Posted on 11/18/2025 8:34:09 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
An old report has brought back a question Donald Trump’s team hoped would disappear: did the FBI work through the night to remove his name from the Jeffrey Epstein files before saying there was nothing left to release? The timing is important as Trump has suddenly reversed his stance on making the documents public.
Sources familiar with the process told Bloomberg, “We know from news reports that Trump’s name was in the Epstein files. But what hasn’t been reported is that an FBI FOIA team redacted Trump’s name and the names of other prominent public figures from the documents.” The review involved up to 1,000 FBI agents and staff working through more than 100,000 documents.
The White House referred questions about the redactions to the FBI. The FBI declined to comment and the Justice Department offered no response. In July, DOJ and the FBI said they had collected more than 300 gigabytes of Epstein-related evidence but concluded that “no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.” The decision angered Trump’s base, with Joe Rogan accusing the administration of “trying to gaslight” its own supporters.
The fight over the files also caused serious political fallout. After Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene signed the discharge petition, Trump called her a “ranting Lunatic” and withdrew his endorsement.
Trump has urged Republicans to refocus on economic issues, warning that Epstein is a “trap.” And that Democrats are trying to distract Americans from the shutdown, he said last week.
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In my opinion, anyone that thinks any hard evidence will be released, is crazy.
The problem for this narrative about Trump having the Epstein files washed free of his name is there are Epstein files all over the place. How long did it take Republicans to figure out that the person Trump supposedly spent hours with was Virginia Giuffre who denied any untoward advances from Trump. We do have a New Yorker magazine reporter who stated,” Trump occupies a negative space,” in the Epstein files she reviewed. Trump trolled this and the Democrats and media bit into the nothing burger.
““We know from news reports “
Well, it MUST be TRUE then. Were these “news reports” on the Internet?
Excellent post.
“Excellent post.”
Thank you. It’s much better to get a compliment for once rather than an insult or an attack, lol. Love me those compliments!
They expurgated him from the Warren Report, too.
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