'My god': DOJ's latest effort to block release of Epstein files leaves onlookers floored

[LetMyPeopleVote]

The DOJ's response here is ridiculous. A law is supposed to be complied with and there is no need for an express remedy to be stated in such law. Courts enforce all laws even when there is no express remedy.

‘My god’: DOJ’s latest effort to block release of Epstein files leaves onlookers floored

They quietly filed a motion in federal court Friday to block a new effort to compel them to release the files.

Whatever's in those files must be beyond horrifying.

www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...

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https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2674904768/

The Justice Department quietly filed a motion in federal court Friday to block a new effort to compel the agency to release its trove of files on Jeffrey Epstein – as it’s required to by law – in a move that sparked fierce backlash among critics.

“Oh my god,” wrote Brett Meiselas, cofounder of MeidasTouch, in a social media post on X to his more than 270,000 followers Friday night in response to the DOJ’s motion......

On Friday, however, the DOJ filed a motion to block that effort in the Southern District of New York, arguing that courts lack the authority to force the agency’s hand in the matter.

“I’ve never seen a group of people go to such lengths to protect sexual predators,” wrote Shawn Ryan, an influential podcast host and former Navy SEAL to his more than 1.2 million followers on X.

Others, like the anti-MAGA political commentator “CattardSlim,” called out Attorney General Pam Bondi for what they characterized as her hypocrisy on the matter.

“Hours after posting ‘No one is above the law!’ Pam Bondi says she & the DOJ are above the law, & they don't want an independent monitor seeing what they're doing with the Epstein files,” they wrote to their more than 33,000 followers on X.

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[oldinmtdem92]

1. i dont gamble

but would put money on trump having fed little girls , from his nasty pageants to epstines island betya ,thats the big secret!!

[barbtries]

12. i wouldn't take that bet.

seems obvious to me that he was epstein's partner in crime, including financial crimes.

[Irish_Dem]

28. It's worse than that. It is a given he supplied the victims.

I think there must be some snuff films.
Raping and killing kids.

But the MAGA cult will not care at all about it.

[Renew Deal]

2. Shawn Ryan is a right winger

[OneGrassRoot]

8. Exactly. More cracks in MAGA. N/t

[Doodley]

3. Pam Bondi is a pedophile protector, protecting her boss. I hope that one day she is behind bars for it.

[karynnj]

13. Maybe protecting herself as well

She was FL AG at some point. I'm not sure of either her timeline or Epstein's could she have some connection to the sweetheart deal and FL not charging him?

[ms liberty]

4. There must really be some supremely nasty s**t in the Epstein Files

Like beyond-our-wildest-speculations-to-date kind of s**t.

[Amaryllis]

18. THere is. Here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220944982

[PJMcK]

5. I don't know what the files say about Trump

But the contents must be presidency-ending.

[OGBuzz]

7. I am starting to believe the Katie Johnson accusation.

She dropped the lawsuit against Trump after his fixer, Michael Cohen, paid her a visit. Cohen is now having meltdowns when asked about the Epstein files and is trying to get back into Trumps circle, likely looking for a pardon for whatever comes next.

[MadameButterfly]

15. Do you have any links to this

I'm not finding anything about Michael Cohen being friendly to Trump again

[OGBuzz]

17. I watched a podcast and now I can't find it. I'll keep looking.

The host and Lev Parnas make plenty of accusations and reference Tara Palmeri's interview:

https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/trumps-ex-fixer-cohen-said-he-knew-nothing-about-epstein/id1811176978?i=1000745341989

Parnas accuses Cohen of attempting to get back into Trump's circle.

[OGBuzz]

22. Here is that original podcast.

https://levremembers.substack.com/p/breaking-michael-cohens-epstein-cover?r=re88k&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay&triedRedirect=true

[OGBuzz]

19. Here is another podcast on the topic which was heavily referenced, also with Parnas.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/lev-parnas-challenge-to-michael-cohen-the-truth-will/id1472959950?i=1000742898882

[snowybirdie]

29. I just blocked

Any posts from Cohen on Sub stack this morning. Always suspected he was a weasel.

[Puppyjive]

6. Pam Bondi needs to go to jail

She is ultimately responsible for this and they should have her arrested.

[popsdenver]

11. No kidding

Along with all of Trump's Female CABAL group that surround him.........

I gotta tell you, the only difference between all of Trump's Women, and the crack whores walking E Colfax here in Denver is
that the Crack Whores have things they WON'T DO.....for ANY amount of money.........

[Alliepoo]

9. I listened to only a tiny bit of

Sascha Riley’s tapes. If even a portion of what he came forward with is true then I think we all know how horrible the truth is. I wonder if anyone is working to verify his story. Seems like it’s just disappeared. A lot of great big names were named by him so if only for that reason it’s hard to understand why what he alleged isn’t being pursued. I’m guessing his story is only the tip of the iceberg. It would be interesting to have the women give their stories too now that Sascha started the ball rolling.

[BurnDoubt]

10. What would she say...

If she woke up on a bench in the park with a henna wash on her entire body, dressed like a student, a haircut and no ID, taken into custody and beaten by ICE personnel and had her pants pulled down and her shirt pulled up over her head so she couldn't see who was handling her... at gunpoint?
I wonder how her perspective might change.
She could start by thanking her lucky stars she's still alive.
Either she doesn't know this happens.
Or she knows, and it gives her PLEASURE.

INDICT a PAM SANDWICH.

[Warpy]

14. I don't think it's about the girls and youmg women he sold to middle aged businessmen

It's not even about exposing the middle aged businessmen, mist iof whom nobody ever heard of and many of whom are alreaddy dead.

I think it's about hiding a complicated financial web because even if Fatso wasn't an integral part of it, a lot of other rich guys were and still are, hiding government kickbacks and direct tax funding for their corporations as well as income from other sources from gun running to drugs to loans to dummy dorporations in well laundered accounts in tax havens planet wide.

[erronis]

16. I trust your intuition and analysis.

But I also think there can be some absolutely horrid depraved content that even a MAGAt couldn't stomach.

Did Putin and his horse ever visit Epstein's island? Was trump involved?
Did some people die in gruesome ways, on camera?

[Warpy]

23. Careful about my intuition and analysis

because I have a nasty habit of adding 2+2 and getting the cube root of 64.

However, I think even the most ravid partisan hack/Putin asset has got to know the man is on his final lap. They're protecing his financial conduits (and their own), not just a doddering old slob who lives mostly in the past and can't tell a movie from a documentary.

The sad part is that I think they might have some success with this. The next crash will nail them.

[Amaryllis]

20. You are right.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220944982
But it's about all of that.

[Kid Berwyn]

21. Hope they connect to Roy Cohn.

He goes back to GOPervert Craig Spence, who pioneered Epstein Island by looting America’s orphanages for Capitalism’s Invisible Army. He suicided in 1989.

[erronis]

24. Another lovely GOP/RW/pervert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_J._Spence

During the lengthy August interview with Michael Hedges and Jerry Seper which had taken place at a Liz Trotta's[30] Manhattan apartment a few months before his death, Spence alluded to more intricate involvements. "All this stuff you've uncovered, to be honest with you, is insignificant compared to other things I've done. But I'm not going to tell you those things, and somehow the world will carry on."[27] Shortly before that in a phone call with Trotta, during which she had urged Spence to turn himself in to the authorities who wanted him for questioning, he had also retorted that they wouldn't be able to "solve the big thing".[16]

Anyone remember Jeff Gannon, another male prostitute who frequented the WH during W's occupancy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gannon

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

25. The War on Epstein News continues

[C_U_L8R]

26. It could be that Trump et al were raping little boys as well as girls.

There seems to be chatter about that and could explain their gyrations to keep a lid on it.

[SheltieLover]

27. Kick

[LetMyPeopleVote]

30. DOJ is now arguing that no court can force it to release the Epstein files.

This is a very weak legal argument.

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