FBI agents scouring 100,000 pages of documents about the investigations into dead sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein as they prepared them for release had redacted mentions of convicted felon President Trump’s name from the files before deciding to just not release them to the public at all this spring, Bloomberg reports with further details on the extremely labor-intensive and opportunity cost-sucking misadventure inside the bureau first revealed by Senator Dick Durbin last month.
A 14 year FBI veteran named Michael Seidel, who had led the bureau’s Record/Information Dissemination Section, was also forced out for pushing back against pouring so much resources into the review – which again, did NOT end with any of these fucking files being released publicly, probably because Trump’s minions knew reporters, lawyers, and OSINT geeks would’ve within hours collectively reverse-engineered the black ink and found where the fat fuck’s name was mentioned.
The upshot of all this is that, after taking a ton of shit from the MAGA base for the failure that was the white-people-dancing-with-binders-full-of-already-public-info day on the White House driveway, Pam Bondi and K$H spent enormous resources flagging and the redacting the Orange God Emperor’s name from the documents, only to finally on July 7th decide that they were better off taking more shit from the MAGA base and everyone else than actually letting the files see daylight.