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The Department of Justice will not be releasing all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by Friday’s deadline, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday morning.

In an interview with Fox News, Blanche said the department would “release several hundred thousand documents today.”

But he acknowledged Friday’s release would not encompass all of the DOJ’s documents for the investigation into the late financier.

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[-] ryrybang@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

The delay means the White House is in apparent conflict with a law

That's the thing. "Apparent" is actually too strong of a word here, because they aren't in conflict with the law at all. Unenforced laws are meaningless laws.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

The DOJ is now led by people who are 100% all-in on the orangeboi cult, so there’s going to be 0 consequences whatsoever

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 months ago

Stop calling Epstein a "late financier". They were a "child sex trafficker".

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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 5 months ago

What the fuck is even the point of having a deadline when there are zero consequences when they blow past it?

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 months ago

While the republican controlled congress might not care if dems ever retake both chambers it will be added to the list of crimes for impeachment.

Lots of ifs, but in a sane world this would have been enough at one time

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 7 points 5 months ago

Not unless the Democrats flush half their own leadership because NONE of the DNC leaders have any interest in actually doing anything about Trump.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Biden: I'm totally serious citizens, Trump is bad news, and will literally take the constitution, as in the one in the National Archives with Franklin's preserved chocolate fingerprint in the upper left corner--and he will ejaculate on it (which is slightly green for some fucking reason) and then set it on fire. Don't elect that dude for real guys.

Garland: Hey boss, Donny said he's on vacation with Ivanka and thirteen 13 year-olds, so he'll totally send thise docs over next week. Or something. I told that hound dog it was all good in the hood. So I'm gonna punch out early, kay?

Biden:

Garland: Boss?

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[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

What's the point of impeachment? Wasn't trump already impeached a couple of times in the first term? He didn't get kicked out or banned from running again

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Impeachment is necessary to kick him out. That's the point. Yes it takes votes, but you have to Impeach first then the Senate can vote to remove.

Being impeached has no effect on eligibility to run again.

That's the legal framework

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[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

✨ create consequences ✨

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They can do that? Why the fuck can they just ignore their own deadlines???

[-] formergijoe@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Because no one will hold them accountable.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

I know it's a big word and people hesitate to use it, but it's not debatable anymore.

These are traitors.

Traitors are operating our federal government.

And they aren't just going to leave when asked politely.

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[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 13 points 5 months ago

I'm confused why would they miss a deadline. Is their hard drive copying slow? Or have they not finished altering the files to suit?

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago
[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

I think it is.

[-] LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Ah.. guillotine-Chan.. we need your powers more than ever..

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Fuck this administration.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Who's gonna hold them accountable? Democrats? SCROTUS?

[-] minorkeys@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

If they aren't made to follow the rules, then they don't need to follow the rules, and then the rules are optional, enforced only when it empowers them.

[-] shittydwarf@piefed.social 5 points 5 months ago
[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

imagine being so slow and inefficient that you can't even redact names on time

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[-] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Anyone who was thinking Trump wasn’t just going to shred or redact anything that implicated him was dreaming.

It’s a little weird that they’d delay…so much. I don’t understand and can’t sufficiently explain why they’re doing it. My best guess is they want to start a war before they release some of the stuff that makes him look bad by proxy. I guess maybe some of the people he’s throwing under the bus need a heads up?

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

Why the fuck are they allowed to redact incriminating evidence??

[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

They explicitly aren't. They're gonna get sued

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[-] Mihies@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

They need thousands of FBI agents more to obscure Orange's name?

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

How many FBI agents know how to use sed?

's/Donald Trump/Bill Clinton/g'

They even have the same number of characters

[-] Rodancoci@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Bill Clinton went down on Bill Clinton" doesn't have the same ring to it.

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[-] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Surprise, surprise...

[-] nulluser@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

If they were at all interested in transparency, they could/would/should have been releasing files as they were ready every one of the last 30 days. No reason to wait until the last minute to dump all of them at once other than slow walking the inevitable.

[-] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago
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[-] DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

These FOOLS need to realize something. If the DOJ continues to neglect their duty, they will create a bunch of hellbent Charlie Bronsons.

[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago
[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

They've got a lot of work to do! They need to find everything about any Democrat, but they need to make sure nothing they release incriminates trump!

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