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Jim Carmichael's avatar

The Epstein scandal is worthy of a treatment by Stephen King. It is truly surreal, truly horrible.

James Kirkland's avatar

Forget about the Epstein files, I want to see the 'Bagman' Homan files, with the supporting video and a list of the serial numbers of the money handed over. Extra credit if anyone can spot the actual bills in circulation. In both cases following the money will likely result in more closely approaching the truth than just about anything else. YMMV.

MegaWattz's avatar

Redaction of anything except the victims' names and pictures amounts to LIES and more LIES from DJT - the convicted felon - and his administration of lackeys and wannabes. How long will you cowards in Congress, the Supreme Court, Department of Justice and groveling media keep trying to clean up DJT's *%!@? Keep the hammer down, Dan!

Andrew Carolan's avatar

The redactions are only part of it. When the DOJ released 'raw' surveillance footage earlier this year, forensic analysis found cursor artifacts, runtime drift, and Adobe Premiere Pro metadata. They called it 'raw'. It wasn't. At some point, managed disclosure stops looking like incompetence and starts looking like policy.

Max's avatar

I don’t fully understand why Americans will never know who the pedophiles and johns are.

Patrick Leggett's avatar

Trump is like several

other dictators and autocrats

across the centuries…..

He is a sociopath… and is tearing across our countries and nations….

He is Malignant Narcissism

              (this not found in DSM)

These attributes driving him are identified in the DSM….

He is all of these and unable to deviate from them:

A) Narcissism

      B) Anti-socialistic personality

              C) Paranoia

                     D) Sadism

Duane Pierson's avatar

Trump's an adjudicated rapist and a felon for hush money payments to a porn star. Would anyone, besides the MAGA, be surprised that he's a pedophile? And if he isn't a pedo, he knew abt the repeatedly abused girls and did nothing.

When the hell is enough enough for Republican Party officials - outside of Trump - and the MAGA? Let's add Fox News also, as they and many other rightwing outlets continue to show fealty to this criminal.

Harvey Kravetz's avatar

How long are we supposed to pretend? Everyone knows what Trump is. He tells us himself - through lies that work as backwards confessions. "Never happened" = it happened. "Fake news" = it's true. His base believes the denial. The rest of us hear the admission. And the redactions? Come on. You only hide what proves your guilt.

Genie C's avatar

He's all over the files. Everyone knows it. And Congress continues to protect a pedophile, rapist, traitor. This level of depravity and criminality should outrage every American. We MUST win the House and Senate in the 2026 election, arrest and REMOVE Trump and his traitorous regime along with every Republican involved in the cover up.

Byron B. Carrier's avatar

When I imagine what's behind all those blacked-out names and whole pages, I'm shocked and disgusted! Every redaction invites suspicion.

Allegedly, copying the redacted pages and pasting them into a Word document reveals what's behind the black.

Jucy journalism could tell a muckraking tale by revealing which persons and events were hidden from us. A thousand FBI agents weren't out there protecting us from crime and right-wing domestic terrorists; they were busy hiding the truths. Then they hide behind the skirts of claiming to protect the girls.

What's behind all the black? Were all the redactions protecting only the girls? Or was it all elaborate lying? Has Donald Trump ever lied? Could/would he have the truth tellers commit convenient "suicides"?

Sjaane's avatar

Thank you so much Dan for keeping us informed!

What I cannot believe is that our DOJ is willing

to do whatever it takes to keep this sex criminal in OUR White House. All that for power and these good old boys and OF-COURSE MAGA!

I blame the DOJ for not stepping up to what they where supose to uphold and that is above all JUSTICE for all Americans!

Evelyn Ramos's avatar

Sending greetings to you Dan and family. Un abrazo y carina

Harvey Kravetz's avatar

Un abrazo y carina ="A hug and love"

Patricia Hall's avatar

Nixon left office on less. The absolute absurdity we have had to endure from Donald Trump is horrific. Get that dementia addled bag of garbage out of our White House and take his band of vermin with him.

Harvey Kravetz's avatar

Nixon had some Republicans with integrity - none exists today.

Ralph Dreyer's avatar

Perhaps we need to begin thinking beyond what’s in the Epstein files to how do we change our culture so this never happens again.

Harvey Kravetz's avatar

So some men's sexual desires will not exist? How long did Epstein get away with his MO? He was providiing what a lot of men wanted - dah!

Ralph Dreyer's avatar

We can encourage men’s sexual desires at the same time as teaching men not to abuse children.

alan segal's avatar

The "vast right wing conspiracy" Hillary warned against and exposed years ago has taken over the Presidency, Congress, The Supreme Court, the Justice System and the media. They have shred the Constitution, and shielded themselves from accountability for their abuse of power and obstruction of justice. Nobody imagined this possible, not even our worst enemies which turned out to be 77 million American uninformed voters and either self serving or low IQ fools.

Harvey Kravetz's avatar

The Dems tried to tell Americans what Project 2025 was about. But tRump's beloved uneducated hate-mongers voted for this mess and are getting what they voted for. A tried and true political tactic HATE/Fear wins elections.