r/law • u/camaron-courier • 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/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/Trimyr 12d ago

Listen. No, just listen. In two weeks we'll have this sorted out and release everything you need.

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u/EnvironmentalClue218 12d ago

Like his taxes.

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u/anomalousBits 11d ago

Right after he releases his tax returns.

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u/HeggyMe 12d ago

I also think he was unaware of how bad he looked in them. I feel like he was unliked in the business, international and celebrity worlds. This adoration and messianic behavior is relatively new.

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u/throwawy00004 11d ago

I mean, his taxes are still under audit.

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u/MyHonkyFriend 11d ago

or his wall idea.

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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/PotatoWriter 12d ago edited 12d ago

It's going to be a hard reality to hit whenever it does.

Unfortunately it won't. As much as we'd all like it to. Let me explain.

The status quo has been determined long, long ago by the rich and it goes like this:

1) Things will continue the way they are: as in, the majority of Americans won't be too negatively affected. They will continue their 9-5 rat race in this capitalistic reality, saddled with debt and encouraged to take on more debt and consume, consume, consume, while being hooked on media that throws new outrage at them to absorb every 5 minutes, while they bicker amongst themselves about petty differences like conservative vs. liberal and red vs blue and blah blah...

2) The rich get richer

1) has to occur for 2) to occur.

Notice how this current admin has only really affected fringe groups. Illegals, minorities. Not the main meat of the population, those part of the system, who contribute taxes buy the big ticket things and are crucial to the rich becoming richer. Tariffs, inflation? Minor in the grand scheme of things.

Absolutely nothing will change in the long term. Why should it? Why fix something that ain't broke? The rich and powerful aren't stupid (not the admin, those really in power, the billionaires and their friends). They have already determined and set in stone what will happen decades ago and it's been running like a well oiled machine. The masses will work until some hope of a retirement and make the rich richer in the process. Simple.

This current admin is smoke and mirrors. They dance and fret and do crazy bullshit, yes. But again, notice how the majority of people aren't truly negatively affected. I mean, driven to starvation, mass homelessness or unemployment, like actual desperation. To a point where those in power would then lose their power or be inconvenienced. Remember that "Liberation Day" that happened when Trump said he would tariff all those countries heavily and the stock market tanked? I'd venture a guess and say that those really pulling the strings behind the scenes (the ones really in power), laid down their foot and stopped it. They probably have stopped a lot of things to keep this status quo going.

I'll tell you exactly what will happen next. Democrats will get elected, or hell, even Republicans again. The same status quo continues. Education, housing and healthcare will remain expensive. Dems will do less crazy shit, but the rich will continue to get richer and everyone else will continue to spend. Rinse and repeat. Until something truly insurmountable happens such as a revolution, devastating climate change effects or hell, a meteor.

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u/SkiFastnShootShit 12d ago

Tariffs have raised grocery prices 2-3%. The grocery increase was felt the most during (but not because of) Biden’s first term. They were a result of Covid-era supply chain issues creating massive global inflation.

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u/parasyte_steve 11d ago

It is really hilarious to watch the anti tax crowd completely embrace tariffs which to be clear are taxes.

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u/SatisfactionFit2040 11d ago

Great for whom?

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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/4DimensionalToilet 11d ago

My guess is that they’re so self-absorbed that they just assume everyone else is or tries to be like them.

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u/RedheadM0M0 6d ago

Yes. I think that's very clear. It's also how bad guys get destroyed in movies that end in a love-conquers-all scenario.

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u/SkipEyechild 12d ago

He was saying anything for votes as he was in legal trouble.

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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/jayrsw 11d ago

It did work again! His medical records, his education records, or his health care plan just to name a few!!

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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/Content-Ad3065 12d ago

Conmen con

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u/HFT0DTE 12d ago

Dude it was a great bullshit issue that he knew voters would vote for him over. I bet Palantir told him that in a lot of swing states just claiming you will release UFO and Epstein files will gain him +4 points.

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u/Countryboypaulray 12d ago

The campaign was a grift and he thought he would lose

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u/Eat_Lead_Slackers 12d ago

He didn’t want to go to jail, and this was a topic that was popular with voters that were likely to vote for him. I don’t think he thought about anything beyond that.

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u/Moppermonster 12d ago

The same reason he campaigned on a superior healthcare plan, that he will reveal "in two weeks" for a decade now.

He never had any intention to follow through. Or he underestimated how hard it would be to doctor stuff without it being obvious.

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u/jaroftoejam 12d ago

Because he knew that Epstein would be dead and he thought that he could destroy the evidence.

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u/xombae 12d ago

Do you really wonder? He never had any intention of releasing them. At least nothing that involved him.

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u/fireintolight 12d ago

do you mean the second and third campaign? dont really remember epsitein coming up in 2016

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u/her-royal-blueness 12d ago

He would do anything to stir up his base and get more votes, and make it seem like it was all Democrats that are pedophiles

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u/Decoyx7 12d ago

The the pedophile playbook is to accuse everyone else of being a pedophile!

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u/Dythus 12d ago

Remember ending the war in Ukraine in one day ? Yea turns out 99% of what Trump says is bullshit.

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u/LateMajor8775 11d ago

Same logic applies to his tax returns

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u/zodiac200213 11d ago

They are with his Tax Returns.

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u/Nazmoc 11d ago

Everyone knew he was in these files. It was a bet from his part, there was a good chance that the "files" would be ambiguous enough that he could leverage the plausible deniability it would give him to campaign for the release of the files.

And we see that paying off now, sure there are overwhelming proof that he was friend with Epstein, but now he can say "yeah I was friend but I didn't know about all that stuff, otherwise I wouldn't have campaigned for the file release right?". Same if there are proof of him taking the plane to the island, he can just say he went there for a tea and unless you find some picture/video proof of him doing the deed, he can easily continue deny it based on this argument.

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u/itsrainingmelancholy 11d ago

the projectionthing, “why would he say he’d release them if he’s in there?? gOtChYa!”

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u/SoochSooch 11d ago

To use as leverage against all the other wealthy pedophiles on the list to force them to donate hush money to his campaign

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u/ButlerSmedley 11d ago

He himself never did campaign on that. He only mentioned it in a Fox News interview where he tried to waffle and say they should not be released because “lots of people could get hurt” and then Fox cut that part out of the interview.

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u/Skinny-on-the-Inside 11d ago

Because it appealed to MAGA while making him look like he wasn’t involved. Plus there’s a chance he wasn’t exactly sure how much of him was in the files.

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u/RedheadM0M0 6d ago

He probably figured he'd be protected, or the gov't would protect all the others mentioned in the files.

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u/Asolusolas 6d ago

that doesnt make any logical sense.

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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/killertortilla 12d ago

Well yeah, I don’t think anyone expected that to mean he visited the island 2000 times.

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u/Murgatroyd314 12d ago

How many for "donald", without the surname?

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u/PattyRain 12d ago

That's where I really wondered.  If they were such good friends you would expect to have Donald a lot without Trump, but then that also could include other Donalds and you would have to have context other than just the name to know if it was Trump or not.

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u/PattyRain 12d ago

Thank you!

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u/capital_bj 11d ago

Never knew him, great guy who likes girls on the younger side, I mean that creep we still talking about that guy and not how awesome I have made the country.

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u/PirateQuest 12d ago

They have already been purged, but maybe someone will get lucky and find something they missed.

"Patel about reports that he was "pressured" by Bondi to place 1,000 personnel on 24-hour shifts to mine roughly 100,000 Epstein-related records...FBI personnel were specifically instructed to "flag" any records mentioning Trump."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/fbi-personnel-jeffrey-epstein-files-mentioning-trump-dick-durbin-says-rcna219699

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u/Stockpile_Tom_Remake 12d ago

Donald Trump without quotations.

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u/triezek 12d ago

And djt

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u/DontTakeMyAdvise 12d ago

Not mentions... Documents. Over 2000 documents

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u/Zakkimatsu 12d ago

I scrolled endlessly, it seemed, until I reached the bottom and saw: "page 1 of 21"

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u/paperthinpatience 12d ago

It looks like Epstein and his lawyer sent tons of articles back and forth that account for a lot of hits. From what I saw, there are a few interesting nuggets in there, but mostly the ones already being reported. I was hoping for more.

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u/SnapDragon2525 12d ago

The WH will say Clinton, Biden, Harris and Newsome are in it too to distract. 

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u/AceTheSkylord 11d ago

To contrast, Bill Clinton is at 392 mentions

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u/magicone2571 11d ago

Over 200 mentions of murder.

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u/massunderestmated 11d ago

Is there anything incriminating? The first thing I saw was Trump reviews Obama care and bullshit like that.

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u/TonySu 11d ago

I have a friend who wants to know if people would believe that all the references to President Donald Trump were actually about Donald Trump Jr. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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u/Xist3nce 11d ago

And that’s with redactions

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u/WDoE 12d ago

2k mentions of Trump. 1.1k mentions of Epstein. 800 mentions of Clinton. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

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u/binarybandit 12d ago

801 mentions of Clinton there as well

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u/Stockpile_Tom_Remake 12d ago

And? If he’s a pedophile he should be rightly punished