The law was clear: Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was required to disclose all investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein by 19 December 2025, with rare exceptions.
One month after this deadline mandated by Congress’s Epstein Files Transparency Act, however, Trump’s justice department has not complied with this law, prompting questions about when – and whether – authorities will ever release investigative documents about the late sex offender.
Justice department attorneys said in a 5 January Manhattan court filing that they had posted approximately 12,285 to DoJ’s website, equating to some 125,575 pages, under this legislation’s requirements. They said in this same letter that justice department staff had identified “more than 2 million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review”.
That these DoJ’s disclosures apparently comprise a drop in the bucket – and have done little to shed light on how Epstein operated with apparent impunity for years – has roiled survivors’ advocates and lawmakers. They include attorney Spencer Kuvin, who has represented dozens of Epstein’s survivors.
They note that the Department of Justice has also flouted another requirement of this act, which requires that the attorney general provide a report identifying “categories of records released and withheld and summarizing all redactions and their legal bases” within 15 days of their disclosure deadline.
“To date, no such report has been provided. Without it, there is no authoritative accounting of what records exist, what has been withheld, or why, making effective oversight and judicial review far more difficult,” they wrote. “Put simply, the DOJ cannot be trusted with making mandatory disclosures under the Act.”
HEY, GUYS, WHADDABOUT THAT GREENLAND. IT’S OVER THERE, LOOK…AND I’M GOING TO INVADE IT. GUYS, JUST FORGET ABOUT THE CHILD RAPE STUFF I DID WITH MY MATE JEFFERY AND CONCENTRATE ON GREENLAND!!!
Sooner or later you have to acknowledge that the distraction is much worse than the Epstein Files.
If Trump withdraws the US from NATO that would have very grave implications for global stability.
I don’t want to minimise the suffering of Epstein & Trump’s victims, but a global conflict with millions of casualties is more concerning.
Yep, completely agree…however acknowledging that fact doesn’t make anything stop or go away.
Furthermore, if everyone stopped talking about Epstein and the raping of children, or if no one had ever mentioned it, then this type of shit would still happen because the orange buffoon is obviously compromised by russia, and putin wants the EU to be weakened.
The distractions are just an added ‘bonus’ for obese paedo.
Social media used to scare the state because people can organize and protest and overall complain better.
They kinda figured out only one topic trends at a time for each category now. Also just paying socal media companies can influence it a lot too.
So the tactic is hinting the pedophilia while bombing Palestine and invading Venezuela for oil and sending ICE along with threathening Greenland/Europe at same time. Three of these then get ignored.
Also, people are just sitting on their ass all day, captured in the algo, doom scrolling…
Social media used to scare the state because people can organize and protest and overall complain better.
That was over a decade ago. The big social media companies have tightened up their algorithms significantly and can strictly control what is “trending”, who can see another person’s content, and what kind of organization can occur.
Reactionaries were way out ahead on this when they started their own smattering of alt-media (Truth Social being a branch of Mastadon is painfully ironic, given how the platform has been flogged by Lefties as an alternative to Twitter since the Obama Administration). Liberals are still huddled on Facebook and Instagram and Reddit, struggling through waves of Shrimp Jesus content and screamer ads for MyPillow, to post “Trump has small ads” into an echo-chamber of bot accounts.
So the tactic is hinting the pedophilia while bombing Palestine and invading Venezuela for oil and sending ICE along with threathening Greenland/Europe at same time. Three of these then get ignored.
None of them are ignored. At the same time, vanishingly few people seem to know who to talk to in order to contribute to an organization that opposes these policies. Just whispering the phrase “DSA” sets off a firestorm of angry liberals blaming Ilhan Omar for costing Harris the election. Meanwhile, Chris Coons is the only Dem in the Senate with anything resembling a spine and he can’t seem to get the corporate camera crews to notice him.
None of this shit is getting ignored. All of it is very deliberately suppressed.
Start putting people in prison until they get the hint.
They’d rather start ww3 than shame the god king emperor.
They’d rather have US citizens die than shame Trump.
This is what happens when you allow conservatives to have power.
You get lawlessness. You get repeated violations of our Constitutional rights. You get masked militarized forces in our cities, harrassing and murdering our citizens. You get broken allegiances.
Anyone out there reading this that fucked around with not voting or voting for a candidate that could not, under any circumstances, win…this is what happens when you fuck around and let conservatives have power. Think real hard about that the next election, if there is one.
I want ranked choice voting so fucking badly.
They are choosing to take all the penalties for not following this law, which are as follows:
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The world: “Yeah. That’s about what we expected…”
The actual law is meaningless anymore.
Deadlines mean nothing and the law means nothing unless you are willing to enforce it.
A law that’s not enforced is a suggestion
it’s a long shot, but i’m hoping that given how incompetent the trump admin is, they just release all the files on whitehouse.gov, but you can remove the black highlighter with inspect element
WTF is a Jeffery Epstein? 🫲🍊🫱
Well, at least Trumps friends won’t get hurt
Guessing that “special master” business was just so much smoke and mirrors
what if not releasing the files is the distraction
how shocking! oh my goodness! and I bet nothing will be done about it either
