More than a month has passed since the deadline for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all its files related to the investigations into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And while the department has publicly shared thousands of documents since that date, those releases account for only a fraction of the materials it has in its possession—leaving the vast majority of the so-called “Epstein files” still unreleased.

“I don’t give a rip about Epstein,” Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado said last week.

“Like, there’s so many other things we need to be working on,” she continued. “I’ve done what I had to do for Epstein. Talk to somebody else about that. It’s no longer in my hands.”

Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, who serves as the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told reporters last week that he believes the DOJ “is cooperating.”

“They are turning over documents,” he said. “We would all like for them to turn documents over quicker, but at the end of the day, they are complying.”

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    Well I guess technically I also “don’t give a rip about Epstein,” since Epstein is dead.

    I do very much give a rip about Trump and all his wealthy friends in relation to Epstein.

    I’m especially interested in finding out what’s in those JP Morgan records of Epstein transactions with Peter Thiel that Republicans in the House and the Senate repeated blocked releasing. Why is Scott Bessant so catty about them? Why has this (like so many other Thiel related crimes) received so little attention from the press?

    How the Gawker Trial Was the Gateway to Trump

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      Thiel didn’t welcome the attention. He vowed privately to get revenge on Valleywag, which he described as “the Silicon Valley equivalent of al Qaeda,” a “Manhattan-based terrorist organization” that was apparently terrifying tech bros into conformity. It took him almost a decade for his quest to succeed. In March 2016, a lawsuit against Gawker brought by Hulk Hogan over the publication of a leaked sex tape resulted in its bankruptcy. Hogan, like everyone else, only discovered the identity of his mysterious and dedicated benefactor after the trial.

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    The DOJ is Sort of Kinda of Turning Over SOME Documents related to the World’s most PROLIFIC CHILD SEX TRAFFICKER IN HISTORY but DONT WORRY because we Also have ICE KIDNAPPING TODDLERS!

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      That is seriously one of the creepiest parts of just “accepting” all of this. There’s absolutely no reason to just assume that this shit died with Epstein. He was just some creepy guy with an average income in a two bedroom apartment when he was selected for the job by very wealthy business men who put him in a penthouse.

      Pretty much all this accomplished is letting a child trafficking network, that people talked about for decades, continue out in the open.

      Not only that, we’re also letting the government (who granted Epstein that sweetheart deal in the first place) officially take over the operation…

      Not only that, we’re also letting the same government break into homes without a warrant and abduct children…

      Not only that, the next step is convincing us that they should be able to monitor and track us all 24/7 via live facial recognition surveillance…

      They claim they need to do this to prevent child abductions… Are they just talking about the ones that aren’t officially state sanctioned? Bc this just seems to be making their job much easier.

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    “…they are complying” Bro if ICE wanted those files they’d have broken the windows and shot you a dozen times over, why do we get assaulted for not immediately complying with vague screamed orders and they get to slow walk this shit?

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      Because the government is controlled by wealthy fascist pedophiles protecting other wealthy fascist pedophiles?

      I kind of feel like the only reason they even released anything was because they wanted to just put it out in public and never intended for anybody to ever facing justice. That way it just becomes another fucked up gradually normalized thing that rich people do. Just add it to the list. Yet another fucking horrific crime accepted as “normal” in America and no other developed country, bc rich people were tired of the “hassle” of having to sneak around doing their pedophile shit underground due to all the “unfair” laws and regulations that at one time protected children from men like this.

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      “Sometimes you need a dictator.” Now we’re talking turkey 🦃

      But still I want to know what’s in those bank records even if nobody is going to be receiving justice and nobody is even going to acknowledge that the only 2 congressmen making a show of even pursuing the files (Kahnna and Massie) have both been on Thiel’s payroll for a long time.

      Like when JP Morgan “stopped doing business with Epstein” did Thiel just start laundering Epstein’s illegal business money for him via crypto? I just want to know, even if it probably doesn’t even matter as far as any oligarch ever facing justice.

      I just really, really want to know. Before we all stop using traditional banking and start using Thiel’s federally approved crypto bank…was that the thing that really helped crypto get off the ground? Again I know it won’t change anything, but I just want to know… At least for historical purposes.