“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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    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

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

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    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…

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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

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        Trump, active politicians, wealthy CEOs, connected public figures, and even Israeli spies and handlers.

        Take your pick of Epstein associates that the US govt would opt to protect for reasons other than the public good or national security.

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        Why did all these people allow their photos to be taken? Like Clinton and Gates… “sure take my photo with this young woman so we can all remember what a great time we’re having”

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            This is supposedly where the phrase “thick as thieves” comes from. If thieves were working together, they’d share stories of some of their previous crimes. So the group would all have blackmail on each individual member. The idea was that no individual person would rat, because then everyone they’ve worked with in the past would rat on them.

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            This is where the phrase “thick as thieves” comes from. If thieves were doing a heist together, they’d share stories of some of their previous crimes, so they’d each have blackmail on the other. The idea was that no individual person would rat, because then everyone they’ve worked with in the past would rat on them.

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          Due to a system specifically designed by and for them and their fellow economical and political elites, they consider themselves untouchable by the consequences meant for mere mortals.

          The worst part is that this megalomaniacal assumption is almost invariably proven correct 🤬

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        They needed 1000 FBI agents to redact out all references to Pedo Donny. 1000 agents ! You can BET that they all show Donny 2 Inches being a pedo.

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        300Gb is only ~38GB. Still, 3GB is only ~7.5% of 300Gb. So we should assume the other ~92.5% is photos and videos of pedonald fucking children.

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      If you hold your screen up to a light you can see behind the black and it is literally just the word ‘Trump’.

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

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    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.

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          They were sealed by the courts until late 2023, and it should never have been his job to shame his political rivals because Trump should never have been president again in the first place. Everyone already knew Trump was buddy buddy with Epstein.

          If Biden had released the files Maga wouldn’t have believed him anyways, some of them only realized they were duped when Trump promised to release them then claimed they didn’t exist.

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          Biden also has rumours of being a pedo, just nothing even close to the shit Trump has.

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    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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    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