On the left, an Epstein document the DOJ released in 2024, with Trump’s name and others. It’s still up on the DOJ website. On the right, the same document as DOJ redacted it in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

~ Roger Sollenberger quoted by Greg Dworkin

The document released in 2024, which is still on the DOJ website, is here: https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court%20Records/Giuffre%20v.%20Maxwell,%20No.%20115-cv-07433%20(S.D.N.Y.%202015)/1332-16.pdf

#Epstein #Trump #coverup
/15

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/12/22/2359419/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Guess-which-stories-won-t-go-away

"They didn’t even release the victim interviews; just pictures of the tapes of the interviews. Think about that. A photograph of a tape cassette.

This would be funny if it wasn’t about a crime involving the rapes of 14-year-old girls. …

The Department of Justice is not only thumbing its nose at the public’s demand for transparency and accountability, it is not taking the crimes committed against children seriously.

~ Julie K. Brown

#Epstein #Trump #coverup
/16

https://jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-epstein-files-my-observations

"The problem with the Justice Department’s modified, limited release of the Jeffrey Epstein files since Friday afternoon isn’t that there have been some mistaken redactions and some mistaken non-redactions. The problem is that the administration has decided simply not to release key documents, like the original victim statements and the 60-count draft indictment of Epstein.

We’re in the midst of a coverup."

~ William Kristol

#Epstein #Trump #coverup
/18

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-and-co-cant-keep-their-lies-straight-epstein-files-bondie-doj-weiss-cecot-cbs

"Here is your reminder that Donald Trump busting the cabal of pedophiles is the entire raison d’être du QAnon! Per Wikipedia:

'Their core belief is that a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic child molesters in league with the deep state is operating a global child sex trafficking ring and that Donald Trump is secretly leading the fight against them.'"

#Epstein #Trump #coverup
/19

https://www.wonkette.com/p/the-pam-bondi-trumpepstein-files

"The problem with the Justice Department’s modified, limited release of the Jeffrey Epstein files since Friday afternoon isn’t that there have been some mistaken redactions and some mistaken non-redactions. The problem is that the administration has decided simply not to release key documents, like the original victim statements and the 60-count draft indictment of Epstein.

We’re in the midst of a coverup."

~ William Kristol

#Epstein #Trump #coverup
/18

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-and-co-cant-keep-their-lies-straight-epstein-files-bondie-doj-weiss-cecot-cbs

"Some of the redactions happened AFTER they were originally released, indicating the redactions were being made specifically to protect Donald Trump."

~ Michael Mora

#Epstein #Trump #coverup
/17

"They didn’t even release the victim interviews; just pictures of the tapes of the interviews. Think about that. A photograph of a tape cassette.

This would be funny if it wasn’t about a crime involving the rapes of 14-year-old girls. …

The Department of Justice is not only thumbing its nose at the public’s demand for transparency and accountability, it is not taking the crimes committed against children seriously.

~ Julie K. Brown

#Epstein #Trump #coverup
/16

https://jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-epstein-files-my-observations

On the left, an Epstein document the DOJ released in 2024, with Trump’s name and others. It’s still up on the DOJ website. On the right, the same document as DOJ redacted it in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

~ Roger Sollenberger quoted by Greg Dworkin

The document released in 2024, which is still on the DOJ website, is here: https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court%20Records/Giuffre%20v.%20Maxwell,%20No.%20115-cv-07433%20(S.D.N.Y.%202015)/1332-16.pdf

#Epstein #Trump #coverup
/15

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/12/22/2359419/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Guess-which-stories-won-t-go-away

Nicola Jennings' cartoon commentary on the close ties between Epstein and Trump that Trump is trying to keep covered up.

#Epstein #Trump #coverup
/14

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/dec/21/nicola-jennings-on-trump-and-the-epstein-files-cartoon

"Trump believes that stonewalling will protect him from political damage. But he’s a fool.

Trump has sustained substantial political damage, and he will sustain more."

#Epstein #Trump #coverup
/13

"The episode suggests that the DOJ intended to remove all photos of Trump. When a photo escaped notice of the reviewers, the DOJ retroactively withheld the photo until it was caught in the act of protecting Trump. The DOJ then had no choice but to release the photo—which had already been downloaded hundreds of times."

#Epstein #Trump #coverup
/6

"[Attorney General Todd] Blanche asserted that the photo was taken down to protect the identity of the victims. [Kristen] Welker [of Meet the Press] astutely asked, 'So the women in the photo with Trump were victims?' Several hours later, the photo was restored online, with an explanation that it did not include any victims."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Epstein #Trump #coverup
/5

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/a-weekend-of-pro-democracy-protests

"CBS reported that some Friday redactions appeared to black out survivors’ names, but that it was not clear in every case why information was blacked out."

#Epstein #Trump #coverup
/4

"It also requires that redactions be accompanied by a written justification published in the Federal Register and submitted to Congress. And it calls for a list of government officials and politically exposed persons named or referenced in released materials that, under the law’s ban on redactions for political sensitivity, may not be withheld on that basis."

#Epstein #Trump #coverup
/3

"The law permits limited withholding or redaction in certain circumstances, including to protect victims’ personally identifiable information, to withhold child sexual abuse material, and to temporarily withhold information that would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution if the withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary."

#Epstein #Trump #coverup
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