DOJ Posts Embarrassing Apology Over Official Caught in Honeypot Trap

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  3. > *In a video posted online on Thursday, Schnitt is recorded telling the woman that the department would “redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people in those files, and have a very slanted version of it come out.”*

    > *He also told his date that the decision to move Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, to a lower security prison went against Board of Prisons policy because she was a convicted sex offender, “which means they’re offering her something to keep her mouth shut.”*

    Dude just said the quiet part out loud.

  4. He has the same diarrhea of the mouth that his big boss has

  5. Keep in mind that all of this was told to a random hookup.

    He has security clearance and we have already seen how the other dimwits handle their clearances. I can only imagine what they are sharing with other countries out of sheer stupidity.

  6. Republicans have a Pedophilia problem

    Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

    Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

    Republican South Carolina Rep. RJ May of Lexington was charged in July 2025 with ten counts of distributing sexual abuse material involving children. He faces 20 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.

    Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

    Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

    Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17. Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

    Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl. Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

    Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile. Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

    Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail. Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos. Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

    Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child. Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

    Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

    Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

    Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

    Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

    Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

    Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

    Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

    Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl. Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

    Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

    Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

    Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

    Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

    Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.

    Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

    Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

    Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

    Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

    Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

    Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

    Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

    Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

    Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

    Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

    Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

    Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

    Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex.  Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.

    Dennis Hastert served as Republican Speaker of the House (so, 3rd in line for the Presidency) for all 8 years of W. Bush’s two terms. He also sexually molested at least 5 boys when he was a HS wrestling coach, all of them underage with the youngest victim being 14. The victims only finally saw justice when Hastert was caught by the FBI trying to falsify payments for hush money.

    Donald Trump walked into Miss Teen USA change rooms with girls as young as 14 changing. 26 women have spoken publicly about Trump’s pattern of sexual assault. In 2023, he was found legally liable for the rape of E. Jean Carroll by unanimous jury.

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  7. So funny that this was released by Veritas. The rightwing is supping on itself, ideological cannibalism.

  8. How can people *STILL* stand there are defend these manipulative liars?

  9. It’s easy to say “this should be the top story everywhere” these days, but… god damn this should be the top story. 

    “We will selectively protect potentially dozens of right-wing pedophiles on the list of all of the pedophiles in the government, a thing we definitely have by the way.” – A DoJ official. 

    “haha nuh uhhhh lol” – The DoJ 

    This moment in history is so mind-numbingly dumb. I just want to skip to the part where the unredacted list leaks and congress has a “convict all of your bosses to save your own ass” day for the history books.

  10. “Government official tricked into disclosing that the sky is blue.”

    No fucking shit the Epstein files are being manipulated to protect republicans. That much was obvious at the first hint of reluctance to release the files shown by the dude who *campaigned on releasing the files.*

  11. Golly. I wonder what names will come to the collective mind for anything redacted?

  12. Wait, they’re apologising for this dude being duped into telling the truth about ***their*** massive cover up plot? I think they’re missing the point of apologies.

  13. These people are absolute filth scumbags with no souls that hide behind patriotism and religion to do whatever they really want. Greedy pigs

  14. The first block in the case against this group of criminally incompetent saboteurs.

  15. O’Keefe did an interview with Massie today. On camera O’Keefe showed Massie the footage of the undercover DOJ official before he published it publicly and said the undercover interview in the clip took place a month ago. Massie said he assumed what the official stated was true and that we know FBI agents have been redacting the files (news we all know about now but what about a month ago when that DOJ official made those statements).

    What’s actually going on here? The only thing truly surprising about this is the source but it’s so confusing that a far-right journalist would be doing this. What’s his angle here?

  16. Story doesn’t appear to be covered in earnest by any mainstream outlets.  The topic of Epstein is basically banned on the right wings sub reddits.  Looks like we are about to basically let them do this

  17. And here I thought it couldn’t get any fucking stupider. The morons really prove me wrong on an hourly basis

  19. I’m confused here.

    The O’Keefe Media Group is far right and uses undercover footage to target anything he considers leftist or progressive. But this makes Trump’s DoJ look awful and hints at a coverup by Trump.

    I don’t get the angle here. It would be like if Newsmax or OANN broke a damaging story about Trump. It doesn’t make sense.

  20. I remember hearing something like: everyone thinks the GOP cares more about money and democrats care more about sex. But usually the GOP’s image is most likely damaged because of sex scandals and the same as democrats with money scandals.

  21. People keep focussing on the list and have stopped asking why this mysteriously wealthy math teacher is courting guys like bill clinton and prince andrew into the company of underage models on an isolated island in a mansion full of cameras.  

    Or flying them around with underage girls on his private plane he nicknamed the “lolita express”.  

    It looks like kompromat work to me. Russia has been caught doing stuff like this before.

    There’s also some direct evidence linking epstein to mila antonova and antonova to anna chapman (who is a proven russian spy). And the strange case of John Mark Dougan (Palm Beach Deputy Sheriff accused of stealing epstein evidence who then fled to russia where he produces mass scale russian propaganda).  And various suspicious links between maxwell and israeli intelligence.

    I think epstein was part of the mechanism for getting the republicans and their wealthy donors compromised for the russians (or maybe for israel or maybe both).

    That’s also why, the minute the epstein stuff hit the news again, trump immediately tried to deflect by barking about hillary clinton and “russiagate” again, completely out of nowhere. 

    That was his very first reaction to being accused of being associated to a pedophile, to drag up moldy stuff about the “Russia hoax”

  22. There is no way that Patel and Bongino would allow something like that to happen. /s

  24. Next, he pointed at his crotch and said “thank you for your attention to THIS matter”.

  25. That official should have known it was a set up. Nobody on Hinge wants to have sex with a republican.

  26. > “The comments I’ve made were my own personal comments on what I’ve learned in the media and not from anything I’ve done at or via work.”

    Yeah, sure, whatever you say buddy. You were bragging trying to get into her pants.

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