Remember that Congress has been illegally blocked from accessing the unredacted files, but has had some limited access to what is behind the redactions. For those of us reading the report, there are many places where previously reported incidents are being fleshed out with the limited unredactions Congress has been able to get, as well as noting which redactions illegally stay exactly the way they are despite repeated efforts to lift them.
For example, the media has focused on the rape of Katie Johnson, the subject of this article. The assault was known. But look at pages 24 - 25 of the report, especially page 25.
When Katie Johnson first reported the assaults to the FBI in 2016 – the reports of which were hidden for years and are still redacted even to Congress – the FBI ran an internal check on both names at that time and found a case number from Epstein’s 2007 federal investigation that involved both Trump and Epstein.
In other words, Trump and Epstein have been linked to each other by the FBI in the context of child rape for almost twenty years.
As far as I can tell, this was never followed up, and the report makes clear that this is one of the many cases where Congress has the clear legal right, not just by office but via direct legislation, to access the unredacted files and yet has been repeatedly refused by Trump’s DoJ, currently headed by Trump’s personal attorney turned AG, Todd Blanche.
I strongly recommend reading the report for anyone who is interested in Donald Trump and the Epstein files. It is anything but a “nothing to see here, move along” set of pages.
Remember that Congress has been illegally blocked from accessing the unredacted files, but has had some limited access to what is behind the redactions. For those of us reading the report, there are many places where previously reported incidents are being fleshed out with the limited unredactions Congress has been able to get, as well as noting which redactions illegally stay exactly the way they are despite repeated efforts to lift them.
For example, the media has focused on the rape of Katie Johnson, the subject of this article. The assault was known. But look at pages 24 - 25 of the report, especially page 25.
When Katie Johnson first reported the assaults to the FBI in 2016 – the reports of which were hidden for years and are still redacted even to Congress – the FBI ran an internal check on both names at that time and found a case number from Epstein’s 2007 federal investigation that involved both Trump and Epstein.
In other words, Trump and Epstein have been linked to each other by the FBI in the context of child rape for almost twenty years.
As far as I can tell, this was never followed up, and the report makes clear that this is one of the many cases where Congress has the clear legal right, not just by office but via direct legislation, to access the unredacted files and yet has been repeatedly refused by Trump’s DoJ, currently headed by Trump’s personal attorney turned AG, Todd Blanche.
I strongly recommend reading the report for anyone who is interested in Donald Trump and the Epstein files. It is anything but a “nothing to see here, move along” set of pages.