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1. Billionaires of all affiliations were enabled to go slumming and lots of people helped keep it quiet. Meanwhile, they were allowed to impregnate, infect, and wreck the mental health of thousands of children. Eww. Epstein's lengthy (but limited) survival may have been contingent on both the accumulation of kompromat on important people and the power/wealth halo effect.

2. Republican billionaires were almost certainly redacted in releases or withheld in documents not released.

3. I'm curious how many documents are/were incompletely redacted with filled rectangles rather than text removal such as using the Adobe tool. And, I wonder if any incomplete redactions are/were purposeful to leak while maintaining plausible deniability.

4. If/when Trump leaves office, with the behaviors exhibited thus far, it seems the remaining precious documents will go with him (or to his next of kin should he leave horizontally) to maintain power over others and that "victim security" is a duplicitous smokescreen.



> I wonder if any incomplete redactions are/were purposeful to leak

Yeah I’ve wondered this too. As dumb as some of the people doing redactions might be, I still think they would’ve learned from previous botched redactions that you can’t leave the real text underneath the black box. Unless they weren’t trying to.


It’s been reported they had to bring in many unqualified and untrained people because of the urgency and scope of the work.




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