Trump's DOJ: There Is No Epstein List

[Gadianton]

House Republicans on Monday night voted against attaching a Democratic amendment to landmark cryptocurrency legislation that would force the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

This is what I mean when I say they’re evil. All that showmanship was just cover for themselves and their masters.

If you vote for people who are, aid, or abet this kind of thing you’re literally evil. No way around it.

[Doctor Steuss]

House Republicans on Monday night voted against attaching a Democratic amendment to landmark cryptocurrency legislation that would force the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Every single Democrat voted to add the amendment, so Epstein's victims could have justice. Every single one.

There was only one Republican who voted alongside the Democrats. Only one. Every other Republican voted to protect those that engage in sex-trafficking children.

Republican Jesus is proud. The real Jesus... probably not so much.

The phone numbers for Ralph Norman, the only Republican to vote to hold child sex predators accountable are 202-225-5501 (DC Office) and 803-327-1114 (Rock Hill Office), in case anyone wants to give him a quick thank you for being the only Republican that doesn't think pedophilia is ok as long as your team is the one doing it.

[canpakes]

“The Epstein files are on Bondi’s desk, except there are no Epstein files, but if there were Epstein files they were written by Obama and Hillary, but also the Republicans vote under the cover of darkness not to release them.

Truly just staggering levels of stupidity happening right now.”
- Ashley

[Doctor Steuss]

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“The Epstein files are on Bondi’s desk, except there are no Epstein files, but if there were Epstein files they were written by Obama and Hillary, but also the Republicans vote under the cover of darkness not to release them.

Truly just staggering levels of stupidity happening right now.”
- Ashley

Maybe one of the MAGA faithful can help me out. Who was President, and appointed the heads of the DOJ and FBI that were responsible for compiling, sealing, and classifying the Epstein investigation files? It was circa, 2017-2019, if that helps in answering.

There's honestly no possible way he can scream "I diddled kids with Epstein, and I'm terrified there's evidence of it in there" any louder.

[Marcus]

Well, not the Democratic socialist portion of the country.

Every illegal immigrant commits fewer crimes in America than the President you love.

Now there's a comparison to repeat. Nice, Philo.

[Chap]

Well, well ...

This should be interesting!


US House speaker Mike Johnson calls for release of Epstein files amid backlash
Trump has faced growing resentment over the decision of his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to withhold information


The Guardian
Chris Stein
Tue 15 Jul 2025 23.43 CEST

Mike Johnson, speaker of the House, called for the justice department to make public documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, breaking with Donald Trump over an issue that has roiled the president’s rightwing base.

It was a rare moment of friction between Trump and the speaker, a top ally on Capitol Hill, and came as the president faces growing backlash from conservatives who had expected him to make public everything known about Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while in federal custody as he faced sex-trafficking charges.

Last week, the justice department announced that his death was a suicide and that, despite conspiracy theories to the contrary, there was no list of his clients to be made public nor would there be further disclosures about the case. Conservative allies of the president have since criticized him and the attorney general, Pam Bondi, for what they see as opaque handling of a case that Trump campaigned on getting to the bottom of.

“It’s a very delicate subject, but we should put everything out there and let the people decide it,” Johnson told Benny Johnson, a rightwing podcaster, in an interview released on Tuesday.

“I agree with the sentiment that we need to put it out there.”

Referring to a comment Bondi made to Fox News this year that Epstein’s client list was “sitting on my desk right now to review”, Johnson said: “She needs to come forward and explain that to everybody.

“We need the DoJ focusing on the major priorities. So let’s get this thing resolved,” the speaker added.

Earlier in the day, Republicans voted down an attempt by Democrats to insert language into legislation that would require files related to the Epstein case to be made public. But the minority party is determined to keep the issue alive, and Democrats on the House judiciary committee have demanded that its Republican chair, Trump ally Jim Jordan, hold a hearing with Bondi and her deputy as well as the leaders of the FBI to answer questions about Epstein.

Trump has sought to quell the furor that has erupted within his Maga base over the justice department’s conclusion. Over the weekend, he wrote on Truth Social: “One year ago our Country was DEAD, now it’s the ‘HOTTEST’ Country anywhere in the World. Let’s keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.”

As he departed the White House for Pittsburgh earlier today, Trump defended Bondi, but hinted that more documents could be forthcoming. “She’s handled it very well, and it’s going to be up to her. Whatever she thinks is credible, she should release,” he said.

[canpakes]

This story just keeps getting weirder.

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

DHRUV MEHROTRA
07.15.25 15:07 PM

NEWLY UNCOVERED METADATA reveals that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation described as “full raw” surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The video was released last week as part of the Trump administration’s commitment to fully investigate Epstein’s 2019 death but instead has raised new questions about how the footage was edited and assembled.

WIRED previously reported that the video had been stitched together in Adobe Premiere Pro from two video files, contradicting the Justice Department’s claim that it was “raw” footage. Now, further analysis shows that one of the source clips was approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds longer than the segment included in the final video, indicating that footage appears to have been trimmed before release. It’s unclear what, if anything, the minutes cut from the first clip showed.

The nearly three-minute discrepancy may be related to the widely reported one-minute gap—between 11:58:58 pm and 12:00:00 am—that attorney general Pam Bondi has attributed to a nightly system reset. The metadata confirms that the first video file, which showed footage from August 9, 2019, continued for several minutes beyond what appears in the final version of the video and was trimmed to the 11:58:58 pm mark, right before the jump to midnight. The cut to the first clip doesn’t necessarily mean that there is additional time unaccounted for—the second clip picks up at midnight, which suggests the two would overlap—nor does it prove that the missing minute was cut from the video.

The footage was released at a moment of political tension. Trump allies had spent months speculating about the disclosure of explosive new evidence about Epstein’s death. But last week, the DOJ and FBI issued a memo stating that no “incriminating ‘client list’” exists and reaffirmed the government’s long-standing conclusion that Epstein—whom the US government accused of committing conspiracy to sex traffic minors and sex trafficking minors—died by suicide. That announcement triggered immediate backlash from pro-Trump influencers and media figures, who essentially accused the administration of a cover-up.

In response to detailed questions about how the video was assembled, WIRED sent a request for comment to the Department of Justice at 7:40 am on Tuesday morning. Just two minutes later, Natalie Baldassarre, a public affairs officer for the DOJ, replied tersely: “Refer you to the FBI.” The FBI declined WIRED’s request for comment.

On Friday, WIRED published an analysis of metadata embedded in the video, confirmed by independent video forensics experts, which indicates that the file was assembled from at least two source clips, saved multiple times, exported, and then uploaded to the DOJ’s website, where it was presented as “raw” footage.

WIRED’s initial analysis found that those saves took place over a 23-minute span; however, further analysis of additional metadata shows the file was actually edited and saved several times over a period of more than three and a half hours on May 23, 2025. Specifically, the file was created at 4:48 pm and last modified at 8:16 pm ET that day. The metadata also references “MJCOLE~1,” which is likely a shortened version of a longer username. While it likely begins with “MJCOLE,” the full name cannot be determined from the metadata alone.

Both analyses found that the two clips, labeled “2025-05-22 16-35-21.mp4” and “2025-05-22 21-12-48.mp4,” were stitched together. The first clip is 4 hours, 19 minutes, and 16 seconds long, but only the first 4 hours, 16 minutes, and 23.368 seconds appears in the published version, meaning nearly 2 minutes and 53 seconds were cut from the end. According to the metadata, the cut occurs just at 11:58:58 pm. The cut is milliseconds before the one-minute recording gap that Bondi said was caused by a quirk of the surveillance system. The second clip, “2025-05-22 21-12-48.mp4,” picks up immediately afterward, continuing the footage from 12:00:00 am until 6:40:00 am.

The analysis was first provided to WIRED by a researcher who requested anonymity for privacy reasons. WIRED reviewed its findings with two independent video forensics experts, each with over 15 years of experience in Premiere and video production, who confirmed that the edit occurred just before the missing minute mark and that approximately three minutes of footage were cut from the original clip.

The FBI released both “raw” and enhanced versions of the video. Both versions include internal comment markers, annotations typically used in editing software to flag moments of interest. The enhanced version, which the FBI referred to as Video 2, contains 15 such markers that apparently correspond to visible movement near “46 door” at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC). This door is near the cell block where Epstein was being held while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. These markers appear to have been left by analysts during their review, but they do not include the original comment text.

According to a 2023 report by the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), only two cameras in the vicinity of the Special Housing Unit (SHU), the area of the MCC where Epstein was held, were filming and recording at the time of his death. According to the report, the camera that recorded the footage the DOJ released July 7 captured video of a large portion of the SHU common area and parts of the stairways leading to various “tiers,” one of which housed Epstein’s cell.

The OIG report notes that the MCC’s surveillance system was outdated at the time of Epstein’s death, “had not been properly maintained,” and that the DVR hard drives that stored the video files “frequently malfunctioned and needed to be replaced.”

Both the 2023 OIG report and the DOJ-FBI memo published last week state that anyone entering or attempting to access the tier containing Epstein’s cell from the SHU common area on August 9 or 10, 2019, would have been visible on that camera. However, Epstein’s cell door itself was not within the camera’s field of view. The stairway leading to the tier where he was held was also partially obstructed and difficult to see clearly on the video. (A second camera, which covered the “ninth-floor fire exit and two of the floor’s four elevators,” was also filming at the time, according to the OIG report.)

Amid backlash from supporters and critics alike, President Donald Trump defended Bondi on Saturday, saying she was doing a “fantastic job.”

“What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein.”

https://www.wired.com/story/the-fbis-je ... s-cut-out/

[Gadianton]

One thing I guarantee Markk and Ajax, and even Bill and Hound will agree on, is that Trump's name appears pervasively throughout the Epstein files as guilty of all the worst stuff. Don't think so?

If you believe Trump; then Comey, Obama, and the Biden administration "made up" the Epstein files.

If he's right, then are you going to say that Obama and Biden and Comey collectively forgot to put Trump's name in the files? If the deep state, the very source of all TDS, made up the files, then can't we agree that Trump is the star of the show? Wouldn't we expect it to be little more than aggressively framing 4547?

See, you agree.

[Morley]

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“The Epstein files are on Bondi’s desk, except there are no Epstein files, but if there were Epstein files they were written by Obama and Hillary, but also the Republicans vote under the cover of darkness not to release them.

Truly just staggering levels of stupidity happening right now.”
- Ashley

Maybe one of the MAGA faithful can help me out. Who was President, and appointed the heads of the DOJ and FBI that were responsible for compiling, sealing, and classifying the Epstein investigation files? It was circa, 2017-2019, if that helps in answering.

There's honestly no possible way he can scream "I diddled kids with Epstein, and I'm terrified there's evidence of it in there" any louder.

Thanks, Steuss. I just emailed my R congressmen about this.