The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.

Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.

NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents published at the end of January. NPR’s investigation found dozens of pages that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.

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      At the risk of quoting Junior Soprano, no you didn’t know it, they just told you

      NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents published at the end of January. NPR’s investigation found dozens of pages that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.

      You may know of other investigations showing very similar things but this is new

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        I’ve been putting off watching the Sopranos for over a decade (for no particular reason - I DO want to see it) but that line weirdly might have sold me on it

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          Yeah, I really can’t overemphasize how much of a petty insecure asshole the character who said it was, but the delivery of it is hilarious

          Also, as someone who’s watched it, I have some mixed feelings about some of the narrative choices and implied messages in that show, but it really is a master course on dissecting the hypocritical and superficial psychology of mobsters, which I feel like this administration and all of its goons demonstrate constantly

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            I will be watching it like I watch classic cinema. The formula has since been refined but it was the first of its kind so it has some freshman fumbles.

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      There was no Fox News, Facebook or Joe Rogan when watergate happened and no citizens united yet so there was a shared concept of reality in the country.

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      It is? I see the Epstein files all over Lemmy and endlessly posted on friends’ social media (Facebook, Instagram, etc)

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      Specifically because this is what Roger Ailes and his conservative friends created Fox News and the conservative media sphere to prevent. It’s so crazy that it’s worked so well for them. After Watergate happened they sat around together and came up with ideas to make it so they would never have to face consequences for their crimes again. They identified media coverage of Watergate, correctly as a thing that shifted public opinion against Richard Nixon. They never wanted public opinion to go against their guy again no matter how heinous their crimes. So they created Fox News and they created all the other conservative spheres specifically to stop public opinion from shifting in that way. It is so brilliant and so fucking evil.

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      It’s like they’re not even trying, it’s insulting really like how stupid do they think we are

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    I would so love to see Blondi in prison over this. Same with Pedonald, of course.

    Reactionary centrists in the Murc’s Law media would say that wanting to see justice meted out for pedos and pedo-protecters means that someone has “Trump Derangement Syndrome”.

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    I mean… is anyone still surprised by this?

    The U.S.A. are governed by a pedophile rapist and they don’t go tear and shoot shit up. So the majority of them is fine with this.

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    I mean, we all know they are breaking the law daily and donald trump has threatened them all with death if they don’t scrub his name from every file.

    I really wish the conservative party didn’t just flop over like a possum for a horrible dictator, but they are desperate for control and this was their only way to get revenge on democrats and neutral people.