DOJ won’t meet Friday deadline to release all the Epstein fileshttps://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/19/epstein-documents-release-friday-deadline-00699935?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.itThe Department of Justice will not be releasing all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by Friday’s deadline, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday morning.In an interview with Fox News, Blanche said the department would “release several hundred thousand documents today.”But he acknowledged Friday’s release would not encompass all of the DOJ’s documents for the investigation into the late financier.“I expect that we’re going to release more documents over the next couple of weeks, so today several hundred thousand and then over the next couple weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more,” Blanche said. “There’s a lot of eyes looking at these and we want to make sure that when we do produce the materials we are producing, that we are protecting every single victim.”The delay means the White House is in apparent conflict with a law President Donald Trump signed in November that mandated the wholesale release of all of its non-exempt Epstein information within a 30-day period.A spokesperson for the Department of Justice declined a request to expand on Blanche’s comments, saying they speak for themselves.
“President Trump signed that law 30 days ago,” Blanche told Fox. “And we have been working tirelessly since that day to make sure that we get every single document that we have within the Department of Justice, review it and get it to the American public.”When asked for comment, a spokesperson for Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) — who led the successful discharge petition effort to trigger eventual passage of the law — pointed to a video on X on Thursday where he indicated he’d know whether the administration had met his disclosure standards. Following conversations with lawyers for Epstein’s victims, he believes the FBI has at least 20 names of men who are accused of committing sex crimes.“If we get a large production on Dec. 19, and it does not contain a single name of any male who is accused of a sex crime or sex trafficking or rape or any of these things, then we know they haven’t produced all the documents,” he said. “It’s that simple.”Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who partnered with Massie to push the discharge petition, said in a statement that “if DOJ is producing real documents of interest that are not overly redacted, and if they are clear about a timeline for full production then that is a positive step.”“They ultimately must release all of it,” he said. “The north star remains justice for survivors and holding the rich and powerful men who raped young girls or covered up the abuse accountable.”Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer panned Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi for the delayed release in a statement Friday, saying that “this just shows the Department of Justice, Donald Trump, and Pam Bondi are hellbent on hiding the truth.”“Senate Democrats are working closely with attorneys for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and with outside legal experts to assess what documents are being withheld and what is being covered up by Pam Bondi,” he said. “We will not stop until the whole truth comes out.”
>>1467295>Trump team 2024: VOTE TRUMP TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES AND BRING THESE PEDOS TO JUSTICE!>Trump team 2025: We are literally going to break the law to protect these pedos, no refunds suckers!Fellforitagainaward.tiff
>>1467295Oh and conveniently the house is out of session, so no way to punish this until after new years.Awful convenient
>>1467310It's cute that you think Mike Johnson's House of Representatives will ever enforce this
>>1467314They already went rogue on this once. Johnson has lost control of the House.
fell for it again
DDDO: deny delay deflect obfuscate
>>1467295They need more money to embezzle for redactions.
They've released mostly Clinton stuff.Pictures of Clinton in a pool with Ghislaine Maxwell & Epstein
>>1467468Called it.
>>1467468Weird. Since everyone already knows that Bill is a huge fucking pervert.
>>1467321Johnson never had control of the house. He didn't even have control of his own house. His wife had a black child which Mike was forced to adopt as his own. Not really a leader at all. Beta at best.
>>1467477Everyone already knows that Trump is a huge fucking pervert too.
>>1467310>so no way to punish this until after new yearsThere isn't any way to punish this in the first place unless the House is willing to impeach someone, which they won't.Courts could do something, but SCOTUS would probably just stall it for 6 months and then say this law infringed on executive powers and is unconstitutional.
>>1467295>First "wave" of documents are out>One of them is literally 100 pages completely blacked outHey remember when the order literally said they weren't allowed to redact anything that wasn't victim names or photos?
>>1467481He doesn't have to be a leader. MAGA simply needed a shameless worm that would follow Trump's orders to the letter and he fit the bill.
>>1467487>https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%203/EFTA00005586.pdfHoly fucking shit lmao.To remind everyone, here is the exact language of the order to have these released:>No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.
Pictures of Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Diana Ross
>>1467493This has gotta be a fucking joke.
>>1467495It's a "Fuck You" to every single AmericanThe ones who voted for him and the ones who didn'tFuck you.
>>1467498It's also in open violation of a law passed by congress and signed by the president. The DOJ is now in open contempt of Congress.
>>1467500Git 'em, killer.
>>1467500Does it have any enforcement mechanisms? Because if not, then breaking it is not directly a crime and congress is going to have to actually haul the DoJ in and start asking very uncomfortable questions under oath for any sort of enforcement to happen.
>>1467517>Does it have any enforcement mechanisms?Yes actually. This is what landed Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon in jail.
>>1467521No, I mean the law itself. Some laws don't actually have a penalty for breaking them, they aren't misdemeanors, felonies, or treason. The only way people get punished for breaking them is lying under oath about that time they broke the law, or failing to follow [court/congressional] orders that say they must follow the law going forward. If either of those happen, then they can be hit with contempt.
>>1467526Contempt of Congress is obstructing the work of congress. Not abiding by a law passed by them counts under that umbrella.
>>1467295Kek based. Trump could have eaten babies and I would still support him. I hope they drag this out for another decade so I can see you retards flip out over this nothing burger.
>>1467530>Based pedophile TrumpNice to see your true colors. Try not to be too upset when he decides to follow Hitler's example of what to do when you know you're going to be removed from power.
>>1467531i doubt the person you're responding to is a real trump voter, he's either being sarcastic or he's a standard unhinged esl shill
>>1467532Yeah, any real Trump voter here is burying their head in the sand at this point because wtf
>>1467531a war hero that would've taken over the world if he wasn't so stupid and invaded russia in winter?>>1467535I'm fine with leftists screeching, the fact neither parties released anything means there's plenty of skeletons on both sides the impending bloodbath is going to be funny. whose going to take TDS screeching retards seriously when they give their own a pass
>>1467498It's just a fuck you to leftist. Trump continues to win and troll. Just like the first term we are having our fill of libtard tears
>>1467528>Contempt of Congress is obstructing the work of congress. Not abiding by a law passed by them counts under that umbrella.No it fucking doesn't. There was no criminal penalty included in the Epstein disclosure act. Violating it is as criminal as violating the Hatch Act.And even if it were criminal, let me know how far Congress gets with a criminal referral to the DoJ for the DoJ.They could subpoena these records and then not turning them over would be Contempt of Congress and Congress could go for inherent contempt and lock up whoever refused to turn them over themselves with either Sergeant at Arms, but Congress hasn't done anything like that in like a century, it would be separate from this violation of the law, and if the person they lock up invokes executive privilege, it would go to SCOTUS, who would worst case scenario strip inherent contempt powers from Congress in their entirety so it can't even be used as a threat in the future against non-members of the executive and best case scenario side with the executive privilege argument and order their release (at which point Congress either complies and accomplishes nothing but weakening themself or refuses and we've doubled our constitutional crises).tl;dr Congress has zero fucking power over the executive without the support of SCOTUS, a thing they do not have due to unitary executive theorists getting pushed through by Trump...with the help of Congress. Our system of checks and balances no longer exists. We all get to eat shit. Republicans voted for this. Enjoy your untouchable rapist overlords.
>>1467545>And even if it were criminal, let me know how far Congress gets with a criminal referral to the DoJ for the DoJ.Yeah good luck with that. You know what happens when the head of the DOJ breaks the law? They get removed. And that's what is going to happen because even the GOP knows this looks bad.
>>1467535>Yeah, any real Trump voter here is burying their head in the sand at this point because wtfTrump's support is still in the high 30s. More than 1 in 3 people proudly support his ass and could not give less of a fuck who his opponents say he raped.
>>1467549LMAO. Pretty sure the head of the DoJ has been removed more times for refusing to break the law than breaking the law.
>>1467550Doesn’t matter if he did or didn’t. He’s done more for pedophiles in the last 6 months than he’s done for you or me this entire term.
>>1467553And they do not care. He's hurting brown immigrants. That's what really matters. Fuck the economy. Fuck the rape victims. Fuck you and me.
>>1467552The GOP knows they're screwed. They either take full credit as the party of pedophile protectors while also basically saying congress has no power, which I don't think a majority of them will be happy with considering that's their career and power, or they finally come down to try and at least get some respect for exposing them. A mid-term massacre is coming either way, but at least owing up will result in their party not being completely annihilated.
>>1467550Kinda, but if you poll them on his individual policies and actions, the support is much lower. Supporting Trump is a cultural thing. It's something you have to do to be part of the club (and in many places, it's the only club around since American society has been hollowed out so much). Democrats don't have anything similar, since they're all lame.
>>1467554The kicker is the net effect is gonna be substituting some brown immigrants with other brown immigrants.
>>1467295DOJ just openly admitted to censoring faces (at minimum) in the files for political reasons. This flies directly in the face of the EFTA. This will, at minimum, cost Blanche and Bondi their jobs.
A spokesperson for former president Bill Clinton has addressed his name and pictures emerging in the Epstein files on Friday afternoon.'The White House hasn't been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,' the spokesperson said.'This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they'll try and hide forever.'So they can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn't about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be.'Even Susie Wiles said Donald Trump was wrong about Bill Clinton,' the spokesperson added, referencing Wiles' recent interview with Vanity Fair in which she admitted 'Trump was wrong' about there being incriminating evidence against the former Democratic president in the files'There are two types of people here. The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light. The second group continued relationships with him after. We're in the first,' Clinton's spokesperson said.'No amount of stalling by people in the second group will change that. Everyone, especially MAGA, expects answers, not scapegoats.'
Not only is he a fag. He is also a pedo
>>1467563No, it won't. Stop being a dumbass. Pete Hegseth openly leaked upcoming military options to a reporter and nothing happened.
>>1467577The guy who added the reporter to that chat got removed from his position. Also, this goes beyond a fuck up and into open defiance and contempt of congress. You really think the GOP members who LIKE having power are gonna take that laying down? Someone will have to take the fall for this at minimum because they outright disobeyed the act.
>>1467579>You really think the GOP members who LIKE having power are gonna take that laying downthe way things are going, it kind of seems like it. maybe it's blackmail, maybe it's payola, but the republican legislature has definitely raised their posteriors
Prepare to laughhttps://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2002175357277921449>The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of the victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials.>the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials.Let me quote that again:>the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials.
>>1467579>You really think the GOP members who LIKE having power are gonna take that laying down?Yes, because the alternative is them and their family getting harassed or murdered by the MAGA hoards.They did the ultimate dereliction of duty by not holding trump accountable for his failed coup.
>>1467585There’s been too many former maga people that live life comfortably away from politics for anyone to believe such outlandish nonsense.
>>1467577Probably cause it was options and not operations already set.
>>1467579>The guy who added the reporter to that chat got removed from his position.The guy who added the reporter to the group chat isn't the one that discussed classified info on an unsecure server without even bothering to check who was on it. That's multiple fucking felonies. This Epstein coverup shit isn't.And that guy got a promotion to fucking UN ambassador. That's one of the most prestigious positions at the State Department and arguably the cushiest job in government after VP. The only person to actually be hurt by that shit was his underling who got fired as a fucking fall guy.
>>1467588Except they still buckled to the threats when it happened.
>>1467579>You really think the GOP members who LIKE having power are gonna take that laying down?Unironically yes. Republicans in Congress have been building up the unitary executive for years. Congress is slow and ineffective, they usually control the presidency, they have an advantage in the Senate, and they have 6-3 in SCOTUS. The more they break government, the harder it is for Dems to reverse damage Republicans do. That's why they'll never touch the filibuster no matter how much Trump bitches, even though it would vastly empower Congress.
>>1467590>Probably cause it was options and not operations already set.My brother in Christ, no it wasn't.>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_group_chat_leaks>On March 15 at 11:44 a.m. EDT (UTC−4), the Hegseth-associated account shared what Goldberg described as detailed operational information regarding imminent strikes, including target information, weapons systems to be employed and attack sequencing. Goldberg stated that this message indicated strikes were to begin about 1:45 p.m. EDT.[20] When most of the chat was published by The Atlantic, it showed that Hegseth revealed information including the launch times of F-18 aircraft, MQ-9 drones and Tomahawk missiles, as well as the time when the F-18 aircraft would reach their targets, and the time when the bombs would land.[1][2]
>>1467584That's not suprising. Did anyone really think they would follow the rules on this?
>>1467584If you somehow still needed proof that our government is run by pedophiles, here it is.
>>1467584Forgot to link the article, sorry: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/epstein-files-explode-open-doj-details-discovery-powerful-figures-more-than-1200-victims
>>1467606>our governmentThe Republican Party*
>>1467612>ignore the pdfs in the DNC please!No.
>>1467592Which former maga people came back then?
This non-happening has lasted longer than From and Pluribus combined. Impressive.
>>1467614>ignore the pdfs in the DNC please!Feel free to jail those fucks. I don't see any Dems calling for anyone in the Epstein files to be protected. Shut up, bitch.
>>1467617Nope. They just knee jerk call for arresting Trump and Republicans while staying silent on everyone else until questioned. Kinda like what you just did.
>>1467619Source?
>>1467622(You)
>>1467538>>1467541>tear down the country to own the libsThis is why you keep losing.
>>1467627So you made it up?
>>1467628you're so right that's why we have a democrat as president right now.
>>1467631>we
>>1467619>They just knee jerk call for arresting Trump and RepublicansWhere did I call for anyone to be arrested? We don't have any incriminating evidence from all the redacted shit Republicans have given us. I want everything out there and anyone accused of engaging in pedophilia to die in prison. Also Maxwell should be moved back to a more appropriate prison. We can't do that shit though cause Republicans are burying all the evidence and protecting Maxwell.Don't get me wrong though, plenty of Republicans deserve to go to prison for other crimes. Trump among them. But I'm not opposed to Dems going to prison too. Henry Cuellar deserved to rot. Eric Adams deserved to rot. Bob Menendez is rightly in prison (for now, inb4 Trump pardons him). Etc.tl;dr you're a lying partisan asshole that wants to portray both parties as equally bad to run cover for Republicans burying the Epstein investigation.
>>1467634>>1467619Oh, and PLEASE bring up Dems defending Letitia James, a person Trump's ass-hats at the DoJ have failed to prosecute 3 fucking times now cause she didn't do jack shit, a thing even Trump's chief of staff admitted when she said that shit was a political prosecution.
>>1467636shill anon, try to stay on topic ok
>>1467637Just heading you off at the pass.On topic, Dems have been calling for blood since the investigation was closed with no further prosecutions by Trump and they've had to fight the Republicans tooth and nail to get any evidence out for the public to see.
>>1467639i hate that cliche
>>1467636Literally shilling here.
>>1467641we know, but thanks for self reporting
>>1467641The shills are the same ones who want to censor the internet and drive the score even lower. Did you know that the United States ranks 73/100 while Iceland is 94/100?And don’t forget about the slippery slope. Things maybe ok now, but it’s safe to assume both sides are on the list and both sides shill and that the slippery slope will get worse before they get better
>>1467642Again, do not let it distract you from the fact that thanks to these shills, the Internet anonymity dropped from 76/100, to 73/100. Real anons like me aren’t a shill and want Free AND ANONYMOUS INTERNET. Iceland is currently 94/100, WAY HIGHER THAN THE REST OF THE WORLD. Imagine the high tech utopia they live in.
>>1467646>>1467647See>>1467637
