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Democrats Threaten To Sue Trump After Sham Epstein Files Release

The DOJ did not follow the law and heavily redacted the Epstein files that were released to the public, and Democrats are threatening to sue the administration.

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Jason Easley
Dec 19, 2025
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When Trump and the Republicans reversed themselves and supported legislation requiring the DOJ to release the Epstein files, the fix was in.

Sure, the DOJ would release the files.

The DOJ would also make sure that they were heavily redacted, so that you couldn’t read them.

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Epstein survivor Annie Farmer put it this way, "I don't feel tremendously confident that everything will come out... there's been a lot of effort, money & time put into redactions. Not to protect victims, but to protect people in power."

The redactions were made not to protect the survivors, but to protect Trump and his fellow powerful friends of Epstein.

The redactions are so severe that all 119 pages of a grand jury document were redacted.

CNN’s Jake Tapper held up an example of what the DOJ released and said:

As much of this as possible. I’m talking about blacking out. I don’t know if I can get a closeup of my phone. This is, this is a, this is one of the, the documents Yeah. That, that the Justice Department released. It’s a hundred pages. Right. And, and this is what it looks like. I don’t know if you can see.

It’s all black. Yeah. It’s just 100 pages of redaction. That’s, that’s the transparency we’re getting here.

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This file release is a total joke.

Democrats aren’t laughing. They are threatening legal action.

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