They already did.

There's that 'Raw Edit' video that is missing over a minute of footage because they forgot to edit out the timestamps.

They tried to, and tons of people immediately twigged to the fact that the footage was altered.

I want to believe this is going to start their house of cards collapsing, but unfortunately, I’m pretty certain most maga dipshits have skulls so thick that a GBU-57 would have trouble reliably impacting their trains of thought.

That's exactly what they did, then people asked them why there was a minute of missing footage

Because it's not possible to tell any story about it without including Trump, the Clintons, and others.

When an issue crosses political lines where it becomes bi-partisan, such as bi-partisan corruption, things get weird.

Something I didn't see mentioned: say you make a fake list, redacting the people you want to protect. What about the people you are now throwing under the bus? First your fake evidence has to make it past all of their lawyers scrutiny and hope you're not revealed for your con, and then you have to hope that these people don't have evidence that they can use to throw you under the bus as well. Releasing anyones name is likely to cause many more names to come out and the domino effect is way too unpredictable. It's truly some mutually assured destruction.

I'm no expert, but I would think that altering evidence is a huge risk.

• If you want the changes done by experts, so they're harder to identify, you have to let the experts in on what you're doing. That means more potential leakers.
• If you make any changes that contradict the physical evidence, you've outed yourself.
• The changes you make can be credibly contradicted by people who have seen the unedited versions.
• You might have to change a lot of stuff, especially if your boy was very close to the sex trafficker in question.

If you get caught, you've just made the problem 100x worse, as a lot of people are just going to assume your guilt as soon as they hear you've tampered with the evidence.

I guess they have a fear of a whistleblower from within the FED.

Imagine that an annoyed employee at the fed starts speaking out to the public that the released epstein files are actually fake and releases the actual files instead. that might make for a bigger shitstorm than simply not releasing anything in the first place.

Bondi said in a hidden camera recording that there were videos depicting CSA among the files - the supposed blackmail material. Now that material is in the possession of Trump et al. If they publish the videos, they become useless as blackmail material.

Source: APNews

Anyone ever see Devils Advocate. It's a good movie to watch these days.

Are you still talking about...Jeffrey Epstein?

The problem with lies is you have to have a good memory. You need to make sure all the lies line up and don't leave holes in your story that reveal the lie underneath because ironically the smaller the slip the more damning and harder to explain it can be. That applies to falsifying documents too. It's actually more dangerous to try and create something fake because now you need fake evidence for all the fake stuff you're putting in there, and you need to hide any evidence or corroboration that points to the stuff you've removed, and it all gets really complicated and really error-prone really fast. Liars survive by keeping things simple enough that it can't be challenged, or in Trump's case, by hiding all the small lies behind big obvious ones, like "there are no Epstein files" which everyone knows is a lie but the lie is so big it's immovable while all the juicy details are buried underneath.