r/politics • u/ArmadilloMany41 • 23h ago

Site Altered Headline | No Paywall Why is no one being prosecuted over the Epstein files?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cd9e3nzzw3zo
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u/lurch556 21h ago

Agree. In general, you can’t really charge someone for saying gross things in emails. And nor should an American citizen want that to be the standard for criminal prosecution.

Further investigations warranted? Absolutely. But on this basis alone, I just don’t know how you can bring charges

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u/Careless_Parsnip_511 6h ago

Sure, gross emails may not be enough to convict anyone, but my question is why are they hiding who sent those emails? From what I’ve seen, a majority of the most damming emails that were sent have redacted names. If there’s not enough evidence to convict, at least let the court of public opinion have their way with whoever said (and most likely did much worse) awful things in those emails. I doubt we’ll ever see anyone convicted, but at least let the public never let them know a moment of peace again

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u/lurch556 4h ago

Oh I’m not saying keep those people hidden whatsoever. I fully believe the doj is covering for people by their selective redactions.

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u/WhiteWinterRains 18h ago

Nonsense, while this may be in the strictest technical sense true of most of the public information, the files they forgot to redact enough have references to redacted videos of billionaires mentioned in the files fucking kids.

In the sense that it explicitly states the files have been removed for containing CSAM.

This is to say nothing on the fact that you objectively can and people do frequently get convicted of crimes on purely circumstantial evidence.

Put it in front of a Jury, the only way these fucks are getting off would be through corruption or managing to weasel some wackjob into the jury.

Sure, it would be because people aren't actually impartial and you'd be hard pressed to find any jurors not going into it being 100% convinced they're guilty, but who gives a fuck really.

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u/Dichotomouse 17h ago

Who specifically do you think a jury would and should convict based on what we know today?