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Mike Grant's avatar

I read through Ellie Leonard's release the other night and it followed and filled in a lot from the redacted releases from over the summer. It's the incrementalist release of further parts of the un-redacted files the process has left as becoming redundant and creating confusion. I kept going and reminding myself that I've seen this before or this fills in that and back and forth. It's leading me to believe that there is no end and ultimately no justice.

Thanks for all you are doing to help sort it out.

Kathy's avatar

Chaos and Distraction is their first and last name! Timing is everything.They Know that !

That old Scottish git.'s avatar

Amidst all the confusion - obvious deliberately created confusion - it is clear some right wing journalists were actively seeking to undermine witness testimony against trump.

They need to be accused of this otherwise their face, in public.

Orla's avatar

I understand your caution yesterday now Rye. Jesus suffering fuck! Deliberately obfuscating and sowing misinformation about a child who suffered unspeakable horrors in order to discredit her, when she finally and reluctantly came forward decades later………..i feel physically sick. As a mother, as a woman…….. as a functioning human being for fuck sakes. Thanks for the painstaking work, caution and clarity to all involved . Is there no end to this depraved and deplorable shit? My daughter is 17 and cannot cope with the details. I, however, refuse to look away. These women deserve justice for what was done to them. I wonder what Judge Emmett Sullivan will make of this? I’m sure Katie will make him aware. Thanks 🙏

Jim Sullivan's avatar

I will never understand how the Justice system in America can let a 47 time convicted felon, pedophile, adjudicated rapist and on and on sit in the Oval Office. NEVER!!!

Willi's avatar

Pretty simple. Trump’s handpicked judge in Florida killed the classified documents case. Trump’s lawyers, aided by his handpicked Supreme Court, delayed the Capitol riot/insurrection case and sentencing in his NY felony conviction case until after the election. The voters did the rest. The wheels of justice grind slowly and an endless a

supply of money from the defendant and his well-heeled supporters throws a lot of sand in the gears. There are not many billionaires (or bankers, lawyers, hedge fund managers, etc.) in US prisons, and there's a reason for that (and it's not that they're all innocent)

Jim Sullivan's avatar

He definitely should be in a cell, not the oval office.

Publis's avatar

Not the justice system, 77 million voters who looked at all of that, and still chose him.

How can they live with themselves?

Acorn's avatar

Please give credit to Amy Gabrielle for finding these notes months ago and trying to get larger creators to pay attention and amplify

msaw's avatar

underneath all the blackened text I see the word Trump, I see others as well

What we must have is all those mentions of trump the FBI blacked out.. yes it will be pornographic and ugly.. because T is that man doing the evil debased vile acts.

Mark Durbin's avatar

Katie Phang was contacted for comment on this story, and responded:

“The timing of the discovery and release of these unredacted handwritten notes is interesting, considering they became public after the status hearing before Judge Sullivan in my case against Todd Blanche. There also remains an open question as to the authenticity of these published notes. That question could be readily answered if the FBI would just comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act and release the notes they’ve been legally required to do. Regardless, what these notes DO show is that they are not “duplicative” of the FBI 302s as Blanche has asserted and they clearly contain allegations of sexual abuse and physical abuse committed by Donald Trump with a victim who was 13-15 years old at the time. So the Trump DOJ has no incentive to release them.”

Tracy  Perez's avatar

Fantastic work by you and Ellie! I questioned what kind of journalist would post the notes with victim names un-redacted. This explains a lot.

Parker Joyce's avatar

Golly! This is so sickeningly frightening. I am furious. Thanks for all the dedicated work on this you and Ellie have done. You dived into deep waters that someone had to do, too, and do so respectfully, with the professional integrity so needed in our todays. Some people thought (or hoped) no one would dare (or knew how to do so) relentlessly take the deep dives into those muddy, slimy waters, did they?

SpudLink's avatar

The only way to know with 100% certainty that these are the original documents would be if, Katie Phang's legal team formally pushes for forensic e-discovery or database user audit trails from the FBI's internal Sentinel database or if judge Sullivan with his keen eyes does, because he sees something in the documents that doesn't pass muster with him, which would expose fraudulent or incomplete documents along with the users that had access to them.

MarginalOptimist's avatar

Amazing live y’all just did!!! Continue your fight to bring truth to light so justice stands a chance!

Melba's avatar

Thank you Rye. So well written and laid out. Thank you Ellie and Katie plus all who are keeping a light on the survivors ongoing efforts after decades for full investigation and justice. Current DoJ (plus past DoJ's) and some reporters are sickening. Onward. Again thanks Rye!

Radicalized DEI Defender's avatar

Kaelan Deese, of the Washington Examiner committed felony crime of witness intimidation by releasing this info on Trump & Epstein victim Jane Doe No. 4, who was 13 year old when trafficked & raped in 1983.

Just like Todd Blanche deliberately exposed Epstein survivors in EFTA releases… this was no accident it’s a crime

Mark Durbin's avatar

Somehow I can't see Deese curating and uploading all those documents himself. A Scribd account holder can allow others to upload just by giving them his USER-ID, or email address, and his password. Is he just a front/patsy, the guy that opened the account, creating a place for malicious document leakage by bad actors making sure "their" name isn't on the "leakage" account?

Rye's avatar

That’s very interesting, I didn’t know that — you can just give someone a link to upload a file to you on Scribd?

Donovan Marley's avatar

Who cares about Donald Trump’s sex life—past, present, or future—as long as it is consensual? What makes Trump the most hated President in the history of the Republic is his long history of non-consensual sex. The vast majority of Americans hate monsters who rape—especially monsters who rape children. But a small—and politically powerful—group of Republicans, led by Todd Blanche, appear to support Trump’s sexual predations.

Because scores of wealthy oligarchs—including Donald Trump—are identified in the Epstein files as pedophiles, Trump’s Department of Justice refuses to obey the law that requires the release of 100% of the files. It appears the Republican DOJ is deliberately trying to coverup Trump’s sordid history of child rape.

Regardless of Party affiliation, every customer, every associate, and every guest of Jeffrey Epstein that trafficked, or pimped, or raped a child—and every employee of every government entity who knew of the rapes and covered them up—must be identified, indicted, prosecuted, convicted, and thrown into prison. And that includes President Donald Trump, fired Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and current Attorney General, Todd Blanche.

There is no longer any doubt that Donald Trump is a sexual predator. The courts found him liable for the sexual assault of E. Jean Carroll. After losing multiple appeals, the judgement of the court stands: Trump raped and defamed E. Jean Carroll. Trump was ordered, to pay his victim $5,000,000.00 in damages plus accrued interest. After the Supreme Court refused to hear Trump’s final appeal, the Court of Record transferred Trump’s funds to his victim.

In addition to a second successful defamation lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll in which the court ordered defendant, Trump, to pay Ms Carroll $83.3 Million, America’s convicted criminal President stands accused of:

(1) the sexual assault of 26 adult women.

(2) the slapping and violent rape of a 13-year-old child provided to him by his good friends—the pedophile sex traffickers, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

(3) the rape of a child described by the victim in three FBI depositions—(taken under oath)—that between 13 and 15 years of age, she was raped by Donald Trump.

These sworn depositions are now in the hands of both the DOJ and Congress. The Department of Justice has not investigated Donald Trump for the rapes. Blanche, one of Trump’s personal attorneys, has continued to ignore the law passed by Congress on November 18, 2025 that directed the Department of Justice to release all of the Epstein files no later than December 19, 2025.

In direct violation of this law, half of the Epstein files were withheld from Congress by the DOJ when Pam Bondi was Attorney General, and Todd Blanche was Deputy Attorney General. Blanche continues the coverup.

If—(in the millions of pages of documents the DOJ refuses to release to Congress)—Bondi and Blanche have concealed evidence of Donald Trump’s felonies, both must be criminally charged.

PREDICTION: Evidence of Trump’s crimes against children will surface and topple the Trump Family Crime Syndicate; Trump, Bondi and Blanche will be prosecuted, convicted and thrown into prison.

Tim Bryson's avatar

A few years ago, I was hopeful this would be the case. But now? The child rapist just skates through everything.

My prediction? If this gets to close to him, he'll invade Cuba.

Lou's avatar

Excellent research Rye uncovering the mystery.