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“The justice department’s document dump this afternoon does not comply with Thomas Massie and my Epstein Transparency Act,” Ro Khanna, the California Democratic congressman who co-wrote the law requiring full disclosure of all of the government’s investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein by Friday, said in a video statement posted on social media.

By way of example, Khanna noted: “They released one document from a New York grand jury of a 119 pages totally blacked out! This despite a New York judge ordering them to release that document, and our law requires them to explain redactions. There’s not a single explanation for why that entire document was redacted.”

“We have not seen the draft indictment,” Khanna added, “that implicates other rich and powerful men who were on Epstein’s rape island, who either watched the abuse of young girls or participated in the abuse of young girls.”

“It is an incomplete release, with too many redactions. Thomas Massie and I are exploring all options,” Khanna said, including the impeachment of justice department officials, finding them in contempt of Congress, “or referring for prosecution those who are obstructing justice.”

Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican congressman who co-wrote the legislation, shared Khanna’s video statement on social media, with the comment that the document release by Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general who previously served as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, “grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law” that Trump signed, “just 30 days ago”.

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[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Release the Epstein files, Trump!

What else have you got to fear. Everyone knows your a kiddie abuser and that Putin has a photo of you sucking off Bubba, how much worse could it possibly be?

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The justice department’s document dump this afternoon does not comply with Thomas Massie and my Epstein Transparency Act,

And what will you do about it? If history is any indication, nothing at all

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Nothing at all? These guys lead the discharge petition, they have done more about it than basically everyone else combined.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago
[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

How did they not already figure out a response to this completely predictable outcome?

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I mean really the goal here is looking for the story through what they missed, like piecing together a Jigsaw where you only have ⅛ of the pieces

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 17 hours ago

since trump, republicans and politicial and financial backers are in it, its unlikely they ever plan of exposing them.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Of course they are. Anyone who expected something different is unbelievable naive.

There is a provision in the law that they can withhold anything related to "national security", so they can basically filter at will. You can't claim something you'll never see not to falling under that provision...

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

But they didn't say the redactions were due to national security. It'd be bullshit if they did, yeah, but they didn't. So they're still not complying.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Of course they're missing, did anybody thing anything else would happen? They'll release just enough salacious material to keep the voyeurs satisfied, but none of it will be actionable, at least not against MAGAs or Oligarchs. They'll keep the good stuff quarantined, or perhaps it's already been burned.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They even reported how FBI agents were taken off regular assignments to comb through for any mention of Dear Leader and rack up overtime. That was months ago.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This is a rigged investigation that will go nowhere. The real investigation is into Epstein's finances. Where did his fortune come from? Who was paying him? For what? There are lots of interesting questions around his fortune, and they are all tied to financial paper trails.

Follow the money.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Well we had the Panama Papers. For all the good that did.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yep. I bet the released materials cover a) Democrats and b) anyone else Trump dislikes.

[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 143 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Remember kids, every black line says the word Trump over and over and over. Spread the word.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 102 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

Supposedly there was about 300Gb of material, compared to about 3Gb released so far, so it's fair to assume the other 99% is videos of Trump fucking kids unless/until they release the rest to show otherwise.

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

FYI: Little 'b' means bit. Big 'B' means byte, a factor of eight larger. Basically, there's eight times as much Pedonald.

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I have no idea how the retractors live with themselves. What the fuck.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They're probably in on it, too. This administration surely drew like-minded people.

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago

Since we only know of a few "politically exposed individuals", I'm just going to have to assume that all the redactions are pertaining to them. Probably, primarily, Trump...since I doubt, if the rumors are lies or exaggerations, that Trump would go through so much trouble to protect Clinton.

In which case, why is Trump so afraid of all of these documents, to the point he has to black out nearly everything?

If he's truly innocent he shouldn't have any problem proving it, right?

If you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear, right?

Right, Taco?

So c'mon. It should be easy to weasel yourself out of this.

Unless...it's not.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why hasn’t the actual document been leaked yet? At first I thought it was because it couldn’t be used if it was. But there’s literally a law ordering its release, so just dump it.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Because the pedo protectors have the documents.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

Every deletion is an admission.

[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

That's incorrect. They DID release all of the most important and incriminating documents, 119 pages of them bundled in a single file. Here they are:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%203/EFTA00005586.pdf

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

🎶 No colours anymore, I want them to turn black 🎶

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

I think Americans should assume every politician who takes money from AIPAC is involved and we should remove them all from office immediately throw them in prison without bail and try them for treason

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Dems have access to all the files and can release them by reading them into the Congressional record.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Firstly: the partial / redacted release was entirely predictable.

Secondly, I dont understand where we are at now.

Is this impeachment going to be like all the others and be meaningless?

If JD Bimbo lady was charged and convicted wouldn't Trump just pardon her?

[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

US Constitution, Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:

...he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

[–] ExtraPartsLeft@piefed.zip 7 points 1 day ago

"Obviously the founding fathers meant to exclude ilegal impeachments. And since it would be from the crooked democrats and RINOs, any impeachment at this point would be an ilegal one." (Says Trump and the Supreme Court probably.)

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can at least answer this one

Is this impeachment going to be like all the others and be meaningless?

Yes. No impeachment has ever had any teeth to it. This man broke the record for being the first to be impeached his first term. Then he broke another record by being the first to be impeached twice. Why not a third?

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Impeachment of Trump is not yet on the table, but impeachment of Bondi and Trump's personal lawyer currently acting as Bondi's deputy, that's on the table and could result in a removal.

While it's true that no impeachment of a president has succeeded, the process has succeeded several times.

Also remember that while Trump is somehow bulletproof, his hanger ons enjoy zero protection.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Not surprised and always disappointed with this kind of shit. Everything blackened out has a name of a fucking politician or oligarch. Sick bastards!

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Referring who for prosecution by who? Are the fascist child rapist protectors going to prosecute themselves?

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

They just didn't had enough time to photoshop Obama on the island. Seriously who knew that the country that invented "step"-familly porn was full of pedophiles?

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