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douglas9

(5,522 posts)
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 07:41 AM Dec 21

At least 16 files disappear from DOJ site for Epstein documents, including Trump photo


NEW YORK (AP) — At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public.

The missing files, which were available Friday and no longer accessible by Saturday, included images of paintings depicting nude women, and one showing a series of photographs along a credenza and in drawers. In that image, inside a drawer among other photos, was a photograph of Trump, alongside Epstein, Melania Trump and Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.


https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/at-least-16-files-disappear-from-doj-site-for-epstein-documents-including-trump-photo
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yourout

(8,724 posts)
1. Is there a list of the missing files and what was in them?
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 07:44 AM
Dec 21

I assume somebody pulled the files down before they got removed.

Norrrm

(4,028 posts)
2. While Trump claims little contact with Epstein or the island, he needs quite a bit of redaction.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:06 AM
Dec 21

mwmisses4289

(3,256 posts)
3. So, let's see...redact/remove anything in the files referring to t because...reasons.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:07 AM
Dec 21

Ya know, the speculation and rumors that he was much more involved in the epstein trafficking ring than previously thought is starting to look less and less CT and more like the truth.

sop

(17,467 posts)
4. I guess the Epstein Files Transparency Act didn't specify how long the stuff was to be made public by the DOJ.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:19 AM
Dec 21
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