ProudKangaroo wrote Today at 4:35pm:
I've been working through some of the recently released files and the scale of the redactions involving Trump is staggering. Entire sections are blacked out, yet we are simultaneously told there is "no evidence of wrongdoing" by anyone named. Those two positions cannot be reconciled.
What's in the material that is visible already points to serious issues, not just concerning Trump, but a long list of powerful figures. Despite that, the current US Government appears determined to do nothing, opting instead for delay, minimisation, and procedural cover. At some point, inaction itself becomes a form of protection.
Reading this thread, the most dispiriting part is the familiar chorus rushing to defend the US Government's conduct under Trump, as though loyalty to a political team somehow outweighs the gravity of what is being alleged. That reflexive defence says far more about the defenders than it does about the evidence.
I don't recommend reading the files lightly. They are confronting. But refusing to engage with them at all, so you can preserve a sense of moral cleanliness while playing partisan team sports, is not a defensible position. What is described is disturbing, correspondence that is deeply suggestive, material involving children, threats, disappearances, and warnings that read less like fiction and more like intimidation. This is not something that can simply be wished away.
These matters require serious, independent investigation. Those in positions of power who continue to block or dilute that process should be under no illusion that history will be kind to them. Political convenience has a habit of collapsing once accountability finally arrives.
That people can still defend this state of affairs is genuinely baffling. I fully expect, once again, to become the target rather than the substance of the issue being addressed, and I fully expect moderation to indulge those tactics. That, unfortunately, is a measure of how far this place has sunk.
Hang on, Sad, I distinctly remember Pam saying she had the files on her desk.
It's uncanny, she said. DL's not mentioned once. She turned to Kash.
Right?
Er... Kash said, looking at his shoes.
Right.
He may have blushed, it was a little hard to tell.
Now it turns out Kash has had the entire FBI field staff in the office for the past two months on "administrative duties".
Kash, if you recall, spent three years from 2022 to 2025 as the director of Trump Media & Technology Group. His sole job was reposing Photoshopped memes on Truth Social of Hill and Bill, the old dog, on Epstein Island.
It was all good, clean fun. He even wrote a children's book. Given his prior management and law enforcement experience, he was just the kind of guy you'd appoint Director of the FBI.
Now, DL said, when they discussed the job. I don't want any funny business.
No sir, Kash said.
I wanna top-shelf law enforcement bureau, the best money can buy.
Yessir, Kash said.
And those Epstein files...
I'm onto them, sir.
Destroyed. I don't care what you have to do, flush them if you have to, I want em gone.
Kash started to sweat. The big fella clearly thought files were things you stored in boxes or used to clog up the White House plumbing, not digital records kept on databases logged for user access.
Kash spent his first ten months planning how to do it. He dreamt up fires and lightening strikes, trying to come up with ways to wipe the FBI system. Nothing worked. He spent his whole time stalling, trying to buy time. Everytime he went to the White House, he knew what was coming.
Have you done it yet? DL said.
Getting there, Kash said. He pretended he was using the FBI jet to fly boxes around, the way the big fella used to hide
his boxes from the FBI.
In reality, Kash was just flying to ball games with his latest girlfriend.
In the end, he just gave up. He let Todd sign off at the DOJ: there, Todd said, three million files, with the perfunctory waiver how DL didn't technically do anything illegal - not with the statute of limitations, anyway.
Oh? The fakers said, we thought there were
six million files.
Well, Todd said, that's all you're getting. He was over all this Epstein nonsense himself, even though his only
real job as Deputy Attorney General was to make all this Epstein krap go away.
Todd was counting on spending his last three years at the DOJ flying to ball games with Kash. That's how the big fella had pitched the deputy AG job, anyway. He'd made it sound like all Todd had to do was threaten lawfare and cash in.
Sheesh, Todd could even offer to represent them, then get the DOJ to drop all charges, it was a dream job. With Pam and Kash in cahoots, what could possibly stop them?
We will make America great again, no?