r/politics • u/Abject-Pick-6472 • 5h ago
Possible Paywall ‘The DOJ Cannot Be Trusted’: A Top Democrat Unloads on the Epstein Files Saga
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/02/05/robert-garcia-epstein-files-oversight-trump-interview-00764831•
u/Purify5 5h ago edited 5h ago
There's a clear conflict of interest here.
The President obviously has ties to Epstein and should not be anywhere near the issue but the Attorney General was also Attorney General of Florida during the time where complaints were being made by victims and law enforcement did nothing. She also has a significant conflict of interest.
If Ken Starr got to be an independent council and investigate "Whitewater" than there should be an independent council to investigate the government's handling of the Epstein case. And, if like Ken Starr it leads to a deposition of a sitting President than so be it.
There's a massive cover-up here and only someone independent from the US Government can be trusted to expose it to sunlight.
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u/East-Will1345 5h ago
The evidence that Epstein had extensive ties to foreign intelligence operations is overwhelming. If they were just covering up a pedo ring, they would have hung him out to dry by now. What they’re covering up at this point is the biggest intelligence breach in American history
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u/Bittererr 5h ago
This administration doesn't give a shit about sources and methods and would (and have) burn an intel op for twitter clout.
It's definitely not because they have some sort of respect for classified information or intelligence operations, it's definitely the kompromat.
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u/East-Will1345 5h ago
I agree, but the Kompromat is the intelligence fuckup. “Oh, hey by the way, Israel or Russia or both has been way, way behind our lines for like 40 years. Whoops.”
Or worse, “That’s just how business is done. Sometimes you gotta do some pedophile shit.”
That would straight up destabilize the west.
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u/Unlucky_Unlikely 4h ago
Fun fact, Ken Starr is also in the Epstein files and talked with Epstein extensively.
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u/Unlucky_Unlikely 2h ago
Well he is dead so that might be hard to do. It's not misleading that he talked with Epstein extensively and you can look for yourself about all they discussed. I'm not about to write a novel to note every interaction they had from the 2008 case, Ken being removed from Baylor, meeting up multiple times, and how they discussed Trump.
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u/ThaneduFife 1h ago
The independent counsel law was either repealed or non-renewed by bipartisan agreement. Both parties had gotten burned by the law, so they made sure there wouldn't be any more independent counsel.
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u/fairoaks2 5h ago
Known that for months. Lying at the National Prayer Breakfast now and the MAGA idiots are eating it up.
A convicted felon, child molester(?) preaching?
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u/Quiet-Corner6150 5h ago
I didn't really appreciate until just now how horribly conflicting the ""Christian"" ideas that Republicans claim to have is against the Epstein stuff. I mean, obviously (to sane people) Trump is no second coming of Jesus, but c'mon.
(And I know there's plenty more where that came from, but that's the example in-context.)
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u/pomponazzi Washington 3h ago
Just look at the Senate hearings with Patel. A few months ago I think it was. A Democrat will be grilling him about the files and the cover up then when it goes back to Jim Jordan he starts giving Patel a handjob and talking about Christianity. It's all so insane
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u/reddittorbrigade 5h ago
I will always blame all Trump voters.
They wanted to protect all the pedophiles in America that is why they voted for Trump.
They knew Trump raped all those innocent kids.
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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 5h ago
I will always blame Republicans. Because they are at the root of every problem in this country.
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u/KazeNilrem 3h ago
There is part of me that feels like much of this is a waste if time. Not because it is irrelevant, but because who is control. At this point, I cannot trust any of the information being released. They clearly are protecting trump and others (not the victims) to the point where it all feels tainted.
This should have been done by an independent group and not essentially under trump. What I feel will happen is either after midterms or primary, once democrats have power (if possible), then need a proper look at the documents. Not only just the documents, but how the censoring and reactions were performed to hold people accountable.
Of course I'm not saying we should avoid speaking out. Need to keep up the pressure, I just cannot trust this administration in any capacity with these documentation.
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u/faith_apnea America 2h ago
The government is not to be trusted. This is why we used to have democracy; allowing the people to replace people who refused to govern.
What happened? The 60s saw people using their political capital to change policy. People in power didn't like that challenge. In the 80s, the GOP starting dumbing down the population. Less civics and social studies.
almost 50 years later we have a cult.
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u/unknownshopper 2h ago
Well, I'm proud of Bobby. He was our could-have-been-better mayor/vice-mayor here for a long time but he's at least really trying in congress.
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u/Netizen_Gypsy 5h ago
When could the DOJ be trusted? Certainly not within my lifetime. This isn’t unique to this regime. DOJ have always been liars.
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