Would Trump get Bondi to destroy the files?

[kentuck]

Have they already been destroyed?

If they say they do not exist, then they may not exist? They may have been destroyed?

Wouldn't it be better to destroy them than make them public, if Trump is in the files?

Is that not a possibility?

Are there duplicates hidden somewhere?

[underpants]

1. The talk now is that the files named people who really weren't involved

in his horrible acts and releasing them would create life changing consequences.

That seems to be the collective cover story as of this morning.

[cadoman]

2. we've seen how easy it is to create deep fakes

I wouldn't put it past Krasnov to delete the real dirt that Epstein had on him and replace it with deep fakes of his opponents. The technology is there, unfortunately.

We need to be highly skeptical of whatever does get "released". Our institutions cannot be trusted under Krasnov's reign.

[Ocelot II]

3. You can be sure there are electronic or hard copies somewhere.

Epstein's investigation and prosecution processes were extensive and went on for years. There was never just one copy of the files that dozens of people had to have seen and worked from. Someone has all of it somewhere, if just on a flash drive in somebody's pocket.

[kentuck]

5. That makes sense...

Otherwise, they would already have been destroyed.

[FirstLight]

4. I have a feeling there's backups...

I had a feeling that he was having Elon look for things... DOGE might have had the added benefit to look for anything incriminating in the Govt systems. If Elon couldn't find/access them, could have been part of the blowup!!!

[Javaman]

6. there most certainly are electronic back ups somewhere.

if so, technically, they are never really "gone".

[Botany]

7. Bondi is totally comprised since she took 25 K in 2013 as Florida's A.G. to not go after Trump University

…. for stealing the death benefits from the spouses of American Troops who got killed in
Iraq and Afghanistan. She is part and parcel of the fascist coup.

[Johonny]

8. I assume the client list as an official document

Epstein kept and tracked is a figment of imagination.

The right has been promising the moon on this for years now and they're trapped in a conspiracy theory of their own making. It would be better if they could produce something anything, but they don't have anything to release. Which is hilarious.

[kentuck]

10. The boy who cried "Wolf!"

And when there was really a wolf, no one believed him.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. It's a real concern.

[EarlG]

11. I don't think it matters

The biggest political problem that Trump has is with powerful factions in his own base. They are the people who want to see the files and who have been promised all sorts of juicy goodies inside.

Trump is angering those people by withholding the files. It looks especially bad since Bondi said she already had them, and also had MAGA influencers come to the White House where she gave them all binders labeled “Epstein Files part 1” (that they were all kinda disappointed with).

This is all about Trump crapping on powerful influencers in his own base, and dividing his aides. It’s why Democrats like Ro Khanna are trolling to keep this story in the news.

[kentuck]

13. They seem to have a problem keeping up with all their lies?

First, they "are my on desk". She is reviewing them at the "directive of the President".

Then, he says they don't exist. Next day, Obama and Hillary wrote them?

They can't get their story straight.

[ILikePie92]

12. Ok

YES
POSSIBLY
YES
YES
HOPEFULLY

[CANADIANBEAVER69]

14. The "raw footage" from the jail

has been found to have been edited, when reviewed by some forensic video persons. I think that it was a dry run to see what they could get away with, and it was caught. They are truly scrambling now that it's definitely NOT going away. It makes them desperate, and desperate people with power is a powder keg.