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RockRaven

(19,755 posts)
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 08:20 PM Sep 2025

Troll/scammer James O'Keefe strikes again, at Repugs this time, about Epstein.

A staffer in the Justice Department said in a secretly recorded video that the department would redact any Republican names from its investigative files on the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

The administration has been funneling the Epstein files to Capitol Hill in a supposed show of transparency, but only liberals’ names will remain visible, the staffer said.

“If they’re released in any way, it’s going to be very redacted. They’ll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal Democratic people in those files,” Joseph Schnitt, acting deputy chief of the DOJ’s Office of Enforcement Operations, says in the video.

Schnitt apparently thought he was speaking to someone he’d met through a dating app, but he was actually talking to an undercover operative for the right-wing entrepreneur James O’Keefe.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/james-okeefe-joseph-schnitt-doj-epstein-files_n_68b9f090e4b09c6f4cf68efb


Of course, the DOJ denies, and the guy backtracks with a "I was just talking shit" sort of explanation.
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Troll/scammer James O'Keefe strikes again, at Repugs this time, about Epstein. (Original Post) RockRaven Sep 2025 OP
The GOP usually LOVES these O'Keefe hidden cameras. LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2025 #1
Schnitt thought he was speaking to someone on a dating app MagickMuffin Sep 2025 #2
I find it odd too Skittles Sep 2025 #5
Still don't trust O'Keefe. Tommy Carcetti Sep 2025 #3
Yeah, but...this story is so core republicon that it's hard to dismiss BoRaGard Sep 2025 #6
"Pam Bondi is a yes man" PuraVidaDreamin Sep 2025 #4

MagickMuffin

(18,362 posts)
2. Schnitt thought he was speaking to someone on a dating app
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:05 PM
Sep 2025



Acting Deputy Director for the DOJ enforcement division.

Why do all these people just keep on telling strangers what the government is doing?

I don’t care for his acting. Loose Lips tell a story.

Paging Q-Anon, white courtesy phone please. Time to turn the tables, don’tyaknow!

Direct your energy where it Reichfully belongs. The republicans pedophiles through and through.


Skittles

(172,892 posts)
5. I find it odd too
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 06:52 AM
Sep 2025

I did a lot of government IT contracts and while I told friends and family the nature of my work, I NEVER mentioned details, that's a no no.

BoRaGard

(7,591 posts)
6. Yeah, but...this story is so core republicon that it's hard to dismiss
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 08:40 AM
Sep 2025

What does the republicon Golf--Cheat-in-Chief have to say about this?

Bet he'll bust a corpuscle fulminating, moaning and whining about how "unfair" everything is.

"Unfair" is his go-to whine.

PuraVidaDreamin

(4,691 posts)
4. "Pam Bondi is a yes man"
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:28 AM
Sep 2025

Anyonebhave more on Joseph Schnitt, Acting Deputy Chief of Enforcement Operations, DOJ?

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