Transparent Trump Reveals he Has MUCH to Hide in The Epstein Files
The Epstain all over Trump's white shirt just keeps getting uglier and uglier as the pretty girls victimized in these statutory rapes by rich elites keep getting less and less justice.
Actions speak much louder than words, and this latest presidential act to hide huge portions of the just-released Epstein Files behind blacked-out redactions, while also releasing only a minuscule portion of the total files by the mandated deadline, also without explanations, as required, for each redaction, is a sweeping disregard of the new law that has members of congress—even on the Republican side—complaining that President Trump and his team are violating the law … even if the president didn’t violate underage women; however, evidence in today’s headlines says he did that, too. Naturally, that evidence did not come from the transparent Trump government.
Why else would anyone stall for so many months with so many excuses, have to be forced by law to release them and pretend congress had to pass such a law when Trump was the only one preventing their release in the first place? Why, after all that, pretend to be following congress’s unanimous-but-one new law ordering him to release the files, yet still have redactions on 90% of all the pages that did get released, many redactions paragraph sized, plus 119 pages were totally blacked out?
Worse still? The 119 pages were the grand-jury testimony that even the judge who presided over that grand-jury said could be fully released. Moreover, the pages not released number in the hundreds of thousands! The government has had months to work on a redacted version of all those pages in case release should be eventually required—as the public was demanding all along and as congress finally did require be completed by last week, forcing their lightly redacted release to become a top priority.
What a blatant pretense of carrying out congress’s order. It’s become one of the biggest scandals in government history, and this action only makes it all the more scandalous, as his own party warned him it would if he was not fully transparent at this juncture of having to be forced by law. Once again, this file release was exactly what I’ve said you could expect to see happen next in the endless charade of dragging this out and hoping the Epstain will simply wash away with time:
The near proof that Trump is just turning a PR trick, as his former White House Communications Director called it purely a PR move, is that he doesn’t need this vote to release the files. If he really wants them released, he has the power to order their release today without any congressional vote. It is, after all, only HIS DoJ that is holding them back! [And he has the power to unclassify anything.]
Since the vote is to force his administration to release them, you know he’s grandstanding by pretending he wants them released. He’s doing this because he knows his base clearly wants them released. They have spoken, and he knows he’s lost the vote on this in congress already; so, it’s better to try to suddenly look like he stands on the right side of something that has become inevitable (in terms of the House vote) than be seen defeated by his own party.
If what I just wrote isn’t true, Mr. President, just release them today. They’ve already been fully redacted—your name in particular—so no reason to hesitate.
However, going through the voting process with the house, then with the senate, then taking his time on signing it into law, gives him some time for something to possibly come along that might work. While that’s a desperate hope, he can also always veto it if they don’t get enough votes to override a veto … and then make up yet another reason why he had to do that. (“Turn, Turn, Turn: To Everything, even Epstein, there Is a Season”)
Vetoing it would have made it obvious that only Trump was preventing the release. So, instead, he redacted the files to death and pretends he had to do so just like all the other times Trump has pretended he must “protect the victims,” or protect people who might be caught with their pants down but were supposedly innocent, etc.
If the Trump administration thought this release would calm things down, they are dumber than a house of inbred clowns. I guess Trump wants this to keep kicking heat into the news cycle for the rest of his presidency … because even his old golfing buddy, Rand Paul, says that is what he’s going to get for this lack of transparency in carrying out the file release.
After all the wrestling to get these files disclosed, this extremely redacted release will ignite a fury and convince nearly everyone that Team Trump is engaged in a massive coverup, and shame on those who try to excuse such a slimy coverup of human evils against so many young women.
The release has sparked a firestorm of criticism over the heavy-handed use of the literal black pen.
Over a hundred pages from the Epstein files are redacted [in their entirety], leading many to wonder ‘what was the point’ of releasing them in the first place. The move also sparked various rumours as to why the Department of Justice decided to hide most of the files.
The Trump administration stated that the release was intended to provide closure and demonstrate a commitment to government honesty. Unfortunately, most of the pages were kept hidden, and the mass redaction immediately raised eyebrows on social media.
But of course. Closure? From this? It only provides outrage over all that remained hidden. Commitment to honesty? How about commitment to protecting all your rich cronies who loved to play on Epstein Island? Including past presidents, members of congress, the former treasurer of Bill Clinton, and likely many members of Mar-a-Lago, which shared visitors with Epstein’s neighboring mansion on a regular basis … and most likely members of Trump’s government, including the president whom we all know is named in the documents, but we got to see nothing that was said about him in this release—at least, not with his name tying him to the statement.
One almost never sees any action in congress as close to unanimous as this one where clearly members of congress heard over their late-summer break how angry the public was at the cover up; so they returned to Washington knowing they had better get on the right side of this story, though they built in provisions that would allow essential redactions for classified material, such as info that would disclose government spying methods or that was essential for protecting the identities of the girls who were victimized, but no one is going to believe this much of the material has to remain classified. It’s clearly for protection of big names and the Don’s friends with whom he regularly associated via Epstein.
I’m sure even more MAGA supporters will slide away from Trump over this insult to everyone’s intelligence.
Before the release, sources told CNN that the DOJ had to “redact thousands of pages of files related to Jeffrey Epstein” for a reason, citing “sensitivities of executive and legal privacy, victims’ protections and other concerns.”
Like what? The Donald caught in his underwear? Rudy Guiliani dancing on a bed in his shorts with a 14-year old in a negligee? Bill Clinton with his arms around “a sweet young thing?” (Oh, they actually kept that one in there because that was a Clinton, who Trump outed as being on his enemy list.)
No wonder it took so long to release the files. That was a lot of “black pen” to move. Think of the time required just to run and buy more pens.
What a clownish and disgraceful pretense at justice.
Oh, the slime of it all
As the editorial at Counterpoint (source of today’s cartoons) summarized, and as I fully agree …
After years of demanding transparency, Epstein’s victims were finally handed the long-awaited files, and discovered that “full release” apparently means thousands of pages of black boxes, blurred photos, and documents carefully edited to reveal almost nothing at all. The Justice Department delivered more than 13,000 files that were technically public, functionally unreadable, and spiritually indistinguishable from a shrug.
Survivors who had pushed for the Epstein Files Transparency Act reacted with disbelief, anger, and a familiar sense of betrayal. What was supposed to expose the scope of Epstein’s crimes instead raised a simpler question: what, exactly, is still being protected? Victims pointed out that if nearly everything is redacted, “transparency” is just another lie.
One long-buried FBI document did surface, confirming that Maria Farmer had filed a child-pornography complaint against Epstein in 1996, years before authorities took meaningful action. For some, that revelation brought vindication. For others, it only underscored how many years of abuse might have been prevented had anyone bothered to listen.
In the end, survivors said the release felt less like accountability and more like a performance: lots of paper, minimal truth, and no answers about the powerful men long rumored to have been shielded.
Once again, we see the legal maxim, “justice delayed is justice denied,” played out in real time.
The extent to which Trump has gone to cover this up is extraordinary as even one of his former biggest fans, Marjorie Taylor Greene, pointed out, as quoted in my article referenced above:
Green responded, “It’s astonishing, really, how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein Files from coming out that he actually goes to this level.” She even claimed she’s been getting death threats due to how harshly Trump has turned against her. “I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world,” Greene posted to X on Saturday.”
And that was before this latest charade.
Here is an example of a proper redaction:
We can see Epstein, the pervish perp, appears to be a little too cozy with someone who looks likely to be very young, but we don’t need to identify who she is with her face in the photo if she doesn’t want to be identified. That is protecting the potential victim but not the alleged victimizer. It should be released with a note that says something like “Epstein seen holding alleged victim #27.” Those identification of the numbered alleged victims should be kept for the eyes of only those with classification clearances to see them. However, people in the photos should be contacted for the opportunity of signing photo releases if they are willing to be identified and to talk about their story. In they signed a release for any of the photos, those photos wouldn’t need to be redacted.
If the pictures are too pornographic to release publicly, release them as classified to members of congress who have clearances at that level, as some do because of the positions they hold in certain committees; and release them with notes that are pointedly clear, as required: “This photo contains a nude image of [whomever] with a young woman.” That way the public, at least knows who was with under-age women in a clearly wrong manner and that the photo was not shown only because it would then become a public display of nudity. Or just blank out the sexual parts, as is commonly done.
With a release like this, no wonder Trump appears to be trying to kiss Bondi, who isn’t having it like many of the girls whom Bondi said were laid out on her desk in that list of perpetrators that turned out not to exist:
I pointedly said “laid out on her desk” regarding the files, recognizing how else that can be interpreted because Bondi practically raped these girls all over again by denying them justice and full disclosure, for which they have LONG been begging, regarding what was done to them.
I’m sure the president is very appreciative (as he demonstrates above) of the loyal devotion Bondi has given to try to protect him at the total sacrifice of her own professional reputation. Other disgraced members of his Epstain-removal team, such as Dan Bongino, simply quit and hope they can still get their old jobs back. Then there is Kash Patel, who seems to hate loyal Blondi, but who looks more like a trained monkey in a government suit all the time … or a Trump sock puppet.
Also newly scrubbed from the files: any appearance of Trump’s name in files formerly released with his name. What does that tell us other than that the brazen Team Trump doesn’t even mind the appearance of a cover up, any more than Trump minds the appearance of kissing Bondi. (I mean I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be posed like that with a subordinate coworker or any coworker.) The fact that Team Trump would scrub his name from the stain in the very same files they released earlier with his name illustrates how brazenly they are willing to remove information they no longer even need to remove just in case some people never saw the earlier release. They either want to quit bringing his name back up, or its new redaction shows how sloppy their process was. It shows they are willing to make completely needless redactions just to keep the presidents name from being repeatedly associated with the stink of the Epstain trash.
At least, there is one thing they are transparent about: their willingness to cover things that don’t need to be covered just to clean up Trump’s image and try to keep certain facts from re-entering the public mind.
Non-government info implicated the president in statutory rape
As for the idea that Trump and Clinton “did not have sexual relations with those women,” an old court case that has resurfaced in light of the present document release said otherwise:
“[M]y friend had sexual intercourse with Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson, sex tapes were in fact filmed on each separate occasion .... I eventually managed to persuade her to send me some of the video footage which she kept, implicating all three all men ... I have backed up the footage on several USB sticks and have securely sent them to various different locations throughout Europe.” Ex. 5 (RANSOME
_ 000295);
“[A]nother friend ... was one of the many girls that had sexual relations with Donald Trump ... She confided in me about her casual ‘friendship’ with Donald. Mr. Trump definitely seemed to have a thing for her and she told me how he kept going on about how he liked her….
[I have redacted the graphic sexual details because you can find them for yourself at the referenced case link below if you want to. I don’t want to be accused of simply being salacious, given that the details are publicly available.]
I also know she had sexual relations with Trump at Jeffery’s NY mansion on regular occasions as I once met ___ for coffee, just before she was going to meet Trump and Epstein together at his mansion.” Ex. 6 (RANSOME_000296) (Exibit A under Giuffre v. Maxwell)
I include this because it came to light again, and I had not seen it before and was not aware of it, so other readers might not have been either. This extract from a former case clear back in 2017 was included in a letter sent by attorneys representing Alan Dershowitz, which sought to destroy the witness’s credibility. The witness claimed she had seen sex-tapes involving Prince Andrew and UK billionaire Richard Branson. She did not mention seeing Trump in the tapes, but only hearing her friend’s testimony in the shower about her minor but painful injuries, which the friend attributed to Trump.
This is not first-hand information, but it was being presented in court and was provided by the counsel of the defendant as counsel argued that particular testimony should be left out of trial, not because it was second-hand, but because of the purported unreliability of the witness. If it was not even evidentially admissible due to being hearsay on some points, I don’t think the defendant’s lawyer would have made the case against it being included in trial to the judge on the basis of witness unreliability.
In the case of actual damaging evidence or allowable testimony, defense attorneys routinely turn to trying to damage the witness’s credibility as a way to counter the testimony. That’s legitimate, but we don’t know which side here is telling the truth. However, considering how the enormous number of black outs in the Epstein Files release look like a mushrooming cloud of black smoke, I will point out that where there is this much smoke, there is likely fire. Give it some oxygen with open airing, and I’m sure you’ll see it all burst into flames.
It is worth mentioning, partly because the testimony has come up again in the news, but also because I think the mention of Trump’s sexual activity with some of the Epstein girls merits thorough exploration in light of how much has come to light from other raped women in the years since the case above and in light of how much Trump continues to try to hide, even when demanded by law to reveal as much as can possibly be unclassified.
The public, congress and media respond with ridicule
More than a dozen Jeffrey Epstein accusers criticized the Justice Department’s release of documents about their investigation of the alleged sex trafficking operation as “riddled with abnormal and extreme redactions with no explanation.”
“These are clear-cut violations of an unambiguous law,” the group wrote in a two-page letter demanding oversight and accountability from Congress….
“It afforded no permission for delayed disclosure,” the group said in the letter. “Instead, the public received a fraction of the files….
Absolutely disgraceful. Protect the victims and SHOW everything and everyone else. The hell with these people, it’s embarrassing to call these cowards actual government that works for the people. Expected as usual but it doesn’t make it any better.
Exactly.
This latest fake file “transparency” has to be SO infuriating for the victims who went to all this trouble to pressure congress into doing something, only to have congress adjourn early to avoid voting on the file release months ago; then, when congress came back in the fall and the vote was finally forced out of the Speaker’s hands almost unanimously to order the Trump government to release all the files; then, to see Trump go to this outrageous extreme to cover such a huge portion of the files after he grandstanded by telling congress “yes, you should release the files;” then to see he only allowed, for the most part, already-known information to escape the redactor’s “pen”… must leave these formerly young women, now middle-aged in waiting for the truth to be forced out, in tears of frustration.
Here are a few of their responses:
”… when they did come out, we were just in shock, and we see that there is nothing there that is transparent. So, it’s very sad, it’s very disappointing….”
“There’s no way that there’s not a cover-up - what it is, I don’t know…”
Asked what she thought about Epstein now, she said: “He’s a monster [...] and just horrible. I mean, I’m trembling thinking about him and talking about him.”
I’m sure many more responses like that are already materializing faster than I can finish this article.
Does anyone in the government even care? Will congress take anyone in the Trump administration to court for contempt of congress? In the headlines today, a congressional call is being filed for impeachment of Pam Bondi, but that is not the same as going to jail for defying a congressional order, especially one so bi-partisan.
However, does congress even have the teeth to back that call for impeachment up, or were many members of congress doing only what their constituents forced them to do by voting for the release, while secretly hoping Trump would respond exactly as he has to maintain their cover because they are sure he needs to maintain his and his friends’ cover? Surely, some of those who voted for the disclosure are in the files and are the ones who insisted on wiggle-room language allowing certain kinds of redactions.
“I want to see all of the files come out. I want all of the men in there or women that were trafficking these girls, and they shouldn’t be able to walk around free and not pay for if they did something,” she said.
“They should be actually arrested if they’re in the files and it’s proven that they did horrible things to these girls, and they should lose their jobs, their lives, their homes, their money, and pay for what they did, and it was all supposed to come out, and it hasn’t.”
Indeed, it hasn’t.
On top of the sweeping redactions, why the delay that goes outside the legal mandate in releasing the remaining vast majority of the files?
“The law didn’t say they could do this over a period of time, it didn’t say that weeks could go by.”
Deputy attorney general Mr Blanche said additional file disclosures can be expected by the end of the year.
“But that’s not what the law says. So clearly, the law has been violated. And it’s the Department of Justice letting down the survivors once again,” Ms Allred said.”
No wonder the Trump War Department started military strikes in Syria again on the same day the files were released. Why is the Peace President restarting the war in Syria when he keeps boasting that he has “stopped eight wars?” (What eight wars, I have no idea.) No doubt another big war distraction was needed.
The Trump government, of course, had the audacity to claim it is only delaying the release of so many of the other Epstein Files “to protect the victims.” Same lame excuse even though numerous victims say they don’t want that protection. They want everything out there. Block out the victim’s names and their faces in the photos and any clearly identifying info, as the new law allows, or parts that would be “indecent exposure” but you cannot convince us that paragraphs and entire pages and even numerous consecutive pages were all identifying information only. You don’t get to block out the victim’s testimonies of what happened, just their identity.
Ironically, some names of victims were accidentally released, anyway, though the law ordered they be redacted, while names of many perpetrators were not released. This whole thing is a travesty. In fact, some of the perps are trying to duck under the victim provisions for cover, if you can believe that audacity:
Some alleged co-conspirators of Epstein are now claiming they were victims and want their names redacted, Kuvin said.
They are essentially claiming, “I’m a victim because I associated with Epstein and got caught. My identity should not be released.”
“It’s absurd, and it should absolutely not be considered,” Kuvin said….”
Some Democrats and Republicans criticised the partial release as failing to “comply with law.”
No kidding.
Given the Trump administration’s months-long resistance to releasing the documents, many advocates fear the exceptions within the transparency law could be exploited to shield Epstein associates and even potential trafficking participants or enablers from exposure.
Of course. That’s probably the reason congress put the exceptions in there.
“The Trump administration has claimed to be the most transparent in history.”
Uh huh.
More evidence the government is also covering massive inflation
Everything seems to be a coverup now; so, I’ve already said we won’t rely on the absolutely-lying-through-their-teeth government inflation non-data anymore. Turning, as I said we’d do (must do), to non-government inflation information, we find today that inflation specifically due to tariffs has gone through the roof during this holiday season, which turns out to be, as I promised, the time when we would finally see tariffs passing through in a major way to consumer prices. That timing, I said last summer, would be due to the fact that the items being bought under the first tariffs last summer were huge shipments of goods to be warehoused for holiday sales that must be stocked up in the summer, and you would not see the cost of those tariffs until those goods hit the shelves.
One article below explains that holiday gifts are more expensive this year by a whopping average of 26% over the previous year, which benchmark as the starting point for today’s inflation came at the end of #NoMoJoe’s sleepy term of inflation creep.
Here are some particulars:
A new analysis of an annual gift guide from New York magazine shows that key holiday items this year are 26% more expensive on average versus 2024, according to Groundwork Collaborative, a nonprofit consumer advocate.
Beats Solo 4 headphones this holiday season are selling for $129.95 on Amazon — up 30% versus last year. The price of a Cooper Cooler beverage chiller, meanwhile, soared to $89.99 in November — more than triple last year’s markup of $25.52.
Elsewhere, an Instant Vortex air fryer-and-oven combo is priced at $115.78 on Amazon.com — 16% higher than last year. A Trusco ST-350 toolbox at is priced at $79.07 — an increase of 32% versus last Christmas.
Holiday gifts are coming with sticker shock,” Groundwork Collaborative’s executive director Lindsay Owens, told The Post. “This is an extraordinary spike.”
“Extraordinary” inflation! The kind I warned you would hit during the holiday without much showing before then. The items could be cherry picked; we don’t know, but even cherry-picked is better than NOTHING-picked, which is exactly what the federal government gave us—a sheet full of blank boxes when it came to actual price data, other than on vehicles. Still, the list was pretty broad in the kinds of things covered:
On average, shoppers are shelling out 38% more for kitchen goods, 34% more for electronics, 20% more for clothing and shoes and 17% more for toys, the study found.
The list is “representative” of top-selling holiday gifts on Amazon, including items that cost as little as $10 and as much as $500, the study said.
And Amazon is generally the least-expensive retailer.
The historical price data was collected from archived Amazon product listings between Nov. 1 and Nov. 10 this year and in 2024, according to the nonprofit.
The report also found that 41% of shoppers said they are buying fewer gifts this year….
Many of the items in the gift guide are getting hit hard by tariffs because they are made abroad, Owens said….
Microsoft cited tariffs as the reason for raising prices on its Xbox console twice this year—including a $70 hike on some consoles. Sony followed suit, hiking prices on the PlayStation 5 by $50 in response to tariffs. ”
So, forget forever the lies that tariffs do not cause inflation when the companies selling the products are showing you they do. Just don’t forget the fact that you were lied to by your government.
The government inflation report covered over this enormous inflation with all of its blanked-out data spaces, creating a fake overall headline inflation rate that dropped a minor nudge. The Trump government seems to like pages with lots of blanks. This it did, of course, to make Trump sound like he was telling the truth in his speech I referred to as “Trump Toots.” However, we now learn that a good many of the goods that had blanks rose an average of 26% annually!
The government’s own CPI inflation report with just an overall number and almost no specific data was based almost entirely on one massive anomaly regarding housing costs and a complete lack of balancing information from other data. It was so transparently devoid of facts that it even rankled Wolf Richter, as well as any economist I saw reporting on it.
Therefore, we will keep relying on non-government information and anecdotal evidence as now being, unfortunately, the most unbiased information we have left. In fact, it is the only actual information we have available right now, given that the government inflation report looked exactly like the highly redacted Epstein Files! A lot of blank spaces, which is why I treat these two sets of stories as related by putting them in one editorial. It’s a pattern.
So, the tariff passthroughs that I promised clear back at the beginning of last summer have shown up right on the schedule I gave.
Vindicated!
That’s important, given how regularly I had to keep standing against government lies and claim you’d see the tariff-caused inflation when holiday shopping hit, even though you wouldn’t see much before that, and given how Team Trump is now trying to hide it by essentially redacting all of it, using a government closure that it created as the excuse to eliminate the details in which the devil hides, as I said the devil would do in the latest report. He hid by putting a vanishing cloak over all the details. Good magic for the government, I guess; black magic for the rest of us.
Just like the Republicons shut down congress to try to hide the Epstein Files by avoiding the vote that eventually forced their release when congress came back on the job, so they followed the wishes of their team captain and shut down the government to hide the data on inflation by closing the agency that gathers and tabulates it all. This helped protect the government from seriously declining job data as well.
The truth is out, however, via reports from non-government entities. Unfortunately, we do not have non-government entities that can out the truth on the Epstein Files, other than a non-government court case or two, like the one above.
It’s a prime example of how deeply corruption spreads throughout government when you elect a serially dishonest, law-skirting leader!
This was a Deeper Dive into the Epstein Files for everyone because everyone needs to see how broadly corrupt this endless coverup is.
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