“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.”
― David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
Conservatives don't necessarily have to always be with us. We choose every single day to continue to tolerate their evil amongst us. Other choices are available. After all, they're big fans of disappearing human beings into foreign prisons without due process, and random kidnappings in the streets of America.
The entire concept of conservatism can essentially be boiled down to how little do I have to help others so that I can gain the most for me and what I want. Get rid of them if they don’t want to be part of a community.
You're wrong. Every society develops conservatives. Even the Soviet Union had conservative factions in their government. It cannot be avoided and will always exist.
The true origin of Conservatism is the deeply held belief that human nature is inherently wicked. Everything conservatism is stems from this belief.
• Religious Conservatives believe people are evil, but can be redeemed through their god(s)
• Libertarian Conservatives do not really care what happens to other people, because they believe they're inherently evil, as long as the laws allow them to protect (and potentially enrich) their position on the social hierarchy.
• Xenophobic Conservatives believe people will naturally target that evil towards those who are different than themselves, and want to limit the power of those who aren't in the majority.
• Elitist Conservatives usually believe that society should cater to the strongest, and let them determine what is right and wrong.
This contrasts with liberals, who believe that human beings are complex and flawed, and leftists, who believe human nature is mostly good but a few evil people are ruining it for everyone.
Because they're being fed the propaganda of "these people are taking away your hard earned money that you already don't have enough of and are giving to these people you hate!"
You say "somehow" as if there were any doubt about the mechanism.
"Critical thinking skills" have been systematically deleted from the curricula of public schools across the country by the right wing; one of them is on record saying they voted against its teaching because it quote encourages children to question the fixed ideas their parents have given them unquote.
It's all about power and control, and it's easier to control and maintain power over people who are too stupid to think their way out of it; "stupid" doesn't mean unintelligent; it means "unable to think critically". It's a hallmark of being poorly educated, a demographic some demagogues profess to "love". Probably because it takes so much less effort to hoodwink them.
It doesn't help that we're inundated with crisis journalism and sensationalism. Like already numb enough through our own struggling, but then overwhelmed by the constant barrage of horror fluff that has become journalism... Almost as of by design.
MAGA is already making up excuses for when they inevitably try to end elections. Just bring up democracy next time you talk to one. They'll tell you all about how "America is a republic, not a democracy", as if they are mutually exclusive or something.
This line is way older than MAGA. MAGA isn't something completely new, that sprouted out of nowhere, it's political ideology that has always had a degree of popularity in the US becoming mainstream and taking over. It's the culmination of where right wing rhetoric has been pushing us for decades.
Those are good quotes, but just want to point out that MAGA turned on John McCain before his death and labeled him a RINO. That quote will only be used by them to further justify the "we're not a democracy!"
I think their point was, give them the quotes without the names and they will choose the Hitler quote. Then you throw it in their face that all the others are by Republicans.
Why wouldn't they? After the election fraud of 2000, they realized they could get away with anything, just so long as the had an accommodating Supreme Court.
Reagan killed DR'S dream, but Cheney jammed a stake through the heart of our democracy.
Hell, he's explicitly said that during the election campaign. He's literally on record telling people that they won't have to vote again if they get out to do it just once more. They cheered for that, because it'll mean they've won and they only see this as a game.
Hell, Trumps Chief Justice the other day straight up admitted Trump is all over in the files.
The gall to release completely black files. We all knew it was gonna happen.
Assume every black page is Trump and anyone personally in-line with Trump, his donors, his cabinet, his congressmen he directs. All of them. Especially Trump.
Totally not a guilty look. But who holds them accountable when he runs the DoJ and has authority over the military?
I mean, we're talking about events that have never transpired in the US. Complete mockery of our supposed Democracy that we now know is just full on fascist and it's very likely Trump plans to never step out of that office willingly.
Considering republicans are cheaters and nothing they do is fair or in good faith, yea we all saw it coming. Oh, that and when FBI whistleblowers said they had a team of agents working for weeks to redact mentions of Trump. Nothing they do is in good faith.
Seriously. Everyone was so adamant on the files being released, but it was clear as day they would never release the unredacted files and incriminate themselves.
I'm not surprised they did it, but I'm a little surprised they think they is a better look for them. They say they react everything with a republican in it, then release files that are 95% redacted. The only conclusion to draw from that is that the files are 95% republicans. Which we all knew, but it's nice to have it confirmed.
FWIW, the guy in the video did not have privileged information, either:
The lawsuit says Schnitt told “Skylar” repeatedly that he had no personal knowledge of the Epstein or Maxwell matters but those statements were not included in the video clips published by O’Keefe.
Yes. It’s beyond frustrating to have only part of the story. I still want to know why they weren’t released when the Democrats had the opportunity… you would think they’d have done it to torpedo Trumps second term. They had 4 years to move this through.
It makes me wonder what neither side is releasing and why… I’m sure we all speculate what it is. Though I think we deserve to know, and the victims deserve justice.
We have to demand better and quit giving people passes for bad behavior along party lines, no matter where they fall. Let their depravity be seen and accounted for.
That was Bidens mistake. He should have just unsealed them saying it was a national security issue, and that the courts have no authority over the executive in that manner.
The problem Dems have is they constantly say "We're doing good things, you guys have just never heard about it." And then NEVER run on those things. Imagine if Biden or Kamala had pushed for the unsealing every day, they went on TV and told the American people, rich elites hide their involvement with a giant sex trafficking ring of minors only to be unsealed in 2025. I promise you full transparency on these documents, but I HAVE to win re-election. And if I don't fulfill my promise, I'll step down.
Democrats always just assume people will know these things, and then pikachu face when people don't.
My understanding why Democrats didn't release them is that Democrats didn't think that it was appropriate to intervene in the department of Justice affairs. There's this basic principle of our constitution called separation of powers and the Democrats were trying to respect how our constitution works. Republicans don't give a damn.
We should be much more upset at the fact that Trump keeps on pardoning career criminals and meddling in the justice department rather than what the Democrats didn't do.
That, and I could be wrong, but I believe the judge had sealed them for X amount of years, and the time frame was to be up by 2025. Which is why Trump campaigned on it.
I think we can afford to do both. Be upset at what is, and is not being done… maybe expecting our elected representatives to actually represent our interests.
I still want to know why they weren’t released when the Democrats had the opportunity
Because a Trump appointed federal judge ordered them sealed until Jan 25, 2025 so Maxwell would have a chance to appeal her conviction.
If they were released earlier she could have gotten off her charges without consequences due to a mistrial. It would have made Trump's lies about "weaponizing the DoJ" true overnight if they broke the law just to harm his shot at a second term, so they followed the law and didn't do it.
That said, now Maxwell is off without consequences after a secret meeting with Trump's former personal attorney so I guess the only moral of the story is that elections have consequences when one party values party loyalty over the rule of law.
A lot of things should have torpedoed Trump's second term. I seriously doubt the Epstein files would have been one of them considering how the crazy MAGA people move the goal post
There actually was an ongoing investigation into Maxwell while Biden was president. After that ended they didn’t want to be seen as weaponizing the DoJ.
For extremely wealthy people, money trumps ideology. Meaning that wealthy people will generally protect and side with other wealthy people, since they know the political parties are just vehicles to further their own power.
Trump was literally a democrat in the 90's and gave political donations to Hillary Clinton. Musk before he turned into a far right troll was beloved by liberals.
Democrats didn't release the Epstein files because they knew it would harm the wealthy
Part of this is to get people to accept corruption. Of course we expected it. But we do not fucking accept it. Thanks to this official for exposing this.
We already knew it was going to be like this. Its why they paid how many millions in overtime to have the FBI redact all the content. When these crimes took place Trump wasn't even a political figure.
National security is just a blanket (and terrible) excuse to coverup a bunch of rich powerful people's crimes. Democracy would survive (probably thrive) if every single one of them were strung up for their crimes.
They had FBI agents reviewing everything, only to just take the fast and easy route of redacting most of it. I get the feeling that even after tens of thousands of man hours was spent on these documents they realized they are fucked even with what little was left and went the full nuclear option
They released the audio recordings of Ghislaine Maxwell's interviews with Trump's former personal lawyer and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche back in July.
The one she had just a week before being moved to a minimum security prison.
people are also discovering that they seem to have just taken plain pics from Getty images and included them, with some faces redacted for no reason. they have nothing to do with Epstein. most have either clinton and/or Michael Jackson in them. just more obfuscation
The guy in the video is suing the department for firing him, claiming that since he worked in the witness protection program he had no official knowledge of what was happening with the Epstein files and therefore he was allowed to speculate about what other unrelated departments in the DoJ were planning to do. . .
"In the email, Schnitt called his remarks to “Skylar” his “own personal comments from what I learned in the media and not from anything I’ve done at or learned via work.”"
Schnitt doesn't deserve to be fired for his comments. He deserves to be fired for not recognizing he was being honeypotted.
When on your first two dates, all she wants to talk about is pedophile sex offenders, that's not amoré. That's a red flag and warning bells should be going off.
I was thinking the same thing. He’s FBI they have to have gone through counter espionage tactics. To be fair to them though they can’t keep the best talent because private industry pays more. Which really sucks. In like every Asian country working for the government is one of the best positions possible for being financially stable/secure yet people here constantly have to wonder if the next administration will F them over.
The first clue that this video was bullshit is that it came from Okeefe Media, run by James O'Keefe. The same guy that started Project Veritas. So I'm sure this new organization has the same tactics. They set up hidden cameras and get people to say things that they can use to go viral and support their causes.
Usually he's trying to set up people that work for Planned Parenthood, or NPR, or something like that. But they are never interested in truth or facts. They want to get clips to stir the pot and support right wing populist causes.
Well when there are thousands of pages of documents, and only liberal/Democrat names and mentions were left unredacted......and 80% of the documents are redacted, I think that speaks volumes to just how many Republican/conservative names appear in the documents. Remember kids, if they redacted it, it's because it was trump or one of his supporters.
So they were ordered to keep every Democrat in it and only Bill Clinton rose up? Interesting. And 90% is redacted. Seems like pedophilia has a Republican bias once again.
I had redditors call me a liar when I told them about that video that got released back in the summer of a person dating with a camera undercover video of somebody on the inside of the FBI claiming that there’s the exact thing would happen. Paraphrasing, they said that they would be redacting the files, leaving only liberal and democratic names in the list. It was basically an active redaction. campaign for a Republicans. I hope that motherfucker gets locked up too.
I had heard (I don't know shit but I saw this posted awhile ago) that the one with the camera worked for a far right news network. They had expected to "uncover deep state libs covering up".
Like I said though, I don't know shit.
You might not know shit, but you know about Schnitt.
That's the last name of the guy who, as a private citizen and not related to his position as a DoJ official, was recorded making the comments in that secretly recorded video.
And yet 4 hours later the comment is still the 3rd most upvoted in the thread despite clearly not having watched the video the thread is based on. Great evidence of how the actual content on Reddit is completely irrelevant to the title of the content. May as well jjst get rid of the links altogether at this point and just post random sentences and let people react to them.
There's no conspiracy: the Republican party has executed a very open, very vocal takeover of the US government. They have turned every facet of the government into an arm of the Republican party. It's only a conspiracy if someone claims they know a secret that everyone is lying about. There are plenty of lies going around, but nobody is lying about the extreme right-wing politicization of every aspect of our government: it's the platform they ran on. It's what MAGA voters want. And it's what they're getting.
This dude was fired and is suing because he is swearing up and down he has no actual information on the Epstein or Maxwell cases. He's from a completely different department and everything he said was speculation.
I'm not pointing this out because I support the Republicans, but I'm pointing it out because we need to be better than them when it comes to credible information
Last time I’ll post this since I’ve had to copy paste this message 3 other times to help people:
No. This video has been up for months. It was like that for me too though. What you need to do is click the 3 dots at the top of the reddit app and share the post URL with yourself, then paste it into a browser and view it there. It should work then.
Does anybody want to mention how this is clearly a future prediction based in opinion of what the DOJ would do with no firsthand knowledge whatsoever, so the claim that he admitted anything that already happened is a bald faced lie and an affront to journalism?
Or how this video ultimately stems from James O'Keefe's media group? You know, the guy who killed ACORN with his manipulated video?
"Sorry but understand this is so that your child rapist president and his child rapist friends won't get their feelings hurt by people saying they're child rapists."
It's like what did anyone expect? There are no rules anymore. The people who rule the world don't care about rules. Those rules are for us. Like dang history is right there it's been the same for thousands of years. We just have better distractions now.
If this were a job and you had any association with any crime of this magnitude you would be fired right away. Karma is going to be a bitch for everyone.
Everyone that removed only Republican names from the files should be jailed. Partisan BS is not the rule of law, which in this country applies to Everyone, not just Democrats.
As much as I'm 100% sure they did this, this is a clip provided by James O'Keefe's company, and they're infamous for manpiulating interviews in the past by deceptively editing them or by outright lying.
I do believe this is what happened, because of course, but do we have any confirmation of who this guy is? Otherwise shouldn't this be titled Man Who Claims To Be DOJ Official Says etc... ?
Got it, thanks. Sounds like he asserts that he had no firsthand knowledge of what was happening behind the scenes and this was his opinion, just like the rest of us, which he says he said to the woman recording multiple times but that wasnt included in the tapes she released.
The United States should continue renaming their departments. Since the "Department of Defence" rightly became the "Department of War", the "Department of Justice" should become "Department of Injustice" or "Department of Impunity".
No. This video has been up for months. It was like that for me too though. What you need to do is click the 3 dots at the top of the reddit app and share the post URL with yourself, then paste it into a browser and view it there. It should work then.
Nova SINGLE republican name. Thats why trump flipped and told his administration to vote for the files to release. They covered up every single republican name. When we KNOW both sides are guilty
I mean we kinda all knew this would happen right...
Just didn't expect anyone to admit it.
The mask has been off since the first day of his second term. They don't plan on needing democracy to stay in office.
When faced with losing a democratic election, conservatives will not abandon conservatism; They will abandon democracy.
“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.”
― David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
Conservatives don't necessarily have to always be with us. We choose every single day to continue to tolerate their evil amongst us. Other choices are available. After all, they're big fans of disappearing human beings into foreign prisons without due process, and random kidnappings in the streets of America.
The entire concept of conservatism can essentially be boiled down to how little do I have to help others so that I can gain the most for me and what I want. Get rid of them if they don’t want to be part of a community.
You're wrong. Every society develops conservatives. Even the Soviet Union had conservative factions in their government. It cannot be avoided and will always exist.
The true origin of Conservatism is the deeply held belief that human nature is inherently wicked. Everything conservatism is stems from this belief.
• Religious Conservatives believe people are evil, but can be redeemed through their god(s)
• Libertarian Conservatives do not really care what happens to other people, because they believe they're inherently evil, as long as the laws allow them to protect (and potentially enrich) their position on the social hierarchy.
• Xenophobic Conservatives believe people will naturally target that evil towards those who are different than themselves, and want to limit the power of those who aren't in the majority.
• Elitist Conservatives usually believe that society should cater to the strongest, and let them determine what is right and wrong.
This contrasts with liberals, who believe that human beings are complex and flawed, and leftists, who believe human nature is mostly good but a few evil people are ruining it for everyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot
People act like this didn’t already happen at the end of his first term. It is amazing how many people only know January 6th.
It's funny how little people care when they're living paycheck to paycheck and struggling to pay for basic needs like housing and food.
Yet somehow they have enough time to care about nonsense like "illegal trans healthcare for all".
Because they're being fed the propaganda of "these people are taking away your hard earned money that you already don't have enough of and are giving to these people you hate!"
And somehow simultaneously being kept dumb enough to never ever question the veracity of any of that.
You say "somehow" as if there were any doubt about the mechanism.
"Critical thinking skills" have been systematically deleted from the curricula of public schools across the country by the right wing; one of them is on record saying they voted against its teaching because it quote encourages children to question the fixed ideas their parents have given them unquote.
It's all about power and control, and it's easier to control and maintain power over people who are too stupid to think their way out of it; "stupid" doesn't mean unintelligent; it means "unable to think critically". It's a hallmark of being poorly educated, a demographic some demagogues profess to "love". Probably because it takes so much less effort to hoodwink them.
Which is really fucking stupid, because its when they should care the most.
People flock to the dumbest descisions when making the right decisions matters the most.
It doesn't help that we're inundated with crisis journalism and sensationalism. Like already numb enough through our own struggling, but then overwhelmed by the constant barrage of horror fluff that has become journalism... Almost as of by design.
MAGA is already making up excuses for when they inevitably try to end elections. Just bring up democracy next time you talk to one. They'll tell you all about how "America is a republic, not a democracy", as if they are mutually exclusive or something.
This line is way older than MAGA. MAGA isn't something completely new, that sprouted out of nowhere, it's political ideology that has always had a degree of popularity in the US becoming mainstream and taking over. It's the culmination of where right wing rhetoric has been pushing us for decades.
They have always been against a progressive society where we move away from conflict and toward resolution with one another.
Offer them these 4 quotes:
“This democracy of ours, which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak.” - Ronald Reagan
“The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy.” - Colin Powell
“If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press.” - John McCain
“Democracy is the deceitful theory.” - Adolph Hitler
And ask them which they align with on the issue of democracy. It’s fun to watch.
Those are good quotes, but just want to point out that MAGA turned on John McCain before his death and labeled him a RINO. That quote will only be used by them to further justify the "we're not a democracy!"
I think their point was, give them the quotes without the names and they will choose the Hitler quote. Then you throw it in their face that all the others are by Republicans.
This has been true for as long as land rather than people has been deciding elections in the US.
It's like saying "Twitchy is a Chihuahua, not a dog!"
Because their entire platform is corporate control and embracing evil they've never believed in competent governance for the good of society.
Why wouldn't they? After the election fraud of 2000, they realized they could get away with anything, just so long as the had an accommodating Supreme Court.
Reagan killed DR'S dream, but Cheney jammed a stake through the heart of our democracy.
Modern Conservatives are extremists, they are not 'conservative,' they have become loyalists who support tyranny.
Your average Democrats fits the description of a traditional conservative far better than your average Republican.
You could use the word 'traitor' interchangeably with the word Republican and no meaning would be lost.
Hell, he's explicitly said that during the election campaign. He's literally on record telling people that they won't have to vote again if they get out to do it just once more. They cheered for that, because it'll mean they've won and they only see this as a game.
They lie about so many things. It wasn't that long ago they said there was no more Epstein documents to share.
"There are no Epstein files on my desk, just a bunch of black rectangles."
Kash Patel claimed Epstein only trafficked girls "to himself".
Twelve hundred victims and climbing, no wonder patel's eyes look like that
They planned on the military taking arms against civilians.
Yeah there's a reason they are openly mocking co gress when called to testify, they don't plan on being removed by any election result.
Get ready to taste tear gas in 2026. We are going to have to be in the streets because this election is not going to be free and fair.
It’s a gerrymandered release.
The same thing Assange did with Wikileaks only releasing the Hillary/DNC emails but holding back on the GOP ones and not releeasing any of theirs
Hell, Trumps Chief Justice the other day straight up admitted Trump is all over in the files.
The gall to release completely black files. We all knew it was gonna happen.
Assume every black page is Trump and anyone personally in-line with Trump, his donors, his cabinet, his congressmen he directs. All of them. Especially Trump.
Totally not a guilty look. But who holds them accountable when he runs the DoJ and has authority over the military?
I mean, we're talking about events that have never transpired in the US. Complete mockery of our supposed Democracy that we now know is just full on fascist and it's very likely Trump plans to never step out of that office willingly.
Something something kill a man in the street and they’d still vote for me.
He was on a date.
Considering republicans are cheaters and nothing they do is fair or in good faith, yea we all saw it coming. Oh, that and when FBI whistleblowers said they had a team of agents working for weeks to redact mentions of Trump. Nothing they do is in good faith.
Then why dont people stop voting for them?
Seriously. Everyone was so adamant on the files being released, but it was clear as day they would never release the unredacted files and incriminate themselves.
I'm not surprised they did it, but I'm a little surprised they think they is a better look for them. They say they react everything with a republican in it, then release files that are 95% redacted. The only conclusion to draw from that is that the files are 95% republicans. Which we all knew, but it's nice to have it confirmed.
FWIW, the guy in the video did not have privileged information, either:
Source: Politico
I'm amazed at how many on the left seem to now be falling for the work of O'Keefe and Project Veritas
Maga didnt, but if they could think critically they wouldnt be maga
Well they explicitly said they were going to do this months ago
This very video is literally months old. This clip made the rounds back in I wanna say June or July and fucking nobody paid attention to it
Yes. It’s beyond frustrating to have only part of the story. I still want to know why they weren’t released when the Democrats had the opportunity… you would think they’d have done it to torpedo Trumps second term. They had 4 years to move this through.
It makes me wonder what neither side is releasing and why… I’m sure we all speculate what it is. Though I think we deserve to know, and the victims deserve justice.
We have to demand better and quit giving people passes for bad behavior along party lines, no matter where they fall. Let their depravity be seen and accounted for.
A federal judge sealed them during Trump's first term, not to be unsealed until 2025.
The Biden administration did try to get them unsealed. It went up to the Supreme Court. All the conservatives on the court said no.
That was Bidens mistake. He should have just unsealed them saying it was a national security issue, and that the courts have no authority over the executive in that manner.
OR RAN ON IT.
The problem Dems have is they constantly say "We're doing good things, you guys have just never heard about it." And then NEVER run on those things. Imagine if Biden or Kamala had pushed for the unsealing every day, they went on TV and told the American people, rich elites hide their involvement with a giant sex trafficking ring of minors only to be unsealed in 2025. I promise you full transparency on these documents, but I HAVE to win re-election. And if I don't fulfill my promise, I'll step down.
Democrats always just assume people will know these things, and then pikachu face when people don't.
My understanding why Democrats didn't release them is that Democrats didn't think that it was appropriate to intervene in the department of Justice affairs. There's this basic principle of our constitution called separation of powers and the Democrats were trying to respect how our constitution works. Republicans don't give a damn.
We should be much more upset at the fact that Trump keeps on pardoning career criminals and meddling in the justice department rather than what the Democrats didn't do.
That, and I could be wrong, but I believe the judge had sealed them for X amount of years, and the time frame was to be up by 2025. Which is why Trump campaigned on it.
Epstein’s been a problem for a long time.
I think we can afford to do both. Be upset at what is, and is not being done… maybe expecting our elected representatives to actually represent our interests.
Representatives only represent the people who's voting with their wallet matters: corporations and lobbyists.
Because a Trump appointed federal judge ordered them sealed until Jan 25, 2025 so Maxwell would have a chance to appeal her conviction.
If they were released earlier she could have gotten off her charges without consequences due to a mistrial. It would have made Trump's lies about "weaponizing the DoJ" true overnight if they broke the law just to harm his shot at a second term, so they followed the law and didn't do it.
That said, now Maxwell is off without consequences after a secret meeting with Trump's former personal attorney so I guess the only moral of the story is that elections have consequences when one party values party loyalty over the rule of law.
A lot of things should have torpedoed Trump's second term. I seriously doubt the Epstein files would have been one of them considering how the crazy MAGA people move the goal post
"Trump rapes kids? Well that's just tuesday at our household!"
“He’s unironically just like me!”
There actually was an ongoing investigation into Maxwell while Biden was president. After that ended they didn’t want to be seen as weaponizing the DoJ.
That's just spin for protecting pedo's.
The files were sealed until jan 2025
For extremely wealthy people, money trumps ideology. Meaning that wealthy people will generally protect and side with other wealthy people, since they know the political parties are just vehicles to further their own power.
Trump was literally a democrat in the 90's and gave political donations to Hillary Clinton. Musk before he turned into a far right troll was beloved by liberals.
Democrats didn't release the Epstein files because they knew it would harm the wealthy
Heh. Tbe sheer amount of redacted stuff vs not redacted says a lot about them now.
They only spent millions of our tax dollars making it happen the craven pile of sh*t
Part of this is to get people to accept corruption. Of course we expected it. But we do not fucking accept it. Thanks to this official for exposing this.
The problem is that everyone who did the omitting needs to go to prison too. The pardon needs to be removed completely from all levels of government.
What do you think they mean when they say "the most transparent administration in history"? It means you can see right through their bullshit.
Saw this video months ago, came out happened during the time they were furiously redacting everything. The big news about this is it was exactly true.
Yeah, and we also saw this video when it was posted a month ago.
All the names were redacted. The pictures were the only thing of substance released and that does not tell anything. It's a cover up.
I’m sure plenty of photos also magically disappeared.
Out of about 90 000 only about 3600 were released and most were just photos documenting every square foot of Epstein’s house
And magically no videos? Complete bullshit. All of those emails and not one attached image?
There are 95,000 pictures. 3600 were released. That’s more than 90,000 still unreleased.
For clarity: that's less than 4%
4% of the pictures are mostly very liberal leaning door knobs and a few democrats. 96% are pictures of republicans.
Logically just cloth 96% of the Republicans in orange now.
Left or right, it doesn't matter. JUST RELEASE ALL THE FILES
Then factor there is countless hours of fotage too. Not even being talked about.
So approximately 100k images, and approximately 100k have not been released? Got it.
So in other words, there are 90,000 pictures of Trump.
These are from the Epstein estate that House Democrats released.
So they didn’t actually release the files…
There are pages of pdf that have been completely blacked out.. they didn't disappear, they were just "redacted"
And not just page here page there. One instance was 119 pages in a row. Another, 255. Fully redacted. Thats a fuckin short story length...
We already knew it was going to be like this. Its why they paid how many millions in overtime to have the FBI redact all the content. When these crimes took place Trump wasn't even a political figure.
National security is just a blanket (and terrible) excuse to coverup a bunch of rich powerful people's crimes. Democracy would survive (probably thrive) if every single one of them were strung up for their crimes.
They had FBI agents reviewing everything, only to just take the fast and easy route of redacting most of it. I get the feeling that even after tens of thousands of man hours was spent on these documents they realized they are fucked even with what little was left and went the full nuclear option
The Hobbit is around 300 pages, so more than a short story.
That's not a short story, that's a novella, or in the case of 255, just a straight up novella.
They didn't release something like 90k photos
The photos they did release? I saw pictures of door knobs. DOOR KNOBS!
Yeah, but fancy
Particularly pictures of a bloated clown wearing tent suits and a terrible hair weave.
Yeah I didnt see Trump blowing Bubba so you know a lot of pics are missing
100% they were like "here's 100 photos of Bill Clinton. This is good right?!? See we're doing what we promised🤠"
They released the audio recordings of Ghislaine Maxwell's interviews with Trump's former personal lawyer and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche back in July.
The one she had just a week before being moved to a minimum security prison.
And the grand jury files are fully redacted, just like Maxwell probably requested.
Nah, Trump's team called for that because it won't have info on others and will be declared "total vindication" for Trump
people are also discovering that they seem to have just taken plain pics from Getty images and included them, with some faces redacted for no reason. they have nothing to do with Epstein. most have either clinton and/or Michael Jackson in them. just more obfuscation
There were documents entirely redacted
They pulled some photos the previously released too. https://www.npr.org/2025/12/20/nx-s1-5650758/epstein-files-doj-trump-photo
This is from months ago.
I think it’s good to keep people in the loop, but they’re getting away with it, and this is proof.
The guy in the video is suing the department for firing him, claiming that since he worked in the witness protection program he had no official knowledge of what was happening with the Epstein files and therefore he was allowed to speculate about what other unrelated departments in the DoJ were planning to do. . .
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/24/former-doj-official-whose-remarks-about-epstein-files-were-recorded-sues-over-firing-00666788
"In the email, Schnitt called his remarks to “Skylar” his “own personal comments from what I learned in the media and not from anything I’ve done at or learned via work.”"
Schnitt doesn't deserve to be fired for his comments. He deserves to be fired for not recognizing he was being honeypotted.
When on your first two dates, all she wants to talk about is pedophile sex offenders, that's not amoré. That's a red flag and warning bells should be going off.
I was thinking the same thing. He’s FBI they have to have gone through counter espionage tactics. To be fair to them though they can’t keep the best talent because private industry pays more. Which really sucks. In like every Asian country working for the government is one of the best positions possible for being financially stable/secure yet people here constantly have to wonder if the next administration will F them over.
Exactly! They told us to our faces what they plan on doing and then proved it today
This guy was speculating, not whistleblowing. He wasn't in a position to know any of this, the video is not what you claim it to be.
You are correct
Former DOJ official whose remarks about Epstein files were recorded sues over firing - POLITICO https://share.google/0fzkynyKgvcmG2YAQ
Reddit! Stop believing sensationalized content!!!! Be better!!!!
The first clue that this video was bullshit is that it came from Okeefe Media, run by James O'Keefe. The same guy that started Project Veritas. So I'm sure this new organization has the same tactics. They set up hidden cameras and get people to say things that they can use to go viral and support their causes.
Usually he's trying to set up people that work for Planned Parenthood, or NPR, or something like that. But they are never interested in truth or facts. They want to get clips to stir the pot and support right wing populist causes.
It's not proof, though. I don't support Republicans, but read this
Former DOJ official whose remarks about Epstein files were recorded sues over firing - POLITICO https://share.google/0fzkynyKgvcmG2YAQ
Other countries start riots for way less
What happened to nothing to fear, nothing to hide?
Well when there are thousands of pages of documents, and only liberal/Democrat names and mentions were left unredacted......and 80% of the documents are redacted, I think that speaks volumes to just how many Republican/conservative names appear in the documents. Remember kids, if they redacted it, it's because it was trump or one of his supporters.
This is a government run by Epstein’s best friend and a 34x convicted felon.
WHAT THE FUCK ELSE DID YOU EXPECT??
Larger font please... It's not getting through...
So they were ordered to keep every Democrat in it and only Bill Clinton rose up? Interesting. And 90% is redacted. Seems like pedophilia has a Republican bias once again.
Republicans... Projecting? Someone call the news!
I had redditors call me a liar when I told them about that video that got released back in the summer of a person dating with a camera undercover video of somebody on the inside of the FBI claiming that there’s the exact thing would happen. Paraphrasing, they said that they would be redacting the files, leaving only liberal and democratic names in the list. It was basically an active redaction. campaign for a Republicans. I hope that motherfucker gets locked up too.
This is that video
This is so fuckin funny lol
Yeah, but where's the video? And why male models?
I had heard (I don't know shit but I saw this posted awhile ago) that the one with the camera worked for a far right news network. They had expected to "uncover deep state libs covering up".
Like I said though, I don't know shit.
You might not know shit, but you know about Schnitt.
That's the last name of the guy who, as a private citizen and not related to his position as a DoJ official, was recorded making the comments in that secretly recorded video.
This is the same guy in the same video from 3 months ago.
Still hasn't gotten into a long-term relationship.
Same as it ever was.
Look where my hand was
This is what happens when you don't watch a video before commenting
And yet 4 hours later the comment is still the 3rd most upvoted in the thread despite clearly not having watched the video the thread is based on. Great evidence of how the actual content on Reddit is completely irrelevant to the title of the content. May as well jjst get rid of the links altogether at this point and just post random sentences and let people react to them.
It felt like a conspiracy, I thought there was no way.
There's no conspiracy: the Republican party has executed a very open, very vocal takeover of the US government. They have turned every facet of the government into an arm of the Republican party. It's only a conspiracy if someone claims they know a secret that everyone is lying about. There are plenty of lies going around, but nobody is lying about the extreme right-wing politicization of every aspect of our government: it's the platform they ran on. It's what MAGA voters want. And it's what they're getting.
conspiracy doesn't have to mean secret.
this is people working together to break the law.
this is most certainly a conspiracy.
a real one.
Project 2025
Which must mean all the redacted files must only include republicans otherwise we’d be seeing more
You guys are going to crucify me for this, but I believe we need to stop spreading non-relevant information.
Former DOJ official whose remarks about Epstein files were recorded sues over firing - POLITICO https://share.google/0fzkynyKgvcmG2YAQ
This dude was fired and is suing because he is swearing up and down he has no actual information on the Epstein or Maxwell cases. He's from a completely different department and everything he said was speculation.
I'm not pointing this out because I support the Republicans, but I'm pointing it out because we need to be better than them when it comes to credible information
So tampering with evidence is ok when it comes to Republicans? Why isn't she not in jail already?
Not just tampering, they have forged evidence too.
Hard to be a shittier or more hypocritical American than a Republican these days.
So every redacted photo and every redacted sentence is about a republican. Got it.
looks at the files holy shit.
Nah it's not as simple as every redacted sentence...
But it's definitely as simple that every redacted box contains allegations against a Republican.
And the sad thing is America will accept it and nothing will be done to the Pedofile in chief. What an absolute joke of a country lol
These people will say with no evidence that the election was stolen, but will accept these tampered files with no further questions. Ridiculous.
"DOJ official admits sky is blue and grass is green."
“DOJ official admits sky is [redacted] and grass is [redacted].”
“An Error Occurred” playing this video yeah ok
Last time I’ll post this since I’ve had to copy paste this message 3 other times to help people:
No. This video has been up for months. It was like that for me too though. What you need to do is click the 3 dots at the top of the reddit app and share the post URL with yourself, then paste it into a browser and view it there. It should work then.
This happens to me any time I try to open a YouTube short on my phone. If you click the YouTube link up next to the title it works.
Yeah this is becoming strangely way more prevalent lately….
Gee, why aren't republucans releasing them after saying the democrats weren't releasing them?
Does anybody want to mention how this is clearly a future prediction based in opinion of what the DOJ would do with no firsthand knowledge whatsoever, so the claim that he admitted anything that already happened is a bald faced lie and an affront to journalism?
Or how this video ultimately stems from James O'Keefe's media group? You know, the guy who killed ACORN with his manipulated video?
r/noshitsherlock
Looks like even this video is as redacted
lol it is gone link please mirrors boys
"Sorry but understand this is so that your child rapist president and his child rapist friends won't get their feelings hurt by people saying they're child rapists."
Of course the video gets removed…
So what you're saying is all the blackout is republicans
It's like what did anyone expect? There are no rules anymore. The people who rule the world don't care about rules. Those rules are for us. Like dang history is right there it's been the same for thousands of years. We just have better distractions now.
If this is real, he will be on the street before Christmas.
This administration makes Watergate look like a parking ticket.
Link appears to be dead
Anything that comes from project veritas should be taken with a grain of salt and questioned extensively.
You don't say?
“An error occurred.”
If this were a job and you had any association with any crime of this magnitude you would be fired right away. Karma is going to be a bitch for everyone.
How will we get the unredacted Epstein files? So we have to win the 2028 election?
It looks like everyone was omitted from them lol
Everyone that removed only Republican names from the files should be jailed. Partisan BS is not the rule of law, which in this country applies to Everyone, not just Democrats.
Did they ever confirm whether this guy is actually a DOJ official? Believe it or not, I'm hesitant to trust the Daily Mail.
Sure buddy 👍🏼
AND THAT is why every page is black. It is all republicans. The whole damn thing.
As much as I'm 100% sure they did this, this is a clip provided by James O'Keefe's company, and they're infamous for manpiulating interviews in the past by deceptively editing them or by outright lying.
Not sure this counts as evidence.
I believe what he's saying, but I also believe that it looks like he's on a first date and trying to impress this woman.
I do believe this is what happened, because of course, but do we have any confirmation of who this guy is? Otherwise shouldn't this be titled Man Who Claims To Be DOJ Official Says etc... ?
Yes, he is Joseph Schnitt, deputy chief of special operations at the DOJ. He was fired because of what he said but it looks like what he said was true
Got it, thanks. Sounds like he asserts that he had no firsthand knowledge of what was happening behind the scenes and this was his opinion, just like the rest of us, which he says he said to the woman recording multiple times but that wasnt included in the tapes she released.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/24/former-doj-official-whose-remarks-about-epstein-files-were-recorded-sues-over-firing-00666788
I’ve seen it before but I love how most of the videos that show stuff like this are all of a sudden getting error code when you try to watch them.
Felon Trump. He should be in prison
The United States should continue renaming their departments. Since the "Department of Defence" rightly became the "Department of War", the "Department of Justice" should become "Department of Injustice" or "Department of Impunity".
Fucking duh!
And no one was surprised
They are all going to see the devil they believe in. Disgusting.
So for every reaction I can just wildcard pick a republican name and put it in?
The Doj is protecting Donald J. Trump the child rapist felon.
In other news the sky is blue.
Oh wow no shit mind blown
So there are a lot of Republicans in the files lol owning the libs daily.
video is taken down already
And now the video is gone.
So you are saying you did not release the whole file and broke the law? Because I am sure that is what you said.
Starting wars on the same day? Because that seems to be your next distraction.
People need to start going to jail. Do your job congress. Or you go bye bye soon.
the last interview i watched like this, the guy was the person who filled out travel claims for agents of multiple agencies. lol
When are we going to start believing the victims?
The Clintons are having a hellish past few days.
I feel like there's a pretty good chance any of us could be the next Acting Chief of the DOJ.
Video removed.
No. This video has been up for months. It was like that for me too though. What you need to do is click the 3 dots at the top of the reddit app and share the post URL with yourself, then paste it into a browser and view it there. It should work then.
Nova SINGLE republican name. Thats why trump flipped and told his administration to vote for the files to release. They covered up every single republican name. When we KNOW both sides are guilty