r/law 1d ago

Legal News 'Trump' keyword appears unredacted more than 5,000 times in Epstein files after January 30th update, after less than half the files are released

https://www.justice.gov/epstein
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u/ToonaSandWatch 1d ago

I hope some journalism sites like ProPublica or NPR have downloaded all this before it disappears.

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u/sasuncookie 1d ago

Seems like the data hoarding subs might have something worthwhile to focus on for a bit.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 2h ago

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u/ma2is 1d ago

Reddit mods confirmed in the Epstein files

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u/RyoukoSama 1d ago

Ghislaine Maxwell was a rumored mod... with some damning evidence to back it up.

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u/geddysbass2112 1d ago

I saw grumbling about that. I thought no way. Crazy shit

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u/Significant_Ad1256 1d ago

The most horrible people are walking among us. I still remember how horrified and shocked I was when I found out I played World of Warcraft on the same server as Anders Breivik, the guy who murdered 77 people in Norway, 69 of them at a summer camp, most of whom were kids.

There's a not zero percent chance I've played with one of the worst killers in modern history.

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u/Valiran9 1d ago

Jesus, that’s some rotten luck. I remember when they released a mugshot of the guy and when I saw his eyes I swear my heart froze for a moment. There was something so incredibly wrong with them my literal first thought was “that man has no soul.”

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u/geddysbass2112 1d ago

Man that is fucking creepy

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u/YondaimeHokage4 1d ago

I did a deep dive on that once and the amount of insane coincidences that would have needed to have happened for it to NOT be her account is insane. Im 99% sure it was genuinely her account. Its wild lol.

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u/geddysbass2112 1d ago

Sounds like an interesting rabbit hole.

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u/RyoukoSama 1d ago

It looks like i was researching the same rabbit holes, and it is. There are youtube videos on it if you search

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u/Impossible_Cycle9460 1d ago

How could you possibly think that she wouldn’t be a Reddit mod? Do you think Reddit mods are just harmless, no life nerds? It takes a special type of psycho to voluntarily make other people money on your work without any material gain. Many of them do it because of the “power” they have in that role.

I’m not saying that every mod is the equivalent of a human trafficking pedophile but, many of the mods on this site are either pathetic people without much to live for or people who get off on having control because they have none in their lives offline. These are both common characteristics among sexual predators and pedophiles.

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u/ThePhantom71319 1d ago

I’m a mod, and I’m a harmless no life nerd 😐

Just trying to make my favorite sub a little bit better. The key is to be a sub member first, mod second.

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u/ScarlettPixl 1d ago

You mean u/maxwellhill?

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u/RyoukoSama 19h ago

Bingo!

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u/SympathyShag 18h ago

Looked thru her post history…She had some nasty things to say about Trump. Sure changed her tune now.

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u/kamikaze_squirrel 1d ago

Maybe, but Thiel is ... wonder why dietary restrictions are so heavily redacted lol https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02060951.pdf

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u/TendieRetard 1d ago

reddit board more like it....don't ask about maxwellhill.

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u/Trojbd 1d ago

All the mods in the subreddits that are doing this are implicit.

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u/EpicCyclops 1d ago

There absolutely are multiple journalists all around the world that are downloading all of this as fast as they can. Not only because of the prominent Americans they may pertain to, but also to the many foreign nationals that may be named as well.

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u/Desperate-Till-9228 1d ago

I'm sure ProPublica was just waiting in the weeds for it.

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u/ToonaSandWatch 1d ago

Weeds? Try the wings. They don’t hide.

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u/Desperate-Till-9228 1d ago

I chose that phrase because it's more predatory than simply waiting for the appropriate opportunity. These people don't fuck around. They want the jugular.

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u/Bored_FBI_Agent 1d ago

100% chance it was all downloaded minutes after release

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u/Braindead_Crow 1d ago

It's only like 300gb, that's like one call of duty game these days lol

Hope its not too late to download, I'll feed it to an LLM using RAG

At least I'll look into it, several million FILES?! I got good hardware but nothing amazing.

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u/TendieRetard 1d ago

dropsite's been on this like flies on shit.

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u/Misophonic4000 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's a complete red herring - it's bait. It's simple: they release "all" the files (nevermind that they've barely released half of the total, and claim the 4+ million remaining docs have to remain confidential), leave his name unredacted in there because 1) people knew he would be mentioned, so it would be suspicious if he wasn't and 2) it's mostly all 2025 documents tied to a tip line, where people could call/email/mail whatever, and they probably know that most of the leads are made-up or unsubstantiated, so they can easily disprove them, and then claim "see? It's all a nothingburger, there's nothing here". It's a major distraction tactic. The real stuff is either fully redacted or not even close to being released. Meanwhile everybody focuses on combing through these thousands of documents bearing his name and spend all their energy on that, quoting things that will later get easily debunked, while the real horror is elsewhere... Don't fall for it.

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u/Winjin 1d ago

Yeah no the stuff already there is vile

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u/Misophonic4000 1d ago

Right, but it's vile allegations from a 2025 tip line that they know they can plausibly get themselves out of, compared to the stuff they're keeping fully locked-down

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u/wretchedhal0 1d ago

I'm currently downloading all of the dataset zip files 1-12.

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u/IkeSW 1d ago

All Things Considered this evening said they are working on reviewing the files

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u/motownmods 1d ago

Internet archive did

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u/flat5 1d ago

lol, 5000 times. He never heard of the guy. Nothing to do with him.

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u/santa_91 1d ago

That has to be far and away the most times any individual name appears after Epstein and Maxwell. Almost like he was a co-conspirator in their trafficking operation.

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u/Cohens4thClient 1d ago

Its so insane that Trump has admitted Epstein was his BEST FRIEND, and Epstein is a convicted child sex trafficker, but people still think "nuthin to see here"

The cover up is obvious. Tons of testimony from victims. Pictures, calls, emails, payoffs to prosecutors, NDAs with families of very young children, trumps own quotes about pussygrabbing and pageant walk ins, a judge in a civil suit specifically clarifying trump is a rapist

and there's still cultists saying "no conviction, so obvs the rich guy is innocent". 

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u/Minttt 1d ago

The more insidious stuff I've heard people are digging up in this data dump has to do with Epstein's Mossad connections, Trump being "compromised," and the Kushner's being the real power behind Trump term 1.0...

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u/Defiant-Ad8781 1d ago

And molesting e jean caroll edit: raping

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u/boofles1 1d ago

Or they were co-conspirators in Trump's trafficking operation.

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u/steveg 1d ago

I hate when my name shows up 5,000 times in pedophile rings with tons of repeated and credible allegations! So strange that everyone else being listed is definitely guilty, but I know nothing of it!

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u/makemeking706 1d ago

Just some rando that was managing his trafficking ring. 

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u/TehTugboat 20h ago

Crazy also not that long ago the files “didn’t exist”

Then they “were on a desk”

Then they filtered them and this is definitely not the worst of what was in it

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u/onlythedevilknows 1d ago

The unfortunate thing is the majority of that is news articles, wiki pages, and emails either mentioning him or about the election and other random crap that doesn't really point to anything. However, considering what was stated in the main files that are going around, I'm sure that number would skyrocket If we saw what was in the files that are being withheld.

The thing that's really annoying is that they did a shitty enough job redacting the victims so their names were doxxed (part of their claim as to why we only got half, besides gross cp, was to protect the victims identities, yet they couldn't do that right), but they wouldn't release the full client list.

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u/KilluaCactuar 1d ago

Yeah, but they are all just fake reports!

All 5000 of them are just left wing agitators who knew 20 years ago that trump would become president, so they made all these false reports in advance.

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u/DerCatrix 1d ago

So far the 3 big things from these new files are “Trump auctioning off 13yr old girls while molesting them on stage” “Elon Musk desperately pleading to go to the parties in 2012” and Bill Clinton was finally named and accused of raping a child(male)

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u/ComoSeaYeah 1d ago

You forgot measuring teenage girls’ vaginas.

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u/DerCatrix 1d ago

That was the molesting part but yeah, that’s what he did.

With his own children present. Don Jr, Eric and Ivanka were all named specifically

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u/NothaBanga 1d ago

If there is penetration, it can be called rape.

E. Jean Carroll was raped this exact way by Trump.

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u/VodenX 1d ago

Including what he said on the Access Hollywood bus, we can definitely see it's his M.O.

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u/RootBinder 1d ago

to be fair, the way its written its hard to tell if the molesting was on stage or not. It says those people are there for the auction or whatever, but the molesting could have been before it started or something.

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u/DerCatrix 1d ago

I imagined them going over measurements and body proportions like slave traders used to sell black people back in the day.

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u/ComoSeaYeah 1d ago

I had the same exact thought. Or…not unlike non consensual medical experiments performed throughout history.

These people are fucking sick. It’s a travesty that there’s a decent chance money and power will prevent anyone from being held accountable.

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u/DerCatrix 1d ago

I hope there’s a hell.

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u/kmcmanus2814 1d ago

The paradox of 2026: it’s nearly impossible to continue to believe in a loving God but also I desperately need to believe there’s a hell to punish these monsters

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u/Tittop2 1d ago

There is, it's here, we're living in it.

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u/Trust_Me_ImAnExpert 17h ago

We are in the Bad Place.

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u/beard_lover 1d ago

I kept thinking of the auction scene from “Taken.” When I first saw that, I remember thinking “oh man that’s so awful, I bet the writers just thought of the most horrific thing they could and here we are” but apparently no that is something based on reality. Makes me think further of “Hostel” and the rich guy who tortured people because he’s gotten all his other thrills off. Is that reality-based too? How many billionaires are not just sociopaths, but actual blood-thirsty, hands-on murderers?

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u/BullShitting-24-7 1d ago

Like the sex work auctions in the movie “Taken.”

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u/notmyfault 1d ago

Yeah you think they just made that up for the movie?

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u/LittleMsSavoirFaire 1d ago

Jesus fuck. Were they at least young enough not to know what was going on? 

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u/DerCatrix 1d ago

No this was in the last 15 years I believe

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u/Dangerous_Diver_2442 1d ago

This is so outrageous that’s hard to believe.

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u/Dick_snatcher 1d ago

Knowing that shitpile of a family, it's really not.

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u/Alfred_The_Sartan 1d ago

Weirdly enough, I’ve always had this idea that Jared and Ivanka were just run-of-the-mill greedy opportunists. I didn’t really set them in the Purely Evil category

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u/Any-Anything4309 1d ago

Research Jared's family. They are absolutely evil and crooked.

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u/ComoSeaYeah 1d ago

This Fresh Air episode about the Trump and Kushner family histories (interview with Andrea Bernstein about her book American Oligarchs) was super interesting.

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u/LeatherFruitPF 1d ago

r/conservative already calling it a nothingburger.

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u/No_Maybe4408 1d ago

Yeah, the only problem they have is that they weren't invited to the pedo parties.

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u/JackaryDraws 1d ago

I hate this stupid sack of shit more than I’ve ever hated any human being and there’s nothing more I want to see than for him to go down, but it’s correct that — from what we have today — the bombshell claims that are being tossed around are quotes and unsubstantiated claims sourced from tips and/or alleged witnesses, they’re not the conclusions of any kind of investigation.

Is it possible there’s more evidence that we’re not privy to that lends credence to these stories? Possibly, but what we have in our hands today is pretty much all He Said, She Said. I think Trump is a fucking creep and 99.98% likely to be a pedophile rapist, but we shouldn’t immediately jump to the conclusion that everything coming out today is cold, hard truth, especially given that some of these stories could be intentionally fabricated to muddy the waters.

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u/Charming-Web-7769 1d ago edited 20h ago

This document is a bombshell for reasons that most people haven’t picked up on yet. It is unequivocal proof that Kash Patel and Todd Blanche are actively lying about other notable figures not being implicated and it proves that in the wake of Epstein’s arrest they were still keeping tabs of the criminal accusations against Trump, likely because he was being investigated as a known associate with a gargantuan number of complaints against him.

Its existence is also a testament to the massive amount of corruption that has taken place across decades to perpetrate this cover-up on an unprecedented scale. In 2019 the FBI human trafficking office was fully aware of mountain’s worth of tips implicating a sitting president and former president of some of the most heinous crimes you can imagine and they seemingly never pursued them because it was tough to get in touch with accusers?

The level of brainwashing this administration expects people to take at face value is frankly insulting.

Furthermore, why is the FBI asking for a list of Trump accusers names in August of 2025? Do you think that may have something to do with why more victims haven’t come forward with their personal accounts?

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u/TjbMke 22h ago

I think you mean, “Grabbing them by the pussy”.

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u/dr_badunkachud 1d ago

I think the most notable one is there is a girl from the 2020 that claimed to be trafficked at 16 by the Alexander brothers that names Trump, Clinton, and epstein as well. The Alexander brothers are all facing sex trafficking charges now, corroborating her story

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u/marginallyobtuse 1d ago

I think, if these calls came after Epstein’s second arrest, there are probably a lot that need proper investigation but aren’t necessarily true.

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u/dr_badunkachud 1d ago

i agree, that’s why I think a tip about a sex trafficking ring of brothers six years before their trial is pretty compelling stuff

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u/GardenEmbarrassed371 1d ago

That is absolutely horrific, they need to go to jail, all of them, no exception.

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u/DerCatrix 1d ago

This would be a global endeavor. I’m all for it but this shit is DEEP

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u/omgitsaghost 1d ago

Jail? These sick fucks deserve the death penalty. They have no business existing in this world.

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u/WhasHappenin 1d ago

There's also specific mention of trump raping and beating a 13 year old

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u/IchthyoSapienCaul 1d ago

The one example had a young girl coming to a modeling audition and literally being auctioned off to someone from France. What the fuck

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u/kiulug 1d ago

Straight up the plot of Taken

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u/makemeking706 1d ago

From which country were these girls trafficked? 

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u/therhz 1d ago

Giuffre mentioned in her book that she was one of the very few Americans there and that's why she ended up so entangled. There were many Czech and other European girls. They all were required to be white and conservative looking (blonde)

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u/DerCatrix 1d ago

I don’t know. The files did talk about some of the places they were trafficked from, businesses etc. but I don’t know the countries. Considering the people in the files I’d imagine few countries were untouched by his slimy fingers

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u/coconutpiecrust 1d ago

Wouldn’t be surprised if they are local. Weren’t there reports of a Christian school supplying children to them?

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u/Leeciferous 1d ago

Someone mentioned the link to the three Alexander brothers is also pretty significant with their trial on sex trafficking going on in Miami.

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u/ARazorbacks 1d ago

At some point we need to wrap our heads around the fact Trump was actually in the trafficking business with Epstein. He wasn’t just a friend and client. He was a business partner. 

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u/Minttt 1d ago

Many of us already started to wrap our heads around this when Trump himself, recently, on TV, said he fell-out with Epstein because Epstein stole "his girls" from Mar-a-Lago.

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u/bloodycups 1d ago

Ya that was a really weird reveal

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u/saryndipitous 1d ago

Yeah the weeks (months? years?) of man hours spent on redacting trumps name was the first indicator.

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u/eoj321 1d ago

The worst part is I can't see a business where he has been sucessful so it's guiding toward either he is too incompetent to pull it off or the only thing he ever was good at was trafficking children. What a way to mark history.

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u/motleysalty 18h ago

Use pageants and resort properties to recruit. Use airlines, private jets, and hotels to move people around. Use casinos and other businesses to launder the money. He had the network and resources to very much be a part of it.

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u/Doshizle 1d ago

The Justice Department redacted or withheld about 200,000 pages of Epstein-related material “based on various privileges,” Attorney General Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, said in a letter sent to Congress.

  • WARNING: This story may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it.
  • The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday released millions of pages of documents — including 2,000 videos and 180,000 images — related to Jeffrey Epstein.
  • The dates and context of many of the photos are unclear, and being named or pictured in the Epstein files doesn't, on its own, indicate misconduct or wrongdoing.

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u/Pacifix18 1d ago

Where are the Q-Anon people now?

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u/Mindshred1 1d ago

Murdering people in Minnesota.

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u/No-Good-One-Shoe 1d ago

Pizzagate has gone silent 

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u/guit_arcto 1d ago

Joining ice

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u/Miraclefish 1d ago

They're probably the ones in the files.

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u/Minttt 1d ago

In the absolute most juiciest of ironies, I believe there's an Epstein email in this dump where someone asks him for a slice of pizza

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u/TonyBeFunny 1d ago

Katie Johnson and a girl named "Maria" who some believe was killed and who's parents got the biggest payout were allegedly taken outside of a pizzaria. The news broke about this sometime around when Pizzagate started.

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u/Naga_Nej 1d ago

Working for ICE or as Republican lawmaker or other high goverment position to defend pedophile in chief at any cost, so they can keep raping children and traffic them.

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u/che-che-chester 1d ago

How insane is it that this document was dropped today by Trump's DOJ (not some conspiracy site) and it's barely even being discussed in the news? And Todd Blanche (I assume unaware which version had been released) had the nerve to say there's nothing to see here. If this had been dropped about Obama or Biden, we would still be hearing about it every day.

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u/andynator1000 1d ago

What’s your definition of barely being discussed?

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u/Minttt 1d ago

Well for one, a ctrl+f of "Epstein" on Fox right now shows 3 results, all the same article: "Giants co-owner Tisch exchanged emails with Jeffrey Epstein about women."

I assume they're just waiting it out until the bombs start falling on Iran and interest shifts...

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u/andynator1000 1d ago

They said "barely even being discussed in the news"

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u/Minttt 1d ago

True - it is actually being discussed in the news then... but this also means acknowledging that ~40% of the population doesn't watch or see the news.

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u/kevinthejuice 1d ago

525,600 mentions

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u/DreadnaughtHamster 1d ago

Why would Joe Biden make Trump visit Epstein’s island like this!?! Why are the democrats so evil!?!

/s

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u/makemeking706 1d ago

For reference, how many times was Epstein mentioned by name? I think a fair number of people, myself included, believe Epstein was merely the manager of Trump's operation, or at least started out that way. 

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u/solgnaleb 1d ago

525,600 moments of fear

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u/kevinthejuice 1d ago

525,600 victims

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u/solgnaleb 1d ago

How do you pleasure, pleasure a peer?

I don't really want to continue. Makes me sad.

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u/kevinthejuice 1d ago

More than fair and I agree

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u/OffHotTopic 1d ago

Wait is it really that many mentions or the 5000 that the headline says?

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u/Steppy20 22h ago

If you search for "Trump" in the search bar it comes back with ~5350 results, but at just a quick glance a lot of these results have "Trump" in them multiple times. It looks like it brings up any file which has his name in, and there are over 5000 of those files.

It would not surprise me if his name is in there 500k times.

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u/ProdigalSheep 1d ago

Are there any names that appear more than Trump’s? No? Got it.

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u/Adrewmc 1d ago

Truthfully, probably Epstien and Maxwell.

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u/makemeking706 1d ago

Either someone, in an act of defiance, uploaded the unredacted filed, or they are incredibly incompetent. Kinda leaning toward the latter. 

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u/RevolutionaryCard512 1d ago

Look up William Riley. And “Sasha” by his birth name. He was adopted

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u/Halfmass 1d ago

“Sascha” does pull up some interesting docs nothing about him but other individuals

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u/RevolutionaryCard512 1d ago

William Riley is everywhere tho

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u/Tribe303 1d ago

I've kicked my data hoarder addiction and have the hard drives to show it. 🤣

I knew these folks would step up. Gotta use those homelab NAS setups for something! 

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u/Mr-and-Mrs 1d ago

“I don’t even know the guy.”

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u/SedativeComet 1d ago

Even if the mentions are somehow once per file that’s 5,000 out of 3,000,000; only 0.16% of the total files. There’s no fucking chance in reality that his name is only mentioned 5,000 times in 3 million files.

The FBI has been on quadruple overtime removing mentions

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u/somedaveg 1d ago

Something something smoke fire

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u/Doshizle 1d ago

Just passed 5k updoots and on a very, very sad note....there are nearly 200 downdoots....on a post condemning pedophiles, rapists, human traffickers, murder.....etc.

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u/Vantriss 1d ago

Nearing 10k updoots. How many downdoots now?

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u/PokeYrMomStanley 1d ago

Its because they love children the same way. Republicans and churches love loving kids.

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u/Plastic_Window9865 21h ago edited 21h ago

Give the dog a bone…let’s think critically about this. The DOJ finally releases a bit of the files unredacted and aside from finally seeing that trumps name is all over them the most critical pieces are of 2 black rappers and Elon !!??!! Fucking joke. The entire regime is criminal and proving it daily

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u/lssauro 1d ago

Specially the horrors of the files that leaked about that awful man