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Klarkashton

(4,572 posts)
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 10:36 PM 13 hrs ago

Trump had plenty of time to scrub the files.

So now "Release the files"

They are so goddamn transparent.

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Ocelot II

(128,332 posts)
2. How? There isn't a single copy of "the files" in a file cabinet somewhere.
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 11:01 PM
12 hrs ago

The files are voluminous, and exist in both paper and electronic forms, and no doubt there are multiple paper and electronic copies of the thousands of documents kept in many different offices and computer storage. And the Epstein estate has tons of it that the feds might not even have. It would be impossible to make all incriminating evidence disappear from all the paper and electronic copies, and if one copy disappears another will almost certainly be produced from somewhere. Electronic copies are really hard to get rid of because you don't know if, when or by whom it was copied and where the copies went. If someone wanted to leak parts of the files it would probably be pretty easy - nothing like when Daniel Ellsberg had to smuggle 7,000 pages of the Pentagon Papers out of the office in his briefcase, a little at a time, over a four-month period in order to photocopy them a page at a time.

rainy

(6,311 posts)
3. Thanks for this reply.
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 11:06 PM
12 hrs ago

I’ve been thinking Trump probably had Bondi and gang scrub him from the “files.” So you have made it seem impossible for that to have happened

Ocelot II

(128,332 posts)
4. I think any significant attempt to get rid of incriminating materials
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 11:12 PM
12 hrs ago

would backfire badly, because someone is bound to know evidence has disappeared, which makes the situation even worse. Remember Nixon's "missing" 18-1/2 minutes? That made the fact of the Watergate coverup even more apparent.

Klarkashton

(4,572 posts)
7. It won't matter if there are conflicting versions of the files. That
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 12:15 AM
11 hrs ago

Would simply add to that chaos and uncertainty and he wants that.

Nothing is rational or linear anymore.

RockRaven

(18,422 posts)
5. The other angle to "release the files" u-turn is that he can't stop the vote, so he
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 11:19 PM
12 hrs ago

switches his position so as not to lose the vote. He's running to the front of this mob which out of his control while waving a flag, so he can pretend he's leading a parade. He's following from the front.

"Yeah, well, that was the outcome I wanted. I won!"

yaesu

(8,819 posts)
6. For months he had his doj dog put hundreds of FBI agents going through the files looking for his name
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 11:47 PM
12 hrs ago

And those mentions will be disappeared.

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