“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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    The justice department’s document dump this afternoon does not comply with Thomas Massie and my Epstein Transparency Act,

    And what will you do about it? If history is any indication, nothing at all

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    I mean really the goal here is looking for the story through what they missed, like piecing together a Jigsaw where you only have ⅛ of the pieces

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    since trump, republicans and politicial and financial backers are in it, its unlikely they ever plan of exposing them.

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    Of course they are. Anyone who expected something different is unbelievable naive.

    There is a provision in the law that they can withhold anything related to “national security”, so they can basically filter at will. You can’t claim something you’ll never see not to falling under that provision…

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      But they didn’t say the redactions were due to national security. It’d be bullshit if they did, yeah, but they didn’t. So they’re still not complying.

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    Of course they’re missing, did anybody thing anything else would happen? They’ll release just enough salacious material to keep the voyeurs satisfied, but none of it will be actionable, at least not against MAGAs or Oligarchs. They’ll keep the good stuff quarantined, or perhaps it’s already been burned.

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      They even reported how FBI agents were taken off regular assignments to comb through for any mention of Dear Leader and rack up overtime. That was months ago.

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        This is a rigged investigation that will go nowhere. The real investigation is into Epstein’s finances. Where did his fortune come from? Who was paying him? For what? There are lots of interesting questions around his fortune, and they are all tied to financial paper trails.

        Follow the money.

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    Since we only know of a few “politically exposed individuals”, I’m just going to have to assume that all the redactions are pertaining to them. Probably, primarily, Trump…since I doubt, if the rumors are lies or exaggerations, that Trump would go through so much trouble to protect Clinton.

    In which case, why is Trump so afraid of all of these documents, to the point he has to black out nearly everything?

    If he’s truly innocent he shouldn’t have any problem proving it, right?

    If you’ve got nothing to hide you’ve got nothing to fear, right?

    Right, Taco?

    So c’mon. It should be easy to weasel yourself out of this.

    Unless…it’s not.

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    Why hasn’t the actual document been leaked yet? At first I thought it was because it couldn’t be used if it was. But there’s literally a law ordering its release, so just dump it.

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          They were sealed by the courts until late 2023, and it should never have been his job to shame his political rivals because Trump should never have been president again in the first place. Everyone already knew Trump was buddy buddy with Epstein.

          If Biden had released the files Maga wouldn’t have believed him anyways, some of them only realized they were duped when Trump promised to release them then claimed they didn’t exist.

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            This. The Biden vs. Trump thing is irrelevant here.

            And we know pretty certainly he wasn’t protecting his own ass. We are basically guaranteed that the FBI was instructed to flag any incriminating evidence against Biden.

            We also know for certain at this point that Trump is throwing up every possible barrier to seeing his mention.

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          Biden also has rumours of being a pedo, just nothing even close to the shit Trump has.

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    Not surprised and always disappointed with this kind of shit. Everything blackened out has a name of a fucking politician or oligarch. Sick bastards!

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    I think Americans should assume every politician who takes money from AIPAC is involved and we should remove them all from office immediately throw them in prison without bail and try them for treason