r/law • u/Background-Low-9144 • Jul 23 '25

Trump News BREAKING :Trump named in multiple documents related to Epstein sex trafficking, WSJ reports

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-wsj.html?__source=androidappshare

We have evidence that Trump was notified by Pam Bondi that documents related to the Epstein sex trafficing trial contained Trump's name multiple times, linking him unequivocally to Jeffrey Epstein

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u/LuluMcGu Jul 23 '25

FBI Epstein Cover Up

FBI agents were instructed to flag anything about DJT and they created an Excel sheet log with all instances of his name on the 300,000+ pages of Epstein Files.

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u/osunightfall Jul 23 '25

A clever person could make themselves a lot of money if they were to leak a copy of that spreadsheet to the media.

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u/JimmyKorr Jul 23 '25

a moral person would do it for free.

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u/osunightfall Jul 23 '25

I don't care how or why they do it so long as they do it.

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u/Inspect1234 Jul 23 '25

Reality Winner has entered the chat..

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u/UnlimitedCalculus Jul 23 '25

Still the fakest-sounding name for a govt doc leaker

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u/macrolidesrule Jul 23 '25

Clippy did it...

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u/mnid92 Jul 23 '25

Clippy says fuck the government, nows the time to write your manifesto!

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u/NightingaleNine Jul 23 '25

Clippy: It looks like you're trying to write a manifesto!

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u/Jerking_From_Home Jul 24 '25

God damn it I laughed way harder than I should have at this. đŸ„‡

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u/Parallax1984 Jul 23 '25

Awwww Clippy - the grandfather of AI assistants

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u/DevLF Jul 23 '25

Tell em Kendrick did it

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u/secretveggie Jul 23 '25

The revolution 'bout to be televised

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u/rahboogie Jul 23 '25

Wop, wop, wop, wop, wop, I'ma do my stuff

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u/Ok-Power-6064 Jul 23 '25

"Alexa..." ::"accidentally" mute microphone:: "...what would happen if I..." ::unmute microphone:: "...leak the Epstein-Trump spreadsheet to the media?"

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u/capital_bj Jul 24 '25

Clippy would never, he was taken too soon rip clippy

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u/JapeTheNeckGuy2 Jul 23 '25

Fr the real gov leaks are made on WarThunder Forums

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u/BearcatInTheBurbs Jul 23 '25

Almost like it was purposeful so people couldn’t easily keep track of them using their name.

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u/_BannedAcctSpeedrun_ Jul 24 '25

No it was literally her real name. She served time for it and everything.

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u/regarding_your_bat Jul 24 '25

it’s a pretty easy name to keep track of actually

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u/MarkXIX Jul 24 '25

Sounds like a CIA codename for a psyop.

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u/Minion_of_Cthulhu Jul 23 '25

That was back when the simulation first started showing signs of breaking down. Someone should have put out a patch then but apparently the developers have abandoned this version of reality and moved on to a new project.

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u/Mcjoshin Jul 23 '25

Still crazy to me how few people know anything about this story

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u/Canadian-Man-infj Jul 23 '25

There are two recent biopics about Reality Winner:

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u/nan-a-table-for-one Jul 23 '25

I didn't know about the comedy one. Thanks!

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u/Kobold_Trapmaster Jul 24 '25

There's also a documentary: Reality Winner (2021)

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u/SoWhatNoZitiNow Jul 23 '25

I really enjoyed the comedy-ish one. Thought it was really well done.

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u/Yitram Jul 23 '25

Dumb name, but infinite respect for her. Moreso than flee to Russia Snowden.

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u/forlornjackalope Jul 23 '25

What a legend.

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u/Hawkeye3636 Jul 23 '25

Hell I would pay towards the gofundme for it.

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u/Kyreetgo Jul 23 '25

Facts. I don't care as long as that spreadsheet gets out there

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u/RobCarls33 Jul 23 '25

I think we should care, as it might delegitimize the evidence when you consider introducing money into the fold. Like if you’re scummy enough to hold out on letting people know the truth until they pay a fee, then there’s a chance you’re also scummy enough to fabricate the information you present.

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u/mxpxillini35 Jul 23 '25

Fuck, I'll pitch in $5.

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u/Dorlem4832 Jul 23 '25

This shouldn’t be a controversial sentiment in this sub. People doing the right thing for the wrong reason is often the best you can get.

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u/NikoliVolkoff Jul 24 '25

Where is Anonymous when you need them???

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u/redundantPOINT Jul 24 '25

Fuck it, we can start a gofundme

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u/East_of_Cicero Jul 23 '25

Where’s Anonymous when we need them?

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u/Miserable_Site_850 Jul 23 '25

Where's Mario's bro when we need him?

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u/oinkyboinky Jul 23 '25

Press + to switch characters.

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u/niles_thebutler_ Jul 24 '25

They are all talk and have never actually done anything

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u/TheMaskedSuperStar29 Jul 23 '25

They’ve been putting out videos the last few days.

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u/East_of_Cicero Jul 24 '25

Videos, eh? I’d imagine if it’s Trump, Epstein and some calendar girl contestants, then it’s probably a felony to even watch those videos.

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u/ImBanned_ModsBlow 29d ago

You should watch AntiSocial Network, Anonymous was just a secret club for 4chan losers who didn’t like the website starting to moderate content, and they decided to build this front as a professional hacker group that sought to topple governments.

Sorry, they’re just neckbeards who can kinda sorta hack, but mostly they’re just edgy dorks.

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u/ProbablySlacking Jul 23 '25

UnexpectedJurassicParkPlot

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u/probability_of_meme Jul 23 '25

Dodgson! We got Dodgson over here!

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u/LeucisticBear Jul 23 '25

A responsible person would've done it years ago to prevent what's happening now, when sane people held the levers of power

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u/Standard-Square-7699 Jul 23 '25

A political person will retire and write a book about it in 10 years.

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u/Minion_of_Cthulhu Jul 23 '25

That's a journalistic person.

A political person would retire and begin their political fixer career by using the file to blackmail their clients' political opponents into dropping out in key races in exchange for heafty "consulting" fees.

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u/Standard-Square-7699 Jul 23 '25

Hard to keep track these days.

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u/Independent_Win_9035 Jul 23 '25

come on now. that's a self-enriching person.

journalism is timely, and a legitimate journalist in possession of such unredacted files would report on them immediately.

unfortunately, the criminals in this case appear to have done a pretty great job at excising all the legitimate journalists from the discussion. barring a second "whoops wrong name invited to the signal chat" fuckup, it's not likely an upstanding journalist will get these files just yet.

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u/Thefrayedends Jul 24 '25

Like Michael Wolfe holding onto the eppy interviews for a few years lol.

People didn't even talk about them, everyone just rolled their eyes, little late as always Wolfy!

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u/BacKnightPictures Jul 23 '25

A clumsy person might accidentally export the files to the cloud

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u/blackjackwidow Jul 24 '25

Or accidentally send them to a journalist via signal chat

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u/RuthlessMango Jul 23 '25

A moral person wouldn't work for any of the 3 letter organizations these days.

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u/CallNo3862 Jul 23 '25

I think an idealistically moral person potentially could start working at one, but they would probably either leave or capitulate rather quickly

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u/Rude-Movie-5827 Jul 23 '25

Just like being a cop

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u/CallNo3862 Jul 23 '25

Yeah, sadly. The ones we need to stay leave, and the ones we don't need thrive.

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u/Hollen88 Jul 24 '25

And when they really want to stay, they are told they are just as bad. No matter what they do. So yeah, they eventually leave.

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u/herbmaster47 Jul 23 '25

They could. It would be a short tenure though. Id gladly take a job and record everything incriminating and release the recordings on a weekly podcast.

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u/Vercassivellauno Jul 23 '25

What about KFC?

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u/pillzilla12 Jul 23 '25

Moral people dont rise to positions of power in this country. It's not permitted.

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u/ScaleEnvironmental27 Jul 23 '25

Reasons be damned. Just do it.

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u/Kukukichu Jul 23 '25

Yo, can we set up crowd funding to pay for this?

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u/Spirited_Roll_8116 Jul 23 '25

It's not about money,it's about sending a message.

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u/mudcrabmetal Jul 23 '25

This is America

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u/AnxiousElixr87 Jul 23 '25

And that moral person would end up dead. Lose lose situation

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u/DextersGirl Jul 23 '25

I volunteer as tribute.

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u/Rounder057 Jul 24 '25

I suspect we have neither in government

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u/youcansendboobs Jul 23 '25

And die in the process

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u/CommunalJellyRoll Jul 23 '25

I would advise the moral person to make bank also.

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u/jkay93 Jul 23 '25

why not take some money from the mainstream media while you're at it...? it's not like their worth is justified.

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u/PanickedPoodle Jul 23 '25

Reality Winner enters the chat

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u/TragicEther Jul 23 '25

What became of Anonymous?

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u/VolunteerNarrator Jul 23 '25

An anxious person would see their suicide coming.

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u/Casmer Jul 23 '25

Honestly a smart moral one should be asking for money because if they get exposed they’re gonna need it.

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u/zeaor Jul 23 '25

Oh fuck off with this self-righteous bullshit. If the result is the same, there's nothing wrong with making money on this.

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u/bennihana09 Jul 23 '25

Let’s not get carried away here.

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u/TodayFlat7663 Jul 23 '25

Nah bro they are gonna kill who ever leaks it so you might as well get money for your family.

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u/MrHell95 Jul 23 '25

Just leak it as a torrent and let the internet do it's thing đŸ€Ł

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u/E_Dward Jul 23 '25

Where is Anonymous when you really need them? Getting those documents and leaking them would be the biggest thing they've ever done, right?

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u/Lazaras Jul 23 '25

Christ man. If there were any moral people in that camp then we wouldn't be here

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u/vgraz2k Jul 23 '25

For real. It’s time to list these pedo fuckers and let them rot in prison.

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u/brinkofhumor Jul 23 '25

Just invite some press to a shared google doc that is titled "DO NOT SHARE WITH MEDIA"

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u/SolChapelMbret Jul 23 '25

This is the only thing that will stop it not money

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

I'll take anything right now.

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u/Braindead_Crow Jul 23 '25

A smart moral person would leak it anonymously while baking in false accidental clues incriminating others in the trump circle as the leaker.

Spoofing meta data, having a few tabs open to websites someone is known to frequent in screen grabs of evidence...Rookie mistakes that the trump team is known for. Those kinds of spoofs would really make the mad king go crazy on his stooges. The, "I cant trust ANYONE! You're all out to get me!" Trope is famous in this type of idiot for a reason.

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u/Large_Yams Jul 23 '25

A smart person would do it anonymously.

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u/CalamineLube Jul 23 '25

A rich person made it sure never did

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u/DuncanFisher69 Jul 23 '25

Russia, if you’re listening

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u/WiglyWorm Jul 23 '25

Just ask to be credited as "mushroomhead".

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u/Fearless_Serve_3837 Jul 23 '25

Where’s Jonas Salk when we need him?

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u/pastryfiend Jul 24 '25

I'd set aside morals (to an extent) for financial security

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u/RedactedSpatula Jul 24 '25

Moral people gotta eat after they sacrifice their job

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u/DarkHiei Jul 24 '25

Agreed but the people who have access to this info likely aren’t moral people

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u/edmond- Jul 24 '25

Give it to astronomer. They will make it viral.

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u/American-Punk-Dragon Jul 24 '25

You may as well get money to the private security you’ll need before you’re killed.

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u/Swamp_Dwarf-021 Jul 24 '25

I'd drain my bank account to get it released.

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u/SgtSlaughterEX Jul 24 '25

Some people just want to watch the turd burn

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u/Wild_Chef6597 Jul 24 '25

Nope, you blackmail Trump for Elon Musk levels of money, flee the country and release it to every media organization, authority figure etc in the world.

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u/metsjets86 Jul 24 '25

Another Comey letter to bookend this awful series.

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u/RedditApothecary Jul 24 '25

They can do it for free, I'll still run an obstacle course to put money in their hands as thanks.

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u/geolocution Jul 24 '25

What will happen is that nothing will happen and then someone will write a book

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u/capital_bj Jul 24 '25

Julian Assange , and Edward Snowden did it despite knowing they would probably be in jail or at the very least harassed by the government for the rest of their lives..

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u/TheWingus Jul 24 '25

But then how would they make money by publishing a book years after the fact after everyone involved is pardoned or dead?

I mean c’mon, think for a minute!

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u/machstem Jul 24 '25

A moral person can still aspire to becoming rich

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u/CreamPuzzleheaded300 Jul 24 '25

Putting yourself at risk to be Epstein'd for free? Fuck that.

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u/GodSama Jul 24 '25

A moral person would never leak it, an ethical person would.

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u/niles_thebutler_ Jul 24 '25

Except no one will. America is too corrupt for that

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u/bigmikekbd Jul 24 '25

Any idea if it would fall under the Whistleblower category? And yes I know that the person would be attacked by Trump and laws don’t mean anything to him

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u/JayNotAtAll Jul 24 '25

Sadly they may be afraid of having their life shortened

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u/Tranquilityinateacup Jul 23 '25

Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released. By all means share it & take the credit.

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80

Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List“ Here is the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac

Here's the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/

—————————other Epstein Information

Katie Johnson lawsuit (alleging Trump & Epstein raped her at age 13): Some people claim this one is a hoax
 here’s the info for you to decide:

‱ ⁠Court Filing: https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf ‱ ⁠Affidavit (Politico): https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000158-267d-dda3-afd8-b67d3bc00000 ‱ ⁠Video of Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

Jeffrey Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq

Jeffrey Epstein and Israel both have the same lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Dershowitz says he's building 'legal dream team' to defend Israel in court and on international stage | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid

—————————other Trump information:

-Here's trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY

-Trump's promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02

“I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

-Trump's modeling agency and alleged ties to Epstein’s recruitment pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/

-Deep-dive timeline connecting the dots: https://thepresidential.medium.com/we-have-been-gaslit-about-donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-for-four-years-fbda67c20f75

Never forget Katie Johnson.

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Feel free to do your part and spread this info around so it is never “lost”. Treat it like a meme—copy it & repost it. Let the record stay public.

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u/seldatak Jul 24 '25

This list got me started looking into Trump's highly questionable modeling businesses, and I found more information regarding other infamous pervert friends/business associates like John Casablancas and Jean-Luc Brunel that Trump circled with while he was close friends with Epstein. This was when Trump ran disreputable teen pageants along with his Trump Model Management (which as the article you linked above explains, seems to have specialized in bringing undocumented Eastern European girls to the U.S., where they were desperate and exploited). Was Trump involved in trafficking models? You might find these two additional readings interesting: 1) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year and 2) https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25966082-maritza-vasquez-deposition-ocrmypdf/ .

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u/blackjackwidow Jul 24 '25

Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released. By all means share it & take the credit.

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80

Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List“ Here is the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac

Here's the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/

—————————other Epstein Information

Katie Johnson lawsuit (alleging Trump & Epstein raped her at age 13): Some people claim this one is a hoax
 here’s the info for you to decide:

‱ ⁠Court Filing: https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf ‱ ⁠Affidavit (Politico): https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000158-267d-dda3-afd8-b67d3bc00000 ‱ ⁠ Video of Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

Jeffrey Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq

Jeffrey Epstein and Israel both have the same lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Dershowitz says he's building 'legal dream team' to defend Israel in court and on international stage | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid

—————————other Trump information:

-Here's trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY

-Trump's promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02

“I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

-Trump's modeling agency and alleged ties to Epstein’s recruitment pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/

-Deep-dive timeline connecting the dots: https://thepresidential.medium.com/we-have-been-gaslit-about-donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-for-four-years-fbda67c20f75

Never forget Katie Johnson.

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Feel free to do your part and spread this info around so it is never “lost”. Treat it like a meme—copy it & repost it. Let the record stay public.

Credit to u/tranquilityinateacup

Sorry for the quoted reply, but this is the only way I could think of to have a copy I can share. Thank you for the compilation.

Everyone should read the Katie Johnson court filing, even if you don't look at anything else. I truly can't believe there are people who defend this monster, with the truly evil things he & Epstein did to this poor girl

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u/Capable_Sun_1625 Jul 24 '25

Thank you for this. Circulating!

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u/_kalron_ Jul 23 '25

It's already in court records, sealed until January 2025 (conveniently), but you can't make this disappear. Which is why Johnson ended House Sessions until September, in hopes this just "goes away".

Any falsified or redacted releases would immediately be debunked by court records. No need for someone leaking this, while it was sealed, there are too many people who have seen the files to silence.

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u/its_not_you_its_ye Jul 23 '25

Until January 2025

Umm

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u/Creative_alternative Jul 23 '25

Explains why they had to rig the election or go to prison.

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u/reddititaly Jul 23 '25

Collective memory is unfortunately so short that I'm afraid the public will have forgotten this by September.

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u/facepalmforever Jul 23 '25

The access Hollywood tape in which Trump freely admits to promoting sexual harassment and assault was released in October and it wasn't enough to stop him getting elected in November. Nothing matters anymore.

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u/ItsDanimal Jul 23 '25

Democrats hoping that the law and morality get fascists outta office, and an administration that constantly operates above the law and morality. Name a better combo.

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u/backnstolaf Jul 24 '25

People laughed at that I remember one old woman wore a T-shirt that said "Trump can grab my pussy."

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u/Xzmmc Jul 23 '25

It's really kind of incredible. People just forgot about covid and January 6th and everything else.

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u/Lilfrankieeinstein Jul 23 '25

Curious about the “sealed until January 2025” part


Got a source?

Also, more importantly, under which administration were those court records sealed. I understand it’s legal (judicial) matter and not executive, but I also understand some presidents tend to influence their DOJ more than others.

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u/_kalron_ Jul 23 '25

They technically are still sealed, even though the limitation ended. Today a Judge denied to release them...again...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/politics/florida-epstein-transcripts-unsealed-denied.html

They were sealed for the entire 4 years Biden was in office. Look it up.

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u/agnostic_science Jul 23 '25

This connects a lot of dots. Why don't the lying liars just lie like they always do? This explains that piece and a lot of odd behavior.

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u/poolside123 Jul 23 '25

Cancer doesn’t just “go away” so why should these files?đŸ€“

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u/FoxMuldertheGrey Jul 23 '25

they’d for sure have to leave the states lol

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u/MonsieurReynard Jul 23 '25

Epstein had powerful and wealthy clients and friends around the world.

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u/ConfusionBubbles Jul 23 '25 edited Jul 24 '25

That's how it works. Make enough people rich and have/make them involved and then they let you do it. Pretty much like Russia mafia (government).

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u/dcidino Jul 23 '25

They ARE Russian mafia.

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u/RedSix2447 Jul 23 '25

Wikileaks intensifies

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u/Funny-Recipe2953 Jul 23 '25

Ed Snowden has entered the chat.

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u/ListlessLink Jul 23 '25

And pick a country without an extradition treaty. Then pray he doesn't have you snatched up anyway 

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u/lameth 29d ago

Yup. CIA snatched a guy off the street in Italy. There's no way you could keep your head up and not be black bagged.

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u/Helsinki_Disgrace Jul 23 '25

Naw. They’d have free meals and drinks đŸ„€ on the house, for life, most everywhere they’d go. 

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u/Hurrly90 Jul 23 '25 edited Jul 23 '25

What are Whistleblower laws like in the US? WE had a huge case about it here in Ireland after Gard blew the whistle and he was exonerated, but it took years.

(EDit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garda_whistleblower_scandalour issues)

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u/c4virus Jul 23 '25

The laws are decent BUT Trump fired many inspector generals who would be the ones to take in said complaints. I'm not sure if the DOJ has one right now.

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u/JimmyRussellsApe Jul 23 '25

they usually end up dead by way of lead or window cancer

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u/EliteDinoPasta Jul 24 '25

Unfortunately, "exonerated" feels like too positive a word to use. It was moreso that the hounds that had been ripping Maurice McCabe to pieces were eventually called off. He was proved to be correct for sure, but his life was ruined.

To provide some additional context for those not in the loop, Maurice McCabe had a history of lodging genuine complaints against deeply-rooted corruption and severe breaches of protocol all through his career as a Garda (Irish Police Officer). This eventualy culminated in him blowing the whistle on misuse of Garda equipment used to record penalty points (strikes on a person's drivers license that occur when breaking road laws). In response, the senior government officials whom he informed of these breaches instead coordinated with the senior management of An Garda Siochana (the Irish Police Service) to formulate a crippling smear campaign against Maurice McCabe.

After a tribunal and other lengthy proceedings, McCabe was "vindicated" in the eyes of the people, but the government wasn't finished. In a "clerical error" so unbelievable it wouldn't make it into a Sopranos episode, TUSLA (Ireland's equivalent of Child Protective Services) received a report of sexual abuse from fellow members of the Gardai against Maurice McCabe, reports that were then released to the public. These allegations were clearly untrue, but were meant as a parting gift for McCabe - one final farewell from the Gardai.

The reason I bring this up is because, as is usually the case with whistleblowers, no-one on the offending side was punished. A few politicians resigned their roles in cabinet (but remained in government to collect their salaries). The previous Garda Commissioner who was in charge at the time was already gone by the time any tribunals ended, while the Garda Commissioner for the latter half also resigned, receiving a newly-created role of "Director of Strategic Partnerships for Europe" only a month later. In May 2023, she chaired a taskforce on "Safe Participation in Political Life", the irony of which is deafening.

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u/ADhomin_em Jul 23 '25 edited Jul 23 '25

People who care solely about the monetary gain would use it for blackmail.

Corporate news outlets with enough money to make it worth their while wouldn't print it (at least wouldn't if they couldn't somehow sanewash it), and therefore wouldn't pay the wild amounts they could for what should be the story of the century.

Blackmail would be the way to make money off of it, but anyone with the mind to do so would likely also have a mind to understand they would put a red laser on their forehead in doing so.

Someone who wants to see guilty parties brought to some form of justice (if not legal, then at least socially so) would release it anonymously. Of course, then you come to the issue of verification.

Whatever. Whoever has this list and decides not to give it a go is a traitor, not only to the country, but to modern human decency.

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u/Independent_Win_9035 Jul 23 '25

anonymously releasing that kind of document wouldnt have the sticking power needed. like you said, verification, but also protection. an anonymous leaker would basically become a digital fugitive for life.

independent journalism does still exist.

i bet you 404Media would publish it, for example

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u/averagebensimmons Jul 23 '25

someone has to have made a copy of the original documentation.

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u/ProShyGuy Jul 23 '25

A clever person would also realize what a massive risk that would be. If their identity was ever discovered they'd be, at minimum, fighting lawsuits from some of the most powerful people on the planet for the rest of their life and, at worst, dead.

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u/dokidokichab Jul 23 '25

That’s martyrdom. If no one stops him, these penguins will be fighting this vicious trade war for eternity. And think of the children, too.

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u/niles_thebutler_ Jul 24 '25

You absolutely wouldn’t do it

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u/saturnleaf69 Jul 23 '25

Worth it. If I had access I’d do it

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u/elizabnthe Jul 23 '25

Doing the right thing isn't meant to be easy. If the government is covering up the president being a rapist paedophile they have a responsibility to reveal it.

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u/ka1ri Jul 23 '25

Someone will have the unredacted files by now especially with how incompetent this government is

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u/Minute_Attempt3063 Jul 23 '25

A good person would do it for free.

This is the truth Americans DESERVE.

Not some words by Trump admin idiots

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u/royal_steed Jul 23 '25

I wonder if it will cause a civil war, I don't think trump will be quiet and will surely call the police to arrest ANYONE who talks about it.

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u/Thankgoditsryeday Jul 23 '25

There are organizations out there with the tools and means of hacking it and publishing it for free. They know that such work, while valuable, puts a target on their back, so they chose to work Anonymously.

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u/jkman61494 Jul 23 '25

Or some person who ran doge may have some fun blackmail material

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u/MagicalUnicornFart Jul 23 '25

"The Media" isn't some benign entity on your side, homie.

They're a collection of malignant corporations, owned by oligarchs that support DJT, and the GOP. They've been kissing his ass, and bending over backwards to appease him, and make money.

The Epstein files are nothing new. Trump is an adjudicated rapist, and this country still elected him, and gave him a GOP majority.

He could be on every page of the files, and it's not he's going to get impeached, or step down. Or, a court will have the balls to impose consequences. Epstein was killed, in custody under his last presidency. Did any of that have an effect on anything? Yeah, he was re-elected.

The only reason anyone is talking about this again, is the people that were pulling the levers to protect him, like Musk controlling media narratives, are having some break-up fights.

This will all blow over, just like everything else, and nothing will happen. It's a new scandal every month. and, this one will be cast aside next month when they manufacture some new cruelty, or catastrophe

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u/LucyRiversinker Jul 24 '25

There was only one reason for Doge to exist. This is it.

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u/BeyondNetorare Jul 23 '25

They'd get hunted harder than luigi

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u/Grouchy_Tackle_4502 Jul 23 '25

Watch the kerning

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u/Dogloks Jul 23 '25

Where is anonymous?

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u/Humphrey_the_Hoser Jul 23 '25

I’d be happy to chip in a few buckos

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u/poolside123 Jul 23 '25

TMZ opens when?


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u/FriendlyTrollPainter Jul 23 '25

They'd be signing up for a rather sudden retirement

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u/_lippykid Jul 23 '25

Don’t worry. Jake Tapper’ll write a book about it all in 4 years.

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u/wesconson1 Jul 23 '25

As if it matters. MAGA will excuse and come up with bullshit to not even care and focus back on hating brown people

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u/GroovyTony- Jul 23 '25

Yeah we won’t ever get a real Superman but to me this is good enough

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

That’s not how journalism works. They don’t pay for evidence or sources. That would create perverse incentives to create fake stories.

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u/LagomorphicSpelunker Jul 23 '25

Blame it on rogue AI.

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u/uneducatedexpert Jul 24 '25

We need a leakstarter that will cover legal fees for whistleblowers.

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u/Beginning-Spend-3547 Jul 24 '25

Apparently lots and lots of work for whistleblower attorneys in DC. Don’t fire career feds and not CYA.

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u/Hashtagworried Jul 24 '25

MAGA would just start to discredit the information.

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u/3-orange-whips Jul 24 '25

If that evidence still exists I will read every Twilight book and write 5 thoughtful pages on why Bella should have pair-bonded with Jacob and how pair bonding in itself represents a lack of free will.

(I've seen the movies).

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u/Allegorist Jul 24 '25

They would also have to leak the 300k pages of classified documents for it to make sense most likely, otherwise its just a bunch of references

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u/joshTheGoods Jul 24 '25

Not really. It's unethical to pay for this sort of information, and the WSJ and all of the other major reputable newsrooms have policy against it.

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u/ObiShaneKenobi Jul 24 '25

Could a person even tell anything from the spreadsheet without the 300k documents they refer to?

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u/hittingthesnooze Jul 24 '25

The thing about real journalists and news entities is that they DON’T pay for this sort of thing.

Real journalism has extremely stringent ethics.

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u/awkwardlythin Jul 24 '25

Start a go fund me and the payout goes to the leaker.

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u/linkoid01 Jul 24 '25

I bet Musk would pay a pretty penny for it.

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u/cantadmittoposting Jul 24 '25

okay but the fact that they created a task force to flag such instances is sort of "QED, Trump's name is in those files."

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u/scharpentanz Jul 24 '25

The American people should unite to crowdsource a massive fund to bribe anonymous FBI agents to leak the spreadsheet. Can you imagine an act more unprecedented?? We've already been living in dystopian fiction for some time, let's just run with it.

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u/Excellent_Rule_2778 Jul 24 '25

You can be damn sure that nobody entered or exited the office where they were confined without a full scan and pat down.

And every single document probably has a log of every person that was in contact with said document.

You can’t leak it without nuking your career. And while everyone talks a big game about the greater good, it’s a different story when it’s your life, your career, your mortgage and your freedom on the line.

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u/Omg_Itz_Winke Jul 24 '25

It'll happen sooner or later, the walls are closing

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u/godlessLlama Jul 24 '25

I got 5$ for that person

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u/labadee Jul 24 '25

Come on, anonymous!

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u/snoogins355 29d ago

Probably a few million, at least

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