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BumRushDaShow

(159,319 posts)
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 05:49 AM Aug 24

House Oversight Committee Democrats say most Epstein files turned over by DOJ were already public

Source: CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2025, 6:25 PM ET


Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are decrying what they say is a lack of new records in the Jeffrey Epstein files that the Justice Department provided to the panel Friday.

“Only 3% of the documents given to the Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling,” Rep. Ro Khanna of California said in a statement Saturday as he called for the full release of the files. Rep. Summer Lee of Pennsylvania in a statement also claimed that the DOJ’s files are “largely thousands of pages of recycled content already made available to the public.”

The oversight committee earlier this month subpoenaed the Justice Department for any Epstein-related files, along with communications between former Biden administration officials and the DOJ related to Epstein, as many of President Donald Trump’s supporters seek more information and transparency about the case. The committee has also subpoenaed high-profile witnesses to testify, including the Clintons.

According to Lee, the “only new disclosure” is fewer than 1,000 pages from Customs and Border Protection’s “log of flight locations of the Epstein plane” dating from 2000 to 2014 and “forms consistent with reentry back” to the United States.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/23/politics/epstein-doj-files-house-oversight-democrats

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House Oversight Committee Democrats say most Epstein files turned over by DOJ were already public (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 24 OP
"Ha ha. Suckers." - Krasnov (r - pedo protector & golf cheat) BoRaGard Aug 24 #1
The DOJ was only too happy to release Ghislaine's trumped-up jailhouse interview. sop Aug 24 #2
After the Midterms MrWowWow Aug 24 #3
Of course they are. mwmisses4289 Aug 24 #4
Money laundering, Human trafficking, and Child Rape azureblue Aug 24 #5
Thanks for this. I knew some of it, but wow. mwmisses4289 Aug 24 #6
Rape and torture, Bayard Aug 24 #7
The real ones have long been shredded/erased orangecrush Aug 24 #8
You're probably right FakeNoose Aug 24 #10
Presume guilt and do what you do? Brainfodder Aug 24 #9

MrWowWow

(993 posts)
3. After the Midterms
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 08:06 AM
Aug 24

And if we get back the House..then we might see released, whatever Epstein documents that have not been permanently altered or disappeared altogether. maxwell will be long gone or pardoned by then.

mwmisses4289

(2,063 posts)
4. Of course they are.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 09:27 AM
Aug 24

The speculation that trump was much more involved with epstein and maxwell than was previously known is beginning to look a lot less like speculation.

azureblue

(2,552 posts)
5. Money laundering, Human trafficking, and Child Rape
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 10:59 AM
Aug 24

Trump's modeling agency was part of Jeffrey's pipeline:
https://www.motherjones.com

In the late 20th century, John Casablancas (founder of Elite Model Management) built the original model: turn teenage girls into glamorized assets. Jean-Luc Brunel took it international, founding MC2 and receiving at least $1 million from Jeffrey Epstein to expand operations. Paolo Zampolli cornered the visa angle, using U.S. immigration loopholes to bring in young foreign models — often from Eastern Europe and South America — under false pretenses.

In 1999, Donald Trump launched Trump Model Management. His agency followed the exact same pattern: bring girls in on tourist or “extraordinary talent” visas, overcrowd them in overpriced apartments, charge them for every service, and send them to work illegally while racking up debt they could never repay. Former models from his agency say they were instructed to lie to customs and start working immediately upon arrival.

Trump purchased the Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, and Miss Universe pageants — contests where he would later admit to entering dressing rooms unannounced. “I’ll go backstage before a show… and I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant,” he told Howard Stern in a 2005 interview. “You know, they’re standing there with no clothes… and so I sort of get away with things like that.”

So I think it goes like this:
Trump and Epstein were pedos, but it was Epstein's business. Trump gets a chance to buy the Miss Universe / Miss Teen franchise, and then open a modelling agency, so now he a has a fresh supply of victims. He uses Melania (since she was a call girl) and Maxwell to groom the girls, and get them work at Mar a Logo, where they will be in contact with pedos. Soften them up, in Trump Speak.

Virginia Giuffre's Deposition
Virginia states it was Maxwell who recruited her from Mar-a-largo in 2000 (possibly 1999). It was Maxwell who trained her. Virginia thought Maxwell was the leader. She states Epstein and Maxwell were glued at the hips, abused girls together, and Maxwell abused girls on a daily basis. She also states the plane logs are incomplete as the only cover one plane (Epstein I believe had three). Ghislaine had a helicopter given to her by Epstein that she used to fly people to the island.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7010864-Virginia-Giuffre-Maxwell-Deposition/

Meanwhile, Epstein buys Little and "Big" St. James Islands, to set up his pedo playground:

The 66-year-old financier bought Little St. James Island off this US Caribbean territory more than two decades ago and began to transform it. "Everybody called it 'Pedophile Island,'" said Kevin Goodrich, who is from St. Thomas and operates boat charters. "It's our dark corner."
One former worker described a strict "keep to yourself and do your thing" atmosphere when Epstein was present, implying workers were discouraged from observing his activities closely. This individual also recounted seeing young women on the property and believed them to be over 18, though they acknowledged some uncertainty. 
Another worker noted the secrecy surrounding a particular steel safe in Epstein's office, suggesting it contained sensitive materials beyond just money. This worker also revealed that employees were not permitted to enter certain rooms, including the offices, without authorization.

FINALLY
Trump and Epstein have a human trafficking / pedo ring, mixed with money laundering - this accounts for that 1.1 billion Trump was depositing to Epstein's accounts in 4725 Transfers.

THIS is why Trump is frantic to stop the investigation. Not only pedophilia, not only international and domestic human trafficking, but a money laundering scheme, no doubt, with Putin. Don't forget that Putin bailed Trump out by giving him money through a shady Deuschbank loan, when no US bank would loan him money.

AND
This is why Trump is frantic to silence Maxwell - being a partner of Epstein, she knows the whole story and no doubt has some "insurance" stashed so she won't suddenly commit "suicide".



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Virginia Giuffre's Deposition
Virginia states it was Maxwell who recruited her from Mar-a-largo in 2000 (possibly 1999). It was Maxwell who trained her. Virginia thought Maxwell was the leader. She states Epstein and Maxwell were glued at the hips, abused girls together, and Maxwell abused girls on a daily basis. She also states the plane logs are incomplete as the only cover one plane (Epstein I believe had three). Ghislaine had a helicopter given to her by Epstein that she used to fly people to the island.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7010864-Virginia-Giuffre-Maxwell-Deposition/

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https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf
here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.

mwmisses4289

(2,063 posts)
6. Thanks for this. I knew some of it, but wow.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 12:52 PM
Aug 24

Now it makes one wonder- did he keep his precious Ivanka out of it?

Bayard

(26,805 posts)
7. Rape and torture,
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 02:08 PM
Aug 24

By the President of the United States, and his best buddy. I don't know how these girls have survived the trauma.

FakeNoose

(38,493 posts)
10. You're probably right
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:36 PM
Aug 24

... but there's also a chance that Bill Barr made copies of everything. By the time a lot of this happened he was already on his way out of the Chump Administration. Barr might have decided to do a little blackmailing on his own as a side-venture.

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