The Department of Justice has released less than 1% of the so-called Epstein files, a court filing has revealed, as Democrats step up criticism of the Trump administration’s “lawlessness” for keeping records under seal.
The department conceded that only 12,285 documents, totalling 125,575 pages, relating to the disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been published to date, despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December.
Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, wrote a five-page update to Paul Engelmayer, the federal New York judge overseeing the case, on Monday, asserting that efforts to protect the identities of Epstein’s victims were a priority, and had slowed the process.
“There are more than two million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review,” she wrote in the letter co-signed by Todd Blanche, her deputy, and Jay Clayton, US attorney for the southern district of New York.
"What are they trying to hide?” Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said in a post to X on Monday accusing the justice department of failing to submit a required unredacted list to Congress “of all government officials and politically exposed persons” named or referenced in the files.
“It’s been 17 DAYS since the Trump DOJ first broke the law and failed to release all the Epstein files. It’s been 14 DAYS since Trump’s DOJ released anything at all – with the DOJ doing everything in its power to delay and obfuscate.”
They also moved the FBI headquarters, and I suspect they will claim they lost a lot of the files in transit. The more time they let it stew the harder it will be to disprove, so they will keep gaslighting as long as possible until they bring out the excuse.
They should call for a Congressional audit of the FBI. I bet they could get a lot of support for something like that from the public.
Hilarious that the elites are shoving AI up everyone’s ass and everyone in this admin seems to being doing literally EVERYTHING with AI.
But redacting the Epstein files is ONE task that has to be done manually.
Seriously any day now there’s going to be a letter written by Epstein filled with em-dashes that exonerates Trump.
You know what’s “funny”?
MAGA stands together against pedophilia, blaming the left. Their source? Some roll playing teenagers on 4chan. One even did an armed raid on a pizzaria.
Now, loads and loads of evidence stacks up of their dear leader being a pedophile and close friend to the world’s biggest pedophilia ring leader (already widely known before first term elections), yet they stand with their pedo criminal dictator.
I believe MAGA made a remarkable achievement, namely a discovery of a new level of hypocrisy, far higher than anyone ever theorized being possible.
s/disgraced financier/child molester/g
“History’s most transparent administration”
I mean, they are the most transparently corrupt, so that’s close, right?
I mean we’re going to be finding little bedbugs of corruption from the trump admin for the next 50 years. As transparent as an iceberg.
This thing is over now, isn’t it?
A war has starte the and news media lost interest in the president being a pedophile
Fuck, America is predictable if anything
I don’t think it will ever be over. The minute news slows from Venezuela the files are back in the headlines. They have to keep doing things to distract, going to be a wild ride.
What is it called when you are 1% in compliance with the law.
Criminal behaviour?
So Trump is the other 99%?
No, he’s also in the already released 1%.
At this point, we should use force to convince the DoJ to release 99.9% of those files
When it’s not working, it’s working.
<despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December.>
The very FACT that they have NOT released the files now is a CLEAR indication that they NEVER intended to release them at all.
Congress needs to get off its withering impotent ass and arrest Bondi (and impeach Trump of course)
Unfortunately, the Grand Old Pedophiles don’t have enough of a spine to stand up to the diddler in chief.
because most of them are likely on the files themselves.
Why are writing Trump-style bro? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
It seems to WORK for him. Why NOT me?
More damning evidence that high profile people are involved.
Look, I don’t give a shit if they’re all not released.
The way they’ve behaved, the way they approached the subject, the way they try downplaying it all. They’re all complicit child-fuckers.
MAGA: Molesters Are Gutted Alive
Well he pardoned all the traitors from jan 6th so I wouldn’t expect any less.
Hear that MAGA? Next time you’re getting ready to parrot that nonsense about “Promises Made, Promises Kept,” remember that two of his CENTRAL promises of his campaign were releasing the Epstein Files, and America First - staying out of other countries business, specifically no regime change, and no nation building. And now we have both, AND they are still hiding the Epstein Files.
We should remind all MAGAs as often as possible.
He got what he wanted, elected and access to power and money (sweet corruption). The MAGA suckers can f off now.
Truth
And we the people can’t do a thing about it.
Nothing legal.
Legal if you win. The American revolution wasn’t legal as far as the red coats were concerned.
Injustice is never legal
Unless unjust people write the laws.
Something being a law don’t mean it’s legal
No, it quite literally does. Something being a law don’t mean it’s moral.
If it is moral, you can be damn sure it’s most likely not a law.
Lol who the fuck downvoted this?
You don’t understand how laws work.
Why write that? Congratulations, you’re now on a list.
Very false
- Lemmy is unlikely to be monitored because they probably haven’t heard about it or have heard and don’t care
- It has no tracking, so the platforms don’t know who the user is; the government would have to figure it out for themselves
- Decentralization across multiple jurisdictions impedes collaboration with governments
- These “lists” are mostly a myth; it’s only a suspicious sequence like “how to make a bomb” then “dc police response speed” and “when will trump be in white house” that gets you on watch lists, at least in the US
- This user (@silvadinlabop@lemmy.cafe) might be in a country that does not have any such lists or does not monitor the internet or only monitors web searches or has no laws against such statements
lol my sweet summer child, sorry but those first 4 points aren’t as strong as you think. The last point may still be valid. By all means Americans need to get this whole regime out, but it’s just stupid to advocate online for illegal means. Why would you post something about it?
The empire loves their damn lists.
Pussy.
Please, keep posting how you will do some kind of illegal activity against the government. I implore you. It’s just stupid to write it online.
Why are you trying to convince people to die quietly with the US?
Do everything legally possible. But also if you’re going to do illegal stuff it’s stupid to write it online.
I don’t disagree. But that’s not what you said. You sound like a fed. Or a magat trying to shut down Trump opposition. Maybe check yourself.
lol ok, good luck
Good luck with what?
Keep pushing your representatives to stay on this. Phone calls, letters, emails, etc., all can be used to make sure our reps know that this is important to all of us ongoingly. And that is why you are incorrect, We The People in fact can continue to do something about this matter. Don’t give up hope now, that’s exactly what the fascists would prefer you do. Don’t give them what they want. Be brave, u/the_q , remember persistence furthers.
The only MO most members of congress have right now is to AVOID any kind of confrontation that will show that they don’t actually have the ability to enforce anything. They will bend over backwards to make it look like the White House ignoring their actions is “normal” so they can maintain the illusion that they still function as a check, and they certainly won’t push further than they think the white house is willing to go on its own. The white house knows this as well - it’s to their benefit that the Congress still nominally APPEARS to be a functional branch of government so they don’t have to risk open rebellion if they straight up dissolve it, although at this point, I don’t think there is ANYTHING that can pierce the insane, deluded, mentally ill complacency of the majority of the American people.
