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.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
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TOI is a publication with a major anti- US bias.
Sum ting wong
300GB is a LOT of text files, lists, reports, etc.
Victims?? Reality check says they were high paid call girls....aka...prostitutes. They got half a mil each.
High paid call girls...and I'm sure they willingly lied for that kind of money. We know that at least 2 did. One is one too many.
BINGO. I am so sick of this made-up Dem propagated “scandal” that I could throw up. Some of these alleged “female” victims were older, and all of these women stuck around Epstein because they wanted the money they made selling their bodies. It’s called free will. Any of them could have just walked away. No one was holding a gun to their heads, and if they were already mentally or emotionally screwed up, then be it Epstein or someone else, they would have screwed up their lives in other ways, as they were on that trajectory of self destruction.
These women should have sought out psychologists or priests rather than seek out a life of high priced prostitution. I feel the same about the Combs’ women as well. They stuck around and sold themselves in return for a lavish lifestyle, lots of money, just basic greed. These women too could have walked away at any time and moved out of town if they felt that threatened.
No one forced these women to seek out being high priced hookers, or “crossing state lines” to prostitute themselves. These women in both cases were victims of themselves, what they chose to do and be in their own lives. There are millions of young women of their age who did not make the choices that they made to prostitute themselves, as they had moral compasses regardless of coming from poor economic backgrounds.
Most young girls do not choose lives as sexual workers in order to better themselves. They get jobs and they work for a living, not sell their bodies. As morally rotten as Sean Diddy Combs and Jeffrey Epstein may have been, the blame for the choices these women made resides within their own psychological and moral makeup and proclivities.
This whole fiasco is as phony as “Russia, Russia, Russia”, and is just another attempt by the Dems to get rid of their nemesis, President Donald J. Trump. Fie on them, and fie on the sucker Pubs who go along with this phony fiasco. And that means you, Marjorie Taylor Greene, you useful idiot, and the other Pubs who really aren’t Pubs who have swallowed the Kool Aid and are aiding and abetting the Dems in their devious endeavors, that which they do best.
In Egypt, they called it a Harem. In the old west, they were brothels.
And in Nevada...they regulate it.
Wonder what happened at Hugh Hefner's house?
The bigger scandal remains....Bubba and Monica...and no one says boo.
TDS is so strong in some, that if Trump really did evil with Epstein, someone is going to leak the information.....even if the FBI removed his name from documents.
Actually, I bet some with TDS will do a 60-Minutes fake Dan Rather type Killian document lie.
1000 FIB agents are sanitizing Trump’s name for 1 lak (HT Hindi) pages of documents and not a single leak among all of them. The agency filled with corrupt trash that has an unspoken policy to destroy Trump is protecting him?
Sure
For the trillionth time...if there was any Epstein dirt on Trump the dems would have aired it 8 years ago easy.
You troll
“You troll”
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I second that motion.
News reports: the most reliable of all sources...
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(some) Indians are now at war with Trump due to H1-B issue
Times of India????? Are you kidding me? Why was this posted? What do you think they’re gonna write about Trump?? Geez Louise...
The Left was played (again) by Trump. They scream for the release figuring Trump would not allow since he was in there, unfortunately Trump kicked the guy to the curb (out of the club!). So now Trump backed them into a corner. We should keep count of every Congress critter caught in this net! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Crocket also said the docs were going to be blacked out where repub names were
This is the cry from the left. The Trump reversal leaves them no option. They know they are not very bright. That is what makes them so angry.
Note both the source and the lack of a byline...
Or, if you scroll down to the bottom of the article, the explanation of what passses for that byline.
“We know from news reports that Trump’s name was in the Epstein files”
Journalists are so full of arrogance. They really believe they’re the arbiters of truth.
Reports from ‘news organizations’ is NOT evidence. It’s that kind of assumption that led to FISA warrants being issued against Trump and his team. Leak to the media, the media reports, then use the reports as ‘evidence’ for FISA warrants.
Nope. We KNOW nothing.
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