The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files
In preparation for potential public release, the documents then went to a unit of FOIA officers who applied redactions in accordance with the nine exemptions. The people familiar with the matter said that Trump’s name, along with other high-profile individuals, was blacked out because he was a private citizen when the federal investigation of Epstein was launched in 2006.
In particular, the reviewers applied two FOIA exemptions to justify their redactions. The first, Exemption 6, protects individuals against “a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” The Supreme Court has said the exemption protects "individuals from the injury and embarrassment" that would result from the disclosure of personal information in possession of the government.
Something so predictable only a life long Republican would have taken odds against it.
Let me get this straight; his name is redacted because he was a private citizen, but now we can’t prosecute because he’s elected president? That’s handy for him
The reality is his name is redacted because he's a Republican, and he can't be prosecuted because he's a Republican.
So the names of all the private citizens will be redacted, right?
When does someone stop being a private citizen?
We need to respect the victims, that's why we can't release it.
Now watch the real thing be released full of victim names as he calls for harrasing them... but all the perpetrators names redacted.
How about "individual one"? Worked before...
Just think about how many people actually have read the unredacted version and know for certain the names of the people who raped children with trump and Epstein
And then decided “let’s keep this secret”
We are lousy with abusive billionaires.
We need a flea bath.
I mean I could see having that thought. You basically would want to setup an entirely different life before exposing it. Otherwise your fall, vehicle, accidental poisoning and suicide risk increases like 100 fold.
I’m going to continue to assume that Trump is guilty the absolute worst stuff that is in those files, as should everyone else until they prove he’s not.
you mean like raping a girl that looked like his at the time 13 or so daughter because of the similarity between them, then threatening with violence to stop her from pursuing legal action?
Yep, that's the kid Trump raped. We can confirm Virginia Giuffre. He also flew many times on the Lolita Express (so you know convicted felon Trump has been raping kids for a while).
Yup, but let’s not stop there - he’s guilty of everything in those files until they release something that specifically exonerates him.
They have tapes of Trump raping children.
We should just assume that the current administration is as or more corrupt (legally and morally) as the Nazis
Any differences are cosmetic
100%, this is a fascist regime slash kleptocracy.
Taco and Vance do wear a lot of cosmetics..
Plus, there's a new policy: to make sure we can't tell what data is overwritten, they will overwrite all instances of the name "Donald Trump" with the precise technical term "Bill Clinton"....
Hunter Biden somehow
His laptop was found in the files!
Incoherent MAGA screeching.
BUT HER EEEEEEEEMAAIILSSSSSSSS
19 years and there have been no other arrests besides him and maxewell? Yeah justice is dead.
Trump has never been arrested for anything connected with Maxwell. Unless you meant Esptein when you said "him," despite the discussion being about Trump.
And as for justice being dead: there is no justice when there's elite impunity. And we're neck-deep in it.
We can only hope…
Of course they did.
Next startling revelation: the 100 names the DOJ gave Maxwell to give to the DOJ are all political and/or business enemies of Trump.
Rosie O'Donnell is there twice.
Surprise, lmao. His base will be so overjoyed and jump right back on the mushroom. Sad.
Here's to hoping they redacted with the black highlighter again
Yeah i was gonna say they don't always do a very good job at it. Plus, im sure more than a few of the agents involved were salty at being yanked off real jobs to comb through thousands of pages to hide evidence their president is a rapist.
Pinch or 12 of salt and all that, but a coworker's brother WAS in the FBI until June, and apparently a lot of people are actively quitting or bare minimum looking for new jobs specifically due to Trump and his administration
I have no doubt. You'd have to be a fool or desperate to stay.
Really? An authoritarian with nothing to hide would make sure he and his friends didn't show up in documents of a sex trafficker? Golly, none of us saw that coming.
I could have sworn that the FOIA office in the FBI was dismantled under DOGE.
I am assuming that this FOIA office is an assembly of cronies that just have a magic marker and is censoring Trump and other prominent Republicans.
Gotta protect those kids... I mean child molesters!
We can't read completely blacked out pages. Where are the words!?
Wait, this ... is news?
Oh right, I forgot we live in the MAGA cult clownworld timeline.
What a relief. I guess he's totally Innocent then.
And yet nothing will happen
Dude idk there's a lot of maniacs with guns out there who love to talk big shit about hurting pedophiles. It only takes a few of them to snap, and the Feds to miss one...
They redacted something...HIS NAME!
nooo shit
Are they going to redact his face also?
I wonder if AI could unredact it using context, and size of print?
Or release it as a PDF showing full revision history. That's happened before...
We can be very confident he is in the files based on the public admissions we already have. He’s almost certainly a pedo.
I mean yes, I just think the ones supporting needs to see it
Well at least his base will be satsified and stop talking about it
Why would you want this
I absolutely would not. But they constantly disappoint so I assume they will again
Then why did you say "at least". It's not a good thing
/s