07-18 04:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#2 ... These would be the not "credible" or "pertinent" records. ...

Yup.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-18 06:05 PM | Reply

@#8 ... England is getting ready for Trump's upcoming visit... ...

... by telling girls to lock down in place?

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-18 06:05 PM | Reply

@#7 ... about 3:40 in..... a bunch of (really awful) Trump-drawn and signed pics that look suspiciously just like the one in the letter he said he didn't write and the picture he said he didn't 'write'.

It's almost like he's a liar. ...

Thanks for the time reference into the vid.

The WSJ mentioned the use of a ~thick marker~ to draw the picture.

Hmmm, who uses a thick marker to sign things and draw on weather maps?

#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-18 06:09 PM | Reply

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