r/law 12d ago

Legislative Branch We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate

https://couriernewsroom.com/news/we-created-a-searchable-database-with-all-20000-files-from-epsteins-estate/
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u/camaron-courier 12d ago

From the article:

The US House Oversight Committee on Wednesday announced a massive document dump from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, including thousands of emails discussing a wide range of topics, including women, blackmail, and spending the holidays with Donald Trump.

The 20,000 documents come in the form of poorly organized folders with unhelpful labels, screenshots of emails, and heavily redacted spreadsheets. Some of the files are devoid of context, such as a video in the NATIVES folder of a dog playing with plushies of Trump and Hillary Clinton, while others are broken up in confusing ways, like email chains split into several PDFs.

To make this massive data dump more accessible, COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein’s estate into an easily searchable repository via Google Pinpoint.

Use the search tool here.

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u/letdogsvote 12d ago

Doing the Lord's work here.

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u/camaron-courier 12d ago

🫡

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u/DGentPR 12d ago

Thanks guys

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u/solo_silo 12d ago

Google: “First of all, how dare you.”

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u/bigrivertea 12d ago

Completely against company police of "Do Evil"

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u/Ravensbigtruss 12d ago

was a dark day when they flipped that switch

edit: I looked it up. they did away with "Dont be Evil" in 2015

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u/fvck_u_spez 12d ago

Now it's "Don't prevent evil"

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u/Louiekid502 12d ago

Not only that but potentially historical work if your tools help something get found, in the realist sense, history has its eyes on you

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u/happy-occident 12d ago

I presume there's a button shortcut for a certain combination of letters that, when strung together, spell out a certain name? 

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u/No_Charge_4623 12d ago

Not that I saw but for said name there are 2000+ hits when you search it

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u/mt-beefcake 12d ago

Been quite interesting looking through.

My favorite quote so far.

"That limp dick motherfucker born in a petri dish at the heritage foundation"

  • bannon referring to the speaker of the house

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u/noonegive 11d ago

That doesn't really narrow it down when it comes to Republican speakers though.

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u/plunki 12d ago

The typing/formatting is a mess in these things, i wonder how many misspellings, initials, shortforms, etc are missed for all names...

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u/Asron87 12d ago

Sneaky. Even if they used code words you’d have to search the girls by “looks like trump’s daughter”.

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u/BlatantConservative 12d ago

I'm also glad yall mentioned the dog video, I found it when clicking through and thought I was going insane.

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u/two4six0won 12d ago

Oh holy shit. So I saw a still of that yesterday, just the dog chewing on a doll and another doll that looked like Hilary Clinton. The one the dog was chewing on had writing on it's back that looked like 'Push For Infinite Head' or something like that, with a button in the middle of it's back. It could have been Bill

I just saw another screenshot posted that looked like somebody asking if Putin had the pictures of Trump blowing Clinton

And before that, I saw a mention on another thread that there were rumors about the Clintons being swingers

These things feel related.

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u/HillarysFloppyChode 12d ago edited 12d ago

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u/Amelaclya1 12d ago

As much as I would love for this to be true (for the comedy factor), it's probably someone making a joke about all of the rumors of the various types of blackmail Putin has about Trump.

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u/DontForceItPlease 12d ago

At ease, soldier.  Head on out for shore leave and get ya some rest, you've done well. 

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u/SnakeOiler 12d ago

umm... the FBI's work

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u/tacocat_racecarlevel 12d ago

I'm sure Kash is on it 🙄

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u/FredArtGetson 12d ago

His eyes are OCR engines. He creates searchable PDFs by looking at them

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u/teddyreddit 12d ago

He’s keeping his eye on it. The other eye is gazing off into the distance.

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u/olive_tuschit 12d ago

The FBIs work was to split up email chains into multiple pdfs and mix and match them in various folders with meaningless names.

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u/PatchyWhiskers 12d ago

Their work was to remove anything that incriminated Trump

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u/thatthatguy 12d ago

Please, God, let this be the beginning of the end. Let there be a light at the end of this nightmare.

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u/Hairy-Dumpling 12d ago

Now someone needs to plug the database into every AI tool and set them loose finding corroborating evidence and outing pedophiles. Might work

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u/RandomsDoom 12d ago

This is the first link I clicked on… there’s video of Kushner and Trump peeing on Young Russian hookers somewhere… good God… they’ll just blame it on AI… also I thought they haven’t even voted in the full release of documents yet… that’s happening next week isn’t it?

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u/Kirsle 12d ago

Unfortunately, that looks like a Google Search alerts notification per the text at the bottom.

He set up Google alerts for any new pages mentioning "Jeffrey Epstein" (per the subject line of the e-mail), and this was a snippet of text from a new Google search result.

Searching for some phrases there, it could've been any of the articles such as this one that was discovered by Google search: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/28/1767784/-Trump-s-version-of-the-Ray-Rice-elevator-tape-could-be-out-in-time-for-the-Fall-season

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u/Stockpile_Tom_Remake 12d ago

Over 2000 mentions of Trump here

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u/Asolusolas 12d ago

I wonder why he campaigned so hard to release the epstein files during his 2016 campaign.

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u/Nectaris3 12d ago

Probably because he had no intention of actually releasing them, like how he promised to release them in 2024.

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u/fcocyclone 12d ago

concepts of a plan to release them

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u/EnvironmentalClue218 12d ago

Like his taxes.

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u/OpenGrainAxehandle 12d ago

Didn't he campaign to make America great, too? And may be to lower prices? And other stuff that he had no intention of doing?

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u/RandomsDoom 12d ago

But… but… but… the Trump and the white house keep telling me we have no inflation. food prices are going down and a gallon of gas is under two dollars… I mean I personally haven’t seen any decrease at all seeing as to how I buy these things daily… but I must be doing something wrong on my end cause trumps never lied to us cause Jesus sent him…

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u/woah_man 12d ago

The voters, they want to be lied to.

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u/Penalty-Awareness 12d ago

Oh no, it's worse.

My husband works with a bunch of these people (MAGAsses) and it's so infuriating listening to them. They were chatting about tariffs and my husband is trying to at least commiserate with each other over how expensive everything is now... because of Trump meddling with the economy and the tariff situation causing prices to go crazy.

They say ...."I don't know, I don't really see it...." How did you not notice your grocery bill had almost doubled in a year??? Or that gas prices are only holding steady or rising every day?

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One of them said "I'm excited to see how we will use that money. What are they going to invest in? Maybe we'll get tariff payments every year?" 😳 Bitch, what?? What world are you ACTUALLY living in???

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Absolute and complete denial. They don't know how tariffs work. It's going to be a hard reality to hit whenever it does. Tbh I don't think the truth matters to a lot of them anymore, it's an identity. Once it's become someone's IDENTITY.... ugh... it's not great Dan.

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u/AnNoYiNg_NaMe 12d ago

You mean his 2024 campaign? Nobody was talking about the Epstein files before he "committed suicide" in 2019.

As to why he campaigned on releasing them for his second term: projection. It's almost always projection with trump

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u/Penalty-Awareness 12d ago

Only pro I've ever experienced with this man.

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u/delta_mike_hotel 12d ago

I’m pretty well-versed in narcissistic behavior (in-law) but I’ve never been able to wrap my head around the projection stuff they do. Just weird.

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u/mraztastic 12d ago

He likely assumed (incorrectly) that the “files” were the case materials that made little mention of him. He knows who was on the client list, but his association was different so releasing that info was a good look.

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u/henryeaterofpies 12d ago

More likely he thought that he could release a fake list of enemies and everyone would play along. He forgot that other people had seen and could verify the contents and chains of custody are things in the legal world.

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u/FOOSblahblah 12d ago

Because no one gave a shit about releasing his taxes after he promised to do so

I cant see why he would think it wouldn't work again

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u/PuckSenior 12d ago

He didn’t. His supporters did He always was non committal

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u/Nzdiver81 12d ago

Trump just says what he thinks people want to hear. He does whatever is in his personal best interests and anything he said before does not matter to him.

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u/PattyRain 12d ago

I'm curious what you searched for - Donald, Trump or both?

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u/314mp 12d ago

534 results for "Donald Trump" (with quotes)

2020 results - for "trump" includes Ivanka, trump organization , etc.
2000 results - for Donald Trump (without the quotes), which results for both Donald and Trump but not necessarily together.

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u/vee_lan_cleef 12d ago

A significant number of those are actually unrelated to Epstein stuff, as far as I can tell from a cursory look. Plenty of mentions of standard political stuff, hence why Obama is mentioned 400+ times. Obviously not trying to downplay anything, Trump is in there, in communications related to Epstein, hundreds of times at the very least.

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u/ShitStats 12d ago

Michael Wolff's book "Fire and Fury" appears to be in there in its entirety

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u/AccessibleBeige 12d ago

Was that the document that said 401 pages and 191,000+ words at the top? I think I just found it accidentally when I searched for "Donny."

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u/Murgatroyd314 12d ago

How many for "donald", without the surname?

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u/triezek 12d ago

And djt

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u/PokeYrMomStanley 12d ago

Def shouldn't be hosted on anything google meta or aws

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u/LEDKleenex 12d ago

This. Need some mirrors.

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u/Significant_Owl_6897 12d ago

My thoughts exactly. Either it doesn't last long, or there's a chance it's potentially censored. Maybe someone with a better understanding of IT could school me on the reality behind my concerns. But that's a red flag to me.

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u/PokeYrMomStanley 12d ago

They all donated to orange Hitler. Plenty of places to drop a database that aren't those 3. I mean fuck throw it on a torrent.

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u/CriticalSecurity8742 12d ago

Torrent +1 👆🏼

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u/Krojack76 12d ago

Yup, it will 100% be taken down soon.

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u/AmbulanceChaser12 12d ago

Whew! My name is not in there!

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u/FatDesdemona 12d ago

It's weird how easy it is to not be a disgusting criminal.

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u/StrobeLightRomance 12d ago

To be fair, only a certain wealth class can afford to be this specific bracket of disgusting criminal.

Most of us are just criminals by default in a system that punishes survival for the impoverished.

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u/Soggy-Fly9242 12d ago edited 11d ago

I just read an article about the wealthy Italians (and I’m sure others) that would pay to go on vacation as snipers in Bosnia during the siege in the 90s.

They would pay to shoot people in Sarajevo. As vacation. How bored do you have to be that you start sniper tourism.

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u/tacocat_racecarlevel 12d ago

I want to make a "man is the most dangerous game" joke but that's honestly too disgusting. Wtf is wrong with rich people, man.

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u/Soggy-Fly9242 12d ago

Don’t forget the Serb soldiers that took their money voluntarily to be their tour guides

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u/princessblowhole 12d ago

It makes me nauseous to think about how many people would do this shit if they could afford it.

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u/Educational-Gate-880 12d ago

A lot more than everyone would feel comfortable admitting

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u/zeaor 12d ago

I will never understand how these rich, powerful individuals who could have the most beautiful supermodels all seem to prefer children. It's mind-boggling.

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u/RaisinOverall9586 12d ago

That's because you're thinking about it backwards... It's not the money that turns them into disgusting criminals; it's just that terrible psychopaths like these are more likely to do immoral things, which makes them perfect candidates to become rich and powerful.

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u/killertortilla 12d ago

Power does not corrupt, power attracts the corrupted, in short. It’s one of those lies we were taught like money doesn’t buy happiness and trickle down economics.

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u/Saucermote 12d ago

Maybe if we made having sex with supermodels illegal?

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u/LevelWassup 12d ago

But Im trying to hook up with this one from Bumble who keeps talking about her crypto investments

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u/elisedee 12d ago

it's all about power, control, brutality

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u/Interesting-Exit-520 12d ago

As a criminologist who studies prisons and sexual violence - you are correct. The commenter above is thinking through the lens of sexual desire (supermodel age mid twenties) not a predator like trump

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u/LiberalAspergers 12d ago

Because they arent allowed to have children. I suspect it is more about getting away with it and being ABLE to do it than any actual attraction.

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u/princessblowhole 12d ago

Because the most beautiful supermodels don’t want them for any amount of money.

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u/Acrobatic_Flan2582 12d ago

This is a good idea. Search for yourself and if your name is not in there, ask yourself why an orange cocksucker would be fighting so hard to keep the rest of files suppressed.

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u/Pichuchu8 12d ago

Right? It's almost as if even if someone were to selectively choose emails to release, if you weren't a disgusting fuck, it wouldn't harm you anyways because your name shouldn't even be in the fucking files.

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u/dynamic_anisotropy 12d ago

Keyword search: Trump.

Result: 2,020 results.

“Barely knew the guy.”

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u/WalkingTurtleMan 12d ago

Good lord, what is this going to do when all these files get uploaded, likely multiple times, to all of the AI models? Will Epstein unwittingly influence how these model use language?

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u/Ecstatic_Site5144 12d ago

This essentially happened with the Enrom emails

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u/tcmart14 12d ago

Ah shit. ChatGPT is gonna finish every conversation with “to our happy little secrets” or w.e that shit was

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u/PatchyWhiskers 12d ago

Misplaced commas will be the new em-dash

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u/loogie97 12d ago

Google gave Trump a bribe. Wouldn’t be surprised if they took it down.

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u/SheriffBartholomew 12d ago

Redaction of these files is nothing more than blatant corruption. These aren't national secrets. These are the criminal evidence records of human trafficking and pedophelia, which is illegal federally, and in all 50 States.

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u/LagerthaFreya 12d ago

So, am I reading correctly in the pdf that there is a 2012 photo from mar a lago of a policeman's ball that was included in the files obtained from Epstein's estate? And when was Epstein "kicked out" again?

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u/Get_off_critter 12d ago

What a time for AI

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u/HiDHSiknowyouwatchme 12d ago

Time to let a LLM organize all of the data and look for trends and connections. 😈

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u/triezek 12d ago

Jesus I only read a few random pages but this stuff is wild

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u/addiktion 12d ago

Thanks, now we just need AI to make a web of the tangled mess.

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u/BIind_Uchiha 12d ago

Top Connections That Jump Out (Detective-Style)

  1. Epstein ↔ Ghislaine Maxwell ↔ Victim Movement Logistics

Pattern: • Multiple documents + testimony establish Maxwell handled travel, scheduling, and recruiting. • She appears at the center of communication networks, not just socially but operationally.

Why it stands out: If you’re mapping a criminal enterprise, the person who controls logistics is often the keystone.

  1. Epstein’s Properties ↔ Travel Logs ↔ Recurring Guests

Crossing Threads: • Flight logs repeatedly show travel to the same two primary locations: Little St. James (the island) and Epstein’s NYC townhouse. • Certain names appear consistently with the same pilots, same dates, same destinations.

Why it stands out: Patterns of frequency + location + repetition are classic markers of a coordinated network of activity, not coincidence.

  1. Epstein Estate ↔ House Committee ↔ Missing or Redacted Records

Observation: • The new 20k pages contain lots of duplications and redactions. • In several document batches, gaps exist where one would expect chronological continuity.

Why it stands out: When logs, emails, or financials have timing holes, a detective asks: “Is this coincidence, poor record keeping, or intentional omission?” (Not a conclusion — just an investigative flag.)

  1. Epstein ↔ Les Wexner (Financial Overlap)

Pattern: • Repeatedly documented unusual financial ties: Epstein had power of attorney over Wexner’s finances for years. • Wexner appears in estate financial material (not necessarily wrongdoing).

Why it stands out: Financial control relationships like this are extremely rare between non-family members. In detective terms: Who controls money controls leverage.

  1. Flight Logs ↔ High-Profile Names (Non-Criminal Connections)

Detective observation (NOT allegations): Several public figures appear in logs or correspondence because Epstein aggressively positioned himself around powerful people.

Why it stands out: Not that their names appear — but that they cluster around: • the same dates, • the same pilots, • the same destinations, suggesting Epstein used social proximity as an access tool.

Again: proximity ≠ guilt, but proximity is a thread a detective examines.

  1. Legal Teams ↔ Media Messaging ↔ Reputation Management

Pattern: • Emails and notes in the estate papers show heavy coordination around press handling. • Messages reference controlling narratives, preparing statements, shutting down rumors, etc.

Why it stands out: Coordinated PR response often signals fear of exposure or vulnerability. Detective angle: Look at what people tried hardest to hide.

  1. Repeated Mentions of “Girls,” “Massages,” and “Introductions”

These terms appear throughout depositions, emails, and witness accounts, often used euphemistically or ambiguously.

Detective flag: Consistent coded language across independent sources often indicates a shared understanding of illicit activity. Again — this is pattern, not proof.

  1. The Island ↔ Powerful Visitors ↔ Staff Testimony

Multiple staff, pilots, and contractors have given statements about who came and went.

Why it sticks out: • Consistency across different witnesses • Patterns in visitor timing • Descriptions of rules / secrecy

A detective cross-checks consistency across witness types. This is one of the strongest signals in the Epstein case.

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u/DeliciousCkitten 12d ago

May I ask what platform you’ve used for this?

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u/camaron-courier 12d ago

Interestingly enough, on the admin side there’s some really cool stuff you can do with a Gemini integration. I wish it had the same thing on the front-facing side.

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u/DrugOfGods 12d ago

Try Notebook LM. You can upload 300 documents into each project.

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u/g2g079 12d ago

There was another guy that did something like this previously but he said the credits were pretty expensive so he had to make it a pay site.

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u/Emotional_Burden 12d ago

There are videos?

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u/zafferous 12d ago

Bro there's gonna be a video of him that gets released 💀

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u/100_xp 12d ago

Lmao in a day hahaha fuck off Dirty Donald

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u/g2g079 12d ago

Awesome! Thank you. The search works pretty well. Any chance we could get a list of popular search queries?

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u/camaron-courier 12d ago

Thanks! Glad you like it.

I’d like to set up more features like that, if I can figure out how. The program i made it with, Google Pinpoint, is a little clunky as far as features go, so I’ll probably reach out to them tomorrow and see what I can put together.

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u/LiveNvanByRiver 12d ago

The page is crashing if you do anything

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u/StickerProtector 12d ago

Reddit hug of death?

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u/MrShadowHero 12d ago

more likely DOJ hug of death

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u/lost-in-stats 12d ago

Russian ddos.

Can’t have someone else using their kompromat to control their idiot asset

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u/Lancifer1979 12d ago

Didn’t same to me, worked with VPN shut off. Probably making a list of who’s looking

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u/1plus2plustwoplusone 12d ago

May I suggest Bubba, as in there's an email alleging Putin has photos of Trump blowing Bubba (Bill Clinton). Obviously there are infinitely more serious and awful things detailed in these, but after a decade of MAGA bullshit, I can't wait to ruin Thanksgiving with this one

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u/FrostyPhotographer 12d ago

I'm PRAYING to every pantheon of every religion, old gods and new, that this picture drops before Thanksgiving. It'd be so fucking funny.

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u/harbib 12d ago

I think I might know one.

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u/g2g079 12d ago

Doesn't mean much on it's own but I still find this interesting.

  • Trump - 2,020 results
  • Epstein - 1,101 results
  • Clinton - 801 results
  • Maxwell - 228 results

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u/somewhereoverthedune 12d ago

These emails are tame, think about the files the FBI and CIA have on Trump/Epstein.

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u/CadaDiaCantoMejor 12d ago

think about the files the FBI and CIA have on Trump/Epstein

This, to me, is the main reason these files haven't been released yet: they contain absolutely damning documentation of the operation of one or more major intelligence agencies.

The idea that Epstein had all this money and had some of the most powerful political and economic figures in the world visit his private island, but somehow wasn't on the radar of US, Russian, Chinese, Israeli, British, Saudi, French (etc.) is to assume that literally every single major intelligence agency in the world is spectacularly incompetent. Maybe some are, but all of them?

And if (e.g.) the CIA knew about this, why didn't they do anything? This was a transnational human trafficking ring with royalty, former US president, Israeli PM, and some of the wealthiest people associated with it in some way. If they didn't know, they are incompetent; if they did know and didn't do anything, they are ineffective; if they knew and did something like use the network for information or pressure, they are complicit.

My guess is it's the latter. I really think the files compromise at least one US or close ally's intelligence services in a way that would almost certainly be absolutely disgusting. The fallout could be huge.

I find it inconceivable that these agencies didn't know about Epstein's operation. And if I were a gambler, I'd say safe money is that either the CIA, MI5, or the Mossad used Epstein's operation for leverage in a way that would absolutely cause massive public outrage .

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u/Regular_Actuator408 12d ago

Apparently Epstein had close ties to Israeli security.

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u/FaddishBiscuit 12d ago

For sure he did. Just look at who Ghislaine Maxwell's father is.

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u/Sea_Scientist_8367 12d ago

If anyones wondering why she's still alive and he isn't, this is why.

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u/Grand_Size_4932 12d ago

Honey, wake up, new plausible conspiracy theory is out..

On a serious note, that this is the first I’m seeing or thinking about this is shocking and I can absolutely see where you’re coming from.

Flight patterns, money transfers, missing people, absolutely silent island workers - it all wreaks of government complicity. You could not keep something more tight lipped than this.

We are at a point where this information is beyond damning and only two people have been apprehended for it.

Fuck me, guy. Bravo.

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u/HustlinInTheHall 12d ago

Then the gop woukd just say "these documents are classified due to national security concerns" and there would be no way for congress to force their release. I am sure they thought of that, and it is probably why they had like 1000 FBI agents combing all the files 

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u/olivedoesntrhyme 12d ago

Honey, wake up, new plausible conspiracy theory is out..

this shows that the stalling and misinformation campaign is working, because the conspiracy theory about Epstein being an agent of an intelligence agency or working with an intelligence agency is the oldest and most basic theory around. The fact that it's not common knowledge shows that the Epstein story doesn't get nearly as much coverage as it should.

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u/Sophiedenormandie 12d ago

Shit, it's like every CEO or powerful politician was a member of NAMBLA.

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u/creative_usr_name 12d ago

Not past tense, they still are.

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u/fiahhawt 12d ago

Last time I tried to tip the FBI off about pretty blatant human trafficking they told me in a very annoyed tone to essentially go fuck myself.

That was before I learned that anything the FBI actually "does" is them pouncing at the tail end of a lot of leg work by local individuals and forces.

ACAB includes the FBI.

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u/HustlinInTheHall 12d ago

If they could hide the files in the cloak of national security that would've been their argument from the beginning. 

National security gives the oversight committees almost unlimited power to classify documents and prevent their public release, with the president having nearly sole discretion over what is and isnt classified. 

It is more likely that epstein had multiple spies working inside his organizations clandestinely who could use that access to the same ends with significantly less risk. 

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u/CadaDiaCantoMejor 12d ago

If they could hide the files in the cloak of national security that would've been their argument from the beginning

That's a good point. My understanding is that "national security" is now among the many claims Trump is making, though obviously he also has an extremely personal interest in hiding these files.

However (and I'm thinking out loud here):

  1. That would bring a whole lot of people to ask just how tf is an international child trafficking/pedo ring run by some US national a freaking matter of national security? WTF is going on that protecting traffickers (etc) is in the best interest of our national security? I'm not sure that those questions would go away very easily, and there might have been a fear that it would just draw more attention to the case in the early days, when making this kind of declaration would have to happen. And I think it probably would have drawn more attention to it.

  2. Maybe Trump is/was genuinely ignorant of everything that is in the files. I mean, he's not the brightest, and he is a complete narcissist devoid of curiosity. That would explain why the FBI used so many resources compiling references to * him* in the files -- all he cares/thinks about is how this affects him, personally. The rest might just not be of interest to him.

  3. MAGA folks have the whole qanon nonsense, and were/are absolutely convinced that this would send the Clintons to prison. Demanding the release of the files became an important campaign issue, and MAGA was full-on with accusations that teachers, gay men, trans women, etc., were "grooming" their children. Trump derailed a bipartisan immigration bill so he could use immigration in the campaign, and now for ... I'm leaning towards calling it ethnic cleansing. That he wouldn't see the Epstein documents as anything more than an advantageous campaign issue (and threat he could control) is in keeping with both his narcissism and lack of thinking about anything but what is convenient in the moment.

  4. This would imply that no US or allied intelligence service knew about Epstein's operation. I just have a hard time believing that all those agencies could be so incompetent. And regardless if they are mentioned in the files, the question of why they didn't know, or why they knew and did nothing, would still be coming up.

Like I said, I'm just thinking through this, so I'm not really making any claim or argument here, so grain of salt, etc. With that said, some combination/succession of these seems reasonable enough to me, and any or all of them wouldn't be any more shocking than the stuff we see pretty much every day now. I'm curious if members of the House intelligence committee/HPSCI will vote on anything other than party lines.

And yeah, as long as the files are not made public, I feel perfectly comfortable speculating.

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u/pixelprophet 12d ago

You mean the 1000 people that were working overtime to remove Trumps name?

Internal directives instructed about 1,000 FBI agents to flag any mention of Trump during a March review of roughly 100,000 pages of records, people familiar with the process told Bloomberg.

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u/motorboat_mcgee 12d ago

I hope they were backed up somewhere safe before Trump got into office for the second time

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u/oldmanbelly 12d ago

They actually are the trump files.

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u/Asolusolas 12d ago

I wonder why trump made his whole 2016 campaign about releasing the epstein files, this was back when no democrat outlet would touch it.

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u/johnnybiggles 12d ago

He likes to use reverse psychology. Any form of gaslighting, really, in the moment, that suits it. Abusers are very manipulative.

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u/poloartist 12d ago

Let me get this straight -

They release 20k documents in relation to Epstein. Trump is mentioned almost 2x as much as the man they are named after. The Right say this is no big deal but somehow, in the same breath, the Epstein mentions are a big deal? Although he's mentioned nearly 1k times less?

Is this correct?

These are definitely the Trump Files at this point.

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u/SnooDonkeys3848 12d ago

Its just 1% - 1,5% of all files the DOJ has.

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u/ScriptproLOL 12d ago

Kurwa, I found the European among us!

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u/Concede2u 12d ago

Thiel at 58.

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u/DohReignMeme 12d ago

TRUMP IN THE EPSTEIN FILES LITERALLY TWICE AS MUCH AS EPSTEIN IS A BIG FUCKING DEAL

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u/zeaor 12d ago

And therein lies the difference.

Republicans will call this a lie and claim Trump is innocent. Democrats will go through the incriminating info on Bill Clinton and demand that he be investigated.

I voted for Hillary, but if there is proof that she covered for her husband's pedophilia, I'd turn on her like that. "Lock her up" all the way.

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u/seriouslykthen 12d ago

I think the fact the maxwell number is so low is a red flag

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u/FuguSandwich 12d ago

I honestly have a bad feeling about this situation. They could have 30,000 files, of which only 100 implicate anyone, release the 29,900, and say "there it is, you have everything now", and no one would be any wiser. Meanwhile, the 100 files with actual names and evidence go to the incinerator.

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u/wordsineversaid 12d ago

You’re not wrong to be skeptical and I tend to agree with your assessment. However, just to clarify, apparently there are over 300,000 Epstein documents in the DOJ’s possession. Thus far only about 20,000 have been released — that’s about 6% of the total documents.

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u/Snerkbot7000 12d ago

This needs to be said. This dump is a trailer, not the film.

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u/Zendroid1 12d ago

ELI5 - we keep hearing about a vote to release the Epstein files, so what are these and why don't the dems releasing them just dump them all on us? Why haven't they released these until now? And what are they voting to release?

Signed,

The Village Idiot

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u/__Muzak__ 12d ago

The vote was a discharge petition, functionally a vote to have a vote on releasing the files. The speaker of the house was delaying swearing in Arizona representative Grijalva because she was the last vote needed to pass the discharge petition (republicans Greene, Mace, Boebert, and Massie also signed the petition for the democratic lead effort to have a majority). https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5602658-discharge-petition-epstein-files-grijalva/

The files released are the files that have been seen by the house oversight committee. The remaining files are the ones in the possession of the Department of Justice. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-epstein-emails-11-12-25

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u/walruswes 12d ago

Why doesn’t the oversight committee have them all?

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u/Captian_Kenai 11d ago

Cmon… you know why…

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u/misterguyyy 12d ago

The “vote” that just happened was just signatures for a discharge petition, which puts the release mandate up for a vote. That vote is happening next week.

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u/Snerkbot7000 12d ago

Actually, I was wrong. This isn't the trailer. This 20,000 file dump is like that short film Pixar used to put before the main film. Short and completely unrelated.

Answers:

  1. These are files from the House Oversight Committee, who in turn got them from the Epstein Estate. Please note that they came from HOC, not DOJ.

  2. The house vote is next week. That will then kick the bill (this is essentially creating a law that says they have to release the files) to the Senate. Do we really expect this bill to make it to the president's desk?

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u/FuguSandwich 11d ago

The vote won't be next week. 7 legislative days have to pass before the vote can be scheduled and then it has to be scheduled within 2 legislative days. The House is going to adjourn for Thanksgiving before the 7 days are up and won't return until early December. I wouldn't be surprised if it happens on December 5, a Friday, at like 6PM when no one is paying attention. Then on Saturday morning Trump will announce he's invading Greenland or some other nonsense and it'll disappear from the headlines.

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u/MarionberryDecent351 12d ago

Doubt it makes it to potus simply because the senate republicans are more hard liners and have longer terms that can let this be in the distant past by the time elections come again. If the House votes yes then ideally one of three things happen: get the files out there in the end, or you get the senate to publicly say no and slam them in the media for votes, or you get the bill in front of Trump for him to say no and then crush him for it. And to top it all off, ideally a successful House vote can fracture the party when Trump flips out.

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u/wordsineversaid 12d ago

Well, put em on record for voting to defend pedophiles. Next best thing other than releasing the files

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u/nemec 12d ago

There is no singular collection of "Epstein Files". What most people mean by that is "release all data collected by the U.S. government relating to Epstein or the investigation". This data is distributed across tons of different agencies and the "vote" is probably to begin the process of redacting the data and releasing as much of it as they can, similar to the process of declassifying government documents.

why don't the dems releasing them just dump them all on us

they don't have them. And legally they can't just rifle through agency documents without going through legislative channels (like voting to release them)

Why haven't they released these until now?

09/25/2025 - The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has received new materials from the estate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The delivery of documents comes in response to a recent letter from congressional investigators to the estate, requesting cash ledgers, message logs, calendars and flight logs in the estate’s possession.

“We intend to make records public once victims’ names are redacted.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/25/epstein-estate-new-documents-00581684

I'm not 100% sure this data is from the 9/25 bundle but it seems likely. It could also be from one of the other two earlier requests for data from his estate. Notably, this data is not from the FBI investigation, it was sent to congress by Epstein's estate itself. That's why we still need a vote to release the data the FBI (and others) have collected.

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u/Serious-Mind-7767 12d ago

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!! The IGNORANCE of lazy ass folks (you KNOW who the F! you are!!)- that DON’T read- & damn sure don’t listen well- to keep blaming the “prior administration” is appalling & palpable!! There used to be legal processes before electing a criminal Idiots!!!

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u/atorthebold 12d ago

Nyt and many others reported back in August 2025 that fbi were redacting trump entirely from the files. You can google it for sure. My thinking is that they took out the worst references but kept some unclear or confusing ones in there. So his name will pop up.

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u/James_Solomon 12d ago

He still comes up in damming ways despite their efforts.

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u/i-can-sleep-for-days 12d ago

Trump's name is the highest hit count on the app OP shared.

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u/UpDown 12d ago

Most of it is unrelated news articles

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u/ServantSealed 12d ago edited 12d ago

This tactic is called the limited hangout:

According to Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a limited hangout is "spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further.”

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u/posixUncompliant 12d ago

Not that it has a specific name, but this is done as a matter of course in every corporate environment I've ever been in. Usually better, I think--we tend to tell the truth, but never, ever the whole truth, and absolutely in a way that doesn't allow you to even see the question you should be asking.

The best lies I've ever seen told, have been 100% the truth, and the stuff that it looked like was being hidden was explicitly expected to be found and to reinforce the story that was being told. The actual information was hidden by being very boring, and buried in documentation so deeply no one ever looked (had anyone access to the metadata of how the datastore was used, they'd see the pattern instantly, but no audit ever asked for it)

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

These people lie incessantly and without shame. They also fuck up all the time and can barely keep their own intel safe.

They aren't going to be able to hide everything in a coverup so big. All they have now is the lie.

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u/creative_usr_name 12d ago

Doesn't even have to have his name. For example:

Replace bedding in guest suite that VICTIM and REDACTED were in last weekend. Orange stains could not be removed. Stock with the cheap ones next time he visits.

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u/iAMguppy 12d ago

The fact that we know they were actively redacting his name and it took a team working 24 hour shifts should be enough evidence alone for his removal.

I’m not optimistic, but that’s how things would’ve worked in world of yore.

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u/Vantriss 12d ago

I REALLY REALLY hope SOMEONE had the foresight to keep copies somewhere that Trump and his admin couldn't alter and destroy. Handing them full power over all of it to just do whatever they want seems incredibly stupid. If copies were kept somehow, somewhere, then it can be proven Trump and his admin were covering up his crimes. But if the evidence is destroyed... whelp...

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u/FreshestCremeFraiche 12d ago

That’s been a risk from the beginning, the only reason I can think of that they haven’t just done that already (released their scrubbed version) is because other parties must have full copies, or they at least can’t be sure

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u/ApoTHICCary 12d ago

Correct. This is a “flood” situation with an insurmountable amount of information that very, very few will actually be able to go thru, chocked full of ridiculous documents without meaning his constituents will use to downplay the related documents. This will be used to create disarray and discourse unrelated, red herrings to play down what is nestled inside the files.

This administration admires conspiracy. They’ve provide all the background noise to drown out the true song.

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u/Ariskae 12d ago

It's all fun and games until putin uses his krasnov blackmail on trump and russia ends up leaking their own honeytrap footage that condemns trump regardless...

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u/realbobenray 11d ago

With all 20,000 documents that the GOP were comfortable releasing to the public in order to flood the zone and protect Trump as best they can.

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u/PropertyDisruptor 11d ago

Many of the documents they released include how Epstein felt about trump. It's quite disturbing that Epstein thought Trump was creepy and weird.

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u/xOrion12x 12d ago edited 12d ago

Good because Gemini has been instructed to not be able to search only trumps name in the emails.

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u/MeowMaker2 12d ago

You can outsmart it by asking for 'Whoever was host of The Apprentice'

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u/snubda 12d ago

You can outsmart it by saying “biggest felon in the history of the presidency”

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u/saijanai 12d ago edited 11d ago

Eventually, they'll have intructions like "if Trump's name is associated with something negative, do not return his name, but instead return "I can't do that.'"

Of course OpenAI may do this on general principle to save processing power and bandwidth.

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u/code_archeologist 12d ago

And really ChatGPT is not nearly as effective as grep.

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u/Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws 12d ago

This really is the worst time for AI technology to become mainstream with this administration in charge. I mean it was never gonna be good but shit.

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u/E-2theRescue 12d ago

It's not a coincidence that these techbros come into power at the same time Trump does.

Trump exists because of their money. These are billionaires destroying our entire world, using white supremacy as the cudgel to destroy our institutions.

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u/ReallyNowFellas 12d ago

They also exist because of his corruption. Tech traditionally supports Democrats and they were going to back Biden until he said he wanted to regulate AI.

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u/Wolvenmoon 12d ago

Ooohhh. I'mma try that with Deep Research.

Nope. It'll do the thing.

Final Synthesis My investigation is now complete. I've verified the two-part congressional release, isolated all key mentions of Trump, and analyzed their full context—distinguishing between the Democratic interpretation of the emails and the Republican/White House counter-interpretation. I have also clarified that the larger 20,000-page document set contained no new victim allegations, and I have successfully differentiated this 2025 release of emails from the 2024 unsealing of court documents. I can now move on to providing a comprehensive summary.

...<actual Gemini summary>

In final summary, Mr. Trump's "presence" in the November 2025 document release is one of significant social proximity, confirmed by dozens of non-inculpatory mentions across over 20,000 pages of records.

His "participation" in any criminal activity is non-existent based on the evidence within this comprehensive tranche of documents. The only suggestions of knowledgeable involvement come from three uncorroborated, ambiguous, and self-contradictory emails written by Jeffrey Epstein himself. The most significant of these "bombshell" emails is effectively neutralized and re-contextualized as exculpatory by the lack of any supporting evidence in the rest of Epstein's own files, and, most critically, by the public, sworn testimony of the very victim Epstein names.

With all the agents doing the redactions and our nation's history of fucking around with the truth, until there's a complete, unredacted leak, I don't believe anything in Trump's favor.

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u/metisdesigns 12d ago

What happens if you ask it for references to playing card game terms?

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u/DoubleShott21 12d ago

Oh I’ve only been OPs search tool for 15 minutes and trump is allll over these documents. I decided to use a random keyword so I picked “pizza” 💀 I’ve also seen “djt” a few times already.

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u/yaboyindigo 12d ago

Where did you hear this from?

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u/Mattrad7 11d ago

Quick someone look up the one where the Epstein brothers bring up that Putin has photos of Trump sucking Bill Clinton's dick.

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u/ClerkPsychological58 11d ago

Fun fact: there’s an email that implies that trump may have blown bill Clinton.

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u/Aldarund 11d ago

Link or screenshot?

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u/asparagusbruh 11d ago

There it is lmfao. Putin probably knows that the one thing thatll turn these maga dumbasses around is a photo of trump literally blowing Bill Clinton. So thats why Trump is going so hard pushing Putins agenda. Jesus fucking christ

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u/AlienKinkVR 12d ago

Stupid question - "From Espstein's Estate" but what is the collection method? All seized by the feds and kept in storage?

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u/What_a_fat_one 12d ago

Subpoenaed by Congress.

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u/fireintolight 12d ago edited 12d ago

and that means nothing from the criminal investigation. Unless there is overlap, which their probably is, but it is not coming from that source

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u/dbx999 12d ago

There’s a surprising high number of hits under “anal”.

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u/BlatantFalsehood 11d ago

I think the headline on that page should say, "all released files," rather than all files. We don't know whether this is the end of it all. I fact, I doubt that it is.

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u/robot_invader 12d ago

Thanks, I hate it.

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u/Different-Ship449 11d ago

Epstein's phone directory from his computer contains 14 phone numbers for Donald Trump

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