DOJ deputy chief: government will “redact every Republican” from Epstein client list

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/04/epstein-files-ghislaine-maxwell-doj-chief

45 comments

  1. yet they wont for anything democrat, transgender, black, and so on

  2. Listen up libs, we’re a pro-sex abuse party now.

    Triggered?

  3. I’m surprised they’re just going to redact them. I figured they would replace every name they want to protect with someone they want to smear.

  5. When evidence is suppressed or altered, the opposing party in the litigation gets to make whatever inference they want. If “every Republican” name is redacted from the Epstein evidence, they can legitimately infer that ***every Republicans name*** was actually present in each of those redactions.

  6. Yeah no shit. we knew they wouldn’t be honest.

  7. Not surprising, but the amount of brazen corruption is just so disgusting and astounding. I feel like a need a shower now.

  8. “They’ll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people,” he told the reporter, who was undercover during the encounter, according to the video…

    “…Maxwell’s transfer “is against BOP policy because she’s a convicted sex offender,” Schnitt said in the video. “The DOJ’s offering her something to keep her mouth shut.”

    He would know.

  9. I really, *reeaally* wish there was a non-paywalled version of this.

  10. On hidden camera. Great. Please, someone leak the names. Making sex trafficking and who knows whatever Epstein was involved in political is just disgusting. I’m for going after anyone who was involved, how they can protect people simply because they’re in the same political party is beyond me, but not surprising.

    All that said, my primary interest with Epstein is how he got connected to Wexner and any connections to Israeli intelligence. I have sympathy for the victims, but given his connections, it seems like this goes well beyond just sex, the amount of blackmail material and how that may have been used really needs to be made public.

  11. So you’re admitting there are Republicans on the list.

    Anyways, default assumption, 100% of Republicans are on the list. If they want to read the list out to prove me wrong though, go ahead.

  12. I doubt the women that were abused care what the political affiliations their abusers had. Pretty sure their list will reflect that.

  13. >”In a statement addressed to the DOJ’s acting director, Schnitt said that he had no idea he was being recorded and that he met the O’Keefe reporter — who he said was pretending to be an au pair — on Hinge.”

    Must have fucked up if James O’Keefe turns on you. Also doesn’t initially sound like this is his usual out of context mashups. Just a guy straight blabbing to someone he thinks is innocuous.

    Also, this doesn’t really help as an excuse considering he’s **Department of Justice’s acting deputy chief**:

    >”The “comments in this video have absolutely zero bearing with reality and reflect a total lack of knowledge of the DOJ’s review process,” the department’s public affairs account said. “

  14. > Why it matters: The O’Keefe Media Group, a far-right media organization, secretly recorded acting deputy Joseph Schnitt’s comments and published them on Wednesday, in a move that represents just how large a rift the Epstein case has created between President Trump’s administration and his MAGA base.

    _O’Keefe_ broke this? What is happening to reality

  15. I love how his response is to blame the person who recorded him for being shady. Sure, the Project Veritas people are dishonest assholes and he had no idea they were recording him. He still said all of these things. I’m sure he will be fired by DOJ in the next 24 hours.

  16. So the smart assumption is if you see a redacted name, it’s a well-known Republican.

  18. >In a statement addressed to the DOJ’s acting director, Schnitt said that he had no idea he was being recorded and that he met the O’Keefe reporter — who he said was pretending to be an au pair — on Hinge.

    Whooooa, O’Keefe, really?

    >”Had I a clue, the first date would have ended immediately and there never would have been a second one,” Schnitt wrote.

    Uh… interesting defense. I don’t think that’s the part people will have a problem with.

    Edit: I want to say this should be an explosive story, but someone else needs to corroborate it first. If we don’t trust Veritas in one direction, we shouldn’t ever trust them.

  19. See this is what has always confused me. They have been fighting so hard to not release anything, when they could have just redacted or outright removed the names they wanted out in the first place. I mean, it would be pretty clear to everyone (well, except for maga) that it was doctored for political goals, but once it was out there they could say everything else was national security or some other flimsy bullshit excuse and the world would move on.

  20. The admission here is that he has seen the files and there are a shit load of republicans and conservatives in the Epstein files.

  21. Watergate looks so quaint in comparison to this blatant cover-up

  22. All it takes is a couple of names to come out .. either political or non political.. one of them is going to try to save their own ass and say other names .. so just release them and get it over with.. because at this point i think anyone who doesn’t want the list to come out is on the list or is a pedo

  24. They are not even trying to hide the deception at this point. The Republican Party will attempt to eliminate elections before 2028!

  25. This is our new Dept. of Justice?

    This like the scenario where the Nazis actually won WW2.

  26. So now it’s a hoax that involves only democrats created by democrats….got it

  27. I’m begging someone to please crosspost this to the Conservative sub. I’m banned

  28. What were those 1000 FBI agents doing if not redacting every Republican name? You mean to tell me it took them a month and they could only get Trump’s name out?

  29. I’m not going to even read the “official” list. I want to hear the list the victims wrote. I’d rather believe the people it happened to than the people who lie for a living

  30. 18 U.S. Code § 1519 – Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy

    Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under title 11, or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

  31. This is why I don’t waste time thinking about Republicans as Americans.

  33. That’s okay. The victims will tell us who the redacted names are, you fucking idiot.

  34. Wait, I thought there wasn’t a list and this was a hoax?!

  35. Oh, so we can just assume every name blacked out is Republican… So, glad we know it’s that in the GOP that are the Pedos.

  38. Key note for those who didn’t read: this hot mic was caught and published by a far right rag.

  39. The party of trump, you could not find dirtier politics

  40. Redacted but they will never let them forget it in private. It’s the perfect blackmail material to keep them in line with whatever dumb shit Trump wants to do.

  41. We all knew this. We all knew that this is why Mike Johnson released the House early – to give the executive branch time to doctor the files.

  42. Here I am hoping that they redacted all republicans from the list.

    So then its all republicans that are protecting a child sex trafficking ring.

    That seems about right.

  43. So they are admitting there’s a lot of republicans in there? How interesting!

  44. – Confirming there is a list after all
    – Confirming Republicans and Democrats are on it
    – Confirming evidence tampering

    ok

  45. I believe that’s known as accessory after the fact, which is a crime.

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