Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is currently engaged in one of the largest cover-ups in American history, making Watergate look tame by comparison. In an effort to sweep the Epstein files under the rug, and keep Donald Trump’s alleged involvement out of public knowledge, the “most transparent administration” released over 500 pages of files that are entirely blacked out, with other sections being heavily redacted.
According to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Trump himself signed into law in November 2025, the federal government only has the ability to redact victim’s names and faces, and must provide Congress with a written justification for any redactions made.
However, the DOJ is redacting instances of Trump’s name and face. When the files were released, an image surfaced of a drawer containing pictures of Trump alongside young women, along with the infamous photo of Trump posing with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein himself. The DOJ then removed this picture from their website, before restoring it due to public backlash.
Then, we learned that the DOJ redacted Trump’s name from already existing allegations within Epstein documents, while failing to redact an actual victim’s name multiple times within the files.
However, former President Bill Clinton’s images were widely shared by members of the Trump White House as proof that Trump was somehow innocent, and likely to redirect the public’s attention away from Trump. In response, Bill Clinton’s team released a statement urging Trump and the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to release all materials and images of Clinton in connection with Epstein.
With Trump’s handling of the files and outright refusal to come clean about the most notorious child sex trafficker of our time, with whom he had a years-long public relationship with, Trump has defied his base, angered survivors, and proven yet again that he is the last person qualified to serve as president.
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