Link: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell

The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.

Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.

NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents published at the end of January. NPR's investigation found dozens of pages that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.

Congress should hold the Justice department in contempt.

We know

Considering there's not a single email to or from him in the files... yeah, we know.

At the risk of quoting Junior Soprano, no you didn't know it, they just told you

NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents published at the end of January. NPR's investigation found dozens of pages that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.

You may know of other investigations showing very similar things but this is new

Some MORE*

Traitors should be executed. Capital punishment.

I've been putting off watching the Sopranos for over a decade (for no particular reason - I DO want to see it) but that line weirdly might have sold me on it

I think we knew like we knew Eddie Spaghetti liked to eat spaghetti before anyone even told us that about Eddie.

Honesty asking, to what end?

Even if nothing comes of it, it'd be better than doing nothing. Congress should do what they can, not just roll over.

Yeah, I really can't overemphasize how much of a petty insecure asshole the character who said it was, but the delivery of it is hilarious

Also, as someone who's watched it, I have some mixed feelings about some of the narrative choices and implied messages in that show, but it really is a master course on dissecting the hypocritical and superficial psychology of mobsters, which I feel like this administration and all of its goons demonstrate constantly

That's fair but at the same time a bunch of reporters are busting their asses to run down all of Eddie's lies and that work deserves some attention

Nothing says guilty like a coverup

Mobsters indeed. I wonder, if the Mexican army swooped in and killed the head of the MAGA cartel, would we see the kind of violence in our streets as Mexico is having now? I mean, they're certainly well-armed enough but they are also lazy Americans. They'd be like, "can I go down to Home Depot and hire some Mexicans to do it for me?"

(Which tbf is pretty much what I'm doing now with this speculation)

I think a better phrasing would be "I'm not surprised by this"

I would so love to see Blondi in prison over this. Same with Pedonald, of course.

Reactionary centrists in the Murc's Law media would say that wanting to see justice meted out for pedos and pedo-protecters means that someone has "Trump Derangement Syndrome".

I mean. Sue them. I’m not sure saying they broke the law over and over again is going to do anything substantive.

No. Noooooo, he's just undercover. That's all. He's trying to take them down from the inside. Just you wait, he'll drain that swamp any minute now!!!

The death penalty.

It's like they're not even trying, it's insulting really like how stupid do they think we are

Yes, but... the Dow!

Surely you mean lock-her room...

How is the Dow?

You really should just watch it

It's over 50,000!

It's not covering up a crime, it's just that the truth is complicated, and the citizens can't understand it. They're protecting us, it's for our own good.

Edit: I decided I better add /s, before someone thinks that was actually a serious statement, which it would be for MAGAs.

It's even more insulting how little they care.

Well, no one is surprised, isn't

50 thou*

Correction, it's over $50,000.

Why are you laughing?

The federal government has to give you permission to sue them.

Sovereign Immunity is an English common law thing, so it's not even US only.

Ara ara not anymore

Just give it two weeks, two weeks from now.

Well, if they have the power to remove the heads of the organization, that's a good start.

I will be watching it like I watch classic cinema. The formula has since been refined but it was the first of its kind so it has some freshman fumbles.

This is known as Obstruction of Justice in the civilized world.

Yeah... best we can do is contempt of congress.

Aren’t they archived?

Speaking of coverups, the Franklin Scandal from 88 sure feels familiar (thumbnail is clickbait to appease the algorithm) coverup starts with a plane crash about halfway through and the bodies keep dropping until around 92: https://youtu.be/a2lvo38u4ds

Early reports on Epstein's trafficing start in 94

Congress authorized the release of the Epstein files. Not some of them, but all of them. Congress has authority to hold the executive branch to account. They should exercise those powers to ensure their mandate is fulfilled. Anything less is capitulating to an authoritarian regime.

There was no Fox News, Facebook or Joe Rogan when watergate happened and no citizens united yet so there was a shared concept of reality in the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone

They say the cover up is always worse than the crime but I don't think that applies in this case.

Yeah, interesting..

Department of Jeffery Epstein (DOJ)

That was a wild, disturbing ride. Let me down a rabbit hole to John David Norman and his child abuse network. Prosecutors decided to settle for Norman instead of pursuing his client list, which included some high-profile individuals. Also connected to at least two serial killers.

Oh yeah they were hunting people too. And eating them. These current files are dark. Rabbit holes everywhere

No! 🙄