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Trump over-promises and under-delivers with heavily redacted Epstein cache (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 hours ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

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The disappointment was palpable. In February, a group of 15 rightwing influencers visited the White House and paraded binders labelled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1”, only to discover that they contained precious little that was new.

Ten months later, it was the world’s turn. Amid huge global anticipation on Friday, the US justice department released hundreds of thousands of pages of documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

But it soon became apparent that, once again, Donald Trump had over-promised and under-delivered. Many of the documents in the data dump were heavily redacted, with text blacked out so it was impossible to read. Norm Eisen, executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, said: “What they have released is clearly incomplete and appears to be over-redacted to boot.”

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[–] Twig@sopuli.xyz 25 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

What would the next steps be to get the files properly released? Someone leaking them?

[–] Townlately@feddit.nl 35 points 10 hours ago

If I had access to that shit I would be the next Snowden so fast. We are talking about children vs rich people here, it should be a no brainer...

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 8 points 7 hours ago

Toppling of the fascist government would probably be a required step.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I don't understand all the details (I assume Legal Eagle is already working on a video... that might even be on Nebula already. I should check) but there were specific legal clauses regarding what can and can't be redacted.

So (massive grain of salt), I would assume we wait for the deadline on why things were still redacted to pass (probably a few weeks), then a formal complaint is made (a few weeks after that), and then that times out.

So... probably come March we see if people remember if they care about kids getting raped?

In parallel: it looks like mostly it was just (mostly dead?) celebrities and Democrats who weren't redacted. Actual Democrats give zero shits about protecting clinton but the DNC does, so I am sure there are internal discussions on how to handle that which will end with Hakeem et al bopping their heads to Hamilton in a tiktok video.

(The estates of) said celebrities may actually care though and start going scorched earth. And I am sure at least a few of the redacted photos of child victims in adult male bodies and suits have public versions that will show up with a reverse image search.

And then you just have to wonder about the True Believer alt-right lunatics who are already breaking from trump because they genuinely just want to kill some pedophiles. And considering that the trump admin has very much been a who's who of deranged vloggers with no understanding of data handling...