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Trump administration won't release the Epstein files, but what would they contain?
USA TODAY spoke to former FBI agents and prosecutors to understand what the so-called "Epstein files" might contain, and the arguments for and against releasing them.(snip)
A protester holds a sign calling for the release of files regarding the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as part of the 'Good Trouble Lives On' national day of action against the administration of US President Donald Trump in Houston, Texas, on July 17, 2025. RONALDO SCHEMIDT, AFP Via Getty Images
Around 2006, federal investigators looked into allegations that Epstein was paying several minor girls to perform sex acts with him. That probe led to what many regard as a sweatheart deal for Epstein, in which he pleaded guilty in 2008 to two Florida state prostitution charges, avoided a sex-trafficking charge, and served just 13 months in a local jail.
The case related to criminal activities in Epstein's Palm Beach mansion, which was about two miles away from Trump's Mar-a-Lago club. The federal prosecutor who negotiated the deal, Alex Acosta, became the secretary of Labor in Trump's first administration, but resigned after fallout from a 2018 Miami Herald investigation that revealed Acosta's role in the deal.
In July 2019, the convicted sex offender was arrested on the more serious charge of sex trafficking a minor. That same day, the FBI raided Epstein's Manhattan mansion, collecting computer hard drives and other potential evidence. After Epstein died, law enforcement also raided his property in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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The two men's friendship ended in about 2004, around the time they battled over an oceanfront Palm Beach mansion, according to the Washington Post. Trump recently said he banned Epstein from his Florida Mar-a-Lago club because Epstein "stole" staffers from the spa, including Virginia Giuffre, a well-known victim of Epstein who died by suicide earlier this year.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/03/what-would-doj-epstein-files-contain/85306180007/
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Whatever the reasons, personal profit, blackmail, international intrigue ... the plain fact is that rich and powerful people were involved, and given the need to cover up, VERY rich and powerful people. The rich have always had their sexcapades, such as the Bohemian Grove, and others suggested by the Kubrick movie "Eyes Wide Shut"
The "justice" in the U.S. works on two levels.
Wilhoit's Law
https://systemicunlearning.substack.com/p/wilhoits-law-there-is-no-such-thing
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.
For millennia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been.
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.
For millennia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been.
This is blatantly evident in the protection of pedos and the prosecution of immigrants.
Oligarchs must be protected.
They have divine right, Droit du seigneur. They are allowed to f*ck anyone they want without consequence.
The poor are "sinners"
All the delay is, IMO, due to DOJ using the AI machine to alter every single document, producing what's no more incriminating to the oligarchs than last month's losing betting slip or lottery ticket.
That's why Mikey created the delay.
To protect AMERICA'S GOD and his pedo priests.
How does a Trump, so up to his eyeballs in Epstein camaraderie, protect those business tycoons, princes, politicians and who knows what else without incriminating himself? Well, that's the GOP dilemma. They will do everything they can to weasel out of it.
Donald apparently met his latest bride courtesy of Epstein. "Never heard of the guy"
Droit du seigneur.
Or in the current "libertarian"
"Free Love" is what caused the great conservative revolt back in the 60's.
It is only for the rich (and certain "religious leaders" ) and not for the people.
Hypocrites speak of one God and serve another (with a red white and blue disguise)
