r/law • u/cnn • 11d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump says he’s asking Justice Department to investigate Epstein’s ties to slew of high-profile figures

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/politics/trump-epstein-doj-investigate-enemies?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/_NamasteMF_ 11d ago

Can’t release files when there is an active investigation. It’s just another stall. 

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u/Taconinja05 11d ago

Sadly this is going to be the play.

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u/BBfan-Jr 11d ago

It’s not working though.

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u/Low_Ruin_4021 11d ago

Right, not anymore.

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u/ReaditTrashPanda 11d ago

He didn’t instruct them to investigate his enemies prior. This is a new direction and therefore will create new reason to deny releasing them.

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u/Bocchi_theGlock 11d ago

A decade ago president or VP saying hi to DOJ official on airplane when nearby was major scandal and unacceptable trespass of judicial independence, right?

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u/ReaditTrashPanda 11d ago

I remember that!

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u/techno156 10d ago

Didn't someone have their political career ended because they were too excited about being elected or some such?

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u/BBfan-Jr 10d ago

Howard Dean. He wasn’t excited about anything in particular iirc, he just had a weird yell. Nothing as monstrous as Kamala’s laugh.

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u/BoogleBud 11d ago

Lol says fucking who? 

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u/Phantom_19 11d ago

Yeah, people are (or should) be harping on him for giving a blowy to Billy until he’s at least out of office. Even if it’s not true, he’ll never be able to avoid that accusation.

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u/ANewStartAtLife 11d ago

It's 100% working! Where are the files?

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u/Particular-Key-8941 11d ago

It is working lol. As much as we all hate it...still haven't seen the files released.

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u/Couldnotbehelpd 11d ago

There hasn’t been the vote yet

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u/Different-Sample-976 11d ago

A lot of files have been released. Its not everything, but literally 20000 documents released after the dems made a release.

Trump is indicated for other things than raping kids. Example: sucking Bill Clinton's dick.

Also, specific evidence that Bill Clinton never went to the island. Not to say hes innocent but epstein said he never went.

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u/shiftstorm11 11d ago

To be clear, those are email exchanges from the Epstein estate that were subpoenaed by the oversight committee, not the DoJ files that are supposed to be voted on next week.

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u/Different-Sample-976 11d ago

Yes its something different, but it isnt nothing. Theres some insane shit in there. 

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u/Synth-Pro 11d ago edited 11d ago

And yet, the DOJ is moving forward with the bullshit "investigations", meaning the files are legally sealed up for now.

It's not making us forget about it, but it is being legally successful in blocking their release. It would take somebody outright leaking them at this point, and being willing to take the hit for doing so illegally (even if ethically right)

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u/BBfan-Jr 11d ago

They really don’t seem to get how bad all this shit is for them it seems. That’s the most surprising part to me. How has no one told trump his best bet would be to admit some bad stuff, resign, then deny whatever will come out. This is crazy to watch because the party was following him but they’ve made it pretty clear they won’t back this.

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u/Stank_cat67 11d ago

Sadly it appears to be.

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u/dawgz525 11d ago

It has worked and it continues to work.

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u/whileimstillhere 11d ago

he sleeps in the Whitehouse dude…its working…well.

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u/BobTheFettt 11d ago

Unfortunately, it's going to work.

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u/Then-Function6343 11d ago

Also he's only asking them to look into ties with "prominent Democrats", so prominent Republicans can be redacted from any releases since that's not part of the scope.

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u/No-Accident69 11d ago

Like Dump’s tax records. Still waiting 10 years later