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LiberalArkie

(18,653 posts)
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 09:35 AM Saturday

Trump DOJ sitting on 'more than 100,000 pages' of unreleased Epstein materials: NY Times

A new report is shedding light on the truly massive trove of evidence the Department of Justice (DOJ) has amassed on Jeffrey Epstein — most of which has yet to see the light of day.

The New York Times reported Thursday on what went on behind the scenes during an extensive review of the Epstein files that the DOJ conducted for several months earlier this year. According to the Times, DOJ staff combed through "more than 100,000 pages of documents" pertaining to the 2019 federal investigation into the convicted pedophile.

DOJ attorneys reviewed the trove of evidence four times between February and April, and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche instructed staff to flag any mention of President Donald Trump, along with any other prominent public figures, "including former President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew." Then in May, Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed to Trump that his name was in the Epstein documents, as the Wall Street Journal reported this week.

The Times reported that senior Trump administration officials like Blanche, Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino have maintained there is no evidence implicating anyone outside of Epstein in the evidence. However, Trump's MAGA base has continued to harp on the issue, believing that a full release of the evidence may reveal the names of previously unknown co-conspirators and associates of Epstein.

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https://www.alternet.org/trump-doj-epstein-materials/

Comment: No wonder Obama and Biden never accomplished anything, they were spending all their time creating the 100,000+ pages

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Trump DOJ sitting on 'more than 100,000 pages' of unreleased Epstein materials: NY Times (Original Post) LiberalArkie Saturday OP
Wondering how many in congress & on scrotus are mentioned? SheltieLover Saturday #1
Probably a few of the wealthy ones, probably a lot of wealthy business leaders. All being blackmailed LiberalArkie Saturday #3
Scrotus? SheltieLover Saturday #15
Papers? Ziggy Rainbow Saturday #4
they are guilty Kali999 Saturday #5
With Epstein being relatively tech savvy, I would imagine the videos are still sitting on some offsite LiberalArkie Saturday #9
Several copies, no doubt. Ask pootin... SheltieLover Saturday #16
I am surprised that Trump is not sending the Latino hostages to Russia for military service LiberalArkie Saturday #27
Shhhhhh SheltieLover Saturday #29
Oh, I am sure that Miller already has thought of that. LiberalArkie Saturday #30
Welcome to DU! Wednesdays Saturday #11
Of course they searched all of his properties (he had many) Wiz Imp Saturday #18
I seem to remember a): how long it took them to get around to his NM niyad Saturday #21
I don't recall reading or hearing that about the NY residence. Wiz Imp Saturday #23
I seem to remember the secret space being found later. And the NM and Paris niyad Saturday #26
Blondi uses the excuse that the DOJ won't release child pornography... AntiFascist Saturday #24
Welcome to DU LetMyPeopleVote Saturday #32
I doubt it's very many if any. Wiz Imp Saturday #17
People with LOOTS (actually, I like that typo) and LOTS of power and niyad Saturday #22
About those MAGA conspiracy theories... sop Saturday #2
What if he did really stiff all those contractors? BoRaGard Saturday #19
It's time to demand a copy of f45's tax returns for the past 10+ years. If all f45 had was a business relationship with in2herbs Saturday #6
Whoaaaa NJCher Saturday #8
It's doubtful Trump had any business relationship with Epstein for the last 15-20 years Wiz Imp Saturday #20
Trump Management Inc. is on the unredacted version of Epstein's contact list... AntiFascist Saturday #25
Maybe some of those were in the moniss Saturday #7
I have lost hope that the files will be released. MontanaMama Saturday #10
That's a lot of additional eyes on some presumably salacious/horrifying material. tanyev Saturday #12
AG Bill Barr led Just-Us in 2019 Kid Berwyn Saturday #13
I hope someone got a pen drive of those files that they left with before Biden left the white house. kimbutgar Saturday #14
Yes, Democrats need to stay on target with these Thousands and Thousands of pages. bluestarone Saturday #28
Why didn't Merrick Garland release those papers? Charmin One Saturday #31

LiberalArkie

(18,653 posts)
3. Probably a few of the wealthy ones, probably a lot of wealthy business leaders. All being blackmailed
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 10:13 AM
Saturday

Historically high-class brothels have been about blackmail and bribery. I would even suspect those executives who were so very quick to cough up millions for Trumps slush fund ( Inauguration)

Ziggy Rainbow

(1 post)
4. Papers?
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 10:39 AM
Saturday

I'm more curious about who is in the videos. MSM doesn't mention the videos that the FBI found in his apartment. And did they search his other houses? More questions every day. I don't care to see the videos I just want the names of those people in the videos.

And by the way we've all seen some of the pictures, who are the people in the backgrounds? Interesting that MSM doesn't offer clues as to who they are.
They should be curios. I am. I would like to know who they are.

MSM continues to drop the ball for the American people.

Kali999

(239 posts)
5. they are guilty
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 11:04 AM
Saturday

Remember me too coming for several. His cabinet is full of predators. Anchors and executives

LiberalArkie

(18,653 posts)
9. With Epstein being relatively tech savvy, I would imagine the videos are still sitting on some offsite
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 11:29 AM
Saturday

storage facility under someone elses name.

SheltieLover

(72,148 posts)
16. Several copies, no doubt. Ask pootin...
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 12:24 PM
Saturday

Btw, wtf are the 35k Ukranian CHILDREN disappeared into russia???

LiberalArkie

(18,653 posts)
27. I am surprised that Trump is not sending the Latino hostages to Russia for military service
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 02:01 PM
Saturday

niyad

(125,564 posts)
21. I seem to remember a): how long it took them to get around to his NM
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 01:04 PM
Saturday

and Paris residences, for example, a great deal of discussion on this board at the time; and, b): how slipshod and cursory the "searches" were, including failure to discover a secret space in his NY apt.

Wiz Imp

(6,277 posts)
23. I don't recall reading or hearing that about the NY residence.
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 01:44 PM
Saturday

I know they searched it as soon as he was arrested in 2019 and they had to use a saw to get into the safe.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-used-saw-open-jeffrey-epstein-safe-hard-drives-diamonds-2021-12

FBI agents used a saw to open a locked safe kept in the Manhattan mansion of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the agent who led the FBI search team said at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial on Monday. Inside the safe, the FBI special agent said, the officers found hard drives, CDs, diamonds, and passports belonging to Epstein.

Federal prosecutors previously alluded to the contents of the safe in 2019, when they sought to have a judge deny Epstein's bail application later that month. They said agents found $70,000 in cash, 48 loose diamonds and other jewelry, and a passport from a foreign country with a picture of Epstein under another name in the safe.

Joseph Recarey, a Florida detective who executed a search warrant on Epstein's Palm Beach home as part of an investigation in 2005, said hard drives had gone missing shortly before officers entered the home. Epstein later pleaded guilty to solicitation charges in connection with that investigation.

"Six computer hard drives in the house had been hastily removed, leaving dangling wires attached to monitors in several areas of the house," Recarey told the Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown for her book "Perversion of Justice." It's unclear if these are the same hard drives.


They searched the Island as soon as he died. I don't know when they searched the other properties.

For whatever it's worth, according to Google's AI overview, there was no secret space.

AI Overview

There were reports and speculation about a "secret space" within Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion, but no confirmed evidence of a hidden, secret apartment or room. The mansion was described as having a "respectable veneer" but with a mysterious and potentially sordid interior, according to The Times.


niyad

(125,564 posts)
26. I seem to remember the secret space being found later. And the NM and Paris
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 01:57 PM
Saturday

residences not being searched for quite some time.

Also, castigate me if you will, but, being a cranky, cynical and incredibly suspicious person, I pay no attention to anything labelled "ai".

AntiFascist

(13,579 posts)
24. Blondi uses the excuse that the DOJ won't release child pornography...
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 01:50 PM
Saturday

but who are the adults participating in these videos? It can't all be Maxwell and Epstein.

Wiz Imp

(6,277 posts)
17. I doubt it's very many if any.
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 12:28 PM
Saturday

Based on those people who we know have been outed by one or more of Epstein's victims, it seems the majority are likely billionaires. I don't believe there are currently any billionaires in Congress.

Epstein's biggest clients were more likely to be the people who buy the politicians rather than politicians themselves.

It's also notable that many of the people who have been publicly accused are now dead.

niyad

(125,564 posts)
22. People with LOOTS (actually, I like that typo) and LOTS of power and
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 01:07 PM
Saturday

influence. I do believe you are quite correct.

in2herbs

(3,860 posts)
6. It's time to demand a copy of f45's tax returns for the past 10+ years. If all f45 had was a business relationship with
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 11:05 AM
Saturday

Epstein there should be income related business receipt and they might contain identifying info on Epstein's clients.

Is this the reason for f45's refusal to release his tax info? F45 claimed he was being audited when running for his first term. How long does an IRS audit take? Are the oldigarchs keeping his tax returns hidden to protect themselves?

Wiz Imp

(6,277 posts)
20. It's doubtful Trump had any business relationship with Epstein for the last 15-20 years
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 12:40 PM
Saturday

Before that? yes

Besides, some of Trump's tax returns were released (2015-2020) and I'm sure if there was anything incriminating in there in that way, it would have been caught. They did find probable tax fraud, but they were released right before Republicans took control of the House so of course Republicans were never going to investigate further.

AntiFascist

(13,579 posts)
25. Trump Management Inc. is on the unredacted version of Epstein's contact list...
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 01:54 PM
Saturday

but it is listed under the heading of Trump's deceased brother and his then wife, which is all that is seen on the redacted version. This, along with Epstein's bank records need to be released.

moniss

(7,757 posts)
7. Maybe some of those were in the
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 11:11 AM
Saturday

box Maxwell was seen with when she left her "kiss on the cheek" session with Blanche.

MontanaMama

(24,510 posts)
10. I have lost hope that the files will be released.
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 11:52 AM
Saturday

Maxwell will get a pardon of some sort to lie about who is in the files.

tanyev

(47,281 posts)
12. That's a lot of additional eyes on some presumably salacious/horrifying material.
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 12:05 PM
Saturday

Last edited Sat Jul 26, 2025, 01:38 PM - Edit history (1)

I wonder if anything has leaked to the right wing media that’s refusing to drop it like Donny commanded.

Kid Berwyn

(21,514 posts)
13. AG Bill Barr led Just-Us in 2019
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 12:11 PM
Saturday

Bill’s dad, Donald Barr, come to think of it, was the guy who hired college dropout Jeffrey Epstein to teach at the exclusive Dalton School in Manhattan.

Small world.

kimbutgar

(25,662 posts)
14. I hope someone got a pen drive of those files that they left with before Biden left the white house.
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 12:12 PM
Saturday

And what was in those files in his bathroom at mar a lago?

bluestarone

(19,997 posts)
28. Yes, Democrats need to stay on target with these Thousands and Thousands of pages.
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 02:01 PM
Saturday

Also, just thinking that DRUGS were definitely used on these young girls. (no proof, but i'm thinking this) I've heard nothing about how these lowlife humans controlled these young girls. The PUBLIC need to see just how inhuman these people were at their parties. Web cannot let this story die out.

Charmin One

(297 posts)
31. Why didn't Merrick Garland release those papers?
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 02:32 PM
Saturday

Oh wait a minute. Garland is in the fucking Federalist Society. I answered my own question.

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