
US wants back millions in COVID relief from local governments over missing reports
The U.S. Treasury is trying to recover COVID-19 relief funds from hundreds of local governments that failed to report their spending
over 1,000 FBI agents were instructed to flag every mention of Donald Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Not to investigate. Not to disclose. To suppress. The FOIA team then systematically redacted his name alongside others before releasing the files to the public.
This wasn’t standard redaction. This was a federally coordinated censorship campaign, executed under the illusion of lawful exemption. And the justification? Trump was a “private citizen” when the Epstein investigation began in 2006.
FOIA exemption (b)(6) is being weaponized to protect one of the most publicly entangled names in Epstein’s orbit. They didn’t redact Clinton. They didn’t redact British royalty. But Trump photographed, recorded, and publicly tied to Epstein gets mass protection from federal employees.
This is not privacy protection. This is obstruction of federal transparency, executed at scale.
The FBI redacted Trump’s name knowing it would change the public’s perception of who Epstein’s network protected. That is willful manipulation of federal evidence, aided by the Department of Justice, which has since declared it will release nothing further. No more records. No more names. Nothing.
Pam Bondi Trump loyalist turned AG personally briefed him in May 2025 that he was named in the unredacted files. The fix was in before a single page hit public eyes.
Although the drug dealer, the smuggler, the pimp is not bound by declaration and registration rules, registration develops organically. Accomplices have to be paid, corrupt officials have to be bribed, and painstaking care has to be taken to ensure that a late bill doesn't cause some official to come to the office and foul up the whole operation. It's no coincidence that for every Lucky Luciano, a Meyer Lansky
Let's put a twist on it: suppose Jane Doe, the former 15-and-a-half-year-old victim, said back in, say, 2005 that yes, she had to crawl naked into a hot tub with Donald Trump two years earlier (in 2003). This was said then by a traumatised little girl, who was most likely interrogated in accordance with professional rules, so it is a 'frank' confession.
However, Jane Doe, even under the rules of sequestration (i.e. no meeting with the accused, no defence lawyers, questions asked in writing, judge decides with the help of an expert whether they can be asked at all, etc.) was not allowed to be questioned by anyone.
And Trump would have said in a possible trial that no, he certainly would not, and would have had an alibi that he was elsewhere at the time. She wouldn't have been able to recall the exact date (since she would have had to talk about one of the most traumatic events of her life) she would have been "torn apart".
This evidence was taken out of evidence by the prosecutors not to save Trump's (or anyone else's) ass, but because someone decided (professionally and correctly) that it was not necessary to have this evidence to reach a particular criminal conviction, and there is evidence where the girl's testimony can be neatly juxtaposed with other evidence, and Epstein will be locked up on that basis, but it will not weaken the prosecution's case or further traumatize the little girl (now an adult
And Trump would have said in a possible trial that no, he certainly would not, and would have had an alibi that he was elsewhere at the time. She wouldn't have been able to recall the exact date (since she would have had to talk about one of the most traumatic events of her life) she would have been "torn apart".
This evidence was taken out of evidence by the prosecutors not to save Trump's (or anyone else's) ass, but because someone decided (professionally and correctly) that it was not necessary to have this evidence to reach a particular criminal conviction, and there is evidence where the girl's testimony can be neatly juxtaposed with other evidence, and Epstein will be locked up on that basis, but it will not weaken the prosecution's case or further traumatize the little girl (now an adult).
Is this a hotbed for washing certain people out? Of course.
And who should do the sorting afterwards? The FBI headed by chief Trumpist Kash Patel and the Justice Department headed by chief Trumpist Pam Bondi. Most of the sources listed above are classified under various court orders, and based on what has been said here, I think it is no wonder that the judges don't want to unseal it.
We use essential cookies to make this site work, and optional cookies to enhance your experience.