At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public.

The missing files, which were available Friday and no longer accessible by Saturday, included images of paintings depicting nude women, and one showing a series of photographs along a credenza and in drawers. In that image, inside a drawer among other photos, was a photograph of Trump, alongside Epstein, Melania Trump and Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

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    I hear a Streisand effect coming.

    Those 16 files are probably the only interesting ones in the batch. I seriously hope they have been downloaded and saved somewhere outside the US jurisdiction.

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    Clinton was impeached because he lied about a consensual blow job, yet this orange mf seems immune to consequences, more than that, actively shielded from them.

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      He promised a lot of people a lot of power and they now protect him. All of the people supporting him, especially his cabinet, needs to go down with him. No excuses.

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      He was the president. Lewinsky was an intern. There’s such an imbalance of power that consent shouldn’t even enter the conversation.

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        Lewinsky almost cost him reelection, and arguably derailed the Democratic agenda that Clinton was selected by the American people to enact in his second term. Clinton could have cost her her career at most. From a national security perspective Lewinsky wielded and used power that changed the course of history in a way that few people have.

        The national conversation in the early 90s about sexual harassment including the Clarence Thomas scandal with his assistant (forgot her name) was one of how sex could compromise powerful leaders (men generally) and it’s worth considering whether Lewinsky was acting as an insider agent to compromise Clinton, perhaps as part of a nation state level attack on the integrity of of the office rather than it all simply being a man using the clout of his office unethically to have sex.

        We don’t know what is in Lewinsky’s CIA file and it’s entirely possible she was a Russian or other agent acting intentionally to cause chaos. Her family comes from a former Warsaw Pact country and she immediately fled the country to Canada to be on the Tom Green show after the scandal so it’s plausible. We really don’t know but the power imbalance may have been intentionally reversed in some ways. The Epstein files show Clinton to be easily compromised by young women so it would be an obvious avenue of attack by an adversary, and the scandal continues to have an effect on how we talk about power and sex to this day.

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    So these are just the ones they’re realizing they forgot to hide on initial release. Give it a few days and Donald Trump will have never met Jeffrey Epstein.

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      Give it a few days and Donald Trump will have never met Jeffrey Epstein.

      I’m getting the weirdest feeling of DejaVu from this…

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    Its 16 pages of gnome chompy and slick willy roasting the gatesmeister. The crackpots only care about their current bad guy.