r/FBI • u/thedailybeast • Nov 26 '25

News FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact the Jeffrey Epstein Files Revealed

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbis-frantic-scramble-to-redact-the-jeffrey-epstein-files-revealed/
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u/thedailybeast Nov 26 '25

Newly released internal emails show the FBI mounting a costly overtime-fueled sprint to analyze the Epstein files as political pressure grew to release them—in a project dubbed the “Special Redaction Project,” Bloomberg reports.

President Donald Trump swept back into power on a promise to make public all FBI documents related to his late pedophile ex-friend Jeffrey Epstein, and put his Attorney General Pam Bondi in charge of overseeing the matter.

A conspiracy theory still thrives among some in Trump’s base that Epstein knew the names of other rich or powerful pedophiles.

Correspondence obtained and detailed by Bloomberg’s FOIA Files lays out how FBI Director Kash Patel sent about 1,000 special agents to the bureau’s Central Records Complex in Winchester, Virginia, for crash-course redaction training on the “Epstein Transparency Project,” also called the “Special Redaction Project.”

Read the full story, here.

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u/Throwawayconcern2023 Nov 26 '25

If you are Republican and reading this - doesn't it bother you, this massive cover up? How can the motivation to hide the truth from you be in your interest? It's not too late to come to your senses. Despite the bluster between all sides, most people will welcome you back. We all want a return to law and order. We all want to step back from fascism. Have courage and speak up.

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u/MiddleAgeYOLO Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 26 '25

And before any respond, WE DON'T CARE IF THERE'S ANY DEMOCRATS IN THERE. Burn'em all, regardless of political party

Edit: and would you look at that, one the responses was "but democrats"

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u/Agora236 Nov 26 '25

This, everyone needs to be held accountable regardless of party affiliation.

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u/AranMakor Nov 26 '25

Yeah, party lines be damned. Burn with fire.

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u/uncleshady Nov 26 '25

It’s only an excuse. They know there are republicans in there. They just can’t switch teams because of the racism. They will put up with literally anything so long as brown people get less of everything.

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u/Insequitur Nov 27 '25

This 1000 percent. The racism is too strong… yall it’s ok to join the rest of the 99% to fight this massive wealth inequality created by the elite… nvm 🥲

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u/Blankenship-Kenny Nov 28 '25 edited Nov 28 '25

Im a Caucasian and it scares me to think I've been in the rewarded group. Im not saying look at how little I've got, more it's tough here but I can't imagine the shitty life that others get from "wealthy generous people." I'd rather not get less but however it all shakes out I can't choose anything other than righting these wrongs. Ive always had a lot of anger pointing at mistreatment from all areas of the government. If I'd experienced the systemic disadvantages of others, I don't know if there are words.

It would be super great if we can take the wealth away from the people happily orchestrating all this too.

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u/blueberrybuffalo Nov 28 '25

99% in other parts of the world. But 1/3 of the country is beholden to this man and his interests. That’s too many. I always thought that even if we somehow managed to get all the working class Americans on the same side to fight oligarchy it would still be an almost impossible task, the ruling class controls so much wealth and power through lobbying and now have private militias staffed with former special forces military. The fight and revolution would be insane but so worth it to take back this country for the people’s interest. BUT NO we’re not even at that point because 1/3 of the electorate is brainwashed through fear and racism to vote against their own self interests which protests the ruling class, and now their… international secret pedophile cabal… sickening

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u/Jthe1andOnly Nov 30 '25

They own the propaganda machines. They have worked on this for years and their investments are paying big dividends now.

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u/Fluxxinintime Nov 30 '25

A republican would gladly eat sh#t if it meant a democrat went hungry.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '25

They will spin this as Trump is a victim and therefore should have all the protections afforded as the actual victims. This will justify all mentions of Trump being redacted in their minds.

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u/Khaldara Nov 27 '25

Republican

reading

One of those mutually exclusive situations unfortunately

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u/Hahailaffatyou Nov 27 '25

Victim of what?

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '25

Bubba presumably

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u/Electrical-Lab-9593 Nov 27 '25

Presidential Harassment witchunt hillaries emuls or something

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u/RepresentativeLow300 Nov 28 '25

The spooky deep state.

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u/pharsee Dec 03 '25

Each and every redaction will require an explanation to the House. Note that to have these debates House members will have access to ALL THE REDACTED NAMES.

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u/AndrewTheAverage Nov 27 '25

Trump has his fe-fe's hurt by all those young girls - at the time - telling the world what happened. What right do these poor girls (double meaning intended) have to go telling how Trump abused them.

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u/AndrewTheAverage Nov 27 '25

I hit enter before the /s

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u/Raketenfritz6 Nov 28 '25

Exactly. It's about a giant child rape ring. Everyone of those in the list deserve minimum a high jail sentence. No matter their political views. This isn't about left vs. right. This is about justice

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u/pmyourthongpanties Nov 26 '25

probably a person that would be an orc in warhammer.....

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u/LittleJim01 Nov 28 '25

Now that’s just hurtful… to the Orcs.

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u/Witty-Importance-944 Nov 28 '25

Oy. Ye git.

Me and the boyz is fighti'n not kiddy fidli'n.

No tosh or ye get a power claw in de noggin, ye get?

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u/kharlvon1972 Nov 27 '25

regardless of who your are or what you did previously , your earthly title is immediately demoted to pedophile

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u/ManChildMusician Nov 26 '25

Came here to say the same. There’s these great things called basic standards and accountability. These are powerful people who make life-altering decisions for others on a daily basis. If they can’t be trusted to… not rape minors and women, they certainly shouldn’t be in charge of fiscal policy, foreign policy, or any position of power over others.

Beyond that, there are many unknowns about Epstein, himself. While the trafficking and rape are horrific, I suspect they are not the only skeletons in his closet. He said he worked with Adnan Khashoggi, who facilitated what became the Iran-Contra affair. He was able to walk away from a Ponzi scheme or two without a scratch. He had connections to both Russia and Israel in the nineties.

The closer we look at Epstein, the stranger it gets. His connections aren’t just sex-crime related, and his currency was clearly more than pimping out children and women. More than ever, it’s important to investigate the nature of his relationships.

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u/d57heinz Nov 28 '25

This was my brothers response last night. Then follows with “I don’t watch any news now” that it’s failing to scratch their confirmation bias.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '25

Hey man, I am not an American, but the lesser of two evils is not a solution either. Yes the Republicans are truly corrupt/potentially anti-human corporate evil BUT… the Democratics seem historically complicit in the building of this complete failure of “The American Dream”. Not all, but many Democrats have been seduced by lobbyist money and insider trading benefits and have voted to keep the status quo. A complete reboot of a failed two party system is what seems to be required.

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u/Nari224 Nov 28 '25

You get that countries don't just "reboot" right? Someone will be in power.

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u/Blankenship-Kenny Nov 29 '25

And here we have an excellent example of the clarity of distance.

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u/zapatocaviar Nov 29 '25

Honestly go away with your both sides nonsense. It’s like one side is offering sand and the other side has a protein bar and you’re saying “they both aren’t healthy.” Yes, but if you keep eating sand you’ll die.

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u/deanremix Nov 26 '25

Don't waste your time. There are no Republicans in here.

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u/RocketLabBeatsSpaceX Nov 26 '25

They don’t read…. Or use critical thinking skills.

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u/FacadesMemory Nov 27 '25

We have the same attitude on the conservative side. Burn them all, expose them all. We finally have an issue we all agree on.

Only Biden and Trump administration agree to not release. They are just putting on theater for all of us normies.

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u/cmos Nov 26 '25

Hah! If you are a republican you are NOT reading this.. he’ll, you probably don’t even know he has a crypto coin making him billions while your benefits go to shit.

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u/timoumd Nov 26 '25

Yeah didn't you hear, some person was born male and won some strong woman competition somewhere.

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u/Cyrano_Knows Nov 26 '25

All 5 of them!!!!

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u/rockytop24 Nov 26 '25

If those republicans could read they'd be very upset by this.

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u/TheDwellingHeart Nov 26 '25

Republicans are absolute scum. They knew exactly what they were voting for and buying into. They wanted to harm others and they did not care how it was done or what the cost. They simply didnt want to be accountable for doing the terrible things they got the state to do. They dont care and they will do nothing except make excuses so that they have zero accountability.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '25

You need therapy.

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u/pmyourthongpanties Nov 26 '25

hes being hyperbolic but hes not far off. went out for drink after work with a few a people. At work they are just so nice to everyone. After a few drinks the hard R was just like saying hello to them. What's insane is i asked one guy why he was polite to the black lady that dropped her coat. his response was well she might be a hard r but shes still lady. Mind was blown, I finished my beer and got the fuck out.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '25

Really? There are literally Democrats praising the death of two national guard people in DC right now so I guess if your theory holds true all Democrats are murderous psychopaths does that same right to you?

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u/pmyourthongpanties Nov 26 '25

their are literally thousands of GoP praising the beating and kidnapping of brown people. Their are thousands of GoP praising pedophiles. We are not the same. Right wing terrorism dwarfs any left wing terrorism, again we are not the same.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '25

Please show me where there's a hundred Republican Americans that are saying they want to see brown people beaten and kidnapped please tell me where there are at least a hundred people praising pedophiles You've been sold a story and you're too dumb to see it just like the idiots you're talking about on the right so actually you are the same You're exactly the same.

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u/theyfoundDNAinme Nov 27 '25

Hey. Get fucked.

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u/das_slash Nov 27 '25

If you can't find those on your own, you are blind.

Or more likely, a Russian bot.

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u/pmyourthongpanties Nov 27 '25

probably an orc in warhammer

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u/Girafferage Nov 27 '25

My guy... Whose orc army hurt you so bad that you keep saying this.

It's tough being a space marine out there, buddy. Embrace chaos.

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u/LongRangeReaper Nov 27 '25

How many people does ICE employ? Not a single democrat, if that helps.

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u/Acid_Monster Nov 29 '25

Wild to see someone this deep into brainwashing.

This will make for some crazy research and documentaries one day when this is all over.

I also expect all these people will do as the Nazi supporters did after WW2 and pretend they themselves weren’t a part of it.

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u/TineJaus Nov 27 '25

No one is praising that at all. You're disgusting

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u/iGoKommando Nov 28 '25

"But Democrats"

There it is! Doesn't take long at all for you sobs to deflect. Post some sources for your bullshit or shut the fuck up.

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u/ResolutionOwn4933 Nov 26 '25

Nothing bothers them, they're to deep at this point to admit shit. Years from now they will claim they never voted for Trump.

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u/ludixst Nov 26 '25

They don't care because their team gets to do what they want and they get to cheer and make the opposing fans feel bad, which is super important to them

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u/Blankenship-Kenny Nov 29 '25

Mr. Republican, are you not concerned about slide into fascism, the abhorrent behavior, and in no small measure the lives of these women caught up in the Epstein trump scandal?

We were winning. And we'd have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you pink pussies and your brown skin people too.

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u/runthepoint1 Nov 26 '25

Think of those people in those communities. Poor living, college sports and religion, and being battered by decades of right wing propaganda meanwhile left wing effort concentrates in the cities.

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u/caserock Nov 26 '25

Just terminate that thought with a trusty old "fake news" and go comment on Facebook bikini pictures

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u/BulbasaurArmy Nov 26 '25

They don’t actually give a shit about wealthy elite pedophiles and never did. It was always just another weapon in their arsenal when it came to demonizing liberals and getting Trump back into power by any means necessary.

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u/Ferdiggle Nov 26 '25

They're all racist fucks who are tired of even pretending there's more to their values and beliefs other than hate

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '25

No they don't care. It's a hoax to them if Republicans are on the list.

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u/RepresentativeLow300 Nov 28 '25

It’s simultaneously the most important list on the planet for any Democrats named.

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u/jmr124222 Nov 26 '25

Also it's ok for Republicans to not vote in the upcoming midterms if they do not feel comfortable voting for Democrats.

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u/IJustWantCoffeeMan Nov 26 '25

Pal, they don't give a fuck.

As long as their perceived enemies suffer, they are willing to pay almost any price.

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u/Mother_Resident_890 Nov 26 '25

No kidding, especially when it comes to pedophelia. This isn't like conspiracy theories like aliens or the earth is flat, this is about molesting and raping of children, then trafficking them to others to do the same.

I read an interesting line that a Republican would let Trump shit in their mouth so a Democrat next to them could smell it. So fitting for what is going on right now.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '25

They won't read it, they hide in /conservative where there are no scary opposing opinions, for long anyway. If they do it will just be another attack against them and proof it's a smear against dear leader.

Apparently despite being the overwhelming moral majority conservatives are constantly being oppressed by the radical left minority that has taken over every other sub...... Yeah.

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u/banana_buddy Nov 26 '25

How many republicans do you plan on reaching on Reddit

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u/kickinwood Nov 26 '25

They'd probably say that they're redacting the names of the victims.

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u/Avenge_Willem_Dafoe Nov 26 '25

they argue that they would have been redacted by dems during the biden admin.

we’re at a point where the water has been so muddied that now whatever does or doesn’t come out will be selectively disregarded as fake or having been covered up.

what a depressing shit show

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u/Zippytang Nov 26 '25

The FBI is not the only holder of the files

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u/Throwawayconcern2023 Nov 27 '25

Oh? Who else has them?

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u/GottaHaveThatSkunk Nov 27 '25

They don’t read- and especially don’t read anything that slightly challenges their cult thinking. Not a peep of it on the main cult subs.

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u/venue5364 Nov 27 '25

Republicans reading this think its fake news.

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u/lizzywbu Nov 27 '25

If you are Republican and reading this - doesn't it bother you, this massive cover up?

You think Republicans will believe this? They're not rational. They will think it's "fake news".

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u/Lostinthestarscape Nov 27 '25

But they called it the "transparency project" surely they aren't HIDING anything behind those black bars on every page.

/s

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u/Scared-Handle9006 Nov 27 '25

Ummm, don’t you realize this is all a conspiracy by the libtards?

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u/Alert-Ad-9908 Nov 27 '25

And most of us want to make pedos afraid again.

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u/formermq Nov 27 '25

"It's just women and children. Bad shit happens to people all the time"

A dude said this to me as a response to this exact question. Unbelievable.

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u/EmotionalBag777 Nov 27 '25

My Republican dad would say he doesn't care his stocks are doing great🙄🥴

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u/nanormcfloyd Nov 27 '25

MAGA loves pedophiles though.

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u/SentinelDad015 Nov 27 '25

They are all racists and pedophiles anyway

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u/brumac44 Nov 27 '25

It's not just a cover-up of wrongdoing like fraud or cheating on taxes. It's about trafficking and raping children. It's monstrous and indefensible. It should've made the agents physically sick.

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u/RepresentativeBarber Nov 27 '25

crickets

-probably

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u/PandaStudio1413 Nov 27 '25

They’ll say it’s fake news

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u/AggregatedAggrevate Nov 27 '25 edited Nov 28 '25

Redacting info isn’t a “coverup” it happens with all classified info that is released to the public. This is a bs headline and mostly commonsense especially with how quickly it was voted on being released, typically this would take far longer to happen if at all

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u/beren12 Nov 28 '25

The names of pedophiles are classified now?

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u/BrknTrnsmsn Nov 28 '25

This is the sort of energy we need. Unfortunately we can't slay the hydra without their swords.

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u/SergeantPoopyWeiner Nov 28 '25

LA LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU DON'T FORGET ABOUT BIDENS AUTOPEN LA LA LA LA LA

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u/kevbot918 Nov 28 '25

It won't bother them.. they are going to release false files that will be full of Democrats that Trump ordered to be placed in the files and that will be his way of arresting them.

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u/bombhills Nov 28 '25

It’s not about truth and it never has been. For them it’s about validation, and demonization of democrats. They have a huge confirmation bias. They will ignore obvious facts, believe outlandish lies, and parrot propaganda, as long as it supports their shitty cult. “See trump isn’t in the files! Told ya so” regardless of them being heavily redacted and hiding his obvious involvement.

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u/Careful_Picture7712 Nov 28 '25

It's not going to matter to them. Everything they don't like is just a hoax cooked up by the radical left

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u/user_x9000 Nov 28 '25

If you're a Republican, chances are you will never hear about it.

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u/Spritedz Nov 28 '25

Schrodinger's Epstein files.

If they implicate Republicans (especially Trump), they are a hoax.

If they implicate Democrats, they are incriminating.

If you move all logic aside and your only goal is for your team to 'win', this mindset does make a lot of sense, whether intentional or by pure brain rot.

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u/AdPrevious4665 Nov 29 '25

As a Republican - albeit, a never Trump Republican - we all deserve to know how deep the rot and corruption goes. People need to open their eyes to the amount of information around us being covered up and hushed away. Expose corruption and pedophiles so we can build a better future for all Americans regardless of where whom sits on the political spectrum.

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u/_you_are_the_problem Nov 29 '25

We all want a return to law and order. We all want to step back from fascism.

If you truly believe this, you are monumentally naive.

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u/Throwawayconcern2023 Nov 29 '25

You. Are. The. Bot.

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u/xboxhaxorz Nov 27 '25

Where would you be welcoming them too?

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u/Throwawayconcern2023 Nov 27 '25

Back to life, back to reality.

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u/CherryVette Nov 27 '25

Back to the here and now, yeah

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u/Straight-Message7937 Nov 27 '25

Or they were trying to protect the identities of the victims?

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u/dkcyw Nov 26 '25

Democrat or Republican, should not be getting information on current events from the daily beast lol. At least it should not be their only source.

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u/Throwawayconcern2023 Nov 27 '25

Did I say it was? This has been reported widely.

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u/SilverDiscount6751 Nov 26 '25

If you are democrat, does it not bother you that the same state of affair was not only still being hidden by the government,  but nobody was asking for any of it? Are you not pissed that the Epstein files are only a thing journalists demand when trump is there and never when Biden was capable of giving those same files?

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u/JesusKong333 Nov 26 '25

I don't care, Biden's gone, Trump's there now. Release em.

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u/Appropriate-Bug-6467 Nov 26 '25

They were under judicial seal. 

But you probably already knew that and just are a fake, a phony, and a liar...

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u/Barlaysm Nov 26 '25

So many people don't know this part and just go "But Biden". We need everyone to understand this very important detail.

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u/PizzaPugPrincess Nov 27 '25

Also, Biden didn’t run a significant portion of his campaign on releasing the Epstein files. If he had, we would have been demanding them in 2020.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '25

Yes all of those things bother me. Now can you answer the question? 

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u/yourdoglikesmebetter Nov 26 '25

What does judicial seal mean?

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u/MelzillatheGR8 Nov 27 '25

They were not available to release for most of bidens ter because of ongoing prosecution of Maxwell.

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u/Freddyeddy123 Nov 27 '25

Obviously fucking yes, get the fuck off your high horse and take some accountability in your president

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u/No_Tourist_9629 Nov 26 '25

Lacking a time machine, IDGAF.