Epstein list.

At just about the same time, multiple UK news outlets are mentioning things about the ex CEO of Victoria's Secret.

In particular, Sky News from the UK is thousands of light years ahead in very detailed reporting including reporting on an underground location where some heinous things took place

@AverageSue : Fair enough.Tech-savvy users discover a way around redacted parts of Jeffrey Epstein files
nypost.com/2025/12/2 3/us-news/tech-savvy -users-discover-a-wa y-around-redact
Tech-savvy sleuths have discovered a way to uncensor the heavily redacted files on notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, as the Department of Justice continues to release the documents.

 

Some portions of the documents, initially blacked out in Adobe Acrobat, pop up when copied and pasted into Google Docs or Microsoft programs like Word, The Post confirmed during a test run.

 

"Anyone can read redactions of the Epstein Files by just copying and pasting them into a word doc," social media influencer Jake Broe wrote on X Tuesday, along with a video showing the apparent federal faux pas.

 

A workaround for the Jeffrey Epstein files has been discovered, with tech-savvy users able to view redacted parts of files.

 

X/@RealJakeBroe
"The people at Trump's Justice Department are so stupid they used Adobe Acrobat to black out the documents."

 

A Justice Department source tells The Post, however, that the documents in question were merely uploaded from civil litigation and do not contain information that the government intended to conceal.

 

"These redactions originated in certain courts and were applied by parties in civil actions. DOJ simply reproduced the materials because we had collected them so they were part of the Epstein files," the official said.

 

"Redactions applied by the DOJ to FBI/DOJ productions in accordance with other statutes remain fully redacted."
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@AverageSue: Maybe not limited to just older court documents?Epstein files redactions failed after funding cuts forced DOJ to use basic Adobe tools
... But as it turns out, failing to redact the Epstein files is not due to incompetence in using Adobe tools. The same user who suggested the feature in Adobe Acrobat found that they were never in the premium subscription in the first place.

 

'Funniest possibility is that DOGE cut their premium subscription'.

 

This referred to the US General Services Administration (GSA) contract for Adobe software, suggesting that budget cuts might limit access to the full Adobe Acrobat Pro suite, which includes robust redaction and sanitisation tools.

 

A subtweet further circulated a screenshot claiming that the DOJ's contractor, DOGE, had cancelled a £3.3 million ($4.1 million) GSA contract for Adobe Acrobat.

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This:

Former Trump Pageant Judge Claims 'Smoking Gun' on Epstein Ties Lies in Miss USA and Miss Teen USA Pageants
December 27, 2025

Author and public speaker Steve Siebold made an explosive claim Thursday about President Donald Trump and his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that a "smoking gun" may be buried in the history of beauty pageants once owned by Trump.

 

Trump has been under renewed scrutiny in recent weeks amid the ongoing release of files related to Epstein, the wealthy financier who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges and was known to have close ties with a number of powerful figures, including Trump.

 

While the newly released materials have already produced explosive allegations regarding Trump's relationship with Epstein, Siebold argued that evidence potentially shedding further light on that relationship may lie within the operations and history of the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants during the period they were owned by Trump.

 

"I've sat on this information for years, and I really didn't want to get into this because this is not in my job description; it's very dangerous to come out with this publicly," Siebold said in a video published on TikTok Thursday.

 

"The smoking gun is Miss USA and Miss Teen USA, the pageants which Donald Trump owned for years. Now, how do I know? Because I was one of the judges in these pageants.

 

I trained dozens and dozens of the winners and the runners up in public speaking to promote their platform."

 

Trump owned Miss Universe - an international beauty pageant that includes Miss USA and Miss Teen USA - from 1996 through 2015. His ownership of Miss Universe came to an end after NBC - which from 2002 to 2015 maintained half-ownership of the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants - terminated its business relationships with Trump due to his controversial statements about immigrants.

 

Former contestants of Miss Teen USA have accused Trump of walking into their dressing rooms, including former Miss Arizona Tasha Dixon, who told CBS that Trump "just came strolling right in" her dressing room in 2001 where "some girls were topless" and "others were naked."

 

Trump himself appeared to corroborate this claim during a 2005 appearance on The Howard Stern Show, telling Stern that he'd "go backstage before a show and everyone's getting dressed."

 

Siebold warned those considering investigating Trump's former beauty pageants that what they'd find would be "very, very upsetting."

 

"Don't call me, I'm not gonna comment, I'm not going on TV and talking about this; this is very dangerous to sit on," Siebold said. "If you decide to pursue this in the media, be very, very careful. These people are dangerous."

Trump Goons Allegedly Seize Control of DOJ's Epstein Messaging
The White House has parachuted in to take control of the messaging around the latest file dump after an error forced its early release.
Updated Dec. 24 2025 1:56PM EST
An infuriated White House has taken control of the Department of Justice's X profile in an effort to offset its clumsy Epstein files drop, according to Axios.

 

The DOJ, presided over by Attorney General Pam Bondi, has been working through a reported trove of over 1.45 million records to meet a law that requires their release. The Epstein Transparency Act, personally signed by President Trump, has proved an issue for the department, though.

 

So much so that White House officials have reportedly taken over the DOJ's X account to sharpen its messaging in an attempt to steer the ship away from the negative PR that is battering Trump. However, a White House official told the Daily Beast that the DOJ still has the reins, contradicting the Axios scoop.

 

As part of its ham-fisted dump, the DOJ reclaimed 13 files from its site a day after releasing them. They were pulled without explanation, giving rise to theories that it was done to protect President Trump. "What else is being covered up?" Democrats on the House Oversight Committee asked Bondi on X. Bondi, meanwhile, is facing impeachment and contempt of Congress calls over her handling of the Epstein files.

 

One file featured a photograph of Trump, 79, in a drawer at an Epstein property. The DOJ said it was yanked over concern for victims before being reinstated after review.

 

One unnamed official told Axios the second batch of files-which Trump features in more prominently-were released before prosecutors were ready, owing to an error behind the scenes.

 

Those in the Trump administration dealing with the fallout are not pleased: "It's a combination of extreme frustration at everything: at what Congress did, at our response to it, and a concern that it won't go away," one official said.

 

Bondi's department was already under fire for not releasing all of the files by the Friday deadline, as required by law. And perhaps the pressure of the backlog got to the 200 minions who were whittling through the files in the background. Puzzling redactions that fly in the face of the pledge for full transparency have irritated many people.

 

In one such eyebrow-raiser, the publicly available addresses of the United States Attorney's Office and the New Mexico Department of Justice were scrubbed from a 2020 letter about the seizure of an Epstein property.

 

The document had been needlessly redacted as it had been publicly available for years. "These redactions are so arbitrary, it destroys the credibility of the entire exercise," journalist Michael Tracey wrote on X. "They're redacting completely banal documents that have already been in the public domain for years!"

 

Another journalist, from the Miami Herald, noticed that another document, from 2008, had redactions unjustifiable under the Transparency Act.

 

The department has also taken heat for the quality of documents it has released. The veracity of some were questionable but the DOJ chose to release them anyway, meaning Trump took a battering PR-wise, even though the files suggest no wrongdoing.

 

In one such instance, after 30,000 new investigative records were released on Tuesday, an alleged letter from Epstein to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar implicated Trump. The document from 2019 claimed that "our president" likes "nubile" girls.

 

But the letter was postmarked after Epstein's death and was determined to be a fake. It was also processed by a mail room in Virginia that didn't handle letters from Epstein's New York jail. The DOJ released it anyway, in the interests of transparency.

 

"The FBI has confirmed this alleged letter from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar is FAKE," the department later posted on X, leading to concerns about it releasing disinformation.

 

On Tuesday, another questionable post managed to make it through the vetting process. The department warned that some of the records could be "untrue and sensationalist," but it was committed to releasing them anyway, because of "transparency."

 

Despite the absence of any "smoking gun," or anything linking the president to any crime, he is known to be rattled by the mere mention of his name in the files. "The minute he thinks it's unfair to him and it's a personal attack, he just goes into fight mode," one insider told Axios in November. "No one wants to ask him what's going on here [with Epstein] because he just gets angry."

 

One official, meanwhile, told the same title this week that 700,000 files remain to be pored over, prolonging the pain for the Trump admin. "This will end soon," another official said. "The conspiracy theories won't."

 

The DOJ has been contacted for comment.

MTG Makes Bombshell Claim About Trump's Main Concern on Epstein Files
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene reveals how her support for President Trump quickly fell apart.

Rogue MAGA Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene says President Trump told her not to identify Jeffrey Epstein's client list because his "friends" would be upset.

 

"My friends will get hurt," the president told Greene, according to a New York Times Magazine interview published Monday. Trump called up the Georgia representative after she promised to identify the abusers in a September congressional hearing. One of MTG's staffers added that Trump yelled at the congresswoman so loud that everyone in her office could hear it.

 

Trump also attacked the victims Greene was fighting for, so she turned to fellow Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, who were able to successfully force the administration to begin to release some heavily redacted files with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

 

"How did all of this end up to a point where it was about releasing files about women who were raped, and not the serious things that I think truly matter about helping to get our economy stabilized again?" she said. "Help reduce the cost of living, fix the housing market, fix health insurance-for the love of God, what the [expletive] is the matter with these people?"

 

Greene has made her distaste with Trump's policymaking known, from Epstein, to endless war, to affordability. Her split with Trump is just one of many rifts within the GOP that will likely evolve as this second term drags on.

MTG is openly telling people that Trump told her he had friends that would get hurt if the Epstein would were released. She also does not care one bit who is around when and where she says it.

@billybob : And maga will yawn.

@billybob :
While I appreciate any contribution to sharing information and ideally, evidence, that will help create credence and aide in the prosecution of anyone who committed any illicit acts per the Epstein Files - I have no love lost for MTG. I believe everyone has forgotten too quickly her yelling at parents who lost their children in the SandyHook Massacre. Walking alongside a protest march calling them liars amidst their grief. That woman has no place in public - period.

@CornelliusRex : While I agree with you wholeheartedly, if she can help get Trump investigated, indicted and incarcerated,..... they can go after her at a later date.

Parody. Sad parody.

Haven't a couple of deadlines passed again for the release of the Epstein files? They should just release them so they can focus on their other chaos.