I’m instantly suspicious of conspiracy theories, typically because believing in them requires some degree of confidence in the competence of a mob of people who somehow avoid spilling the beans. I am now faced with the possibility that if everyone involved is sufficiently below a threshold of stupidity, they can make it work, for a while at least. Now a new batch of Epstein files have been released, and they are the product of gross incompetence.
Some of the files have emerged because all you have to do is guess at likely file names, and you can access otherwise unlisted files. Some of the redactions can be circumvented by copying the text and pasting it into a separate document. This is what happens when you put Kash Patel and Pam Bondi and Dan Bongino in charge of the coverup.
Voidzilla discusses many, but not all, of the recent revelations.
There were TEN CO-CONSPIRATORS with Epstein whose names were redacted from the files? It’s true: there’s a cabal of wealthy pedophiles raping young girls, and the Trump administration is neck-deep in a cover-up to protect them.
Trump is also mentioned in some of the files.
It reads: “For your situational awareness, wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump travelled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware), including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case.
“In particular, he is listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including at least four flights on which Maxwell was also present. He is listed as having travelled with, among others and at various times, Marla Maples, his daughter Tiffany, and his son Eric.
“On one flight in 1993, he and Epstein are the only two listed passengers; on another, the only three passengers are Epstein, Trump, and then-20-year-old REDACTED.
“On two other flights, two of the passengers, respectively, were women who would be possible witnesses in a [Ghislaine] Maxwell case.”
Trump is also accused of unsavory behavior directly.
Among the files released on Tuesday is a letter that appears to have been sent by Epstein to Larry Nassar, the US gymnastics team doctor convicted of sexually abusing scores of young gymnasts, while he was in jail.
The letter, postmarked 13 August 2019 and sent from “J Epstein” at “Manhattan Correctional” to “Larry Nassar”, reads: “Dear L.N. as you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good Luck! We share one thing … our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they’d reach their full potential. Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch,’ whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein.”
Ugh. Our president, ladies and gentlemen.
These revelations ought to topple the government — this is far worse than anything Woodward and Bernstein dug up that led to the resignation of Nixon. Why isn’t it? Is it because the Republican party has become a rat’s nest of corrupt crooks and apologists for criminal behavior?
On a note that seems unrelated, but is entirely relevant to the abuse of the government by a senile narcissist, Trump has now announced the construction of a huge, expensive line of battleships.
President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new class of battleships bearing his name puts a fresh spotlight on a US naval shipbuilding program that has fallen short on delivering the new warships on time and on budget in recent years, something Trump himself pointed out in his speech from Mar-a-Lago on Monday.
This is insane. Battleships haven’t been part of any modern naval doctrine since what, the Korean war? Aircraft carriers are the heart of a modern navy, but maybe not forever — I’m not an expert in military strategy, but then, neither is Donald Trump! Yet here he is, unilaterally deciding to build this gigantic, absurdly expensive, probably unnecessary, archaic battleship, and you know the appeal to him is that he’ll name it after himself.
We can later just scrape his name off the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and we can just ignore the Trump Institute for Peace, but these ships are estimated to cost $15 billion apiece, and may prove to be utterly useless to the Navy. We should not trust these ego projects from a corrupt billionaire pedophile. He’s going to ruin the country, and Republicans, once regarded as the sensible, conservative party, are not stepping up to put the brakes on this wreck of an administration.
Ronnie Reagan took a battleship out of mothballs to send it to Lebanon. It was not a success. Meanwhile, Ukraine send a underwater drone across the Black Sea to destroy a Russian submarine used to launch missiles into Ukraine. A $400 million sub taken out by a cheap autonomous sea drone.
Technically the proposed Trump Class are not battleships, they are missile frigates on steroids. Nothing new here save for a juicier target.
These ships will never be launched. The project will be lucky to even lay a keel. No, this vaporware is this week’s project to keep Gramps happy & distracted.
Regarding PZ’s last paragraph:
https://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com/2025/12/happy-holidays.html
Scroll down a few frames and you’ll see a post by Kerry Kennedy about what she’s going to do in three years and one month.
Yes, I’ll hold the ladder for her.
I have not found an article on the failures to redact correctly yet but I followed one example from Reddit into the DOJ pdf and it was true. The DOJ had the same problem in Trump’s first term. In a PDF just putting a black box over text or making the background of text black doesn’t get rid of the text, you can still select it and copy it to another document.
At this point this is such a fundamental error that I sort of suspect it’s intentionally done wrong. 20 years ago a lawyer might make that mistake, now it’s something that should be covered in “Introduction to electronic filing 101” at law school.
I guess a lot of this incompetence stems from the fundamental poor management of this administration. They don’t want to do this project so they rushed it and didn’t get enough technical expertise involved. A well run administration understands that an important required job that you don’t want to do requires more care because it’s easier to be sloppy.
I wish someone would unmask that pdf and make it widely available. After all, transparency is critical (pun intended). We are getting nothing but massive, continuous shovelfuls of obfuscatory crap from the magat and his entire administration.