Trump complains about Epstein files distracting from his agenda as DOJ comes under fire over limited release

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Monday 22 December 2025 21:34 EST


President Donald Trump has criticized the release of thousands of documents from cases against Jeffrey Epstein, warning they could “ruin the reputation” of high-profile figures who were “innocently” photographed alongside the convicted sex offender and “deflect” from his administration’s accomplishments.

In his first public remarks since the Department of Justice started to publish thousands of images and heavily redacted materials, the president said the release of images of former President Bill Clinton and others photographed with Epstein is a “terrible thing.”

“You probably have pictures being exposed of other people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago,” Trump said from his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida. “A lot of people are very angry that pictures are being released of other people that really had nothing to do with Epstein, but they’re in a picture with him because he was at a party, and you ruin the reputation of somebody.”

Growing pressure from members of Congress to release the long-awaited files is merely an attempt to “deflect from the tremendous success” of the Republican Party and the Trump administration, and Republican lawmakers who support the disclosures are “being used,” the president told reporters. The Justice Department failed release all of the files related to Epstein’s cases in its possession despite federal law — signed by Trump — requiring his administration to publicly disclose everything it has by last Friday, December 19.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-epstein-files-doj-release-b2889267.html

[EarthFirst]

1. I mean; the solution to this was to release the un-redacted files on day one...

…an innocent man would have put this behind him twelve months ago.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Agree

and the fact that they are trickling it out is something that actually helps Democrats because those on the Committees that have access to the files from the Epsten Estate, have already been doing the drip drip drip already.

It must indicate that it is so bad that it would take ALL of the people they pulled from the investigative agencies to do idiotic "immigration" work, to clear out the movers and shakers and 45 from the files.

[mwmisses4289]

2. Huh.

Beginning to sound like the epstein thing is starting to get under someone's skin.

[oasis]

4. Keep up the pressure folks. Make that "hit dog

holler” even louder.

[Hugin]

5. What's the agenda besides gilted sh*t, plastering his name on historic monuments, and building armadas in the sky?

I don’t see how a few files would interfere with that.

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. Exactly! (n/t)

[PatSeg]

9. Besides gold gilding everything in sight,

his "agenda" is destruction and retribution on a massive scale. He makes it sound like he is actually doing something presidential.

[Hugin]

12. He's doing a pantomime of complying with the official acts clause of the get out of jail free card...

Granted to him by the SCrOTUS.

You are correct. His real intention is to kill and maim the American population and eventually the world.

[PatSeg]

14. And he is fulfilling Putin's dreams

of destroying the U.S. democracy once and for all.

[J_William_Ryan]

7. Trump is in no position to complain, he has only himself to blame for this debacle.

Trump and his fellow incompetent goons grossly mismanaged the whole ‘Epstein thing,’ creating outrage and a controversy easily avoided.

[azureblue]

8. Some un-redacted files are on line

So, some of the documents were redacted in word, and it didn’t take long for someone to figure out that a simple copy / paste removes the black squares. My guess is some ninny at the FBI wasn’t savvy enough to know how to permanently redact, so some slipped through. There may be more, and there may be other techniques, such a precise color filtering, that will uncover the blacks outs. So far 945 pages have been gone through, and here they are

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HFqpFLOJgYLiAgjTe7aqRGiZRRSNCRtf

[PatSeg]

10. Or maybe someone at the FBI

wanted the unredacted files to get out to the public.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. They apparently have people going through it

and not using actual "redaction software" or have the add-on modules to do that in Adobe, etc. That type of tech has been out for like 30 years.

[SomedayKindaLove]

13. Distracting from his agenda?

Sounds like he can’t get it up to rape children anymore

[Javaman]

15. distracting him from what? yet another nap? nt

[Rebl2]

16. Poor

little toddler president having a tantrum 🙄

[Martin68]

17. LOL, he complains about the files when he's the one who hyped their release to get votes. So nice!

[Justice matters.]

18. pedo the felon's agenda is to make everybody not in his circle suffer

one way or another, then to make don jr, eric, and his corrupt sil richer using taxpayers money.

The national debt is like his personal piggy bank!

Oh, and to hell with the laws, regulations and roadblocks to his never-ending malfeasance!

Impeach, remove, and send to his nursing home, locked up in his room wearing a straight jacket!

[robbob]

19. No, Donald, a lot of people are very angry that rich, powerful people

think they can rape 12 year olds and walk away unpunished. You know, people like you.

That is why “a lot of people are angry”. 😠

[ck4829]

20. Good.

[samsingh]

21. his agenda for personal enrichment?