The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.

Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.

NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents published at the end of January. NPR’s investigation found dozens of pages that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.

  • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world
    1·
    12 hours ago

    I mean, we all know they are breaking the law daily and donald trump has threatened them all with death if they don’t scrub his name from every file.

    I really wish the conservative party didn’t just flop over like a possum for a horrible dictator, but they are desperate for control and this was their only way to get revenge on democrats and neutral people.

    • D_C@sh.itjust.works
      15·
      2 days ago

      No. Noooooo, he’s just undercover. That’s all. He’s trying to take them down from the inside. Just you wait, he’ll drain that swamp any minute now!!!

    • redsand@infosec.pub
      7·
      1 day ago

      Speaking of coverups, the Franklin Scandal from 88 sure feels familiar (thumbnail is clickbait to appease the algorithm) coverup starts with a plane crash about halfway through and the bodies keep dropping until around 92: https://youtu.be/a2lvo38u4ds

      Early reports on Epstein’s trafficing start in 94

      • MartianHills@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 day ago

        That was a wild, disturbing ride. Let me down a rabbit hole to John David Norman and his child abuse network. Prosecutors decided to settle for Norman instead of pursuing his client list, which included some high-profile individuals. Also connected to at least two serial killers.

        • redsand@infosec.pub
          4·
          1 day ago

          Oh yeah they were hunting people too. And eating them. These current files are dark. Rabbit holes everywhere

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        1·
        1 day ago

        For some reason that made me think of Jeff Gannon. Did he claim he was a victim of abuse as a child?

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      8·
      2 days ago

      It’s not covering up a crime, it’s just that the truth is complicated, and the citizens can’t understand it. They’re protecting us, it’s for our own good.

      Edit: I decided I better add /s, before someone thinks that was actually a serious statement, which it would be for MAGAs.

    • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      It’s like they’re not even trying, it’s insulting really like how stupid do they think we are

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
      368·
      2 days ago

      At the risk of quoting Junior Soprano, no you didn’t know it, they just told you

      NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents published at the end of January. NPR’s investigation found dozens of pages that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.

      You may know of other investigations showing very similar things but this is new

        • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
          12·
          2 days ago

          That’s fair but at the same time a bunch of reporters are busting their asses to run down all of Eddie’s lies and that work deserves some attention

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 days ago

        I’ve been putting off watching the Sopranos for over a decade (for no particular reason - I DO want to see it) but that line weirdly might have sold me on it

        • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          Yeah, I really can’t overemphasize how much of a petty insecure asshole the character who said it was, but the delivery of it is hilarious

          Also, as someone who’s watched it, I have some mixed feelings about some of the narrative choices and implied messages in that show, but it really is a master course on dissecting the hypocritical and superficial psychology of mobsters, which I feel like this administration and all of its goons demonstrate constantly

          • glimse@lemmy.world
            3·
            1 day ago

            I will be watching it like I watch classic cinema. The formula has since been refined but it was the first of its kind so it has some freshman fumbles.

          • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            2 days ago

            Mobsters indeed. I wonder, if the Mexican army swooped in and killed the head of the MAGA cartel, would we see the kind of violence in our streets as Mexico is having now? I mean, they’re certainly well-armed enough but they are also lazy Americans. They’d be like, “can I go down to Home Depot and hire some Mexicans to do it for me?”

            (Which tbf is pretty much what I’m doing now with this speculation)

  • santa@sh.itjust.works
    26·
    2 days ago

    I mean. Sue them. I’m not sure saying they broke the law over and over again is going to do anything substantive.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    I would so love to see Blondi in prison over this. Same with Pedonald, of course.

    Reactionary centrists in the Murc’s Law media would say that wanting to see justice meted out for pedos and pedo-protecters means that someone has “Trump Derangement Syndrome”.