Advocates call for further disclosures after Trump’s justice department released more than 3m files last week

The release of about 3m Jeffrey Epstein investigative files has failed to quell outrage over justice department officials’ handling of these disclosures, with advocates claiming potentially millions of documents are still being withheld.

Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was required to disclose all investigative files by 19 December under The Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). While the justice department did release some documents on that date, last week’s disclosure came nearly six weeks after this deadline.

The missed deadline and up to 3m files that remain unreleased have prompted criticism and calls for further disclosure to answer how Epstein sexually abused girls with impunity for decades and landed a sweetheart plea deal about 20 years ago that allowed him to avoid federal prosecution.

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    The release is WAY past the legally mandated deadline; it’s not even HALF of what’s there, it’s improperly redacted- exposing victims and CSAM

    The DOJ CANNOT be trusted

    The full files UNREDACTED is the only way forward

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      If we ever have even a modest return to liberal democracy, there will likely be a lot of trials and these bozos know it. There is plenty of historical precedent, but nobody here thinks they will be the ones thrown under the bus or left holding the hot potato when the music stops.

      The music can’t play forever.

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    My god. How bad are those additional files? Is there a video in them of tRump fucking a 10-year-old?

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      It’s everything that pizza-gate was, pizza-gate was the mis-information campaign designed to normalize, and muddy the information that was going to eventually come out.

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        Idk man, that pizza shit was weird af. Flesh Simulator does a good, unbiased presentation of the evidence in those files cross-referenced with other case files from satanic cult cases. If you think pizza-gate is a nothing burger, I’d encourage you to listen to his findings.

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    Even if there weren’t for sure tons more evidence, none of it exculpatory, why would this tranche have quelled anything? The little I’ve seen is disgusting and outrageous - garland and Bondi should both be brought up on charges

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    It appears we’re in a cycle of murdering citizens to distract from the Epstein files, then releasing more of the files to distract from the murders, then murdering more citizens to distract from the files.

    If our justice system won’t hold people accountable, perhaps it’s time to consider ways of holding people accountable that don’trely on our justice system.

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    Yeah, because when you release documents that points to the POTUS being accused of SA of a 13 year old and then you delete them immediately of course no one will trust that you’re being “transparent”.

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    Now if only these Trump-Epstein pedo files came with consequences for the people mentioned in them.

    Far too many people are still walking free without a care in the world despite appearing in the Trump-Epstein pedo files.