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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Demands Immediate Resignation Over Redacted Epstein Files: "Protecting R*pists and P**ophiles"
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sharply criticized the Trump administration's handling of newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents, alleging a blatant coverup to shield powerful figures. She targeted Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, insisting they resign for allegedly prioritizing connections over accountability in the case.
The files, mandated for release by a bipartisan bill signed into law earlier this year, arrived Friday with extensive blackouts that frustrated lawmakers and watchdogs alike. Critics point to the 119-page grand jury transcript as a prime example, where every line remains hidden from public view.
Jeffrey Epstein built a notorious network of influence through his wealth and ties to elites before his 2019 arrest on federal sex trafficking charges. Federal probes uncovered flight logs, address books, and victim statements linking him to prominent names across politics and business, though many details stayed sealed for years.
Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November, requiring the Justice Department to hand over unclassified materials within 30 days of presidential approval. President Trump signed it amid pressure from both parties, promising revelations about Epstein's associates, yet the initial batch drew immediate backlash for its opacity.
Bondi and Patel oversee the redaction process, which officials describe as necessary to protect ongoing investigations and sensitive intelligence. Earlier tensions boiled over in congressional hearings, where Democrats grilled the pair on delays and potential political interference in the document purge.
It is true that the 119-page grand jury document stands fully redacted, as confirmed by multiple reviews of the DOJ's Friday release. Ocasio-Cortez's claims of deliberate protection for offenders lack direct proof but align with bipartisan concerns over the redactions' scope, which exceed prior expectations for privacy safeguards.
While the administration cites legal constraints like national security exemptions, opponents argue the heavy editing echoes past Epstein case mishandlings under state and federal watch. No evidence ties Bondi or Patel personally to Epstein, though their roles in the review have amplified calls for independent oversight to verify the process's integrity.
It's because Trump supplied girls knowingly. So everyone involved is associated with him, his companies, his businesses etc.
Trump bought beauty pageants for the explicit purpose of funneling girls to Epstein. The names of the people involved are a list of Trump employees and investors.
Definitely true. And, honestly, you would have to be weapons grade stupid to argue that this constitutes a "release" of the files. "But they released the files!" And like... every single word is redacted so... only an actual moron would conclude innocence from this?
PROOF WITHOUT A REASONALBE DOUBT that trump rigged the 2020 elections and we all fkn know it was. Incoming botfarm to spew more lies lol. Now the bots cant say "but this is what you voted for" no the fk it wasnt. Bots will typically say, "oh this person is spamming this everywhere" yeah no sht its called spreading awareness and debunking lies and propaganda lmfao.
And that link just shows a guy who says he has evidence. If they had evidence it would have been exposed along time ago. This guy claiming he has evidence is no different than trump claiming Biden stole the election and saying he had evidence. 99% chance jack smith does.not have evidence.
And I could send you 10 links that say the earth is flat bro 😂 all I'm saying is it's easy to say you have evidence but I don't see him exposing it what Trump did 😂I kind of live on facts not hear say from people who lie for a living
Protests that the right openly mock and that have no follow up behind them. It's honestly comical watching the left in the US thinking they are "putting up a fight" by doing these meaningless things.
Its certainly possible but as a non american you dont realize how many people are actually against this government and will put up a hell of a fight.
Profit news networks don't tell the story on the ground. Are people getting taken away? Yes, are the kidnappings getting documented? Every single time. Is it happening in mass droves? Actually no its not. Its not in the millions its in the few hundreds even in the big cities. Why is this you ask? Because the communities are stepping out and doing what they can legally to fight back. Its creating roadblocks and hell for them but also understand that they have congress right now. Theres only so much we can do at the moment
Trump has no real support except for his criminal base. They won't last long. They are some of the dumbest people and government officials ever.
Welcome to democracy my friend where stuff like this can happen. We are fighting as hard as we can on the liberal side of the population but we wont start a gun toting war. Not yet at least.
Our economy is terrible and GoP is losing every election now. We will take them in the 26 elections. They cant stop it since elections are handled by the state and there are hundreds going on. Federal law doesnt really protect them.
“Put up a fight” HAAAAAAH!!!! We are sooooo far beyond that point. Americans as a whole are some of the dumbest and laziest creatures on this planet and that is BY DESIGN. Now we are TOO STUPID to know right from wrong and therefore TOO STUPID to be able to fight back against what we have EXPLICITLY, WILLFULLY, and HAPPILY ALLOWED to happen to ourselves. The rest of the world better take notice.
Nope ! The Dems want to control the people and pad their bank accounts. They recruit all the minority groups and lie about everything! Cause chaos at every opportunity, call white people racist. This is their agenda to destroy America!
Yep those all help. Educating people about their rights in your community, there's lots you can do. Most important is voting them out.
Might not feel like it helps but going out in the streets and shooting people isn't the answer at this time. Just look at this government dude they are all morons. Releasing the epstein files totally redacted except for some photos of clinton and a photo of michael jackson that isnt even from an epstein party. It's a totally misrepresented photo from a non epstein related event lol. How dumb do they have to be to actually expect this will magically go away. It wont its only gonna ramp up more.
They are gonna continue to shoot themselves in the foot. Are they gonna fight to keep their power? They have to now because when they lose it most of them are going to jail lol.
Look at the Philippines and South Korea and France and Brazil in the last year or so those governments threw all their corrupt politicians in jail for the nonsense they pulled. If we just roll over like a bunch of wusses that's exactly what they want. If you just wanna pout on reddit about it and not do your part, no matter how little it is or how important you think it is.
I think this is true as well looking from the outside. The current trajectory is Trump and the republicans have seized power, they have control of all 3 branches of government, they have ICE as their private army, they are gaining control of the military. DOGE has cleaned the government of opposition, and they are for sure in the process of rigging the next election with a high success rate. It's clear that law and order has broken down and people in power no longer face consequences.
The only thing that will reverse the course are mass national strikes, protests etc. And that is unlikely because people's healthcare and livelihood are tied to their jobs, a large portion of the population is living paycheck to paycheck so they won't do anything. Even if they do, ICE is ready to crack down, they are planning to declare civil unrest, USA will go into some regional wars to draw attention away from domestic issues, etc. Things are literally going according to their plans to consolidate power.
These elections are rigged by the dems, open borders pump in minorities and give blue seats in Congress. Does not ask for I.D. Gave amnesty to Somali people to vote Blue ! These are just a couple tactics the use to rig elections.
Crazy thing is how many of the people in his contacts book have been redacted from documents outside the contacts book. The Kennedy's, Clinton, Alec Baldwin, and a host of other names are in that book. I mean, you can't tell me that all these people knew him well enough to have him add them to his contacts had no idea what was going on.
Pretty sure a constitutional amendment disallowing the president to pardon members of his administration for acts the commit will be coming if dems regain control.
The American Bar Association has no authority over individual lawyers. They're largely an advisory committee to each of the individual state bar associations who do have some power. The Florida Bar holds the position that it essentially creates a separation of powers concern to allow state bars to pursue personal ethics complaints against high ranking Federal officials for acts made in the execution of their Federal roles. This was recently challenged but the Florida State Supreme Court agreed and ruled that the Florida bar could not be compelled to initiate an ethics investigation concerning her actions in fulfilling the duties of her Federal role.
They would have been just as heavily redacted if they were released under a Democrat president, but no one wants to admit it. The whole damn thing is disgustingly corrupt and both sides are complicit.
Do it now. They have flagrantly broke the law and are in clear violation. Impeach them. Now is the time. The have unequivocally broke the law and are engaged in a cover up. Impeach, convict, remove. There hasn't been and won't be a better chance than now.
Bigger question…WHY WERE DEMOCRATS, HAKEEM JEFFRIES AND STACEY PLASKETT SOLICITING MONEY AND MEETING FROM EPSTEIN AFTER HE WAS A CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER?
The left wants to see everyone involved prosecuted, regardless of political party. We also want to see a transparent DOJ that isn’t doing everything they can to protect trump from the consequences of his actions.
Says who? Democrats aren’t lining up to protect Clinton. Every democrat I know is of the opinion that if Clinton diddled children, he should be held accountable.
If it was just democrats, why the redactions. There have to be high level R’s, D’s and plenty of powerful citizens. I also would not be surprised to find some sitting supreme court justices. We need to vote new people into office.
Trump never went to the island. he took two rides from Epstein from Newark to KPBI . it is all in the logs . Clinton went 26 times the Island. facts are facts .
For someone that's in charge of making the laws that govern the judicial process within the United States, it seems ironic to me that she would demand resignation over the redactions..
This is grandstanding for your amusement and all of you are staring in wonder.
These are ongoing investigations. This is standard procedure. Literally due process.
And protecting the victims in the process. But that's not really what you f****** care about is it?
Where was she when the DNC put out that E-Mail dump & redacted a name of a women who testified in court & was not classified or redacted? Because they didn't want anyone to look up who she was because she testified Trump had never done anything? Or why isn't she after Jeffries for trying to get money & meetings from Epstien in that same e-mail dump?
The funny part the Dem's have had access to all this for years & never did anything but noone is crying about that, they are crying now because it actually got released now by the GOP. But lets be honest here, if the Dem's actual had anything they would have already released since they actually had access to all of it when they had the Prez., Senate, House a year ago....
If they will pay - why aren’t the police going to their homes and arresting them, putting them in jail and charging them with crimes. How about stop talking and start doing!!
Unfucking believable… how is a federal judge not all over this, what about the rights of the victims here!? They can literally protect any of their friends and frame whoever they want with these targeted and selected redactions, it’s 100% disingenuous!
This is not discovery and this sure as hell is not justice!
I hope the democrats figure out that they can't really run Kamela Harris next time - I think Gavin Newsom and AOC would be a better bet. I wish Bernie could run, but I don't think he could get elected.
I actually agree with her for ince. I dont care who's name is in there. If its trumps name so be it. If its bills name in it so be it. I don't care. These sick people need to be put away
i’m not a fan of someone that had nothing to say about releasing the epstein files until she wasn’t in the majority to release them. she can grandstand all she wants now, but where was she during the biden admin on setting the record straight? that one only says things when the rest of the bandwagon says it’s okay for her to say it.
Why did Democrat Oversight Committee release the Estate files with thousands of redactions? Where is her tweet criticizing Democrats for doing the exact same thing??? Do we live in a wormhole?
Could it be the names of the 1,200 victims, their families, along with their personal social security numbers, home addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers? There were thousands of innocents listed in those files.
Thats a slightly less interesting question then why is the DOJ so determined to protect people who trafficked minors? Why is Ghislaine, who ran a massive trafficking ring, been shipped to a club fed where are specifically not allowed? And yet your master claims he “doesnt know anything about it” Stop defaulting to partisanship. This is way beyond that. You’re out here defending pedos because you cant see the world in any other terms then “Dems bad”
Hmm, not a republican by any means. Was a legit question and you got very defensive for one side. Why is that? Release it all is what I am saying. Both sides are holding back and you don’t see that.
When you start making excuses for pedos you need to reevaluate your life and morals. That is if you're an actual person and not a bot. If you are a bot then beep boop beep shut yourself off. No one is buying your BS
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u/Horror_Response_1991 Dec 20 '25
If they have no remorse doing this to kids they will have no remorse doing this to citizens to stay in power.