(Congrats MAGA! Your hero has tanked the economy, lost jobs in a historic fashion, paved over the rose garden, bombed countries for no reason, supported genocide, hid his name from the Epstein files (it was Trump's people who extracted him in the first place), moved a child sex trafficker to a nicer location and now posts nuclear subs off the coast of Russia cus they said mean things about him. lol. And all of this in the first 7 months. lol.)
from Common Dreams
Bloomberg reported on Friday that FBI officials earlier this year redacted the name of U.S. President Donald Trump from the agency's files on late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Three unnamed sources confirmed to Bloomberg
that the FBI had redacted the names of Trump and other prominent public
figures even before the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last
month that "no further disclosure" of the Epstein files "would be
appropriate or warranted."
Bloomberg's sources explained that "Trump's name, along with
other high-profile individuals, was blacked out because he was a
private citizen when the federal investigation of Epstein was launched
in 2006."
The reviewers applied two Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) exemptions to justify their redactions, according to the report:
One that "protects individuals against 'a clearly unwarranted invasion
of personal privacy'" and another that protects against disclosures that
"could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy."
Bloomberg noted that there is nothing
particularly exceptional about this because these standards have long
been employed by the FBI when it comes to redacting FOIA requests, even
when it comes to high-profile public figures such as Trump.
The revelations about Trump's name being redacted from the files came on the same day The New York Times reported
that Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's longtime accomplice who is serving a
20-year sentence on sex-trafficking charges, was transferred from a
federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security women's prison in Texas...
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