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riversedge

(80,496 posts)
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 11:33 AM 8 hrs ago

2h 🚨 The Trump administration just announced it will not release any more Epstein files.

I have not been near a TV the last several hours. Maybe you all know something about this announcement??


Brian Allen @allenanalysis
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2h
🚨 The Trump administration just announced it will not release any more Epstein files.

More than half of 6 million documents remain sealed.
Pam Bondi’s response: “The DOJ is done.”

Done.

I RELISH the day she goes to PRISON

Republican reaction:
Sen. John Kennedy: “Release everything.”
Rep. Nancy Mace: “The days of cover-ups are over.”
Lawmakers are now calling it what it is: The Epstein Administration.

The Deputy AG admitted they withheld images showing death, physical abuse, and injury.

Names redacted. Images hidden. Half the documents sealed forever.

A war started the week the files dropped. Seven Americans dead. $2 trillion erased from markets. The draft on the table.

And Pam Bondi just told Congress and the American people: you don’t get to see the rest.

She is relying on a pardon.

The question is what she had to do to earn it.


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2h 🚨 The Trump administration just announced it will not release any more Epstein files. (Original Post) riversedge 8 hrs ago OP
Pam Bondi needs to be locked up. nt City Lights 8 hrs ago #1
Yesterday Grim Chieftain 6 hrs ago #18
;-{)...... Goonch 7 hrs ago #2
The entire American government ... 31st Street Bridge 7 hrs ago #3
Throw her in the cell with Ghislaine. nt TBF 7 hrs ago #4
Not in Ghislaine's cushier Bryan, TX prison TexLaProgressive 5 hrs ago #24
They are mandated by congress to release all the files Coldwater 7 hrs ago #5
Absolutamente inaceptable Picaro 7 hrs ago #6
The law he signed said ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES. spanone 7 hrs ago #7
The Epstein Administration - BIGLY! Norrrm 7 hrs ago #8
Ineptstein misadministration. BattleRow 5 hrs ago #30
Tell me again how "no one is above the law". republianmushroom 7 hrs ago #9
Trump IS the Law. Kid Berwyn 7 hrs ago #10
Bondi may painfully realize 3825-87867 7 hrs ago #11
I guess that's it then angrychair 7 hrs ago #12
Israel has much to answer for Ponietz 7 hrs ago #13
Question for you guys: I would think they'd be thinking in terms of destroying them??? But it seems they would be in Amaryllis 7 hrs ago #14
Rendition her lonely bird 6 hrs ago #15
K&R orangecrush 6 hrs ago #16
Rep. Nancy Mace: "The days of cover-ups are over." Ray Bruns 6 hrs ago #17
"Death, physical abuse, or injury" sop 6 hrs ago #19
Check his financials pfitz59 5 hrs ago #27
They laugh at the Repub party. Their Party responds... how? Festivito 6 hrs ago #20
This needs to be program interrupting breaking news on all channels. But, it won't be. ChicagoTeamster 6 hrs ago #21
The DOJ did not "just" announce anything. The tweets in the OP are about statements made a month ago. onenote 5 hrs ago #22
Thanks! This shit gets.... reACTIONary 5 hrs ago #25
The dates on the "Tweets" are both March 9th. Mme. Defarge 5 hrs ago #26
Yes there is corroboration. Google is your friend. And the date on the tweet just proves my point. onenote 5 hrs ago #29
Merci! Mme. Defarge 5 hrs ago #32
I appreciate your fact checking, but the admonishing of other DUers Gets old. Ilikepurple 22 min ago #35
I guess.... Biglinda 52 5 hrs ago #23
Someone who has access - - PLEASE leak them!!! Talitha 5 hrs ago #28
Paging Elon! BattleRow 5 hrs ago #31
Where is the Document? The substance of which identifies who and when this was said. Ford_Prefect 4 hrs ago #33
Have them held in contempt and jailed if ALL the files are not provided kiranon 33 min ago #34

Kid Berwyn

(24,064 posts)
10. Trump IS the Law.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 12:27 PM
7 hrs ago

Haven't you heard? "I got a Section II!", although he deserves a Section 8.

3825-87867

(1,905 posts)
11. Bondi may painfully realize
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 12:27 PM
7 hrs ago

that even absolute pardons won't necessarily keep its recipient from...bad words, nasty mail or whatever, even if pronounced by trump. A trump successor may revoke a pardon through the courts which might uphold it but even an absolute pardon sometimes isn't the best thing to have. (Nixon excepted...but times HAVE changed!) Even "safe" incarceration can be dangerous. Ask Jeffrey, oh wait...

angrychair

(12,161 posts)
12. I guess that's it then
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 12:28 PM
7 hrs ago

we all know this spineless politicians in Congress will do absolutely nothing but keep licking Mango Mussolini's boot.
Do nothing Congress will be the death of us all.

Ponietz

(4,262 posts)
13. Israel has much to answer for
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 12:32 PM
7 hrs ago

Epstein was an Israeli intelligence Op. Makes complete sense now.

Amaryllis

(11,219 posts)
14. Question for you guys: I would think they'd be thinking in terms of destroying them??? But it seems they would be in
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 12:35 PM
7 hrs ago

many hands by now....hard to keep all that totally undercover with the blackmail potential.

Festivito

(13,872 posts)
20. They laugh at the Repub party. Their Party responds... how?
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 01:10 PM
6 hrs ago

Ohh you passed a law. Good for you. We won't obey that law. And what will you do?

Nothing!

You could do something, but you won't.

BWAAAAAAH HAW HAW HA pointing at the republican party.

ChicagoTeamster

(799 posts)
21. This needs to be program interrupting breaking news on all channels. But, it won't be.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 01:34 PM
6 hrs ago

"In the middle of an economy crashing unauthorized illegal war of choice, The Trump administration has just announced that they will not be releasing any more Epstein files"

onenote

(46,113 posts)
22. The DOJ did not "just" announce anything. The tweets in the OP are about statements made a month ago.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 01:38 PM
5 hrs ago

Folks really should take more care when posting information as "new" when its not.

reACTIONary

(7,130 posts)
25. Thanks! This shit gets....
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 01:53 PM
5 hrs ago

..... pretty tiresome. Definition of "shit": Reactive reposting of repetitive click bait. But that wouldn't fit neatly into the reply title.

Mme. Defarge

(8,994 posts)
26. The dates on the "Tweets" are both March 9th.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 01:57 PM
5 hrs ago

Is there corroboration for your assertion?

onenote

(46,113 posts)
29. Yes there is corroboration. Google is your friend. And the date on the tweet just proves my point.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 02:11 PM
5 hrs ago

I could post a tweet with today's date announcing that the US had just dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Does that make the tweet accurate?

If you check, what you won't find is any new announcement from DOJ that they aren't releasing any more files. What you will find, for example, is the quote from Nancy Mace actually being from a month ago. https://abcnews4.com/news/local/mace-returns-to-doj-presses-for-unredacted-epstein-files-news-breaking-critical-washington-doj-victims
Sen. John Kennedy has been saying 'release the files' for months.

One of the great things about DU is that if, in fact, Bondi had just said the DOJ is "done" it would have shown up here a dozen times. The bad thing is that one click bait seeking tweeter can fool a DUer into posting something inaccurate and hyperbolic and many if not most DUers would accept it.

Ilikepurple

(603 posts)
35. I appreciate your fact checking, but the admonishing of other DUers Gets old.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 07:15 PM
22 min ago

Hyperbolic and inaccurate?
How about this comparison? An inaccurate tweet referring to a frequent DOJ announcement topic and an 80+ year old historically monumental event that is common knowledge. Hiroshima being bombed again and Epstein report news? Being fooled by one is nothing like being fooled by the other. I agree google is a nice resource to have, but sometimes unnecessarily difficult to navigate recent news. You seem to be better at using it as a resource than many of us. The nice thing about DU is that it helps many of us parse the info, disfino, and misinfo out there. You have proven to be helpful in that respect. I understand the frustration with the misleading nature of clickbait, as it feels like most of the video link titles make me just a little less informed, but how about offering your correction and just being happy you are useful to this community? No need to make broad generalizations about the intellectual fortitude of the rest of us.

Ford_Prefect

(8,576 posts)
33. Where is the Document? The substance of which identifies who and when this was said.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 02:45 PM
4 hrs ago

A loud mouth on X however bold doesn't represent actual fact. When exactly and on which forum, press release, or in which committee was this said, and by whom??? Before which Judge, Congressional Committee, or in which press conference was this statement made? Where is the official DOJ document which says this is their position or policy?

Was it in answer to a judge's order, a demand from Congress, or the law itself?

I see no date attached to the MS NOW video clip making clear when it was broadcast.

Last time I checked DU was supposed to be a FACT BASED community, or did I read that wrong?

kiranon

(1,737 posts)
34. Have them held in contempt and jailed if ALL the files are not provided
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 07:04 PM
33 min ago

It's back to court time. Maybe the Supreme Court will hear it on the same special emergency docket where Trump seems to get his issues heard. "Them" means - Blanch and Bondi.

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