I have noticed for the 5th day in a row the news cycle has been stuck on the lies Maxwell said. They are actively rewriting the narrative and here in a few months the conservatives will believe nothing actually ever happened.
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2025
361 points (99.5% liked)
politics
25392 readers
2697 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
But Lee said Saturday that just three percent of the 33,295 pages of documents turned over to Congress contained new information, according to Oversight Committee Democrats’ initial review.
Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence, told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche that she did not know of any wrongdoing by Trump in connection with Epstein, according to the transcripts, which also show that she praised the president.
I’m starting to suspect that Maxwell may have a different definition of wrongdoing than I do.
She's denying everything so trump can either get her released or pardoned.
If she were to share how she actually violated thousands of children it would not benefit her. So she continues to lie and help cover up the crimes. Now this administration is rewarding her for this.
I continue to fail to understand how the full documents are simultaneously too devastating for Trump to release them but not devastating enough for Biden to have released them.
Because the Clintons are fucked
The documents were sealed for most of his term by court order. However that ended on Jan 1st of his final year, so there were 20 days he could have.
But the president is above the law so that wouldn’t apply to him.
I want to believe. Can you provide a citation?
I think there was supposedly some time based seal...
but I'd imagine also it's just simply biden's also covering clinton or other democratic donors. The fact that we weren't screaming at the top of our lungs to release them in biden's term, was more likely us stupidly falling into security that "norms are back and the wheels of justice turn slowly but always get there", and then watching trump waltz in and imidiately purge the DOJ, FBI etc... and replace everyone with loyalists, and the realization that the courts are half overtaken, half worthless as republicans dropped the illusion that their rulings had any kind of force behind them.
Clinton and Trump, high-fiving while spitroasting an 8-year-old.
Yeah; probably something along those lines, if we’re being honest 🫠
Finding out they actually were lizard people from space this whole time would honestly be more comforting at this point.
Side note: I was fucking CRUSHED when Netflix cancelled Inside Job
Because covering up this vile shit has never been a partisan thing. Hell, it's not even limited to one government.
Good lord... apparently it is extremely hard to purge Trump's name from the actual files.
They ran out of liquid paper and are waiting for the backorder
Probably a result of the tariffs, naturally.
Release the Trump/Epstein files
I realize this isn't a court case, but during discovery in a court case, there's this weird tactic that lawyers sometimes use. You see, they have to provide the opposing counsel with all of the relevant documents, but they also know that the information in the documents can only be used if the opposing counsel can actually find the information.
So, they will send every document that even might have a shred of relevance, and "accidentally" include a lot more, in order to overload the opposing side with so much documentation that they'd have to hire a team of people to go through it.
I suspect that the Justice Department is doing this for multiple reasons. First, and most boringly, it may simply be that they are required by law to send the documents, even if they believe that Congress already has them.
Second, they may be working on Trump's behalf to slow down the process, and pretend to comply. In all of Trump's trials, one of his primary tactics was to delay as much as possible. Trump has learned that justice delayed is justice denied, but with the wrong slant.
Third, they may be working on Trump's behalf to bury the evidence in a mountain of unimportant information in the hopes that the interesting parts will be harder to find, similar to overloading the opposition during discovery in a court case.
Fourth, they may be working on Trump's behalf to send all of this data, as a political spin maneuver. They can say, "Of course most of this data is a repeat. We haven't been holding out that much. We don't have very much evidence at all."
Huhn, can't imagine why they'd obfuscate like that. /s