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superpatriotman

(6,786 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:03 PM 4 hrs ago

What makes you think that un redacted Epstein files will be released?

This feels like another trap.

Why else did hundreds of FBI employees pour through the files earlier this year if not to redact Krasnov and other billionaire
names from ever seeing the light of day.?

I do not trust our government or those in charge, and feel like we’re about to be not only bamboozled, but punished for it afterwards.

We have no control. No one is coming to save us. We already know he’s all over the files and barely a single repuke cares.

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What makes you think that un redacted Epstein files will be released? (Original Post) superpatriotman 4 hrs ago OP
Those are valid worries. bucolic_frolic 4 hrs ago #1
Nothing. CentralMass 4 hrs ago #2
Despite everything they have done, The Dotard is still freaking out (see: Bobo in the Sit Room) RockRaven 4 hrs ago #3
I don't believe it superpatriotman 4 hrs ago #4
I would certainly keep your expectations low, but the fact that Repugs are so hellbent RockRaven 4 hrs ago #5
Their error was having hundreds of FBI agents and prosecutors comb the files for Trump... pat_k 3 hrs ago #6
Files burned? cbabe 3 hrs ago #7
The trap is getting us to give up, gab13by13 3 hrs ago #8
I think tRump provided underaged girls from his russian teen beauty pageant to Epstein yaesu 3 hrs ago #9
Well we had to do the discharge petition before the applegrove 3 hrs ago #10
The Senate won't vote for the release SamuelTheThird 3 hrs ago #11
This.... spanone 3 hrs ago #12
I don't think it will edhopper 3 hrs ago #13

RockRaven

(18,347 posts)
3. Despite everything they have done, The Dotard is still freaking out (see: Bobo in the Sit Room)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:08 PM
4 hrs ago

about the discharge petition, so we might as well push forward and see what we see.

superpatriotman

(6,786 posts)
4. I don't believe it
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:09 PM
4 hrs ago

I’ve lived through too many disappointments, and this feels like another.

RockRaven

(18,347 posts)
5. I would certainly keep your expectations low, but the fact that Repugs are so hellbent
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:14 PM
4 hrs ago

on helping him hide means there is something there.

However, I really doubt it is something novel or unimagined, from a category or type standpoint. It is probably more of the same sort of thing which everyone already knows and half the country already ignores or excuses.

pat_k

(12,435 posts)
6. Their error was having hundreds of FBI agents and prosecutors comb the files for Trump...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:19 PM
3 hrs ago

Secrets aren't secrets when you involve hundreds of people.

They can redact, delete, destroy all they want.

There will be whistleblowers.

cbabe

(5,896 posts)
7. Files burned?
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:22 PM
3 hrs ago
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/many-meadows-burn-docs-white-house-fireplace-rcna63463

How many times did Meadows burn docs in a White House fireplace?
Documents from the Trump White House are already damning on a historic scale. But what about the materials that Mark Meadows literally set on fire?

Dec. 28, 2022, 6:24 AM PST
By Steve Benen
It’s been well documented that Rep. Scott Perry met then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows after the 2020 election, which was itself controversial: By all accounts, the Republicans were exploring how best to keep Donald Trump in power, despite his defeat. But just as notable is what happened in the immediate aftermath of their conversation.

Politico reported in May that Meadows, after meeting with the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, discarded papers in a White House fireplace. The revelation came by way of Cassidy Hutchinson, the chief of staff’s top aide.

… more …

POLITICO
https://www.politico.com › news › 2025 › 03 › 11 › usaid-official-tells-remaining-staffers-shred-and-burn-all-your-documents-00224404

USAID official tells staffers: Shred and burn your documents

Mar 12, 2025USAID official tells staffers: Shred and burn your documents The mass document destruction order marks the latest step to dismantle the agency.

gab13by13

(30,624 posts)
8. The trap is getting us to give up,
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:25 PM
3 hrs ago

PedoGate scares the hell out of Krasnov, he is ordering Congressional Magats not to talk about Epstein.

I say, pour it on. I want to see how many House Magats vote to release the files, we are up to 5 so far. That my friends are small cracks in the dam.

Yes, it is up to us to throw out the billionaires but I believe we get a significant number of unwashed Magats to join us.

Remember during the campaign how Krasnov ran on releasing the files? Remember how Pam Bondi had bogus stacks of supposed Epstein files on the Capitol steps, proclaiming the Epstein files are going to be released, remember? I bet some unwashed Magats remember.

yaesu

(8,806 posts)
9. I think tRump provided underaged girls from his russian teen beauty pageant to Epstein
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:42 PM
3 hrs ago

and probably molested many but it won't be his demise. He can do anything, including murder which he has done and his base, his courts, his JD will do nothing, nothing. This is all a big shiny object to keep our minds off the fact that 8 or more traitors gave away our only chance to stop him, to claw back some basic rights. That's no more, we are screwed and the files ain't going to help US at all.

applegrove

(129,257 posts)
10. Well we had to do the discharge petition before the
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 10:01 PM
3 hrs ago

end of November because Mike Johnson is going to seat a Republican special election congressman from Tennessee in early December when the guy wins. Then we no longer will have the numbers for a discharge petition. I agree Trump and the MAGAs will have much in the way of sabotage planned.

SamuelTheThird

(419 posts)
11. The Senate won't vote for the release
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 10:06 PM
3 hrs ago

And if by some chance they do, Trump won't sign it. But it will obviously make him look even guiltier

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