“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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      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.

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

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        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”

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

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            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.

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            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.

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          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 🤬

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        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.

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        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.

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        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.

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

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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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    Firstly: the partial / redacted release was entirely predictable.

    Secondly, I dont understand where we are at now.

    Is this impeachment going to be like all the others and be meaningless?

    If JD Bimbo lady was charged and convicted wouldn’t Trump just pardon her?

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      I can at least answer this one

      Is this impeachment going to be like all the others and be meaningless?

      Yes. No impeachment has ever had any teeth to it. This man broke the record for being the first to be impeached his first term. Then he broke another record by being the first to be impeached twice. Why not a third?

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        Impeachment of Trump is not yet on the table, but impeachment of Bondi and Trump’s personal lawyer currently acting as Bondi’s deputy, that’s on the table and could result in a removal.

        While it’s true that no impeachment of a president has succeeded, the process has succeeded several times.

        Also remember that while Trump is somehow bulletproof, his hanger ons enjoy zero protection.

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          Impeachment of Trump is not yet on the table, but impeachment of Bondi and Trump’s personal lawyer currently acting as Bondi’s deputy, that’s on the table and could result in a removal.

          Impeachment, maybe. Removal of any Republican would require too many Republican Senators to ever be feasible.

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      US Constitution, Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:

      …he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

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      Is this impeachment going to be like all the others and be meaningless?

      Nah, don’t worry: it’s going to be even MORE meaningless, now that the fascist criminals are in full control of every single branch of government and may well succeed in remaking campaign and election laws so that it stays that way no matter how big the majority of people disapproving of them gets.

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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

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    Is this news? We all knew there would be fuckery going on with the DOJ release anyway. I wish I would’ve invested in black ink earlier this year.

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    They just didn’t had enough time to photoshop Obama on the island. Seriously who knew that the country that invented “step”-familly porn was full of pedophiles?

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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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      Nothing at all? These guys lead the discharge petition, they have done more about it than basically everyone else combined.

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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!