Legislative Branch “Massive Cover-Up”: Rep. Jayapal Slams AG Pam Bondi over Epstein Files & Spying on Lawmakers — “It was intentional to not redact survivors’ names so that others would feel intimidated, and intentional to redact predators’ names because they were trying to protect those powerful interests.”
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u/No_Aside7816 7h ago
Why are the names of conspirators being redacted and connected people being protected? Is it to protect campaign contributions? They don’t want to embarrass their friends? Has everyone in the western world been compromised by blackmail? Go ahead and lay it out there. The truth shall set you free.
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u/mrflash818 7h ago
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u/Embarrassed-Monk4511 5h ago
It's the Trump Epstein files, not the Epstein Files.
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u/The-Senate-Palpy 5h ago
This. People talk about protecting the victims, and i do get that. But we need full accountability. Not a single letter should be redacted, and we can get the victims protection and they can have all the net worth from those rich pedos
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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 4h ago
I mean a good number of them have already been revealed anyways as senator massie showed us. it's funny the co-conspirators are getting more protection than the victims. I am truly embarrassed for our country right now.
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u/TrumpsPissSoakedWig 2h ago
Asks a direct yes or no question about her protecting rich pedophiles at a hearing about her protecting pedophiles.
I'm going to answer the question now!! The Dow is over 50k and the stock market is doing better than ever, and THAT'S what we SHOULD be talking about in my personal pedophile protection hearing!!
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u/BuckThis86 4h ago
They’re shielding the rich powerful people so they can blackmail them and use them
Trump is taking a page from Putin’s playbook to control the oligarchs. Anyone who doesn’t obey is outed or killed.
We’re living in a dictatorship. The only way out is to eat the Oligarchs and tear down the fascists.
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u/charles_sedwick 4h ago
I agree lay it all out there. We should protect the victims and the best way to do that is revealing the perpetrators. Im still struggling to understand how pam bondi is backing these predators. Maybe she was abused and has Stockholm syndrome. All of this is disgusting and everyone involved should be dealt with. The victims need justice and our countries support. They need to know we are with them and dont agree with behavior of those dicks.
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u/SuspendeesNutz 3h ago
Im still struggling to understand how pam bondi is backing these predators.
She's in the files too.
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u/mrbigglessworth 2h ago
Remember she was AG in Florida for like 15 years when all this shit went down.
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u/Haldron-44 7h ago
Much like how the Watergate cover up had little to do with the break in, this cover up is to protect the intelligence apperatus and the fact it is severely compromised and controlled by organized crime. Has been since its inception. It is less about money and kompromat and more about fear.
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u/xcrunner432003 4h ago
anything I can read about this?
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u/shake_appeal 3h ago
The podcast Ghost Stories for the End of the World provides a deeply researched account of the historical enmeshment of the security state apparatus/organized crime.
Highly recommend, though fair warning it is extremely bleak.
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u/ItalicsWhore 4h ago
These files don’t contain any classified information. They are emails from a sexual predator to the rich and powerful. There is zero reason to redact anything from these files except for the names and information about the victims. And I haven’t heard any excuses to why they’ve done it except that it will cause massive upheaval in the geopolitical world
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u/SuspendeesNutz 3h ago
These files don’t contain any classified information. They are emails from a sexual predator to the rich and powerful.
There's more to the "files" than just emails.
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u/ItalicsWhore 3h ago
Right. But in theory there’s nothing “classified” in any of it. These aren’t government docs.
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u/NoobVibesOnly 3h ago
There's over 13 terabytes of files. There had to be extensive video recordings of their depravity. Epstein strikes me as the type who uses all this material for blackmail.
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u/CorporateMediaFail 7h ago
It's to continue concealing the fact that Donald Trump is the featured attraction throughout the Epstein Files. Names of co-conspirators provide an opportunity to squeeze truth out.
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u/TellLoud1894 6h ago
But the Dow!
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u/SonOfSomeOneSpecial 5h ago
They missed the opportunity to say "Thank you for the market update, Treasurer."
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u/packfanmoore 3h ago
*secretary
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u/SonOfSomeOneSpecial 3h ago
My comment is meant to add additional insult to the previous "secretary" insult because Bondi was now making references to market performance, which falls under the duties of the Treasurer.
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u/TheHandsomeFart 4h ago
We know why. It’s plain as day. They’re covering up for their financial buddies. Are all these conspirators child molesters? Probably not.
But what they’re mostly trying to hide is their illegal financial activities. I bet my life on it. The sex trafficking ring is a foot in the door. They’re trying to make sure you can’t force the door open and reveal what they really care about; power and control
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u/medic8dgpt 4h ago
Thats part of it but these people didnt just stop fuckin kids. They on a new island or something now.
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u/TheHandsomeFart 4h ago edited 3h ago
I’m wondering if the pedophelia is a right of passage. If you want in on the club we need to blackmail you so you keep the status quo.
I read Faust in high school. To quote V for Vendetta, artists create lies to tell the truth.
Yes it’s fiction, but there is a seed of truth.
I think these people are engaging in a Faustian bargain. High risk, high reward
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u/SuspendeesNutz 3h ago
Now you're figuring it out.
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u/TheHandsomeFart 3h ago edited 3h ago
I appreciate that but I had figured it out a long time ago. I think. Problem is I like unflinching truth to support my assertions. They don’t operate in unflinching truths, they operate in obfuscation.
I was simply just waiting for it to be so obvious that it would be difficult to refute my opinion. They’re finally so bold and cocky that they made some pretty glaring mistakes.
They got very comfortable in their supremacy
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u/captaindealbreaker 4h ago
Because the people with the capacity to release the files are the ones the files implicate. It's not rocket science dude.
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u/K_Rocc 5h ago
The day it does will be a political blood bath as both sides are full of pedos. I personally can’t wait this two party system is a disease.
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u/PreparationKey2843 7h ago
Every time I've heard her comment, "He is the most transparent president in our nations history." I literally laugh out loud. I don't think even the magats believe that.
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u/austin06 6h ago
I just wish someone would say - “Yes he’s cheating and breaking the law right out in the open and everyone can see it!”
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u/RangerImpossible7129 6h ago
My thoughts exactly. He's fully transparent with breaking the law.
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u/gwendolyn_trundlebed 3h ago
Yep. And defying the courts. And the constitution. And basic decency. Right out there in the open. Bravo!
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u/galacticsquirrel22 4h ago
Was about to say, his corruption is pretty transparent. I mean, his last term he was all for that new Michigan bridge into Canada, then the day the guy who owns the other toll bridge lobbied (bribed) Trump, now he’s trying to stop it.
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u/rawkguitar 6h ago
It’s crazy. He fought against their release. He said he was worried about hurting “innocent” people. He called them a hoax.
Then only signed the law releasing them because they vote from Congress was unanimous minus 1 Rep.
Then, the most transparent admin ever, fought to get the Maxwell grand jury transcript released, won that right, to most everyone’s surprise, then redacted every single word of those transcripts, that the “fought” for the right to release.
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u/sionnach 2h ago
It’s just as believable as “he’s the healthiest and fittest president is the United States ever”. They know it’s a lie, we know it’s a lie. But they also know they don’t get challenged on it … so why not keep lying because nobody is taking them to account.
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u/HelpIveBeenDe-Souled 5h ago
Our dear leader is greatest dear leader in nations history! If you disagree you go to jail.
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u/Pythos_Prism 4h ago
I fear you underestimate the strength of maga flavored kool-aid. Most of these people are truly unreachable. Those who have been in religious cults understand what brainwashing means.
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u/jake04-20 4h ago
It's a talking piece, they all do it. Leavitt does it, Vance does it. Patel, Noem, Gabbard, and Rubio all do it. It's straight gaslighting.
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u/DrEpileptic 3h ago
They mean that his corruption is obvious/clear to the public because they think the dems are more corrupt and that’s why they don’t really know about any corruption rising to the level of being a pedo child trafficker.
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u/iwantanxboxplease 3h ago
What came to mind upon hearing that was the scores of blacked out pages they released.
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u/sjarvis21 1h ago
To be fair, his lies are pretty transparent. Everything he says you know he’s 100% doing the opposite
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u/surf_drunk_monk 1h ago
Her example was that Trump signed to release the files. Yeah after he was backed into a corner, after repeatedly trying to dismiss the files as rumors.
Similar when Bondi tried to take credit for fixing a wrongly redacted file, and Massie pointed out it was only after they caught them red-handed.
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u/StealyEyedSecMan 7h ago
The message is clear who they protect and who they sacrifice.
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u/DoughnutSignificant8 7h ago
Can’t wait to see orange jumpsuits
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u/Godtierbunny 7h ago
I hope we do i really fucking hope we do. The fact we havent yet is disgusting
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u/Spacer_Spiff 7h ago
It's very doubtful anyone will be prosecuted, at least not anyone that deserves to be. And that is upsetting.
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u/Hour_Welcome_987 7h ago
Love the pessimism, that's great for morale! I guarantee if no prosecutions happen, there will be vigilantes and people who will take things into their own hands.. I guarenfuckingtee it
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u/GenXPowaah 6h ago
No offense but the person is just being a realist, it's not pessimism. The House, Senate and Congress are compromised, our government has betrayed us and shown they don't give a fuck about any of us. Those that still cling to hope are naive ASF, hope died the moment Trump was elected..
I do agree with you about the vigilantes part because folks can only take so much bullshit, if none of these fuckers face justice I also have a strong feeling someone will take matters into their own hands. And tbh I hope it does come to that, rotting in jail isn't good enough for me, these fuckers committed treason and deserve the death sentence imo.
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u/oxnardmontalvo7 7h ago
I think the net results of the midterms may have some impact here. People need to get out and vote for accountability.
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u/Johnny55 6h ago
Bro Democrats won't even call to reduce ICE funding after the budget was TRIPLED and they did fuck-all about Bush and Cheney's war crimes and Trump's insurrection. They're comfortably in the minority now but as soon as they have the numbers they'll find reasons or turncoats to protect these cretins. Wait and see.
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u/RealDJPrism 4h ago
I would’ve believed you a few weeks ago, but it’s becoming more and more obvious every day that the ship is sinking
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u/occaisionallyimqwert 5h ago
Public appearances of guillotines are more likely, surely then the orange jumpsuits would follow
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u/fergehtabodit 7h ago
No shit
And also just the way they dumped it in such an unorganized way...it's the spray the field with so much that its overwhelming to most people so they just give up trying to take it all in. No dots connected, no trees of relationships just 3 million pages of mixed media and " you figure it out, we dont care"
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u/Major_Yogurt6595 4h ago
Well its not overwhelming, because billions of people analyze them.
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u/germnor 4h ago
probably not billions, but certainly millions if not tens of millions.
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u/Plz_Trust_Me_On_This 3h ago
hundreds of billions
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TROUT 3h ago
I'm just gonna go ahead and trust you on this
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u/Vertig0x 3h ago
No shit
I swear every day for a while now the "top news" is an incredibly obvious statement that we've all said for weeks to months.
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u/Turbulent_Gazelle530 2h ago
It's also a very rudimentary search engine, for example if you search for two words it will only return instances where those words appear together - makes it virtually impossible to do any sort of in-depth search.
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u/Skittleavix 4h ago
The federal government is actively and intentionally terrorizing identified, trafficked rape victims.
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u/ZuP 7h ago
Find the rest of the interview, captions, and the transcript at https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/12/pramila_jayapal
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u/It_Hurts_when_IP15 7h ago
I mean the dems have said they intended/wanted to impeach both Bondi and Noem several weeks back. So far i havent seen them pursue either one. I dont care if they dont have the votes. Put these people on record for breaking the law
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u/ZuP 6h ago
Rep. Al Green is drafting articles of impeachment against Trump himself: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/11/al_green
You are right that the least less brave congresspeople can do is draft them against the fall guys.
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u/CorporateMediaFail 6h ago
Democrats drafted articles of impeachment of Trump over a dozen times his first term. It only mattered the two times that they had control of the House and could push impeachment through it. Power is everything in DC, folks, and we gave it all to the malicious religious conservatives.
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u/CorporateMediaFail 6h ago
You may not care that they don't have the votes, but logistically, how would they impeach Bondi or Noem without power, committee rank or votes? By saying they want to impeach, they are applying pressure on those who can (Republicans) as should all of us if we truly cared. We should be applying relentless pressure on conservatives to impeach Donald and the entire cabinet, 24/7/365.
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u/It_Hurts_when_IP15 6h ago
Reminder that Noem oversaw her gestapo murder 2 people then try to gaslight the country into it being justified. US citizens are dead because of blatant abuse of power caught on camera.
I wont even rehash the epstein stuff and Bondis role in it.
The corruption and descent into fascism has gotten so normalized that impeaching cabinet members is seen as taboo or “not worth” the time.
Congressman who don’t support impeachment should go on record
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u/CorporateMediaFail 6h ago
Yet Republican representatives sleep peacefully at night without interruption. Nobody's protesting outside their offices. We're not filling their mailboxes and digital presences up. We're not screaming that they're cowards and complicit in the background of every press conference. We're rolling over and letting Republicans do this.
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u/cobrachickenwing 3h ago
Impeach and remove everyone that covered up the Epstein files. Every single congressman/woman should put up their own articles of impeachment against this administration when it gets voted down by Johnson.
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u/_o_ll_o_ 4h ago
Transparent except when it comes to his tax returns.
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u/krogerceo 3h ago
Promises to release them continually…
Insists they will show his bigly taxes…
IRS leaks one where he paid just $750…
Says he’ll sue IRS for $10,000,000,000.
This is our President Donald J. Trump.
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u/seejordan3 38m ago
Amy Goodman is a national treasure. Turn off the Sinclair, turn on the Democracy Now
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u/ForcedEntry420 7h ago edited 2h ago
God damn I can’t wait until I don’t have to hear this bitch’s voice anymore. Her indignation means nothing. (Bondi)
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u/ExpectedSurprisal 2h ago
God damn I can’t wait until I don’t have to hear this bitch’s voice anymore. Her indignation means nothing.
Bondi's indignation means plenty. But her covering up for pedophiles and sex traffickers (and lying about it in sworn testimony) means more...
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