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“The justice department’s document dump this afternoon does not comply with Thomas Massie and my Epstein Transparency Act,” Ro Khanna, the California Democratic congressman who co-wrote the law requiring full disclosure of all of the government’s investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein by Friday, said in a video statement posted on social media.

By way of example, Khanna noted: “They released one document from a New York grand jury of a 119 pages totally blacked out! This despite a New York judge ordering them to release that document, and our law requires them to explain redactions. There’s not a single explanation for why that entire document was redacted.”

“We have not seen the draft indictment,” Khanna added, “that implicates other rich and powerful men who were on Epstein’s rape island, who either watched the abuse of young girls or participated in the abuse of young girls.”

“It is an incomplete release, with too many redactions. Thomas Massie and I are exploring all options,” Khanna said, including the impeachment of justice department officials, finding them in contempt of Congress, “or referring for prosecution those who are obstructing justice.”

Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican congressman who co-wrote the legislation, shared Khanna’s video statement on social media, with the comment that the document release by Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general who previously served as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, “grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law” that Trump signed, “just 30 days ago”.

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[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 141 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Remember kids, every black line says the word Trump over and over and over. Spread the word.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 101 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Supposedly there was about 300Gb of material, compared to about 3Gb released so far, so it's fair to assume the other 99% is videos of Trump fucking kids unless/until they release the rest to show otherwise.

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have no idea how the retractors live with themselves. What the fuck.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They're probably in on it, too. This administration surely drew like-minded people.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

FYI a retractor is a surgical implement. I believe the word you were looking for is detractor.

[–] alcibiades@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

the word is redactor. a detractor is someone who disparages someone/thing. The commenter made a new definition of retractor by turning the verb retract into a noun that describes someone.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

You're such a smelly poopoo-head. You wouldn't know what a detector was if they were talking directly to you!

Aaaaand scene

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Such a didactic response

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

FYI: Little 'b' means bit. Big 'B' means byte, a factor of eight larger. Basically, there's eight times as much Pedonald.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why did all these people allow their photos to be taken? Like Clinton and Gates... "sure take my photo with this young woman so we can all remember what a great time we're having"

[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That was part of the deal. Mutual blackmail. It's been alluded to several times in the Maxwell testimonies.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 10 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah that kinda makes sense i guess.

This is supposedly where the phrase “thick as thieves” comes from. If thieves were working together, they’d share stories of some of their previous crimes. So the group would all have blackmail on each individual member. The idea was that no individual person would rat, because then everyone they’ve worked with in the past would rat on them.

This is where the phrase “thick as thieves” comes from. If thieves were doing a heist together, they’d share stories of some of their previous crimes, so they’d each have blackmail on the other. The idea was that no individual person would rat, because then everyone they’ve worked with in the past would rat on them.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Due to a system specifically designed by and for them and their fellow economical and political elites, they consider themselves untouchable by the consequences meant for mere mortals.

The worst part is that this megalomaniacal assumption is almost invariably proven correct 🤬

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure they are vulnerable to guillotines just as much as the next guy.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Trump, active politicians, wealthy CEOs, connected public figures, and even Israeli spies and handlers.

Take your pick of Epstein associates that the US govt would opt to protect for reasons other than the public good or national security.

300Gb is only ~38GB. Still, 3GB is only ~7.5% of 300Gb. So we should assume the other ~92.5% is photos and videos of pedonald fucking children.

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They needed 1000 FBI agents to redact out all references to Pedo Donny. 1000 agents ! You can BET that they all show Donny 2 Inches being a pedo.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you hold your screen up to a light you can see behind the black and it is literally just the word 'Trump'.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You might be joking, but in Slovakia there have been a few censored PDFs I've seen where they just used black highliter. Like, the text was still there.
I thought it was something rare when I found that, but someone on Reddit found same shit elsewhere too.

Here's an example: https://www.teleoff.gov.sk/images/urad/odbory-oddelenia/odbor-statneho-dohladu-elektronickych-komunikacii/rozhodnutia-statneho-dohladu-elektronickych-komunikacii/rozhodnutie-zakaze-poskytovat-siete-sluzby-z-29-4-2025.pdf

Just select the "censored" text and copy it.

Lmfao that is incredible

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

In retrospect, printing it on watermarked paper was probably a bad idea.

[–] Embargo@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

::: TRUMPTRUMPTRUMPTRUMP :::