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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCouldn't Trump just have doctored Epstein records released?
With all mention of him and other Republicans removed?
walkingman
(10,118 posts)Arazi
(8,579 posts)No documents would have been released until the trial was concluded.
New information came out in the trial that re-opened the investigation. Merrick Fucking Garland decided to be a total stickler about protocols and wouldnt release any docs while there was an open investigation. Then he dragged his feet until it was 2024 whereby (whoopsie!) were into an election year and candidate investigations get iced out of deference per that fucking OLC memo
walkingman
(10,118 posts)GoCubsGo
(34,550 posts)Therefore, Biden could not release anything. One of them was Katie Johnson, who eventually backed down due to threats from Trump and/or his various thugs.
walkingman
(10,118 posts)MichMan
(16,301 posts)forthemiddle
(1,456 posts)Katie Johnson dropped all charges in 2016 and the Maxwell case finished in 2022, three years before President Bidens term ended.
There was more than enough time for the files to be released.
Why the Biden, or Harris campaigns didn't get the files released I will never understand, but it certainly wasn't because they ran out of time.
Jersey Devil
(10,664 posts)The investigation was open and DOJ policy is not to release info re pending investigations. He was being cautious (overly cautious in the investigation of Trump imo).
Tree Lady
(12,911 posts)And donors in there along with Trump and republicans. At the time Trump was being taken to court and possibly going to jail for many different things, he might have not wanted to give them a chance to say he was prejudicing the jurors against him.
walkingman
(10,118 posts)but the one truth is that venerable young girls were exploited by the rich and powerful and highlights how our society does not take seriously the victimization of women or girls. Things like domestic abuse, physical or sexual violence, continues until people are held accountable and throughout history that is seldom the case.
Arazi
(8,579 posts)Or have seen the originals.
Many of the young womens defense attorneys have original docs. So does the Epstein estate. I presume at least a couple of the attorneys that were involved in any type of scrub job kept an original set (or two).
Its possible some Dem lawmakers are holding original documents as well. Time will tell
johnnyfins
(3,266 posts)and trying to help the American People.
displacedvermoter
(4,017 posts)released in their entirety, and had that prevented Trump from getting elected, that would have helped the American people immensely.
johnnyfins
(3,266 posts)patphil
(8,502 posts)Ocelot II
(128,320 posts)It's a ton of stuff, on paper and stored electronically, and by now it's in many different hands. Once something takes electronic form it's very easy to move around. Many cats are out of many bags already; I doubt it's even possible at this point to alter, redact or destroy all copies or versions of the contents. (It's not like the Pentagon Papers, where Daniel Ellsberg smuggled batches of documents out of his office and took them to another location in order to photocopy all 7,000 pages, a page at a time, over a period of four months.)
Iwasthere
(3,431 posts)Probably a video of an unexscusable crime, even for maga
Blues Heron
(8,057 posts)Stop the madness
walkingman
(10,118 posts)see with your own "lyin' eyes" - but not impossible in todays world.
MichMan
(16,301 posts)off-the-clock
(308 posts)... Both demonize the Democrats and primary the Republicans