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DOJ does damage control as staffer admits Republicans will be redacted from Epstein files
(www.rawstory.com)
So now we know for sure the list includes Republicans.
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2025
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LOL. Was there any doubt?
Isn't this something that even most Republicans suspected this corrupted government would do?
All normal Americans suspected this because, well, duh. And Republicans that suspected the government under Taco would do this because that's their idea of "justice", and they expect him and his staff to deliver it.
Hopefully they leave in all the black redactions and not just delete them.
That way we can see how many republicans were redacted.
However I fear they’re also fabricating and just adding as many enemies they need to it for a large night of long knives. Like their version of Project Insight.
It'll literally be a notepad file called "jeffrey epstein list.txt" that list every democrat reps and senator.
jeffrey epstein list(1)(1) final(1).txt
Don’t forget to prefix with “Copy of Copy of”
They won't release it.
Because if they release a list with only Dem names on it, surely there will be a former Biden Admin official with a copy of the full unredacted list, and they could just release that as retaliation.
Neither party would want to release it, because its M.A.D. at this point.
If there IS a hypothetical former Biden official with the full unredacted documents who doesn't have the courage to leak them, this hypothetical person needs to be hung from the nearest hypothetical tree.
Lots of MAGA claimed to want the swamp drained. Maybe a "true Qanon" person would also leak the list.
Yeah, sure would be nice if they actually had political beliefs or principles they weren’t willing to discard when it made their garbage worldview inconvenient.
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Its gonna be a short list.....
Nah, they'll just put in the names of everyone they don't like. The only name I'd be certain was already there is Bill Clinton's.
Disagree. The list will be shorter, but it's not necessarily a short list. Being a Democrat doesn't stop someone from being a PoS.
A few years ago someone posted a list of reported sex crimes by politically affiliated people. It was about 60/40 Republicans.
I know, I'm just making a joke. It wasn't literal.
Dude they are never releasing the full files. This is all just a fucking tease and while they're busy pretending to be bringing the hammer of justice down all the pedophiles they just chose to protect (once again) are casually helping set up and cement the authoritarian regime in cities across America.
Like when we reach the point that there is military patrolling every major city, elections are cancelled indefinitely for our own good, and they feel safe enough to just admit they're not releasing anything else, what do we even do?
This is like somebody who you caught robbing you, then giving you some of your stuff back to get you to shut up and not draw so much attention. Then reassuring you that you'll get the rest back soon, they just didn't feel comfortable giving it all back to you yet? What possible reason would you have to trust or believe that they'll do anything once the heat and focus has died down enough?
what do we even do?
The French had this idea
lovable!
I can hear the original! Peanut butter jelly time 🤘
It's choppin' off their heads time
Choppin' off their heads time
Choppin' off their heads time
Dude they are never releasing the full files
whilst i think every reasonable person wants everyone on a hypothetical epstein list (only saying hypothetical because we don’t honestly know what’s actually there to be released: doubtful it’s as simple as a list) to be brought to justice, the point at this stage is just to speak their language: MAGA can’t be trusted, and it seems the only way they realise that is with things like this… constantly point out, on common ground, that this is all hypocritical lying bullshit
They don't care though. They know that they are hypocritical lying bullshit peddlers. To them, that is a virtue.
The core, ie the qanon cult, absolutely care. Their only reason for engaging in politics in the first place is to fight the demonic pedophile ring infesting the government. They just didn't realize they were voting for its leader.
there’s definitely some of them that do… at the very least, there’s been a bunch of the MAGA influencers that have been pissy about it… i think that’s a useful thing to push on
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So we should assume every redacted name is a Republican, got it.
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Republicans: "SEE! BILL CLINTON IS THE ONLY NAME ON THE LIST!!!"
and three Joos.
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My concern is that neither side has released a list because its going to be insanely ugly. Like the most powerful people in the US....and the fallout is going to be anarchy.
I have to believe that Biden's team looked at what the fallout would look like, and their reaction was "Oh....my....god. What they did was fuckjng horrific, but the country will literally implode if we release this."
I'm all for releasing it, we need a bit of a hard reset/wake up call.
Well what you're deciding to believe about that is just wrong. Members of the Biden administration did assist (D) senator Wyden's investigation into wire transfers of billions of dollars to Epstein, which is still ongoing and he has published a list of dozens of names that he found records of financial involvement with Epstein. That investigation which Biden staff cooperated with is being blocked by Trump's staff currently.
The country won't explode, it will destroy the pedophiles legacy and future though, which is death to them. Nearly everything biden does is do gaslight people into thinking he was a great person.
people need to treat not releasing the info as though the files have the worst possible contents
hard reset is definitely needed
Not Bernie! [sigh] Release them anyways.
Releasing the list is damage control.
The Epstein list is really just a focusing lens of much greater rage at billionaires and the elites that cover for them. They either throw some meat to satiate the wolves at their door or the wolves will want to come for them all. Americans are too American to admit their rage is all really about wealth inequality.
Interesting point of the day
Apparently it is safer to leave these blackmail compromised people in powerful positions.
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So, what we need is the list from the victims read into record by AOC or the like. That's all I'd trust.
AOC and MTG, side by side, reading from the same document. Just AOC alone would let conservatives shrug off every consequential name.
Do it now and no one gets held accountable.
Do it after republicans start prosecution of the Dems and it becomes much harder to bury the whole thing.
Plus, it gets rid of a shit ton of problematic Dems. If they were raping kids with Epstein, they're also doing way worse shit to prevent that from coming out.
That was the whole point, accumulate dirt, then blackmail.
In 2026 only one party will be able to say zero incumbents were named in the Epstein list, and every republican incumbent has to defend not holding their peers accountable, or even personally being on the list themselves.
trump trying to use corrupt Dems as sacrificial lambs is going to bite him in the ass
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Good! The LAST thing we Would want is for Republican Child Rapists to be CAUGHT! PROTECT THE REPUBLICAN CHILD RAPISTS!
An easy solution is to not redact anything.
This is ONLY a problem if the guilty are in charge.
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