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The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.

Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.

NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents published at the end of January. NPR's investigation found dozens of pages that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.

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[-] macaro 117 points 5 months ago

Congress should hold the Justice department in contempt.

[-] hogmomma@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Honesty asking, to what end?

[-] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago

Even if nothing comes of it, it'd be better than doing nothing. Congress should do what they can, not just roll over.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 5 months ago

Unless they're involved...

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago

The death penalty.

[-] macaro 8 points 5 months ago

Congress authorized the release of the Epstein files. Not some of them, but all of them. Congress has authority to hold the executive branch to account. They should exercise those powers to ensure their mandate is fulfilled. Anything less is capitulating to an authoritarian regime.

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[-] village604@adultswim.fan 5 points 5 months ago

Well, if they have the power to remove the heads of the organization, that's a good start.

[-] duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Not sure how you mean that but I support either interpretation.

[-] mrmisses@lemmy.world 62 points 5 months ago
[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago

At the risk of quoting Junior Soprano, no you didn't know it, they just told you

NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents published at the end of January. NPR's investigation found dozens of pages that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.

You may know of other investigations showing very similar things but this is new

[-] CoffeeSoldier@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 months ago

I think we knew like we knew Eddie Spaghetti liked to eat spaghetti before anyone even told us that about Eddie.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

That's fair but at the same time a bunch of reporters are busting their asses to run down all of Eddie's lies and that work deserves some attention

[-] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

I think a better phrasing would be "I'm not surprised by this"

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[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 51 points 5 months ago

Nothing says guilty like a coverup

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 months ago

No. Noooooo, he's just undercover. That's all. He's trying to take them down from the inside. Just you wait, he'll drain that swamp any minute now!!!

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Just give it two weeks, two weeks from now.

[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

He's trying to take them down from the inside.

From the inside of an underaged girl, maybe.

Does that make blowing bubba collecting evidence?

[-] redsand@infosec.pub 7 points 5 months ago

Speaking of coverups, the Franklin Scandal from 88 sure feels familiar (thumbnail is clickbait to appease the algorithm) coverup starts with a plane crash about halfway through and the bodies keep dropping until around 92: https://youtu.be/a2lvo38u4ds

Early reports on Epstein's trafficing start in 94

[-] MartianHills@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

That was a wild, disturbing ride. Let me down a rabbit hole to John David Norman and his child abuse network. Prosecutors decided to settle for Norman instead of pursuing his client list, which included some high-profile individuals. Also connected to at least two serial killers.

[-] redsand@infosec.pub 4 points 5 months ago

Oh yeah they were hunting people too. And eating them. These current files are dark. Rabbit holes everywhere

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, interesting..

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 5 months ago

For some reason that made me think of Jeff Gannon. Did he claim he was a victim of abuse as a child?

[-] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 33 points 5 months ago

This is known as Obstruction of Justice in the civilized world.

[-] santa@sh.itjust.works 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I mean. Sue them. I’m not sure saying they broke the law over and over again is going to do anything substantive.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The federal government has to give you permission to sue them.

Sovereign Immunity is an English common law thing, so it's not even US only.

[-] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah... best we can do is contempt of congress.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

I would so love to see Blondi in prison over this. Same with Pedonald, of course.

Reactionary centrists in the Murc's Law media would say that wanting to see justice meted out for pedos and pedo-protecters means that someone has "Trump Derangement Syndrome".

[-] hesh@quokk.au 15 points 5 months ago

Considering there's not a single email to or from him in the files... yeah, we know.

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 14 points 5 months ago
[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Yeah, we fucking know.

[-] trongod_requiem0432@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I mean... is anyone still surprised by this?

The U.S.A. are governed by a pedophile rapist and they don't go tear and shoot shit up. So the majority of them is fine with this.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 5 points 5 months ago

They say the cover up is always worse than the crime but I don't think that applies in this case.

[-] santa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Department of Jeffery Epstein (DOJ)

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[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Aren’t they archived?

[-] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I mean, we all know they are breaking the law daily and donald trump has threatened them all with death if they don't scrub his name from every file.

I really wish the conservative party didn't just flop over like a possum for a horrible dictator, but they are desperate for control and this was their only way to get revenge on democrats and neutral people.

[-] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago
[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 5 months ago
[-] H1AA6329S@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Well, no one is surprised, isn't

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