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Epstein Victims Upset About Lack of Transparency in Newly Released Files

The DOJ's forced release of Epstein file documents, which Trump had been calling for before his election, is being hailed as incomplete, leaving little clue as to why Epstein avoided serious prosecution for so long and leaving the victims of his crimes upset.

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Donald Trump again proved himself a criminal by violating the recent law he signed concerning the Epstein Files.

The man knew, as he was signing that law, that he would violate it.

Everyone knew this would happen.

The only good thing about it is that it keeps Trump's perversions associated with Epstein's perversions right up to the midterms.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-21 09:47 AM | Reply

*** Carnie Worker Attempts to Sell Brooklyn Bridge to Gullible Buyers ***

"Junta member Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche bleated that there has been "no effort" to redact Dummkopf Trumpf's name from the release of files stemming from federal investigations into convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein."

Link: abcnews.go.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-21 10:22 AM | Reply

PEDO DONNIE IS A LYING FRAUD

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-21 12:32 PM | Reply

Where's file 468?

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-21 12:33 PM | Reply

Here is but one file out of the hundreds the nefarious Trumpf junta released: www.justice.gov

Real insightful and transparent, right?

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-21 01:02 PM | Reply

Pedo 47 redacted from Trumpstein files.

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-21 01:43 PM | Reply

You had to know this was coming. I mean you don't need a tea leaf reader to have figured out the Epstein files were going to be redacted mostly to protect the Republicans who might have been caught in these files as well as the Republican donors. The Dems were meant to take the fall first by leaving those in the clear with the hope it removed some of the politicians that don't agree with Turnip.

SCOTUS has determined that Turnip gets a get out of jail free card as long as he is in office. That doesn't protect him if he is impeached or once he leaves office. It also does not protect the rest of the administration. For the now, any movements towards impeachment or removal of Bondi and the rest of the administration will likely go no where as long as Republicans hold the majority.

Unless there is a serious blue wave come midterm elections, it will likely stay this way until there is a major turn over of who holds the supermajority.

One hallmark of Turnip is continual chaos. This is who he is. This is what sets the stage for other things to top out over the public's interest in an attempt to move troublesome topics out of the limelight.

#7 | Posted by BBQ at 2025-12-21 08:46 PM | Reply

IMO it's fair to draw an adverse inference that current redactions are intended to protect known likely pedophiles and bisexuals/bisexual pedophiles that want to stay in the closet.

If you don't think Donald J Trump is a pedophile, Google the name Katie Johnson; she was 13 years old, and her deposition was never challenged.

If you don't think Donald J Trump is bisexual, count up the number of times he talked about going down into the rally audience and kissing the men and beautiful women. What normal man would say that he wants to go into a mixed group and kiss the men? Then look at the video of Donald J Trump standing at a podium miming -------- on a microphone.

Then look at yourself in the mirror and try to convince yourself that these are the perverts that should be in charge of a fascist, opposition free, Russia-like government in the US.

If you do manage to convince yourself that this perverted dystopian mess is what God intended, go to the current White House website and sign up your 10 to 14 year old little boy and your 10 to 14 year old little girl to work at the grand opening of the Big Beautiful Ballroom.

#8 | Posted by Hickory at 2025-12-22 10:35 AM | Reply

If you don't think Donald J Trump is a pedophile, Google the name Katie Johnson; she was 13 years old, and her deposition was never challenged.

#8 | Posted by Hickory at 2025-12-22 10:35 AM | Reply | Flag:

I Googled it and this is what came back.

"Katie Johnson" is a pseudonym used by an anonymous woman who filed a federal lawsuit in 2016 alleging that she was sexually assaulted as a minor by both Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein in 1994
. The lawsuit was ultimately dismissed and withdrawn, and serious doubts were raised about the case's authenticity and the accuser's identity.

#9 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-22 11:41 AM | Reply

If you don't think Donald J Trump is bisexual, count up the number of times he talked about going down into the rally audience and kissing the men and beautiful women. What normal man would say that he wants to go into a mixed group and kiss the men? Then look at the video of Donald J Trump standing at a podium miming -------- on a microphone.

#8 | Posted by Hickory at 2025-12-22 10:35 AM | Reply | Flag

Lets pretend it's true for a minute.... You're trying to convince us that gay/bi people are pedos? Because that's what it looks like.

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-22 11:44 AM | Reply

You're trying to convince us that gay/bi people are pedos?
#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Convince you?

You're already convinced of that.

Republicans have been telling us drag queens and trans people and gays are a threat to children for ten years now.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 11:48 AM | Reply

Lets pretend it's true for a minute....

#10 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

As long as Trump is hiding the Epstein Files it's fair game to pretend anything might be true about him for that minute, or an hour, or a year, until that doddering old pervert dies.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 12:32 PM | Reply

As long as Trump is hiding the Epstein Files it's fair game to pretend anything might be true about him for that minute, or an hour, or a year, until that doddering old pervert dies.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 12:32 PM | Reply | Flag:

Who else never released the files when they had the power to do so? Hint: inappropriate shower Daddy

You've now seen more of the files than the guy you voted for exposed.

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-22 02:02 PM | Reply

Biden isn't in the Trumpstein files. On the other hand, the 300 lb------------------- is mentioned thousands of times in the files he refuses to release.

#14 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-22 02:05 PM | Reply

You've now seen more of the files than the guy you voted for exposed.
#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Democrats never promised to release the Epstein Files.

Republicans promised to release the full unredacted Epstein Files.

We've seen far less than Republicans promised.

You join with the Republicans in wanting to keep some of it secret. Especially the parts with Republicans in it.

When are Republicans going to keep their promise to you? You don't care. You never expected Republicans to keep their promise in the first place.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 02:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Who else never released the files

#13 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

This only matters to you, and only matters as a dodge.

Truth will out, and to hell with Donald Trump.

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 03:04 PM | Reply

-Democrats never promised to release the Epstein Files.

Do you have a link to Trump "promising" to release the Epstein files?

#17 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-22 04:30 PM | Reply

Do you have a link to Trump "promising" to release the Epstein files?
#17 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Alexa, do you have a link to Trump "promising" to release the Epstein files?

During his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump expressed a willingness to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein in several interviews, though he often qualified these statements by noting concerns about "phony" information.
Following a period of resistance from his administration in 2025, a bipartisan push led to the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Trump signed into law on November 19, 2025. This law mandated the release of all unclassified DOJ records related to Epstein within 30 days.
Key Interview Links and Statements
Lex Fridman Podcast (September 2024): Trump stated he would be "inclined" to release the files and said, "I'd have no problem with it".
View Transcript on LexFridman.com
Fox News Interview (June 2024): When asked if he would declassify the files, Trump replied, "Yeah, yeah, I would". However, unedited footage later showed he added that he didn't want to "affect people's lives if it's phony stuff in there".
Current Status of the Files (December 2025)
Official Release: The Justice Department began releasing thousands of pages of files on December 19, 2025.
Where to Access: You can access the released documents directly on the Department of Justice's official website (or via searchable archives such as those provided by CBS News).
Redactions: The initial release has faced criticism from lawmakers for being "heavily redacted," with some documents, including a 119-page grand jury transcript, reportedly blacked out entirely. The DOJ has stated that more files will be released on a rolling basis.
www.google.com

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 04:46 PM | Reply

Do you have a link to Trump "promising" to release the Epstein files?

#17 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

What a dishonest little man you are.

#19 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 04:56 PM | Reply

What I thought...

#20 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-22 04:57 PM | Reply

No link to a promise

#21 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-22 04:57 PM | Reply

No link to a promise
#21 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Republican lawmakers, including prominent figures like Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace, and Lauren Boebert, have publicly supported releasing the Epstein files, framing it as a campaign promise to deliver transparency.
www.newsweek.com

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 04:59 PM | Reply

Do you have a link to Trump "promising" to release the Epstein files?

#17 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

You make me think of YAV's recent post. What's the point of interacting with people like you? There's something sick about you.

Like dogs with mango worms. Look it up. The pictures will express my feelings.

#23 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 05:00 PM | Reply

Trump ran on releasing the Epstein files. Youre as dishonest as you are stupid to think this lie would pass the smell test.

#24 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-22 05:00 PM | Reply

No link to a promise

#21 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Donald Trump signed it all into law last month.

So there's your promise.

Jeez, it's like you're from the worst part of Mars,

#25 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 05:01 PM | Reply

Trump during the 2024 campaign:

"Would you declassify the Epstein files?" Fox News' Rachel Campos-Duffy asked. Trump responded, "Yeah, yeah, I would."

#26 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-22 05:05 PM | Reply

Trump during the 2024 campaign:
"Would you declassify the Epstein files?" Fox News' Rachel Campos-Duffy asked. Trump responded, "Yeah, yeah, I would."
#26 | Posted by Alexandrite

But he ain't never said the word promise, and he didn't Pinky-Swear on his promise neither!
And even if he did, Trump had his fingers crossed behind his back anyway.
Suck it, liberals.
--LftHndThrds

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 05:09 PM | Reply

"Not speaking for JPW, I am speaking for myself. You folks that went over to MAGA have become fccking insane. There's no point in talking with you or discussing anything. You all have lost it - even if you can't see it. That's why I'm direct and blunt with you morons. You're as ------- crazy as your wanna be tinpot despot leader who has lost it.
What's the point in showing any of you respect? Not one of you has earned it. You've done just the opposite. You've squandered it and destroyed your credibility. You are a cancer killing us all".

POSTED BY YAV

#28 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 05:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Not speaking for JPW, I am speaking for myself. You folks that went over to MAGA have become fccking insane. There's no point in talking with you or discussing anything. You all have lost it - even if you can't see it. That's why I'm direct and blunt with you morons. You're as ------- crazy as your wanna be tinpot despot leader who has lost it.
What's the point in showing any of you respect? Not one of you has earned it. You've done just the opposite. You've squandered it and destroyed your credibility. You are a cancer killing us all".
POSTED BY YAV

#28 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 05:12 PM | Reply | Flag: "I ain't dumb! I'm just a racist and misogynist! MAGA!"

#29 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-22 05:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"You folks that went over to MAGA have become fccking insane."

^
Correct.
This is what happened.
Obama being President drove them insane.

#30 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 05:23 PM | Reply

I am reposting the flight logs of celebs that WENT TO LITTLE ST JAMES ISLAND ...
They include ....
Al Gore
Alec Baldwin
Anderson Cooper
Barack Obama
Bob Saget
Cindy Laupner
Courtney Love
Enud Barack
Ellen
Beyonce
Jay Z
Hillary
Jimmy Kimmel
Jim Carrey
John Legend
John Podesta
Justin Trudeau
Lady Gaga
Larry Summers (already stepped down)
Kevin Spacey (noted rapist)
Madonna
Meryl Streep (Pedo supporter)
Oprah (Also pedo supporter)
Patton Oswalt
Pharrel
Rachael Maddow
Rob Reiner
Robert DeNiro
Sarah Silverman
Stephen Cobert
Whoopi
Noam Chomsky

Why arent yall calling these people pedo's?

#31 | Posted by boaz at 2025-12-22 05:42 PM | Reply | Funny: 2 | Newsworthy 1

Barack Obama

Obama went to Epstein Island?

Let's see some actual proof.

#32 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-22 05:48 PM | Reply

Why arent yall calling these people pedo's?

#31 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Are any of them covering up the Epstein Files, like Trump is?

#33 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 05:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Obama went to Epstein Island?

Let's see some actual proof.

#32 | POSTED BY REDIAL

Well, that would mean not covering up the Epstein files any more.

#34 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 05:51 PM | Reply

Oprah

Proof on that one would also be good.

#35 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-22 05:51 PM | Reply

Anderson Cooper

Yeah, some proof for that one too?

#36 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-22 05:53 PM | Reply

#31

Because none of those people were Epstein's Best Friend and Wingman for decades, nor did they send Epstein a Birthday Card drawing of a female child with a comment about their, 'secret'.

Not to mention that Epstein himself told his Pedo Pimp Mistress in 2011 that Trump was, 'the dog that didn't bark' to the authorities with what he knew about, 'the girls'.

Your Cult Leader is a poor excuse for a human being, Major B.

#37 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-22 05:53 PM | Reply

Why arent yall calling these people pedo's?

#31 | POSTED BY BOAZ

As noted, Trump's Epstein cover up opens him to suspicion that he is a pedophile.

He could correct that, if false, any time that he likes, by not covering up.

Since he's not going to to that, he's stuck with the pedophile label.

#38 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 05:55 PM | Reply

Rob Reiner? Robert DeNiro?

The whole list looks like --------.

#39 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-22 05:55 PM | Reply

Did anyone catch the news?

Trump is going to build an entire new Pedophile Class of US warships.

#40 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 05:58 PM | Reply

@#31 ... Why arent yall calling these people pedo's? ...

Did Mr Epstein call any of them his best friend for 10 years?

'Don's best friend': How Epstein and Trump bonded over the pursuit of women
www.sfexaminer.com

... Jeffrey Epstein was a "terrific guy" and "a lot of fun to be with." He and Donald Trump also had "no formal relationship." They went to a lot of the same parties. But they "did not socialize together." They were never really friends, just business acquaintances. Or "there was no relationship" at all. "I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you."

For nearly a quarter-century, Trump and his representatives have offered shifting, often contradictory accounts of his relationship with Epstein, one sporadically captured by society photographers and in news clips before they fell out sometime in the mid-2000s. Closely scrutinized since Epstein died in a Manhattan jail cell during Trump's first term, their friendship -- and questions about what the president knew of Epstein's abuses -- now threatens to consume his second one. ...

But the two men's relationship was both far closer and far more complex than the president now admits.

Beginning in the late 1980s, the two men forged a bond intense enough to leave others who knew them with the impression that they were each other's closest friend ...

Over nearly two decades, as Trump cut a swath through the party circuits of New York and Florida, Epstein was perhaps his most reliable wingman. During the 1990s and early 2000s, they prowled Epstein's Manhattan mansion and Trump's Plaza Hotel, at least one of Trump's Atlantic City casinos and both their Palm Beach homes. They visited each other's offices and spoke often by phone, according to other former Epstein employees and women who spent time in his homes.

With other men, Epstein might discuss tax shelters, international affairs or neuroscience. With Trump, he talked about sex. ...

#41 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-22 06:41 PM | Reply

Release the Epstein files, with nothing but the victim names redacted.

#42 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-22 06:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Meryl Streep (Pedo supporter)
Oprah (Also pedo supporter)
Why arent yall calling these people pedo's?
#31 | Posted by boaz

Should we be calling every Trump voter a Pedo supporter, then? Because we're kinda already there.

Why aren't you calling every Trump supporter a Pedo supporter?

#43 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 06:54 PM | Reply

Hey Boaz.

Do you actually deny, like you truly don't believe, that Trump ------ those fifteen year old girls?

Because it would be a much better look for you, if you went back to simply not caring that Trump ------ those fifteen year old blonde white girls.

You'd at least be back to being honest about Deplorable you are.

Lying to protect Trump, because your frail ego can't accept the truth about men like Trump, is decidedly worse.

Much worse than simply acknowledging that men like Trump have existed forever, and men like you who follow them blindly have existed forever too.

One of those is rooted in truth. The other is rooted in a denial so big it consumes your entire personality, as this Trump pedophile thing has been doing to you ever since the actual evidence in the Epstein Files started coming out.

#44 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 07:00 PM | Reply

men like you who follow them blindly have existed forever too.

Not very alpha!

#45 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-12-22 07:17 PM | Reply

Coffeezilla
@coffeebreak_YT
Asst U.S. Attorney writes in 2020: "Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported...including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case...didn't want any of this to be a surprise down the road"

Drip drip drip

#46 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-23 12:14 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Coffeezilla
@coffeebreak_YT
Asst US Attorney writes in 2020: "Dummkopf Trumpf traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported...including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case...didn't want any of this to be a surprise down the road"
x.com

Drip drip drip

#46 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-23 12:14 AM | Reply | Flag: "Good to the last drop."

From 21 January 2021 to 19 January 2025, United States Attorney-General Merrick Garland sat on the super-damaging FBI Jeffrey Epstein files whose public release could have forever crippled Dummkopf Trumpf's presidential candidacy in 2023 or 2024.

Special Counsel Jack Smith did noy have direct access to the Epstein/Maxwell FBI files or a "need-to-know."

From 2010 to 2015, AUSA Jack Smith served as the Chief of the Public Integrity Section (PIN) at the US Department of Justice in Washington, DC; SDNY and SDFL AUSAs (and the local FBI offices) investigated sex maniacs Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

After returning from his tour as a war crimes prosecutor at the ICC in the Hague in 2021, SC Jack Smith began his mission of prosecuting Dummkopf Trumpf. He spent over three years futilely trying to convict the Dotard-in-Chief for hoarding classified documents and instigating the 6 Jan 2021 attack against the US Capitol, yet USAG Merrick Garland sat on top of a veritable gold mine of Credible Derogatory Information (CDI) on Trumpf which would have exposed him (and other US and global elites) as monstrous pedophiles.

One wonders what these four are thinking today as Dummkopf Trumpf's diabolical rampage destroys America while he and the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) gorge themselves like deer ticks on US defense contracts and nebulous crypto-currency scams, all while despoiling our natural parks and resources, as well as surrendering Europe and Ukraine to Vladimir Putin.

#47 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-23 01:51 AM | Reply

@$46 ... Drip drip drip ...

Spkr Johnson put the House in an inactive state a couple three months ago to, apparently, try to avoid an embarrassing vote in which a new member would have pushed that vote against Pres Trump.

That decision by Spkr Johnson seemed only to escalate public awareness of the problem.

The outcome of that decision did not divert public attention away from the Epstein files, as Pres Trump seems to have hoped.

Quite the contrary, that decision seemed to be a focal point for increasing the clamor to Release the Epstein Files.

Pres Trump seems to want this issue to just go away.

imo, that ain't gonna happen.

What's you opinion?

#48 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-23 02:18 AM | Reply

@#47

An excellent question.

Was the DoJ at the time just trying to stay non-political, or trying to hide something?

To be honest,I've not yet formed an opinion on that.

...

#49 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-23 02:22 AM | Reply

*** DOJ Released More Epstein Files This Morning ***

www.justice.gov

#50 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-23 05:31 AM | Reply

LMAO The Biden Administration had 4 years to put Trump away and just couldn't do it. They sat on the Epstein documents for 4 years to protect Donald Trump??? You clowns are hilarious and you have nothing.

#51 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-23 09:19 AM | Reply

"LMAO The Biden Administration had 4 years to put Trump away and just couldn't do it."

Is Trump doing better putting away Biden and Obama, who hilariously according to you, are more corrupt than Trump?

#52 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-23 09:23 AM | Reply

you have nothing.

#51 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

And yet Donald Trump is hiding the Epstein Files.

You do understand this, don't you/

#53 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-23 09:49 AM | Reply

Why arent yall calling these people pedo's?

If they are, let them burn for it.

See how easy it is when you're not in a cult?

Expose them all and let them all pay for any crimes they committed.

You guys work extra hard to excuse this administration hiding and protecting pedophiles.

#54 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-23 10:26 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

you have nothing.

#51 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Even with Trump's studied efforts to sabotage release of the Epstein Files, damning stuff is leaking through.

Did you know that Trump's DOJ refused to prosecute ten Epstein co-conspirators?

Well, now you do.

#55 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-23 10:47 AM | Reply

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