Of Course Trump's Name Was Redacted In The Epstein Files By The FBI

It appears that when Attorney General Pam Bondi initially labeled the release of the Epstein documents as the "first phase," she meant that subsequent phases would involve redacting the names of Trump and other high-profile individuals. There should only be victims' names redacted. Still, here we are, where they are covering up for a notorious sex trafficker while diminishing the horror of what the children and young women went through by the FBI redacting the individuals' names.

Bloomberg's Jason Leopold reports that Investigators blacked out Trump’s name and the names of other high-profile figures, claiming that the information constituted an “unwarranted invasion of privacy,” because the FOIA officers determined that the now-president was a private citizen when federal law enforcement launched an investigation into Epstein nearly 20 years ago.

Bloomberg reports:

In preparation for potential public release, the documents then went to a unit of FOIA officers who applied redactions in accordance with the nine exemptions. The people familiar with the matter said 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.

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