• Samuelwankenobi@sh.itjust.works
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    As I’ve said before we are probably going to get two versions of the Epstein files the one edited by trump that will probably be released first and the real one that will be released later when Trump is dead or out of office in some way

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    You mean the 1,000 FBI agents, reported back in July, that were tasked with flagging references to Trump weren’t just making a fun Facebook style memories reel for the Orange One?

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    From a historical context when does the public start getting mad enough to guillotine the wealthy pedofile cabal?

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    Oh you mean Trump just saying the other day that “it’s all Democrats” in the files anyway wasn’t him essentially admitting that they removed all the Republicans from it. Gee color me shocked.

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      So when he suddenly demanded the release of the files the other day, it wasn’t his characteristic humble contrition but just knowing they finished the data purge?

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        What are steps we should take when this happens? I’m not directly asking you, but more the room. Like what is gonna happen if he releases the files and only Dems are on it? That’s what got me worried.

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          Hundreds, possibly thousands, of vicitims are alive right now and can and will identify any perps one both sides of the isle.

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            I hope the world takes em seriously. I’m so tired of folks. As a person who is married to a rape victim…that no one believed…it kills me folks don’t take this shit seriously…

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            Why are they not doing that right now? That’s what I’ve been asking myself since Epstein didn’t kill himself.

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              Sounds like a self-answering question. It’s still not safe for them, which is why they’ve been trying to have Congress to force a release. However, some of the vicitims say they are ready to name names of they have no choice.

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    We can’t have expected anything different. Neither party wants the truth out there, so they’ll trade alternating versions of “the truth”, and pretend to argue over it, in order to hide the real truth.

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    The redacting has already occurred when Trump tasked the Justice Department with it, now it’s in too many hands to be edited by one person. Senate committees and judges. The redacting that did happen was obviously not very thorough or else they were busy erasing really bad shit. Don’t look for the guys Trump hired to have been very good at their jobs.

    Trump’s actually weak for once, this is one of several spears in his soft disgusting underbelly. Redistricting is not looking good all of a sudden, Texas’s map was rejected but California’s might yet stand, oops! Self inflicted wound there. So now he’s suddenly being perceived as a lame duck because, how’s he supposed to get a third term without Congress on his side?

    Once they feel like the ground is soft, his entire party will run to a better camp… notice how other leaders are setting up big tents right now… his only threat is his ability to primary people, but that’ll be gone in an instant when public perception slides out of his control. Trump is trying to stay ahead of it right now, playing it the usual way.

    This article is just Jeff’s brother trying to get his 15 minutes of fame. Bet he’s got a book deal brewing. I do like that the media is showing this idea to people tho, lots of idiots read People.

    Tl;dr I am not worried about it so much, Trump’s undoing may be right at hand.

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      The journalist that went on a date with some MAGA fbi, who bragged about scrubbing out Republicans and leaving in democrats, also confirms this story

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    I think it depends on how much the implicated billionaires and some of the smarter Republicans are involved in editing the files.

    If the Trump admin is doing it alone, I bet that this redaction will be completed so sloppily and incompetently, there will be enough crumbs and hints leftover that we’ll be able to paint a picture to see more on how Trump and Republicans are involved.

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      With any luck, some ethical career agents have done their job sloppily with purpose.

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        Some of it may just be due to circumstances too. They were working nights and weekends tracking in an excel spreadsheet that was accidentally available to other agents.

        So yeah like this wasn’t done slowly and methodically.

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      He approved them because they are now part of an active investigation he asked Bondi to open last week. Can’t release investigation evidence to the public

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    I recently got heavily down voted for suggesting that if they release, we couldn’t trust the validity anyway.

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    Good fucking luck. These aren’t paper files you can burn, and the reference trees are fucking DEEP.

    Federal agencies use digital reference and versioning to make sure there is always a paper trail back to access and fucking with records. You can’t go back and scrub these things just on the surface.

    If you’re familiar with code repositories like git or svn, it’s like that. Anyone who accesses or changes a file is logged. Any deletions have revisions saved. All the links to external sources like court documents or witness testimony is kept on record similarly, and you can’t go back and scrub the history like you could by just burning shit without breaking a whole bunch of stuff. There’s always a source of truth in these systems.

    I think they are imagining they keep access to these systems out of touch if anyone until Trump is safely out office is my guess. Then he thinks he can pardon it all away, but the history will be saved and accessible eventually.

    Congress (or at least some of them) know how these systems work, and they’ll find broken references or bad links to things that should exist and have gone “missing” once they dig in. I’d like to see the excuses for the disappearing of data when new subpoenas come out.